Wwii
Amid the smoke and shadow of history's most devastating conflict, WWII literature captures the courage, heartbreak, and moral complexity of a world torn apart between 1939 and 1945. These stories span bombed-out European cities, secret resistance networks, and the quiet heroism of ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances.
Wwii Book Summaries
Mein Kampf
The manifesto that blueprinted the Third Reich: racial empire, absolute rule, and total war.
Mein Kampf
The manifesto that blueprinted the Third Reich: racial empire, absolute rule, and total war.
The Happiest Man on Earth
Auschwitz, Buchenwald, then Australia: how a man who lost everything rebuilt a life he calls happy.
The Happiest Man on Earth
Auschwitz, Buchenwald, then Australia: how a man who lost everything rebuilt a life he calls happy.
The Phoenix Pencil Company
A granddaughter's search for a lost cousin uncovers a magical family secret hidden in pencils.
The Phoenix Pencil Company
A granddaughter's search for a lost cousin uncovers a magical family secret hidden in pencils.
The Girls of Atomic City
The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.
The Girls of Atomic City
The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.
Life After Life
Repeatedly reborn, Ursula Todd endures two world wars, each life a chance to save her family.
Life After Life
Repeatedly reborn, Ursula Todd endures two world wars, each life a chance to save her family.
When the World Was Ours
Three best friends in 1936 Vienna. A photograph on the Ferris wheel. Then the Nazis come.
When the World Was Ours
Three best friends in 1936 Vienna. A photograph on the Ferris wheel. Then the Nazis come.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
1942 Seattle: a Chinese boy and Japanese girl fall in love as war orders them apart.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
1942 Seattle: a Chinese boy and Japanese girl fall in love as war orders them apart.
We Were the Lucky Ones
Scattered across continents by war, a Polish Jewish family fights to survive and reunite.
We Were the Lucky Ones
Scattered across continents by war, a Polish Jewish family fights to survive and reunite.
King Rat
A black-market king rules a Japanese POW camp, but his empire cannot survive liberation.
King Rat
A black-market king rules a Japanese POW camp, but his empire cannot survive liberation.
The Reader
At fifteen he loved an older woman; later he finds her on trial for war crimes.
The Reader
At fifteen he loved an older woman; later he finds her on trial for war crimes.
Hiroshima
Six people. One flash. The morning Hiroshima vanished, and the lives that somehow continued.
Hiroshima
Six people. One flash. The morning Hiroshima vanished, and the lives that somehow continued.
Churchill
Every adventure, failure, and speech was training for the day Britain had to stand alone.
Churchill
Every adventure, failure, and speech was training for the day Britain had to stand alone.
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
Penelope Keeling, at sixty-four, is caught between her father's art and her children's greed.
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
Penelope Keeling, at sixty-four, is caught between her father's art and her children's greed.
The Myth of the Twentieth Century
Race as soul, blood as destiny: the 1930 manifesto that became Nazi ideology's core.
The Myth of the Twentieth Century
Race as soul, blood as destiny: the 1930 manifesto that became Nazi ideology's core.
Three Sisters
Three sisters walk into Auschwitz with only a childhood promise and each other.
Three Sisters
Three sisters walk into Auschwitz with only a childhood promise and each other.
Jackdaws
Before D-Day, a British agent leads an all-female team of misfits against a Nazi communications hub.
Jackdaws
Before D-Day, a British agent leads an all-female team of misfits against a Nazi communications hub.
