Just remembered-- Spark of Life is the Erich Maria Remarque book set in a concentration camp.
Also The Oppermanns by Lion Feuchtwanger set in Germany 1933 after the Nazi take power.
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WWII Fiction
Bodo the Apostate, a novel set during the reign of Louis the Pious and end of the Carolingian Empire.
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I'm about halfway through Rosalind Laker's This Shining Land and enjoying it. Very different from her usual novels. This is based in Norway after the Nazi's invade and the main characters are involved in the underground resistance. Apparently based in part upon Laker's husband's activities in the resistance movement.
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One of my guest reviewers read this novel and highly recommends it. It's written in the form of letters from people from Guernsey to a London journalist shortly after the war about their experiences while Guernsey was occupied by the Germans. The review is at http://www.HistoricalNovels.info/Guernsey-Literary.html.
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How about Sarah Waters' Night Watch. I thought it was a marvelous account of that time.
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Has anyone read Small Island by Andrea Levy? I really enjoyed that one.
I have Ian McEwan's Atonement and Sebastian Faulks' Charlotte Gray on my TBR pile.
I have Ian McEwan's Atonement and Sebastian Faulks' Charlotte Gray on my TBR pile.
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
[quote=""Vanessa""]Has anyone read Small Island by Andrea Levy? I really enjoyed that one..[/quote]
Oh that was a wonderful book. Its take on how blacks were treated in WWII, and on immigration in general was so well done.
I loved Atonement. Its slow at first, but by about page 30, I so related to Briony that I was hooked.
Oh that was a wonderful book. Its take on how blacks were treated in WWII, and on immigration in general was so well done.
I loved Atonement. Its slow at first, but by about page 30, I so related to Briony that I was hooked.
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Hunting the Bismarck (later to be the basis for the movie Sink the Bismarck!)[/quote]
Hee, as well as the song, which I heard long long before reading the book off my dad's shelf. That was probably the first WWII non Holocaust book I ever read and really liked it.
Lama, I tried reading Night Watch and coudln't get into it; I think I was still so enthralled by Fingersmith that this last one felt hollow to me. I may need to try it again.
Hunting the Bismarck (later to be the basis for the movie Sink the Bismarck!)[/quote]
Hee, as well as the song, which I heard long long before reading the book off my dad's shelf. That was probably the first WWII non Holocaust book I ever read and really liked it.
Lama, I tried reading Night Watch and coudln't get into it; I think I was still so enthralled by Fingersmith that this last one felt hollow to me. I may need to try it again.