Second World War fiction

WINNER OF THE ';FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR' AT CRT 2021A deeply touching novel about two young women whose differences, which once united them, will tear them apart forever, during Hitler's Nazi occupation of Belgium and France.

From acclaimed authors Aimie K.

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A stirring Second World War tale of love and loss set in Yorkshire from the author of The Linden Walk and A Scent of Lavender.

'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate' Paul Theroux'An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail' Jay Parini'Foden has cleverly reworked the grand African adventure novel' Aminatta Forna, Guardian'A perceptive, compassionate history of an enormously complex conflict' Irish Times'Sharp and fast-paced.

A sudden curtain of silence fell over the burning city.

A shocking insight into the realities of war, the conditions endured by ordinary soldiers and their unwavering solidarity.

SS GENERAL is the definitive Stalingrad novel, a gripping portrait of war's brutal realities.

Sven Hassel's iconic novel about the Battle for Monte Cassino.

Danger was forgotten, death was forgotten, the war was forgotten.

'They beat me,' whispers the artillery officer, 'Smashed my teeth in, sent an electric current through me.

THE BLOODY ROAD TO DEATH depicts all the savagery of war punctuated with black humour, as Tiny, Porta and the rest of the men advance across Europe.

A sobering portrait of the absurdity of the Nazi regime and the atrocities committed by Hitler's secret police.

A graphic novel adaptation of Sven Hassel's classic war novel, WHEELS OF TERROR, illustrated by Jordy Diago.

'A powerfully emotive family drama featuring well-drawn and sympathetic characters set against a little known but momentous event in US history, which will strike a chord with those who enjoyed Pat Barker's Regeneration and Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North' WE LOVE THIS BOOKFrom the author of TV BOOK CLUB PICK, TIGER HILLSJim Stonebridge lives a solitary life with his father, a haunted man, on an apple estate in deepest Vermont.

A shocking insight into the brutalities faced by ordinary soldiers and the atrocities committed in the name of survival.

The Russian uses his machine pistol like a scythe.

'In a class of his own' William Boyd'Brilliant' Robert Harris'Dazzling' James Patterson 'I cannot wait for my next Furst' Independent'The most talented espionage novelist of our generation' Vince FlynnFrederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at the age of seventeen.

A brand new crime series from the award-winning author of the Harry McCoy books'A notably original protagonist .

De la autora superventas de La red de Alice y El código Rosa.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018**'A surprisingly touching account of hidden lives forced out of the shadows' Sunday TimesOne day in 1940 Rene Hargreaves walks out on her family and the city to take a position as a Land Girl at the remote Starlight farm.

Gretel and the Dark is Eliza Granville's dazzling novel of darkness, evil - and hope.

Germany, 1904: When Frederick and Jette must flee her disapproving mother, where better to go than America, the land of the new?

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEYIn the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives in the ruins of Hamburg.

'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become' RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory.

'Probably the best thing ever written about the wartime air campaign against Germany' Max Hastings'Magnificent .

A breathtaking new novel that asks the question: what if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust?

The Second World War.

Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle.

'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters.

One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of resistance set against the downfall of the Third ReichApril 1945, the last days of the Nazi regime.

Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious Century trilogy.

Engrossing and memorable, The Sins of the Father is the second novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer's celebrated the Clifton Chronicles.

Ambitious and addictive, Only Time Will Tell is the first novel in Jeffrey Archer's The Clifton Chronicles, beginning the epic tale of Harry Clifton, a working-class boy from the docks of Bristol.

In A Song for Summer, bestselling award-winner Eva Ibbotson propels you into idyllic beautiful Austria and a love story set in the shadow of gathering war.

'Deighton's best book .

'The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world' The TimesDecember 1943.

'A superb example of Deighton's craft' Robert HarrisJanuary 1942.

'There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history'Unknown Soldiers follows the fates of a ramshackle troupe of machine-gunners in the Second World War, as they argue, joke, swear, cadge a loaf of bread or a cigarette, combat both boredom and horror in the swamps and pine forests - and discover that war will make or break them.

In Over to You, ten terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot are told by the master of the short story, Roald Dahl.

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE AND A SPELL OF WINTER Leningrad, September 1941.

Evelyn Waugh's masterful depiction of World War II, with an introduction by Martin StannardWaugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45.

From the author of the bestselling debut THE OPEN DOOR comes a moving and uplifting story about a generation of young people living through World War II.

Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show respect for the laird.

'Moves so intensely and inexorably that it almost seems like the war it is describing' The New York Times Book Review'Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you're not a coward?

'I'll never understand the fucking Army.

Als Eberhard Dennerlein 1936 in das Pionierbataillon 47 in München eintritt, legt er damit den Grundstein für sein weiteres Leben.

No matter how you might try to hide in a war to escape your past, it is always close at hand.

Treblinka, Poland--1942.

Nkemi one of the Otani warriors rescued the beautiful Uredo on her way to visit one of her aunts in Obaji and fell in love with her, during one of his visits he made a promise to see her on particular day, though it was rainy and he very sick, he still risked the visit which became very disastrous, a fisherman rescued him and took care of him and later adopted him as his son.