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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 95 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,971,476 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,063,695 ratings — published 2014
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,361,387 ratings — published 2015
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,320,343 ratings — published 1947
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,215,245 ratings — published 2018
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 538,896 ratings — published 1928
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,400,292 ratings — published 1956
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 673,646 ratings — published 2017
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,002,909 ratings — published 2006
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 286,977 ratings — published 2011
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 269,674 ratings — published 2016
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,016,522 ratings — published 2010
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 829,516 ratings — published 2008
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as world-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 130,808 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 933,658 ratings — published 1946
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 152,800 ratings — published 1960
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,524,224 ratings — published 1969
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as world-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 903,408 ratings — published 1961
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as world-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 366,184 ratings — published 1929
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,453 ratings — published 1962
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 636,079 ratings — published 1989
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 408,429 ratings — published 2017
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 354,123 ratings — published 2016
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as world-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 577,355 ratings — published 2001
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 175,147 ratings — published 2008
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 405,115 ratings — published 2021
The Paris Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 152,748 ratings — published 2021
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 355,038 ratings — published 2005
The Book of Lost Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 328,164 ratings — published 2020
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 167,438 ratings — published 1982
The Things We Cannot Say (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.54 — 303,723 ratings — published 2019
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,887 ratings — published 1946
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 57,750 ratings — published 1997
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,172 ratings — published 1999
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 385,562 ratings — published 1986
The Last Bookshop in London (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 104,587 ratings — published 2021
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.49 — 120,521 ratings — published 2015
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 14,879 ratings — published 2012
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 43,064 ratings — published 1998
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 90,258 ratings — published 1947
Code Name Hélène (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.40 — 92,190 ratings — published 2020
Lovely War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 72,541 ratings — published 2019
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 501,763 ratings — published 2006
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 226,333 ratings — published 2022
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.51 — 41,108 ratings — published 1983
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 143,762 ratings — published 2020
The Huntress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 227,732 ratings — published 2019
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,718 ratings — published 2010
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.58 — 264,228 ratings — published 1980
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.41 — 11,295 ratings — published 2012
“War not only takes lives but also
the hope, positivity, and innocence of the survivors”
― The Life of Tolka
the hope, positivity, and innocence of the survivors”
― The Life of Tolka
“As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We've already played at this war in film and fiction, indicating that there's a part of us that desperately wants it. What nonsense writers and filmmakers talk when they say that their terrible visions are meant as a warning. [...] It's sheer wish fulfillment. War... is a culture pattern. It's a legitimate mode of cultural transmission....”
― 1985
― 1985
