Books like 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.
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The Siege
In Leningrad in the autumn of 1941, as the German army closes its ring around the city, Anna Levin, a young artist, keeps her widowed father and her small brother alive through the first winter of the siege.
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.
Life and Fate
A Soviet physicist and his extended family move through Stalingrad, a German camp, the Lubyanka, and the Soviet state in a book Grossman wrote knowing it would be suppressed.
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 Book Thief
Liesel Meminger, a foster girl in a small town in Nazi Germany, steals books and shares them with her neighbours in bomb shelters, while her family hides a Jewish man in the basement, in a story narrated by Death.
The Lincoln Highway
Released from a juvenile work farm in 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett plans to drive west with his little brother, until two boys from the farm stow away and take his car towards New York.
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.
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Russian aristocrat is sentenced to house arrest in a luxury hotel for the rest of his life and discovers that a full existence can unfold within four walls.
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.
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.