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Books about World War II

Based on tag: WWII

Members: 12 participating members (show all)

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1
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
32,408 members, 427 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), Bretzky1 (1), aulsmith (1), thecoroner (14)

Score: 14.07

2
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
32,780 members, 1,857 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (1), starfishian (2), dara85 (3), ahef1963 (8)

Score: 12.78

3
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
21,148 members, 396 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), starfishian (10), thecoroner (10), aulsmith (27)

Score: 8.71

5
The Hiding Place
by Corrie Ten Boom
6,344 members, 102 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: dara85 (4), ahef1963 (6), aulsmith (12)

Score: 7.53

Explanations:

aulsmith (12): Righteous gentiles in The Netherlands

6
The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters
3,877 members, 142 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (3), starfishian (6), aulsmith (24)

Score: 7.4

Explanations:

aulsmith (24): The London blitz

7
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis De Bernières
6,701 members, 137 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (5), starfishian (11), thecoroner (28)

Score: 6.61

8
Night
by Elie Wiesel
20,291 members, 476 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), Bretzky1 (3)

Score: 6.08

9
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
5,995 members, 476 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (2), starfishian (5)

Score: 6.04

10
Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
6,074 members, 72 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: suitable1 (1), thecoroner (20)

Score: 5.89

11
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
16,037 members, 341 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (3), ahef1963 (4)

Score: 5.87

Explanations:

aulsmith (3): Also escaping the Holocaust

12
The Second World War {complete}
by Winston S. Churchill
1,092 members, 9 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (4), aulsmith (4)

Score: 5.66

13
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
8,422 members, 311 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: starfishian (3), thecoroner (12)

Score: 5.19

14
Anne Frank Remembered
by Miep Gies
1,131 members, 23 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: dara85 (5), kara.shamy (7)

Score: 5.13

15
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
12,940 members, 581 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), inge87 (11)

Score: 4.87

16
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
35,148 members, 541 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), aulsmith (2)

Thumbs down: Bretzky1

Score: 4.73

17
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
22,318 members, 571 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: starfishian (7), thecoroner (13)

Score: 4.57

18
Those Who Save Us
by Jenna Blum
2,531 members, 143 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: dara85 (6), starfishian (20)

Score: 4.45

19
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
4,866 members, 79 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: starfishian (8), thecoroner (17)

Score: 4.35

20
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
3,324 members, 35 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (6), aulsmith (28)

Score: 4.3

Explanations:

aulsmith (28): American soldiers in the Pacific theater. I personally found reading this intolerable, but YMMV

21
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr
3,134 members, 79 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: inge87 (10), aulsmith (26)

Score: 4.02

Explanations:

aulsmith (26): Effects of Hiroshima atomic bombing

22
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
by Tadeusz Borowski
1,191 members, 30 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: starfishian (1)

Score: 4

23
History
by Elsa Morante
1,083 members, 22 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (1)

Score: 4

24
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance
by Antony Beevor
359 members, 9 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: wolfepack (1)

Score: 4

25
Erzähl es niemandem!: Die Liebesgeschichte meiner Eltern
by Lillian Crott Berthung
20 members, 3 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: inge87 (1)

Score: 4

26
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
4,631 members, 80 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (14), thecoroner (25)

Score: 3.86

Explanations:

aulsmith (14): The immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima

27
The Guns of Navarone
by Alistair MacLean
1,365 members, 32 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (24), aulsmith (30)

Score: 3.52

Explanations:

aulsmith (30): Fictional account of a US military mission to disable a Nazi gun emplacement in Greece.

