Adult fiction world war

About 70 books total. Historical Fiction Glen Ellyn Public Library, IL : Author, title, summary for about 50 novels of historical fiction for middle schoolers and high schoolers, organised by time period. Updated Aug. And actually, it's historical fiction set in the western world. Author, title, summary, publication year, and webcat link for about 30 works of historical fiction set from s England to s United States.

So can I brag for a minute? Looking for movies instead? Ok, books set during wars can be tough, right? And bonus: all these book are about women! The overwhelming sadness.

The last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or—for a chance at survival—to join the camp brothel.

Set in Japan in , this book is about Hana, a young woman who has narrowly avoided death by American bombing and has lost her will to live, and Taro, a gifted violinist who is destined to be a kamikaze pilot. This books spans from WWII to the years immediately after, and has three different points of view and timelines: a Russian female pilot during WWII, a New England teenager whose life is disrupted when her father marries a German war widow, and an English man bent on tracking down Nazi war criminals. Their stories collide to form an unexpected thriller. The focus of this collection is on colonial and post-colonial Asia, and each story is loosely connected. Decades earlier, Adalyn is shocked by how her city has changed with the arrival of the Nazis, but when she meets a freedom fighter, she finds that she might have the power to fight back.