Historical - 20th Century - World War II
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I Served the King of England
$17.95 Read moreFirst published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is “an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel” (The New York Times), tellin… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Classics #0
- Author: Hrabal, Bohumil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 31 2007
- ISBN10: 081121687X
- Language: English
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Monticello: A Daughter and Her Father; A Novel
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the critically acclaimed author of The Widow’s War comes a captivating work of literary historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his de
- Author: Gunning, Sally Cabot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0062320440
- Language: English
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Under a Lightning Sky
$18.99 Add to cartLondon is under attack. But within the rubble, a greater danger lurks…
The Luftwaffe has been bombing London continuously since September 1940.
During a bombing raid, Madeline Fairfax is caught in h
- Author: Lecky, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 08, 2024
- ISBN10: 0008558337
- Language: English
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The Last Letter from London
$18.99 Read more“A gripping and thrilling tale. The writing was INCREDIBLE!” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Her letters can save the country. But can she be trusted?
A double agent.
As World
- Author: Lecky, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0008558302
- Language: English
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The Paris Orphan
$16.99 Add to cartA “rich and riveting” New York Times bestseller based on the true story of a female journalist who defied all the rules while covering World War II (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
New York City/Pa… [more below]- Author: Lester, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 153876489X
- Language: English
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The Passport of Mallam Ilia
$14.99 Add to cartThe Passport of Mallam Ilia is a love story tinged with a vengeance mission. On his quest to avenge the death of his wife, Zarah, the hero, Mallam Ilia, misses out on his entire youth.
- Author: Ekwensi, Cyprian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1960611003
- Language: English
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The Swiss Nurse
$18.99 Read moreBased on the true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
Elisabeth Eidenbenz left Switzerland in 1937 to a
- Author: Escobar, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1400236053
- Language: English
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The Paris Secret
$16.99 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Orphan comes an unforgettable historical novel about a secret collection of Dior gowns that ties back to the first female pilots of WWII and a h… [more below]
- Author: Lester, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 153871728X
- Language: English
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Tallgrass
$19.00 Read moreDuring Word War II, a family fnds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) t
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0312360207
- Language: English
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The Swallows of Lunetto
$26.67 Add to cartFrom Joseph Fasano, the acclaimed author of The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, comes The Swallows of Lunetto, the powerful story of a young couple’s escape from Italian fascism at the end of the Seco
- Author: Fasano, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1737022257
- Language: English
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The Only Woman in the Room
$17.99 Add to cartThe instant New York Times Bestseller
She possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both? Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party- Author: Benedict, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1432869175
- Language: English
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The Bookseller’s Secret: A Novel of Nancy Mitford and WWII
$18.99 Add to cart“The Bookseller’s Secret is a delight from start to finish, a literary feast any booklover will savor!” –Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye
ARISTOCRAT, AUTHOR, BOOKSELLER… [more below]
- Author: Gable, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1525806467
- Language: English
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Sophia House
$21.95 Add to cartSophia House is set in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Pawel Tarnowski, a bookseller, gives refuge to David Sch fer, a Jewish youth who has escaped from the ghetto, and hides him in the attic of th
- Author: O’Brien, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1621641171
- Language: English
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Early Light
$17.95 Read moreEarly Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai’s genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WW… [more below]
- Series: Storybook ND
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231984
- Language: English
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The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel
$19.99 Add to cartLegendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style–the iconic little black dress–and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a co
- Author: Binnings Ewen, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 419
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1799956415
- Language: English
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The Dutch Orphan
$30.00 Read moreFrom the author of The Dutch Wife comes a riveting novel set during World War II about a woman who offers shelter to a Jewish baby, and her sister, who must choose between family loyalty and her own s… [more below]
- Author: Keith, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0778334309
- Language: English
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The Librarian Spy: A Novel of World War II
$28.99 Read more**A NATIONAL BESTSELLER**
“Readers will be on the edge of their seats…. A brilliant tale of resistance, courage and ultimately hope.” –Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw O… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Madeline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1335427481
- Language: English
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Three Muses
$18.95 Read more…Three Muses captivates the reader from the first page to the last.” –Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Tinkers and Enon
Three Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust
- Author: Toll, Martha Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 164603256X
- Language: English
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The Hard way Home
$16.99 Add to cartDublin 1950
Liesl Bannon has never felt like she was truly at home anywhere, not since her mother placed her and her brother Erich on the last Kindertransport out of Berlin in 1939. She’d been so much
- Series: The Star and the Shamrock #3
- Author: Grainger, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: June 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1914958624
- Language: English
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After Dunkirk
$18.99 Add to cart- Series: The After Dunkirk #1
- Author: Jackson, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1648754775
- Language: English