28
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
6,122 members, 75 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (2)

Score: 3.36

29
The Winds of War
by Herman Wouk
2,635 members, 46 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (2)

Score: 3.36

30
The Longest Day
by Cornelius Ryan
1,790 members, 32 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: suitable1 (2)

Score: 3.36

31
The Baker's Daughter
by Sarah McCoy
522 members, 38 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: dara85 (2)

Score: 3.36

32
In My Brother's Shadow: A Life and Death in the SS
by Uwe Timm
248 members, 6 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: inge87 (2)

Score: 3.36

33
A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies
by Martin J. Sherwin
90 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (2)

Score: 3.36

34
King Rat
by James Clavell
2,253 members, 37 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (3)

Score: 3.04

35
A Bridge Too Far
by Cornelius Ryan
1,601 members, 20 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: suitable1 (3)

Score: 3.04

36
Group Portrait With Lady
by Heinrich Böll
1,029 members, 14 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (3)

Score: 3.04

38
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
9,979 members, 622 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

Lists: KimarieBee (4)

Score: 2.83

39
A Thread of Grace
by Mary Doria Russell
1,870 members, 78 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: starfishian (4)

Score: 2.83

40
Rose Under Fire
by Elizabeth Wein
929 members, 86 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (4)

Score: 2.83

41
The Third Reich at War
by Richard J. Evans
889 members, 16 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (4)

Score: 2.83

42
Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War against Hitler
by Mark Riebling
100 members, 3 reviews
4.69 stars (4.69 stars)

Lists: inge87 (4)

Score: 2.83

43
Code Name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
3,410 members, 317 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

Lists: inge87 (5)

Score: 2.68

45
History of the Second World War
by B. H. Liddell Hart
675 members, 4 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (5)

Score: 2.68

46
Memoirs of the Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill
551 members, 6 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (5)

Score: 2.68

47
Johnny the Partisan
by Beppe Fenoglio
256 members, 2 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (5)

Score: 2.68

48
The Moon Is Down
by John Steinbeck
2,574 members, 82 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (6)

Score: 2.56

Explanations:

aulsmith (6): Nazi occupation of an unidentified town in western Europe.

49
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
2,114 members, 113 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (6)

Score: 2.56

50
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
by Conrad Black
366 members, 4 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (6)

Score: 2.56

51
The Oaken Heart
by Margery Allingham
52 members, 1 review
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: inge87 (6)

Score: 2.56

Explanations:

inge87 (6): Memoir of life on the British homefront

52
Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
3,179 members, 295 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: dara85 (7)

Score: 2.46

53
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
2,221 members, 70 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (7)

Score: 2.46

54
Crabwalk
by Günter Grass
952 members, 21 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: inge87 (7)

Score: 2.46

55
The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe
by John Toland
445 members, 4 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (7)

Score: 2.46

Explanations:

aulsmith (7): Remarkable book on the events leading up to VE day. I especially was fascinated by the goings on in Hitler's bunker.

56
The Origins of Major War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by Dale C. Copeland
28 members, 1 review
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (7)

Score: 2.46

57
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
8,635 members, 102 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (8)

Score: 2.38

58
The Final Solution. A Story of Detection
by Michael Chabon
3,270 members, 137 reviews
3.4 stars (3.4 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (8)

Score: 2.38

59
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
by Mark Sullivan
937 members, 51 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: dara85 (8)

Score: 2.38

60
Dominion
by C. J. Sansom
749 members, 51 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (8)

Score: 2.38

61
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
by Jan T. Gross
425 members, 19 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: inge87 (8)

Score: 2.38

62
Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century
by Benjamin A. Valentino
36 members, 0 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (8)

Score: 2.38

63
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
17,745 members, 842 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (9)

Score: 2.31

64
Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
by David Guterson
10,934 members, 161 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: starfishian (9)

Score: 2.31

65
If This Is A Man
by Primo Levi
4,570 members, 84 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (9)

Score: 2.31

66
Letters and Papers from Prison
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
2,415 members, 8 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (9)

Score: 2.31

Explanations:

aulsmith (9): Bonhoeffer was imprisoned because of his role in the White Rose conspiracy.

69
The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
5,937 members, 85 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10)

Score: 2.25

70
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
by Ron Rosenbaum
549 members, 10 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (10)

Score: 2.25

Explanations:

aulsmith (10): Excellent book on the mythology surrounding Hitler.

