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Best WWII Fiction and Biography
The best and most important WWII historical fiction, biographical fiction, and biography... a list of books to give any reader allergic to straight history texts a real grounding in the era and issues of World War 2.
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Night
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Catch-22
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,922,635 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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Schindler’s List
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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John Boyne (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 944,101 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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Sarah's Key
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Tatiana de Rosnay (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 491,391 ratings
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In Pursuit of Platinum: The Shocking Secret of World War II (Ben Peters WWII Thriller series #1)
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Vic Robbie (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 512 ratings
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Hiroshima
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4.05 avg rating — 87,379 ratings
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The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 1,951,394 ratings
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Suite Française
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3.86 avg rating — 77,332 ratings
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Number the Stars
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 611,412 ratings
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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4.44 avg rating — 136,765 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,459,601 ratings
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The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)
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4.38 avg rating — 59,070 ratings
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Sophie’s Choice
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4.17 avg rating — 93,848 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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Jamie Ford (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 312,691 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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Atonement
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 555,336 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
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3.71 avg rating — 19,656 ratings
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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4.30 avg rating — 68,193 ratings
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War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 216,457 ratings
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Those Who Save Us
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Jenna Blum (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 103,096 ratings
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The Blood Red Sea
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Anthony Hulse (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 46 ratings
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A Town Like Alice
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Eye of the Needle
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 166,983 ratings
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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3.86 avg rating — 192,958 ratings
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The Thin Red Line
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Savaged Lands
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Lana Kortchik (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 3,721 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
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4.27 avg rating — 21,361 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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4.22 avg rating — 145,569 ratings
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Mila 18
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4.32 avg rating — 26,415 ratings
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
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The English Patient
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3.86 avg rating — 137,946 ratings
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The Destruction of Dresden
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4.02 avg rating — 272 ratings
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HHhH
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4.07 avg rating — 27,683 ratings
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Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
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4.13 avg rating — 2,109 ratings
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The Key to Rebecca
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 42,372 ratings
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Jackdaws
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 42,710 ratings
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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
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4.24 avg rating — 24,401 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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4.49 avg rating — 46,432 ratings
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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Diane Ackerman (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 91,111 ratings
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From Here to Eternity
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4.08 avg rating — 17,995 ratings
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Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
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4.23 avg rating — 4,927 ratings
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
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4.17 avg rating — 48,729 ratings
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
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4.14 avg rating — 19,906 ratings
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The Reader
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3.79 avg rating — 227,757 ratings
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The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
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4.03 avg rating — 56,169 ratings
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 83,190 ratings
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Salt to the Sea
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 247,550 ratings
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
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3.91 avg rating — 18,056 ratings
score: 842,
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Survival in Auschwitz
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4.34 avg rating — 84,550 ratings
score: 840,
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King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong
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Jonathan Chamberlain (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 820,
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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4.25 avg rating — 51,492 ratings
score: 815,
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Winter Garden
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 395,187 ratings
score: 811,
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 22,351 ratings
score: 808,
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The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
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4.30 avg rating — 5,983 ratings
score: 750,
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
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4.33 avg rating — 19,836 ratings
score: 739,
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
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4.48 avg rating — 10,650 ratings
score: 729,
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
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4.31 avg rating — 31,085 ratings
score: 723,
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The Devil's Arithmetic
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 61,648 ratings
score: 719,
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 156,631 ratings
score: 716,
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Flags of Our Fathers
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4.22 avg rating — 63,048 ratings
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
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4.04 avg rating — 7,155 ratings
score: 712,
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Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth
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Cynthia A. Sandor (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 45 ratings
score: 700,
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
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Molly Guptill Manning (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 8,458 ratings
score: 699,
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Gone to Soldiers
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4.27 avg rating — 5,107 ratings
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City of Thieves
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4.30 avg rating — 163,214 ratings
score: 678,
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A Train in Winter (The Resistance #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 8,731 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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Daniel James Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 355,221 ratings
score: 672,
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Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
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Elizabeth Wein (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,509 ratings
score: 669,
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The Forgotten Soldier
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score: 650,
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The Invisible Bridge
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Julie Orringer (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 53,821 ratings
score: 649,
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
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Mark T. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 377,676 ratings
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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Eric Metaxas (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 81,102 ratings
score: 639,
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Crabwalk
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Day After Night
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3.69 avg rating — 15,484 ratings
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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
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The Night Watch
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
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Patton: A Genius for War
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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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Corelli’s Mandolin
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The Second World War
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Charlotte Gray
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Battle Cry
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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
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4.28 avg rating — 4,770 ratings
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One Man's Justice
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Hiroshima in America
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The Naked and the Dead
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
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Bill O'Reilly (Goodreads Author)
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The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
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The Young Lions
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Nov 30, 2012 08:54PM
Obviously we don't understand the word "fiction"
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If you'll point out the non-fiction, I'll be happy to remove it. (Knowing the place on the list as well as the title is very useful.)
The painted bird!!! A little disturbing though. be warned.
Office of Price Administration Tokens: Complete Image Resource & Checklist is fiction or a biography???
The book thief is twice, once at 2 and once at 35.
Maisie Dobbs is not WWII...it is WWI and the years immediately after.
Where is it, Sue? (If I know where it is, I can remove it.)
ranked in a group at 154 (part way down page 2)
Thanks. Will nab.
The Keep by F. Paul Wilson is a horror novel set during WW2, a classic
Gabe wrote: "The Keep by F. Paul Wilson is a horror novel set during WW2, a classic"Then you should add it. See the button at the top of the list; you are the only person that will add this book.
The system found and removed 6 duplicates.Also removed: The Wave, contemporary YA fiction:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
And now the system has found and removed 2 more duplicates. Glad this one still works.
If I can suggest something I would recommend this book here from which the author has takes jokes for this article https://college-homework-help.org/blog/bibliography
AmandaCross wrote: "If I can suggest something I would recommend this book here from which the author has takes jokes for this article https://college-homework-help.org/blo..."AmandaCross wrote: "If I can suggest something I would recommend this book here from which the author has takes jokes for this article https://college-homework-help.org/blo..."
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Anyone can add books to this list.
How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
