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Fiction Set During WWII
The best novels set during WWII
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 2,822,038 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
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The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)
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Sarah's Key
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Tatiana de Rosnay (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 491,447 ratings
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Sophie's Choice
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4.17 avg rating — 93,860 ratings
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The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 1,954,416 ratings
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Atonement
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 555,484 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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John Boyne (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 944,495 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 270,670 ratings
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The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)
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4.38 avg rating — 59,080 ratings
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Bodyguard of Deception (World War II #1)
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Samuel Marquis (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 683 ratings
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Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)
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The Secret Keeper
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Kate Morton (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 171,976 ratings
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The English Patient
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3.86 avg rating — 137,968 ratings
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 877,125 ratings
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Winter Garden
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 395,704 ratings
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War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 39,054 ratings
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A Town Like Alice
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4.16 avg rating — 61,141 ratings
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Nadya's War
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C.S. Taylor (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Comrades of Deceit
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Anthony Hulse (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Beast's Garden
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Kate Forsyth (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 1,565 ratings
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The Luck of the Weissensteiners
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Christoph Fischer (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 978 ratings
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Eye of the Needle
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 167,049 ratings
score: 832,
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Suite Française
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3.86 avg rating — 77,355 ratings
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 238,980 ratings
score: 770,
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The Caine Mutiny
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4.29 avg rating — 26,617 ratings
score: 760,
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Mister Roberts
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4.16 avg rating — 508 ratings
score: 753,
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A God in Ruins (Todd Family, #2)
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3.95 avg rating — 59,380 ratings
score: 740,
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The Reader
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3.79 avg rating — 227,835 ratings
score: 739,
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The Alice Network
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Kate Quinn (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 601,785 ratings
score: 707,
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Corelli’s Mandolin
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4.03 avg rating — 92,032 ratings
score: 649,
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Salt to the Sea
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 247,689 ratings
score: 622,
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Altar of Resistance (World War Two #2)
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Samuel Marquis (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
score: 596,
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The Way Back to Florence
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Glenn Haybittle (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 403 ratings
score: 578,
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Mila 18
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4.32 avg rating — 26,415 ratings
score: 554,
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 993,598 ratings
score: 547,
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Lilac Girls
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4.29 avg rating — 334,948 ratings
score: 529,
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Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3)
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3.86 avg rating — 27,126 ratings
score: 484,
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The Distant Hours
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Kate Morton (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 83,943 ratings
score: 484,
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All Clear (Oxford Time Travel, 4)
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4.08 avg rating — 21,746 ratings
score: 481,
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Prague Fatale (Bernard Gunther, #8)
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4.19 avg rating — 8,454 ratings
score: 479,
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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Jamie Ford (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 312,744 ratings
score: 478,
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 23,940 ratings
score: 446,
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The Key to Rebecca
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 42,397 ratings
score: 446,
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War Brides
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3.82 avg rating — 45,291 ratings
score: 444,
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The Bridge over the River Kwai
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3.94 avg rating — 10,488 ratings
score: 422,
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James Clavell's King Rat
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4.20 avg rating — 43,720 ratings
score: 418,
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The Naked and the Dead
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3.95 avg rating — 26,250 ratings
score: 401,
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Surviving The Forest
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Adiva Geffen (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 5,338 ratings
score: 400,
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Merlin at War (DCI Frank Merlin, #3)
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Mark Ellis (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 198 ratings
score: 397,
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Carrie's War
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3.92 avg rating — 9,119 ratings
score: 387,
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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4.03 avg rating — 61,784 ratings
score: 384,
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
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Mark T. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 377,904 ratings
score: 382,
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HHhH
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4.07 avg rating — 27,693 ratings
score: 360,
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Once An Eagle
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4.39 avg rating — 7,273 ratings
score: 356,
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In the Warsaw Ghetto
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Glenn Haybittle (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 168 ratings
score: 342,
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Summer of my German Soldier
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3.70 avg rating — 17,727 ratings
score: 334,
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Das Boot: The Boat
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4.25 avg rating — 5,877 ratings
score: 312,
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Tuntematon sotilas
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4.08 avg rating — 8,063 ratings
score: 300,
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Into the Unknown
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Lorna Peel (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 209 ratings
score: 300,
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The Last Secret of The Soul: One boy. One Holocaust. One Survivor.
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Stephen P. Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 300,
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Pattern of Shadows (Mary, #1)
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Judith Barrow (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 230 ratings
score: 298,
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The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl, #1)
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Pam Jenoff (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 31,077 ratings
score: 295,
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Resistance
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3.79 avg rating — 9,523 ratings
score: 294,
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L'Ultima Primavera. Il riflesso segreto dei ricordi: Romanzo
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4.76 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Put Out More Flags
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3.80 avg rating — 2,559 ratings
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The Rose Code
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Kate Quinn (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 348,790 ratings
score: 292,
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Enigma
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Robert Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 18,224 ratings
score: 288,
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The Wind Is Not a River
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3.76 avg rating — 4,292 ratings
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The Things We Cherished
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Pam Jenoff (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 8,454 ratings
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Moonlight (Rose of Anzio, #1)
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Alexa Kang (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 724 ratings
score: 284,
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De donkere kamer van Damokles
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3.80 avg rating — 14,224 ratings
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The Shepherd
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4.02 avg rating — 6,105 ratings
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A Brief History of Montmaray (The Montmaray Journals, #1)
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Michelle Cooper (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 6,046 ratings
score: 278,
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Last Citadel: A Novel of the Battle of Kursk
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Pied Piper
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Schindler’s List
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The Women in the Castle
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Jessica Shattuck (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 65,643 ratings
score: 252,
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Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
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Chris Cleave (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 45,282 ratings
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The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 58,292 ratings
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The Yellow Bird Sings
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Jennifer Rosner (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 15,351 ratings
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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Heather Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 1,131,933 ratings
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The Paris Apartment
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Kelly Bowen (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 13,962 ratings
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The Guns of Navarone
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The Zookeeper's Wife
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Diane Ackerman (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 91,121 ratings
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The Forsaken Army: The Great Novel of Stalingrad
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3.96 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Good Night, Mr. Tom
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Guardian Angel
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Anne Rouen (Goodreads Author)
4.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Wingmen
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4.39 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The Seer
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Eva Shaw (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Glovemaker’s War
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Katherine Williams (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 36 ratings
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An Affair of Spies
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Ronald H. Balson (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 2,325 ratings
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The Finder (Beatrix Patterson Mystery #2)
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Eva Shaw (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Finding Rebecca: A Novel of Love and the Holocaust
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Eoin Dempsey (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 17,492 ratings
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Devil's Deceit.
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Anthony Hulse (Goodreads Author)
4.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love
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Duncan Barrett (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 3,587 ratings
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The Wartime Sisters
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Lynda Cohen Loigman (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 7,881 ratings
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The Sword of Honour Trilogy
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The Only Woman in the Room
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Marie Benedict (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 104,523 ratings
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#32 is a great book but is not a novel.
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