71
The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth Century
by Manus I. Midlarsky
14 members, 0 reviews
2.5 stars (2.5 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (10)

Score: 2.25

72
84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
4,494 members, 277 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11)

Score: 2.2

73
Black Rain
by Masuji Ibuse
674 members, 21 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (11)

Score: 2.2

74
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
by Robert Jay Lifton
615 members, 5 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (11)

Score: 2.2

Explanations:

aulsmith (11): An examination of the psyches of the doctors at Auschwitz.

75
The History of Love
by Nicole Krauss
7,946 members, 274 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: starfishian (12)

Score: 2.15

76
Tales of the South Pacific
by James A. Michener
1,378 members, 21 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12)

Score: 2.15

77
The Hanukkah Ghosts
by Malka Penn
27 members, 1 review
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: inge87 (12)

Score: 2.15

78
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman
7,806 members, 196 reviews
4.44 stars (4.44 stars)

Lists: inge87 (13)

Score: 2.11

79
The Zookeeper's Wife
by Diane Ackerman
3,509 members, 172 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

Lists: starfishian (13)

Score: 2.11

80
The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark
by Carmen Agra Deedy
399 members, 24 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (13)

Score: 2.11

Explanations:

aulsmith (13): Righteous gentiles in Denmark

81
The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
11,264 members, 349 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: starfishian (14)

Score: 2.07

82
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
by Art Spiegelman
5,620 members, 113 reviews
4.49 stars (4.49 stars)

Lists: inge87 (14)

Score: 2.07

83
The Welsh Girl
by Peter Ho Davies
936 members, 52 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

Lists: starfishian (15)

Score: 2.03

84
The Sergeant in the Snow
by Mario Rigoni Stern
240 members, 15 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (15)

Score: 2.03

85
Mister Roberts
by Thomas Heggen
203 members, 7 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (15)

Score: 2.03

Explanations:

aulsmith (15): U.S. Navy in the Pacific.

86
Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings, 1941-1944
by Alfred Delp
40 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: inge87 (15)

Score: 2.03

87
Five Quarters of the Orange
by Joanne Harris
3,450 members, 69 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: starfishian (16)

Score: 2

88
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
by Judith Kerr
1,845 members, 37 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: inge87 (16)

Score: 2

89
Men and Not Men
by Elio Vittorini
275 members, 4 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (16)

Score: 2

90
Blitz: The Story of December 29, 1940
by Margaret Gaskin
123 members, 4 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (16)

Score: 2

Explanations:

aulsmith (16): The history of one night in the blitz.

91
Agent Zigzag. A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
by Ben Macintyre
1,269 members, 69 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (17)

Score: 1.97

Explanations:

aulsmith (17): British spying on Nazi Germany

92
The Novel in the Viola
by Natasha Solomons
795 members, 62 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: inge87 (17)

Score: 1.97

93
The Lost Garden
by Helen Humphreys
486 members, 34 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: starfishian (17)

Score: 1.97

94
The Piano Teacher
by Janice Y. K. Lee
1,889 members, 113 reviews
3.33 stars (3.33 stars)

Lists: starfishian (18)

Score: 1.94

95
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
by Mark Mazower
472 members, 8 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (18)

Score: 1.94

Explanations:

aulsmith (18): A look at the political administration of Germany's occupied territories.

96
A Train of Powder
by Rebecca West
112 members, 2 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: inge87 (18)

Score: 1.94

97
The Bonfire of Berlin: A Lost Childhood in Wartime Germany
by Helga Schneider
105 members, 8 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (18)

Score: 1.94

98
Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard
3,029 members, 55 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (19)

Score: 1.92

99
The Distant Hours
by Kate Morton
2,836 members, 190 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: starfishian (19)

Score: 1.92

100
Snow Treasure
by Marie McSwigan
1,872 members, 24 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (19)

Score: 1.92

Explanations:

aulsmith (19): Norway under Nazi occupation. Story for children.

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