#World War Ii

3 books tagged with world war ii, sorted by rating.

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

5/5

fiction history

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

5/5

young-adult fiction

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

by William L. Shirer

5/5

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All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

5/5

Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner, a German orphan boy, navigate the horrors of World War II in occupied France. Their paths eventually cross in the besieged city of Saint-Malo, where their fates become intertwined. A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the power of human connection amid devastation.

fiction history

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

5/5

Narrated by Death himself, this is the story of Liesel Meminger, a young girl living with a foster family in Nazi Germany. As bombs fall and her neighbors march to war, Liesel finds solace in stealing books and sharing them with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

young-adult fiction history

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

by William L. Shirer

5/5

William Shirer's definitive account of Nazi Germany, written by a journalist who witnessed Hitler's rise firsthand. Drawing on captured German documents, diaries, and Shirer's own reporting from Berlin, this remains the most comprehensive single-volume history of the Third Reich ever written.

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