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Spark of Life: A Novel of Resistance by Erich Maria Remarque
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSPARK OF LIFE509 is a political prisoner in a German concentration camp. For ten years, he has persevered in the most hellish conditions. Deathly weak, he still has his wits about him and he senses that the end of the war is near. If he and the other living corpses in his barracks can hold on for liberation--or force their own--then their suffering will not have been in vain... -
![Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler]()
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLife and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies in a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war... -
![The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk]()
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsUpon its original publication in 1951, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was immediately embraced as one of the first serious works of fiction to help readers grapple with the human consequences of World War II... -
![Lord Edward's Archer by Griff Hosker]()
Lord Edward's Archer by Griff Hosker
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings13th Century, Wales and England.To young Gruffyd, life has been unkind. Eking out a meagre living with his father, he has learned very quickly how to look after himself in the hostile borderlands. His father, an archer, has taught him well and at seventeen Gruffyd is a keen and able bowman... -
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![Where the Heart Is by Annie Groves]()
Where the Heart Is by Annie Groves
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA fabulous drama of the Campion family, struggling to stay together as World War Two rages over Liverpool Lou Campion has joined the WAAFs, against the wishes of her parents and twin sister Sasha. Lou's always been a rebel, but now finds that if she wants to succeed she'll have to follow extremely strict rules... -
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Ellie Pride by Annie Groves
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA stunning saga debut from an author destined to be a star of the genre -- ELLIE PRIDE is an engrossing, heartrending story of love, passion, duty and family, set in the North-east in the early part of the twentieth century. A stirring tale charting the life of Ellie Pride, a beautiful Preston girl who, when her mother dies, must forge her own way in the world... -
![The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna]()
The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRecommended reading as part of the Chief of Naval Operation's Professional Reading Program!This now-classic novel by Richard McKenna enjoyed great critical acclaim and commercial success when it was first published in 1962... -
![The Good Doctor of Warsaw by Elisabeth Gifford]()
The Good Doctor of Warsaw by Elisabeth Gifford
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet in the ghettos of wartime Warsaw, this is a sweeping, poignant and heartbreaking tale, based on the true story of one of World War II's quiet heroes - Dr Janusz Korczak.'You do not leave a sick child alone to face the dark and you do not leave a child at a time like this.'Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom... -
![A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, Gary Shteyngart]()
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, Gary Shteyngart
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsIn its adventurous happenings–its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues–A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and ’30s... -
![I Am The River by T.E. Grau]()
I Am The River by T.E. Grau
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings~ Nominated for the 2018 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. ~During the last desperate days of the Vietnam War, American soldier Israel Broussard is assigned to a secret CIA PSYOP far behind enemy lines meant to drive terror into the heart of the North Vietnamese and end an unwinnable war... -
![The Captain by Jan de Hartog]()
The Captain by Jan de Hartog
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe book centers around the specialized Ocean tugboat trade. In 1940 Harinxma, then a young tugboat officer, escapes to Britain. The Kwel company has managed to get away much of its fleet and personnel, one jump ahead of the advancing Germans, and sets up to continue operations from London... -
![London Belles by Annie Groves]()
London Belles by Annie Groves
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLondon Belles is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence – as well as love, passion and heartbreak – for the very first time, a unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain. Four lives. One war that will change them all. When tragedy strikes, Olive is forced to seek lodgers... -
![Song of the Exile by Kiana Davenport]()
Song of the Exile by Kiana Davenport
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this epic, original novel in which Hawaii's fierce, sweeping past springs to life, Kiana Davenport, author of the acclaimed Shark Dialogues, draws upon the remarkable stories of her people to create a timeless, passionate tale of love and survival, tragedy and triumph, survival and transcendence... -
![The Ghost Road by Pat Barker]()
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn alternate cover edition can be found here.As World War I winds to a close, two men--Dr. William Rivers, a psychologist whose dedicated healing sends men back to the brutal front, and Billy Prior, a shell-shocked soldier determined to rejoin the final English offensive--are profounded affected by the events of the era. Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize... -
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![The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker]()
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe masterful second novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsWINNER OF THE 1993 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE'Spellbinding and startlingly original' Sunday Telegraph'Gripping, moving, profoundly intelligent' Independent on Sunday'A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male... -
![Forest of the Hanged by Liviu Rebreanu]()
Forest of the Hanged by Liviu Rebreanu
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsDuring the First World War, just behind the eastern front, there was a forest, where Austrians and Hungarians used to hang deserters. To this place came Apostol Bologa, a young Romanian officer eager to serve his country. Born in a Romanian region of Transylvania which was then under Hungarian rule, he had naturally enough joined the Austro-Hungarian army... -
