Books like 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.
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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.
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.
The Book of Lost Names
Eva Abrams, a semi-retired Florida librarian, sees a newspaper photograph of a book stolen by the Nazis that she has not seen in sixty years, the book that holds the key to the papers she and a forger named Rémy made for Jewish children in occupied France.
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 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.
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.
Number the Stars
In Nazi-occupied Copenhagen in 1943, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her family hide her Jewish best friend, Ellen Rosen, as the Danes smuggle their Jewish neighbours to safety in Sweden.
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.
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.
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.
The Whalebone Theatre
In 1928 a whale washes up on the beach below Chilcombe, a crumbling Dorset manor, and Cristabel Seagrave, twelve, and her half-siblings build a theatre out of its bones.
Savushun
In Shiraz during the Second World War, with foreign armies occupying Iran, Zari watches her husband Yusof, a landowner, refuse to sell his grain to them.