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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Adam and Eve
The Christmas Courier
The Phantom: The Untold Story of the American Marine the Nazis Could Not Kill
All We Carry Home
The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies (The Oxford Guide #1)
Our Noble Selves
The Gods Will Sing Our Song
The Silent Women
Twelve Days and Twelfth Night
Shadow Before the Flame: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War
A Librarian's War: The Man Who Fought World War II with Books and Brought the Joy of Reading to Millions
Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War
53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy
The City Without Jews: Life and Death in Nazi Vienna
A Shadow Over the World: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Rise of Fascism, and the Making of America's World War II
The Rose Code
Keeper of Lost Children
Adam and Eve
Strangers in Time
Family of Spies
The Sunflower House
The Barman of the Ritz
The Paris Library
The Paris Daughter
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Hidden Girl
The Warsaw Orphan
The Women of Oak Ridge
No Light but the Stars
The Rose Arbor
The Nightingale by Kristin HannahAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakBeneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. SullivanLilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Best WWII Historical Fiction
598 books — 717 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahTatiana and Alexander by Paullina Simons
Amazing WWII fiction (some with romance)
437 books — 660 voters

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
501 books — 796 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
1,544 books — 1,682 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
1,723 books — 1,474 voters
Lone Survivor by Marcus LuttrellBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseGeneration Kill by Evan WrightThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Best Modern Day Military Accounts
460 books — 640 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

Louis Zamperini
“ Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God. ...more ”
― Louis Zamperini, Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

Ruta Sepetys
“ ...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell. ...more ”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

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