![The Jackal's Mistress by Chris Bohjalian]()
The Jackal's Mistress by Chris Bohjalian
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger, from the New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical fiction as Hour of the Witch and The Sandcastle Girls...Categorized as:
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![Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman]()
Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMary Todd Lincoln is one of history’s most misunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president’s wife to be called First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three children and the assassination of her beloved husband. Yet she also ran her family into debt, held seances in the White House, and was committed to an insane asylum... -
![Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre]()
Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's the rule-always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay in the vehicle and scan five meters in every direction. A bomb inside five meters cuts through the armor, killing everyone in the truck. Once clear, get out and sweep twenty-five meters. A bomb inside twenty-five meters kills the dismounted scouts investigating the road ahead... -
![In Parenthesis by David Jones, W.S. Merwin]()
In Parenthesis by David Jones, W.S. Merwin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War, a book celebrated by W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot as one of the masterpieces of modern literature... -
![The House on Tenafly Road by Adrienne Morris]()
The House on Tenafly Road by Adrienne Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen morphine-addicted Civil War veteran John Weldon marries into the comfortably suburban McCullough family on the eve of Reconstruction and the Indian Wars, life gets complicated...Categorized as:
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![Redeployment by Phil Klay]()
Redeployment by Phil Klay
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPhil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos... -
![The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle]()
The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratings1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against the warden, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy... -
![Europe Central by William T. Vollmann]()
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century... -
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![A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan]()
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSet just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying is the story of a small Wisconsin town gripped by a mysterious, deadly epidemic, and one man desperate to save it. Torn between his loyalty to his family, his faith in God, and his terror of this vicious disease, Jacob Hansen struggles to preserve his sanity amid the chaos and violence around him... -
![The Children of Freedom by Marc Levy]()
The Children of Freedom by Marc Levy
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA remarkable story of struggle and survival in World War II by France's No. 1 bestselling novelist Early in 1942, two young brothers join a Resistance group. All the members of the group are young, most of their families came from elsewhere in Europe or North Africa and all of them are passionately committed to the freedom of France and Europe... -
![How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić]()
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor young Aleksandar - the best magician in the non-aligned states and painter of unfinished things - life is endowed with a mythic quality in the Bosnian town of Višegrad, a rich playground for his imagination. When his grandfather dies, Aleks channels his storytelling talent to help with his grief... -
![Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo]()
Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPhilip Caputo’s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness... -
![The Good Liars by Anita Frank]()
The Good Liars by Anita Frank
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSix years ago, at the very start of World War One, a local boy went missing and was never found. So when an inspector arrives at the manor house in 1920 saying that a new witness claims that the boy was last seen there, Ida, Victor and Maurice are shocked... -
![Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman]()
Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the National Book Award finalist, a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel that explores the unseen aftereffects--and unacknowledged casualties--of war.Eden was once big and bold and physical. His fellow Marines nicknamed him "BASE Jump." He loved to wrap his body around his wife's when they slept at night. But now Eden lies in a bed, unable to move or speak... -
![A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli]()
A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne morning, in the dead of winter, three German soldiers are dispatched into the frozen Polish countryside. They have been charged by their commanders to track down and bring back for execution 'one of them' - a Jew. Having flushed out the young man hiding in the woods, they decide to rest in an abandoned house before continuing their journey back to the camp... -
![The Twilight World by Werner Herzog]()
The Twilight World by Werner Herzog
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War IIIn 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda... -
![Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott]()
Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsApartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who are forced to share their quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages a drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion. Apartment in Athens depicts a great and terrible war through the lens of everyday existence... -
![Transgression: A Novel of Love and War by James W. Nichol]()
Transgression: A Novel of Love and War by James W. Nichol
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow can love survive a brutal time? In 1946 in North America, a child makes a grisly find in a deserted field—a discovery that opens a shuttered window on a secret dating back to the beginning of the turbulent decade... -
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![Broken Promises by Elizabeth Cobbs]()
Broken Promises by Elizabeth Cobbs
