Books like 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.
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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.
Lilac Girls
Three women's lives converge on the Ravensbrück concentration camp: Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite volunteering at the French consulate; Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager sent there for her part in the resistance; and Herta Oberheuser, a young German doctor who takes a post there.
Schindler's Ark
The true story of Oskar Schindler, the Nazi industrialist who saved over a thousand Jews by employing them in his factories.
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.
A Town Like Alice
Jean Paget, who survived a forced march across Malaya as a prisoner of the Japanese, uses an unexpected inheritance to repay the village that took her group in, and to learn the fate of the Australian soldier who helped them.
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 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.
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 Boy in the Striped Pajamas
A nine-year-old boy moves with his SS-officer father to a house next to a camp whose fence he does not understand, and makes a friend on the other side of it.
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.
Sophie's Choice
In 1947 Brooklyn, Stingo, a young Southern writer, befriends his neighbours Sophie, a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz, and her brilliant, unstable lover Nathan, and slowly learns the story Sophie has not been able to tell.
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.