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World War 2 Books
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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 595 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,864,976 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 471 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,962,364 ratings — published 2014
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 447 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,170,774 ratings — published 1947
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 391 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.39 — 995,180 ratings — published 2010
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 371 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,068,171 ratings — published 2015
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,358,373 ratings — published 1956
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 296 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.16 — 961,459 ratings — published 2006
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 263 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,158,070 ratings — published 2018
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.19 — 808,035 ratings — published 2008
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.44 — 138,497 ratings — published 1992
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.20 — 618,609 ratings — published 1989
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.22 — 147,811 ratings — published 1960
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 188 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.35 — 253,987 ratings — published 2016
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.18 — 494,312 ratings — published 2006
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.90 — 219,314 ratings — published 2011
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.37 — 275,463 ratings — published 2011
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,142 ratings — published 1998
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,478,332 ratings — published 1969
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 163 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.29 — 340,845 ratings — published 2016
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.48 — 355,266 ratings — published 1971
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.32 — 621,360 ratings — published 2017
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 154 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,946 ratings — published 2012
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 145 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 136,477 ratings — published 2020
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.99 — 884,791 ratings — published 1961
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 140 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 22,777 ratings — published 2002
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.49 — 47,473 ratings — published 1981
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.31 — 31,406 ratings — published 1994
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.44 — 365,714 ratings — published 2021
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.43 — 385,493 ratings — published 2017
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.37 — 870,155 ratings — published 1946
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
by (shelved 121 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.49 — 114,871 ratings — published 2015
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.34 — 165,552 ratings — published 1982
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 116 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.36 — 15,852 ratings — published 2007
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.39 — 373,648 ratings — published 1986
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.34 — 26,134 ratings — published 1959
The Book of Lost Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.43 — 291,925 ratings — published 2020
We Were the Lucky Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.42 — 196,108 ratings — published 2017
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,328 ratings — published 1997
The Huntress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 107 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 210,591 ratings — published 2019
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.26 — 39,474 ratings — published 2001
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.05 — 89,074 ratings — published 1946
The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,389 ratings — published 2002
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 166,092 ratings — published 2008
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,674 ratings — published 1997
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.80 — 52,294 ratings — published 2009
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.95 — 561,973 ratings — published 2001
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.49 — 91,631 ratings — published 2007
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.58 — 252,902 ratings — published 1980
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 101 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.48 — 10,826 ratings — published 2013
Flags of Our Fathers (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.22 — 63,357 ratings — published 2000
“She dreamed of Venice. However, it wasn’t a city alive with stars dripping like liquid gold into canals, or Bougainvillea spilling from flowerpots like overfilled glasses of wine. In this dream, Venice was without color. Where pastel palazzi once lined emerald lagoons, now, gray, shadowy mounds of rubble paralleled murky canals. Lovers could no longer share a kiss under the Bridge of Sighs; it had been the target of an obsessive Allied bomb in search of German troops. The only sign of life was in Piazza San Marco, where the infamous pigeons continued to feed. However, these pigeons fed not on seeds handed out by children, but on corpses rotting under the elongated shadow of the Campanile.”
― Bridge of Sighs and Dreams
― Bridge of Sighs and Dreams
“She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she could grab hold and climb away from what she had done, from who she was.”
― A Memory Between Us
― A Memory Between Us