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOriginally published as In the Lion’s Den 1861: The war that’s been brewing for a decade has exploded, pitting North against South. Fearing that England will support the Confederate cause, President Lincoln sends Charles Francis Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, to London... -
![Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter R. Pouncey]()
Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter R. Pouncey
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage. In a house on the Cape “older than the Republic,” Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days... -
![Revolt in 2100 by Robert A. Heinlein]()
Revolt in 2100 by Robert A. Heinlein
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsIt wasn't the communists who got us after all...You can read about its beginnings in Heinlein's immortal STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND: At the height of America's secular decadence came Nehemiah Scudder, bearing the rod and the wrath of the Lord for those who opposed him, and the promise of earthly happiness and heavenly bliss for those who followed him..Categorized as:
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![A Sound Among the Trees by Susan Meissner]()
A Sound Among the Trees by Susan Meissner
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA house shrouded in time. A line of women with a heritage of loss.As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots... -
![The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West]()
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWriting her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also embodies in its characters the shifts in England's class structures at the beginning of the twentieth century... -
![The Lie by Helen Dunmore]()
The Lie by Helen Dunmore
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the award-winning author of The Siege, Helen Dunmore, comes The Lie; a spellbinding tale of love, remembrance, and deception, set against the backdrop of World War I.Cornwall, 1920. Daniel Branwell has survived the First World War and returned to the small fishing town where he was born. Behind him lie the trenches and the most intense relationship of his life... -
![The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook, Katia Bagnoli]()
The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook, Katia Bagnoli
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsHamburg, 1946. Thousands remain displaced in what is now the British Occupied Zone. Charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the de-Nazification of its defeated people, Colonel Lewis Morgan is requisitioned a fine house on the banks of the Elbe, where he will be joined by his grieving wife, Rachael, and only remaining son, Edmund... -
![Blood of the Reich by William Dietrich]()
Blood of the Reich by William Dietrich
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAt the height of WWII, a quartet of daring American adventurers pits their cunning against a cadre of Nazi S.S. agents seeking to acquire a powerful weapon for the Fuhrer’s arsenal; today, as the Nazi specter begins to rear its head once again, the descendants of those long-ago adventurers must unlock the secrets of their forebears’ mission in order to save the world from Hitler’s resurgent Reich... -
![Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall, Kate Forbes]()
Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall, Kate Forbes
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAmid the mayhem of the Civil War, Virginia plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is put on trial and convicted of madness. It is the only reasonable explanation the court can see for her willful behavior, so she is sent away to Sanibel Asylum to be restored to a good, compliant woman... -
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Life Class by Pat Barker
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLife Class is the first novel in Pat Barker's Life Class Trilogy - a powerful and unforgettable story of art and war Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks's studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world... -
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![Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis]()
Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFor Jeff Johnston, a young historical researcher for a Civil War novelist, reality is redefined on a bitter cold night near the close of a lingering winter. He meets Annie, an intense and lovely young woman suffering from vivid, intense nightmares. Haunted by the dreamer and her unrelenting dreams, Jeff leads Annie on an emotional odyssey through the heartland of the Civil War in search of a cure...Categorized as:
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![Northern Lights by Tim O'Brien]()
Northern Lights by Tim O'Brien
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIEDOriginally published in 1975, Tim O'Brien's debut novel demonstrates the emotional complexity and enthralling narrative tension that later earned him the National Book Award. At its core is the relationship between two brothers: one who went to Vietnam and one who stayed at home... -
![The Beguiled by Thomas Cullinan]()
The Beguiled by Thomas Cullinan
Rated: 3.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA classic slice of Southern Gothic, shot through with psychological suspense - now the basis for Sofia Coppola's highly anticipated new film (winner of Best Director at Cannes) starring Nicola Kidman, Colin Farrell and Kirsten Dunst... -
![C by Tom McCarthy, Stephen Hoye]()
C by Tom McCarthy, Stephen Hoye
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSerge Carrefax spends his childhood at Versoie House, where his father teaches deaf children to speak when he's not experimenting with wireless telegraphy. Sophie, Serge's sister and only connection to the world at large, takes outrageous liberties with Serge's young body - which may explain the unusual sexual predilections that haunt him for the rest of his life... -
![Private Life by Jane Smiley]()
Private Life by Jane Smiley
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post–Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early... -
![Closing Time by Joseph Heller]()
Closing Time by Joseph Heller
Rated: 3.05 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsRevisiting many of the characters of Catch-22, Joseph Heller's Closing Time is a darkly funny depiction of the moral collapse of the Western world. It features ageing versions of Yossarian, Milo and Sammy Singer and others fighting not the Germans, but The End...
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