Books like Captain Corelli's Mandolin
An Italian officer and a Greek woman fall in love on occupied Cephalonia during World War II.
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The English Patient
Four strangers take shelter in an Italian monastery at the end of World War II, and the intimacy of their convalescence becomes its own kind of war.
A God in Ruins
The companion to Life After Life follows a bomber pilot through World War II, exploring the heroism and trauma of the men who flew and the families who waited.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
An Australian surgeon on the Burma Railway endures Japanese captivity and a death march, haunted by a love poem and the question of what makes life bearable.
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.
A Farewell to Arms
An American ambulance driver and a British nurse fall in love on the Italian front in World War I, and the war grinds their happiness to nothing.
Atonement
A thirteen-year-old girl tells a lie that destroys two lives, then spends decades trying to atone through the only tool she has: writing.
The Island of Missing Trees
A Greek Cypriot boy and a Turkish Cypriot girl fall in love in a 1970s Nicosia tavern with a fig tree growing through its roof, and the tree tells much of the story.
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.
Tales of the South Pacific
Linked stories of American servicemen, nurses and islanders in the South Pacific during the Second World War, as the forces build up for the invasion of the Solomons.
Suite Française
A wealthy Parisian family flees the Nazi invasion alongside millions of refugees, and their intertwined story with a German soldier reveals the intimacy of occupation.
Schindler's Ark
The true story of Oskar Schindler, the Nazi industrialist who saved over a thousand Jews by employing them in his factories.
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.