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Ww II Books
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All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,040,303 ratings — published 2014
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 132 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,945,736 ratings — published 2005
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,292,039 ratings — published 2015
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,011,517 ratings — published 2010
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,282,840 ratings — published 1947
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,202,278 ratings — published 2018
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,391,321 ratings — published 1956
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.44 — 403,089 ratings — published 2017
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.32 — 661,684 ratings — published 2017
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.19 — 824,502 ratings — published 2008
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.29 — 350,795 ratings — published 2016
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.18 — 499,941 ratings — published 2006
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.44 — 395,872 ratings — published 2021
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.16 — 992,760 ratings — published 2006
The Huntress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.30 — 223,846 ratings — published 2019
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 3.90 — 224,361 ratings — published 2011
The Book of Lost Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.44 — 319,599 ratings — published 2020
We Were the Lucky Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.42 — 204,392 ratings — published 2017
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.30 — 141,872 ratings — published 2020
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.35 — 265,775 ratings — published 2016
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 3.99 — 130,133 ratings — published 2012
The Last Bookshop in London (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.14 — 102,943 ratings — published 2021
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.20 — 631,958 ratings — published 1989
Suite Française (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 3.86 — 79,004 ratings — published 2004
The Paris Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.06 — 150,986 ratings — published 2021
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.15 — 64,061 ratings — published 2019
The Women in the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 3.84 — 66,937 ratings — published 2017
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.44 — 141,607 ratings — published 1992
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.37 — 917,954 ratings — published 1946
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.48 — 364,360 ratings — published 1971
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.50 — 49,338 ratings — published 1981
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.30 — 172,953 ratings — published 2008
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.23 — 151,613 ratings — published 1960
The Lost Girls of Paris (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 3.92 — 116,104 ratings — published 2019
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.29 — 220,790 ratings — published 2022
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.05 — 318,704 ratings — published 2009
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,553 ratings — published 1998
The Orphan's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.05 — 95,848 ratings — published 2017
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 3.99 — 898,666 ratings — published 1961
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.30 — 23,503 ratings — published 2002
Code Name Hélène (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.40 — 88,088 ratings — published 2020
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,067 ratings — published 2017
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 3.49 — 92,675 ratings — published 2007
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,986 ratings — published 1982
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,512,027 ratings — published 1969
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,028 ratings — published 1997
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.32 — 31,913 ratings — published 1994
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 3.87 — 47,207 ratings — published 2011
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.36 — 284,327 ratings — published 2011
Those Who Save Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ww-ii)
avg rating 4.11 — 104,067 ratings — published 2004
“They now had a technical advantage over the Germans that they had to exploit immediately...According to Cockcroft, right then and there Loomis proposed the idea of establishing a large central microwave laboratory. The British enthusiastically seconded the idea, and it was quickly agreed that it should be a civilian rather than military operation, staffed by scientists and engineers from both universities and industry, based on the British model of successful research laboratories, and, not coincidentally, Loomis' own enterprise.”
― Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
― Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
“I'm not talking about YOUR book now, but look at how many books have already been written about the Holocaust. What's the point? People haven't changed... Maybe they need a newer, bigger Holocaust.”
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