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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 601 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,983,001 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 485 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,073,486 ratings — published 2014
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 455 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,337,179 ratings — published 1947
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 393 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,019,127 ratings — published 2010
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 385 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,392,747 ratings — published 2015
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,404,888 ratings — published 1956
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 300 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,007,463 ratings — published 2006
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 267 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,221,144 ratings — published 2018
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.20 — 832,060 ratings — published 2008
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.44 — 143,166 ratings — published 1992
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.20 — 637,734 ratings — published 1989
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.23 — 153,436 ratings — published 1960
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.35 — 271,371 ratings — published 2016
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.18 — 502,587 ratings — published 2006
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,592 ratings — published 2011
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.33 — 43,273 ratings — published 1998
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.32 — 679,242 ratings — published 2017
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.36 — 288,109 ratings — published 2011
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 171 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.29 — 355,646 ratings — published 2016
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.48 — 368,321 ratings — published 1971
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,529,883 ratings — published 1969
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 158 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.99 — 131,185 ratings — published 2012
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 152 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 144,650 ratings — published 2020
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.99 — 905,595 ratings — published 1961
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 144 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 23,874 ratings — published 2002
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.44 — 409,350 ratings — published 2021
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.32 — 32,300 ratings — published 1994
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.50 — 50,208 ratings — published 1981
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.44 — 410,929 ratings — published 2017
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.37 — 941,361 ratings — published 1946
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.49 — 121,056 ratings — published 2015
The Book of Lost Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.44 — 332,194 ratings — published 2020
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 119 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.37 — 16,448 ratings — published 2007
We Were the Lucky Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.42 — 208,931 ratings — published 2017
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.34 — 167,715 ratings — published 1982
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 116 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.39 — 386,914 ratings — published 1986
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.34 — 26,847 ratings — published 1959
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,360 ratings — published 1946
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.26 — 58,271 ratings — published 1997
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.27 — 40,871 ratings — published 2001
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 176,214 ratings — published 2008
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,161 ratings — published 1997
The Huntress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 108 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 229,532 ratings — published 2019
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.81 — 53,170 ratings — published 2009
The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,178 ratings — published 2002
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.96 — 579,223 ratings — published 2001
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.58 — 265,774 ratings — published 1992
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 103 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.49 — 11,315 ratings — published 2013
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.49 — 93,183 ratings — published 2007
Flags of Our Fathers (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.23 — 64,167 ratings — published 2000
“What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.”
― One Soldier's Story
― One Soldier's Story
“We're so far away from those stars”
― Dream When You're Feeling Blue
― Dream When You're Feeling Blue
