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The global conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. World War II is also known as the Second World War. It involved the majority of the world's nations, eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries.

This category includes non-fiction books as well as historical novels that are set during World War II. ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "World War II"

Keeper of Lost Children
The Rose Code
Strangers in Time
The Restoration Garden
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
Family of Spies
Skylark
The Sunflower House
The Director
The Paris Library
The Paris Daughter
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
When We Had Wings
The Hidden Girl
After Paris
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Italian Daughter (The Lost Daughters, #1)
Lázár
The Warsaw Orphan
The Bookshop of Secrets
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
Veiller sur elle
The Distant Daughter (The Secrets of Trelenna House #1)
One Good Thing
The Goddess of Warsaw
All Our Beautiful Goodbyes
Great Circle
The Venice Sketchbook
Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
The Lost Baker of Vienna
Nonesuch
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
Beyond That, the Sea
The Girl from the War Room
The Pianist's Wife
Stay Away from Gretchen: Eine unmögliche Liebe
The Paris Apartment
The Shock of the Light
Victoria
Where the Sky Begins
Send for Me
The Rose Arbor
The Words We Whisper
Sisters Under the Rising Sun
Últimos días en Berlín
The Winter Warriors
The Midwife of Berlin (Women of War #2)
The Secret Midwife
Revenge of Odessa (Odessa #2)
Far From Home
Hold Strong
The Judas Monk Murders
The Paris Assignment
The Mitford Affair
The Dressmakers of London
The Harvest Festival Murders (The Homefront Sleuths Cozy Mystery Series Book 6)
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising – The Holocaust Biography of Female Resistance Leaders
La Malnata
Goodnight From Paris
Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II
The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
33 Place Brugmann
The Granddaughter
The German Daughter
The Teacher of Auschwitz
Mists over the Channel Islands
Le Barman du Ritz
The Berlin Sisters
The Secret War of Julia Child
The Traitors Circle
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
American Sky
The Storyteller of Casablanca
The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Typewriter Beach
The Book of Last Letters
The Secret Detective Agency (The Secret Detective Agency, #1)
When the World Goes Quiet
When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary
The Cypress Maze
The Girl with the List
Only the Brave
The Ghosts of Rome (Rome Escape Line, #2)
The Berlin Letters
Rescue
The Paris Daughter (The Lost Daughters, #5)
The Librarians of Lisbon
Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly
The French Winemaker’s Daughter
The Deserters
The Collector of Burned Books
These Days
Munich Wolf
Und Großvater atmete mit den Wellen (Großmutter und Großvater, #2)
The French Kitchen
My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
The Lies We Leave Behind
The Last Restaurant in Paris
Just Once

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Quotes Tagged “World War II”

Markus Zusak
“ I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look?" Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes. ...more ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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Winston S. Churchill
“ We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. ”
― Winston S. Churchill
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