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Under Occupation by Alan Furst
Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. It looks like a blueprint of a part for a military weapon, one that might have important information for the Allied forces. Ricard realizes he must try to get the…
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Dark Star by Alan Furst
Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a full-time spymaster in Paris. As deputy…
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Blackout/ All Clear by Connie Willis
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. This post contains affiliate links.…
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Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin’s purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates…
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The Huntress by Kate Quinn
From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, THE ALICE NETWORK, comes another fascinating work of WWII historical fiction about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America. In the aftermath of…
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Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
Set in London during the years of 1939–1942, when citizens had slim hope of survival, much less victory; and on the strategic island of Malta, which was daily devastated by the Axis barrage, Everyone Brave is Forgiven features little-known history and a perfect wartime love story inspired by the real-life love letters between Chris Cleave’s grandparents. This…
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A Daughters Duty by Roberta Kagan
An absolutely heartbreaking tale of love and survival in wartime Germany (Duty and Betrayal Book 1) A heartbreaking story of survival, sacrifice, and the courage of one ordinary woman on the eve of history’s darkest chapter. This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
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The Pope’s Jew by Gordon Thomas
The Vatican’s Secret Plan to Save Jews from the Nazis. A book of Courage and Strength This revelatory account of how the Vatican saved thousands of Jews during WWII shows why history must exonerate “Hitler’s Pope”https://amzn.to/3Rdauzk
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Operation Tulip by Deborah Swift
Holland, 1944: Undercover British agent Nancy Callaghan has been given her toughest case yet. A key member of the Dutch resistance has been captured, and Nancy must play the role of a wealthy Nazi to win over a notorious SS officer, Detlef Keller, and gain crucial information. This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate,…
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The Shadow Network by Debora Swift
One woman must sacrifice everything to uncover the truth in this enthralling historical novel, inspired by the true World War Two campaign Radio Aspidistra… Book 2 of 3 This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.