World War II

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.
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Buckeye
A Dark and Deadly Journey  (Evelyne Redfern, #3)
A Song in the Dark
The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany―and the Spy Who Betrayed Them
Tunisgrad: The Sunday Times bestselling author's gripping new history about World War II campaigns in Africa
The Maginot Line: A New History of the Fall of France
Into the Reich: The Red Army’s Advance to the Oder in 1945
1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe
The Women of Arlington Hall
The Book of Lost Hours
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
The Lost Baker of Vienna
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
Ghosts of Hiroshima
Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines
The Rose Code
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
The Book of Lost Names
The Women of Arlington Hall
Strangers in Time
Last Twilight in Paris
Code Name Hélène
The Hidden Girl
When We Had Wings
The Paris Daughter
The Lost Baker of Vienna
The Paris Library
The Storyteller's Daughter
The Goddess of Warsaw
The Rose Arbor
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneNumber the Stars by Lois LowryBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysOperation Einstein by Mark A. Cooper
YA Holocaust & WWII Novels
394 books — 788 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best War Novels
1,658 books — 1,376 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferTatiana and Alexander by Paullina SimonsThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Amazing WWII fiction (some with romance)
405 books — 625 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferSarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
WWII Historic Fiction
1,353 books — 1,512 voters
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,103 books — 2,336 voters

All the Light We Cannot See
The Book Thief
The Nightingale
The Diary of a Young Girl
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Night
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
The Alice Network

Kristina McMorris
The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.
Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.
Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

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