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The Second World War Books
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The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,180 ratings — published 2002
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,983,136 ratings — published 2005
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,337,377 ratings — published 1947
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 43,277 ratings — published 1998
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 526 ratings — published 2025
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,253 ratings — published 2015
Enigma (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 3.91 — 19,482 ratings — published 1995
V2: A Novel of World War II (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 3.92 — 17,468 ratings — published 2020
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.41 — 11,379 ratings — published 2012
The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,929 ratings — published 1948
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.62 — 7,629 ratings — published 2015
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.49 — 11,316 ratings — published 2013
The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,777 ratings — published 2011
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 10,857 ratings — published 2011
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,656 ratings — published 2011
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 16,452 ratings — published 2007
How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 479 ratings — published 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 153,445 ratings — published 1960
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.41 — 25,245 ratings — published 1986
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,221,202 ratings — published 2018
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,019,178 ratings — published 2010
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 905,626 ratings — published 1961
Gestapo: The Story Behind Hitler's Machine of Terror (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,038 ratings — published 2014
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 23,877 ratings — published 2002
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,618 ratings — published 2008
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,856 ratings — published 2010
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,323 ratings — published 2007
Why the Allies Won (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,380 ratings — published 1995
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.50 — 50,211 ratings — published 1981
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 32,303 ratings — published 1994
A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,028 ratings — published 1990
Bomber Command (Zenith Military Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,788 ratings — published 1979
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,588 ratings — published 2004
A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,441 ratings — published 2022
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,073,581 ratings — published 2014
Japan's War: Hirohito’s Holy War Against the West 'A superbly revealing account' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 54 ratings — published 2025
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 58,281 ratings — published 1997
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.10 — 562 ratings — published
Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,479 ratings — published 2007
The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,392 ratings — published 2025
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 985 ratings — published 2022
Alone in Berlin (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 38,980 ratings — published 1947
Den Aktverdige Morderen (Hamilton, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 3.47 — 983 ratings — published 1990
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,862 ratings — published 2010
Slaget om Nordkalotten : Sveriges roll i tyska och allierade operationer i norr (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 3.46 — 39 ratings — published
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,418 ratings — published 2007
I en förvandlad stad (Stadserien, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,755 ratings — published 1966
Striden om Stilla havet (Historiens vändpunkter, #20)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published
Hitler's Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 3.57 — 119 ratings — published 2019
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as the-second-world-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 36,326 ratings — published 1963
“How is beauty ever to be seen through a tarnished lens?”
― The Doctor's Daughter
― The Doctor's Daughter
“Your life is not dependent upon anyone else’s. You don’t know what the future holds—none of us do, but I believe it holds more than what we are experiencing now. Hold on, dear. Just hold on. Please.”
― The Doctor's Daughter
― The Doctor's Daughter
