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Seducing and Killing Nazis by Sophie Poldermans
Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII This is the astonishing true story of three teenage Dutch girls, Hannie Schaft and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, that has inspired many throughout the world. When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in World War II, these girls took up arms against the enemy by seducing…
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The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker
For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, and The Nightingale comes an emotionally gripping, beautifully written historical novel about extraordinary hope, redemption, and one man’s search for light during the darkest times of World War II. Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped of his place in the world when his school…
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The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah
From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them. “My land…
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The Name on the List by Orly Krauss-Winer
What if the person who betrayed your family is the only one who can save you now? Hungary, 1944. Martha’s life is thrown into disarray. The man she considered her best friend, a Nazi recruit, makes a split-second decision to send her beloved husband to Mauthausen Concentration Camp. Martha, stunned and hurt, refuses to forget…
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The Wolves at The Door by Judith Pearson
The True Story Of America’s Greatest Female Spy Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service. But as Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe, she went to work for the British Special Operations Executive. She was assigned to France, where she became the architect of…
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The Sisters of Battle Road by J.M. Maloney
In 1939, Annie Jarman and her six young daughters were evacuated from their south London home and sent to the Sussex countryside to wait out the war. Refusing to be parted, they faced the unknown together, never imagining just how much their lives would change. Looking for a heartwarming true story? Follow this remarkable journey…
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The Clockmakers Grandson by Kit ten Boom
On May 10,1940 the Netherlands (Holland) were invaded by Nazi Germany. Over the five years of occupation, the Dutch lived under the shadow of fear and took different positions in the face of the looting and oppression of the Third Reich: a great majority decided to adapt themselves to the situation, a shameful minority decided…
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Escape to Virginia by Robert H. Gillette
Escape to Virginia: From Nazi Germany to Thalhimer’s Farm They thought escaping the war meant escaping the nightmare. Instead, the ghosts of their past followed them to a small Virginia town. A hidden history. A family torn apart by war. A desperate journey to start over in America. This post contains Affiliate Links. As an…
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Where the Birds Never Sing by Jack Sacco
Where the Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau – A First-Hand Military Biography from Normandy to Dachau’s Liberation At once epic in scope and intimate in detail, Where the Birds Never Sing effortlessly transports even a casual reader on an emotional and unforgettable journey as author Jack…
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he House of The Stolen Children b Julie Drosten
Germany, 1944.When ninety-four-year-old Hermine Vossberg uncovers a long-hidden keepsake, the past she has carried in silence for decades begins to unravel—revealing a secret that still haunts her. As a young woman during the war, Hermine’s life becomes entwined with Paulina, a fierce and determined Polish resistance fighter searching for her abducted niece. This post contains…