Books like Beneath a Scarlet Sky
A novel based on the account of Pino Lella, a teenager in Milan during World War II who guides Jews over the Alps to safety and is then made the driver of a high-ranking Nazi general, a post that lets him spy for the Allies.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
A novel based on the account of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew made to tattoo identification numbers on prisoners at Auschwitz, who falls in love with one of them, Gita.
The Alice Network
In 1947 a pregnant American college girl searching for her missing cousin teams up with a bitter former spy who served in a network of women agents in occupied France during World War I.
The Lost Girls of Paris
In 1946, Grace Healey finds a suitcase abandoned under a bench in Grand Central Terminal and inside it photographs of twelve women, agents sent into occupied France by a British network led by Eleanor Trigg, who never came home.
Miracle at St. Anna
Four Black American soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in a Tuscan village during WWII and find shelter with the locals.
The Nightingale
In occupied France, two sisters fight the war in different ways: Vianne, forced to billet a German officer in her home, and the younger Isabelle, who joins the Resistance, both at devastating cost.
The Women
A sheltered Southern California nursing student follows her brother to Vietnam as an Army nurse in 1966 and comes home to a country that refuses to acknowledge women served there.
City of Thieves
Arrested in besieged Leningrad, a shy seventeen-year-old and a charming army deserter are spared on one condition: find a dozen eggs for a colonel's daughter's wedding cake in a starving city.
The Storm We Made
In 1945, near the end of the Japanese occupation of Malaya, Cecily Alcantara watches her three children suffer for a choice she made years before, when she began passing secrets to a Japanese general who promised an Asia for Asians.
All the Light We Cannot See
Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner, a German orphan with a gift for radios, grow up on opposite sides of World War II until their paths converge in occupied Saint-Malo in 1944.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
An Italian officer and a Greek woman fall in love on occupied Cephalonia during World War II.
Eye of the Needle
In 1944 a German spy in England known as the Needle discovers the secret of the D-Day invasion and heads for a U-boat rendezvous, with MI5 on his trail and a storm closing in.
The Rose Code
A debutante, an East End girl and a shy puzzle-solver become codebreakers at Bletchley Park, then reunite on the eve of the 1947 royal wedding to unmask the traitor among them.