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The Children’s Train by Viola Ardone
Heartbreaking Post-WWll Fiction In 1946 war-torn Naples, a desperate Mother makes the agonizing choice to send her 7 year old son, Amerigo, north on a relief train to live with a wealthy host family for the winter. But when a temporary rescue mission opens up a new world of music, food, and education, Amerigo is…
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The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
Three women. One daring mission. 1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents deployed out of London during…
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The Bakers Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan
On June 5, 1944, as dawn rises over a small town on the Normandy coast of France, Emmanuelle is making the bread that has sustained her fellow villagers in the dark days since the Germans invaded her country. Only twenty-two, Emma learned to bake at the side of a master, Ezra Kuchen, the village baker…
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The Woman With Two Shadows by Sara James
“A riveting tale about a town and its people that officially never existed and the secrecy behind one of the Manhattan Project’s top-secret cities!” For fans of Atomic City Girls and Marie Benedict, a fascinating historical debut of one of the most closely held secrets of World War II and a woman caught up in it when…
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A Coat Dyed Black by Don Pugnetti Jr.
A young farmer turns into a courageous resistance fighter after Nazi Germany invades Norway and steals his way of life. Bjørn Erliksen lives a peaceful life on Norway’s west coast and has never considered himself anything but a farmer. But when Nazi Germany invades, and his country’s ill-equipped military collapses in less than two months,…
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The Will To Remember by Roger D. Evans
BOUND BY HOPE: A Polish Family’s Journey of Survival during the Holocaust A child must disappear to survive.One family. One war. One fight to remain human.Some histories survive only because someone refuses to forget.In Nazi-occupied Poland, memory itself becomes resistance. This post contains Affiliate Links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from Qualifying Purchases.
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The Resistance Girl by Mandy Robotham
Norway, 1942: She has lost everything to the Nazis. But now she fights back… War rages, and, under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and her fellow resistance fighters smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea into Nazi-occupied territory. This post contains Affiliate Links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from Qualifying Purchases.
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The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel
Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the…
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The Venice Secret by Anita Chapman
A dual-time story about the discovery of a hidden painting in a loft. One hidden painting. Two women born centuries apart. A secret uncovered. In 2019, Rachel is stuck in a rut when she discovers what appears to be a Canaletto painting in her grandmother’s loft along with a note addressed to Philippa in 1782.…
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The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this “sweeping and magnificent” (Fiona Davis, bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue) historical novel from the #1 international bestselling author of The Winemaker’s Wife. Eva Traube Abrams, a…