Books About World War II

1
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
13,525 members
245 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
4,108 members
100 reviews
½ 4.4
6 Members
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3
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
2,427 members
47 reviews
4.1
7 Members
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4
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,203 members
578 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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5
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
10,731 members
354 reviews
4
7 Members
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6
If This Is a Man / The Truce
by Primo Levi
2,700 members
35 reviews
½ 4.5
5 Members
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7
Night
by Elie Wiesel
12,886 members
240 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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8
Memoirs of the Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill
954 members
10 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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9
Eye of the Needle
by Ken Follett
5,946 members
99 reviews
4
6 Members
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10
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
8,376 members
104 reviews
4
6 Members
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11
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
28,710 members
663 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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12
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,136 members
774 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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13
The Hiding Place
by Corrie ten Boom
12,364 members
165 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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14
Every Man Dies Alone
by Hans Fallada
4,100 members
170 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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15
The Winds of War
by Herman Wouk
3,631 members
59 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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16
War and Remembrance
by Herman Wouk
2,977 members
42 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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17
The Postmistress
by Sarah Blake
3,638 members
248 reviews
½ 3.4
4 Members
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18
Group Portrait With Lady
by Heinrich Böll
1,441 members
18 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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19
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer
9,019 members
118 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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20
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
21,212 members
1,307 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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21
History of the Second World War
by B. H. Liddell Hart
941 members
5 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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22
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,524 members
49 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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23
Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
12,209 members
679 reviews
4
3 Members
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24
Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis
by Ian Kershaw
1,669 members
24 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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25
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
by Mark Mazower
780 members
12 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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27
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
6,553 members
91 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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28
History
by Elsa Morante
1,576 members
32 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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29
Code Name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
5,698 members
406 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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30
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
by Władysław Szpilman
2,550 members
42 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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31
My Enemy's Cradle
by Sara Young
506 members
23 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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32
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
by Ron Rosenbaum
773 members
15 reviews
4
2 Members
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33
Johnny the Partisan
by Beppe Fenoglio
400 members
5 reviews
4
2 Members
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34
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
by Studs Terkel
1,893 members
22 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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35
Mrs. Miniver
by Jan Struther
742 members
31 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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36
Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris
by Ian Kershaw
1,849 members
25 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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37
The Balkan Trilogy
by Olivia Manning
1,269 members
33 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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38
Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945
by Carlo D'Este
386 members
8 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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40
The Shanghai Moon
by S. J. Rozan
320 members
15 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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41
The Coming of the Third Reich
by Richard J. Evans
2,577 members
51 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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42
The Third Reich in Power
by Richard J. Evans
1,839 members
23 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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43
Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard
4,135 members
79 reviews
4
2 Members
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44
The Third Reich at War
by Richard J. Evans
1,608 members
27 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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45
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
14,279 members
617 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
SqueakyChu
46
City of Thieves
by David Benioff
5,984 members
331 reviews
4.2
Member
StefanieGeeks
47
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher R. Browning
2,851 members
41 reviews
4.1
Member
Luisali
48
Berlin at War. Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45
by Roger Moorhouse
309 members
6 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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49
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
by Irene Gut Opdyke
1,184 members
22 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Peace2
50
I Am Fifteen – and I Don't Want to Die
by Christine Arnothy
446 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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51
The Dream of Scipio
by Iain Pears
2,343 members
53 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Luisali
52
The Invisible Bridge
by Julie Orringer
2,265 members
144 reviews
4.2
Member
dara85
53
Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
by Stephen E. Ambrose
1,420 members
24 reviews
3.9
Member
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54
Their Finest Hour and a Half
by Lissa Evans
266 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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55
Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945
by Joyce Dennys
183 members
36 reviews
4
Member
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56
A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement
by Anthony Powell
927 members
15 reviews
4.2
Member
thorold
57
The Baker's Daughter
by Sarah McCoy
714 members
48 reviews
3.8
Member
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58
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
by Sarah Helm
489 members
21 reviews
4.1
Member
Chatterbox
59
World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West
by Laurence Rees
296 members
6 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
raperper
60
Miss Ranskill Comes Home
by Barbara Euphan Todd
219 members
12 reviews
4.2
Member
elkiedee
61
Dog Years
by Günter Grass
1,268 members
10 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
63
Saplings
by Noel Streatfeild
374 members
18 reviews
3.9
Member
elkiedee
64
Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille
by Rosemary Sullivan
166 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
Chatterbox
65
The Road Back to Paris
by A. J. Liebling
79 members
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
66
The Sword of Honour Trilogy
by Evelyn Waugh
1,213 members
19 reviews
4.2
Member
thorold
68
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
23,845 members
960 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
69
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
by Ben Macintyre
1,899 members
87 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
70
An Empty Death
by Laura Wilson
118 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
elkiedee
71
Those Who Save Us
by Jenna Blum
3,308 members
170 reviews
4
Member
dara85
72
The Sergeant in the Snow
by Mario Rigoni Stern
388 members
18 reviews
4.2
Member
roby72
73
The Lover
by Laura Wilson
60 members
6 reviews
3.9
Member
elkiedee
74
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
5,663 members
247 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
75
The Bonfire of Berlin: A Lost Childhood in Wartime Germany
by Helga Schneider
174 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thecoroner
76
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
by Mark Sullivan
3,329 members
133 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
77
The Past Is Myself
by Christabel Bielenberg
491 members
9 reviews
3.9
Member
Chatterbox
78
Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
4,503 members
214 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
79
How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War
by Norman Longmate
150 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
Chatterbox
80
Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
6,039 members
375 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
81
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
by Kristin Harmel
1,203 members
50 reviews
4.2
Member
dara85
83
Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web
by Lynn H. Nicholas
113 members
½ 4.4
Member
Chatterbox
84
Between Silk and Cyanide
by Leo Marks
1,100 members
33 reviews
4.1
Member
Chatterbox
85
The Emperor of Lies
by Steve Sem-Sandberg
499 members
15 reviews
4
Member
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87
Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
by Yitzhak Arad
164 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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88
The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War
by Lara Feigel
127 members
6 reviews
3.8
Member
elkiedee
89
A Man Called Intrepid
by William Stevenson
1,327 members
17 reviews
4.1
Member
Chatterbox
90
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
by Gitta Sereny
1,039 members
19 reviews
4.1
Member
Chatterbox
91
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941
by Victor Klemperer
1,383 members
13 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Chatterbox
92
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945
by Victor Klemperer
965 members
9 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
Chatterbox
93
Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45
by Neill Lochery
178 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
Chatterbox
95
Operation Mincemeat
by Ben Macintyre
2,296 members
105 reviews
3.9
Member
Chatterbox
96
A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars
by Nicholas Rankin
408 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
Chatterbox
97
The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
by Hannelore Brenner
220 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Chatterbox
98
Let Me Go
by Helga Schneider
424 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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99
Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front, 1939-1942
by Joyce Dennys
364 members
22 reviews
4
Member
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100
A Fine of Two Hundred Francs
by Elsa Triolet
154 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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