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Related booklists: Germany, The Holocaust, Liverpool, Wirral and Merseyside during World War I and II, Fiction - World War II,

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 15 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War 2 by Mari K. Eder
    The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War 2 - by Mari K. Eder

    £13.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781728242729 | ISBN 10: 172824272x

    For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
    The Tattooist of Auschwitz - by Heather Morris

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785763670 | ISBN 10: 1785763679

    Heart-breaking – a tale of love and survival amidst the horrors of Auschwitz Human – the real story behind one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust – the blue numbers tattooed on prisoners' arms Inspirational – the very best of human ... more

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  • Cover image of book Other People
    Other People's Houses - by Lore Segal

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781908745750 | ISBN 10: 1908745754

    A new edition marking the 80th Anniversary of the Kindertransport.   Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn
    Sophie Scholl and the White Rose - by Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786072504 | ISBN 10: 1786072505

    This is the gripping story of the five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II, featured in the award-winning Oscar-nominated film, Sophie Scholl - The Final Days.  This 75th anniversary edition c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Raj at War: A People
    The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War - by Dr. Yasmin Khan

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099542278 | ISBN 10: 0099542277

    The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. India produced the largest volunteer army in world history: over 2 million men. But, until now, there has never been a comprehensive account of India's turbulent home front and the nexus between w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jakob
    Jakob's Colours - by Lindsay Hawdon

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781444797664 | ISBN 10: 1444797662

    Inspired by the lost voices of the Romany Holocaust this heartbreaking and tender novel will appeal to readers who loved Sophie's Choice, Schindler's Ark and The Book Thief.   Austria, 1944. Jakob, a gypsy boy - half Roma, half Yenish - runs, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Death
    The Death's Head Chess Club - by John Donoghue

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782393139 | ISBN 10: 1782393137

    Can you ever forgive the unforgivable?  In 1962, Emil Clément comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in Holland. They haven't seen one another in almost two decades. Clément, once known only as The Watchmaker, is a Jewish f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead
    Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France - by Caroline Moorehead

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099554646 | ISBN 10: 009955464x

    A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014   From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Can
    I Can't Begin to Tell You - by Elizabeth Buchan

    £6.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780718158002 | ISBN 10: 0718158008

    Elizabeth Buchan brings us a beautifully told story of courage, love and lies in wartime Europe in her heart-breaking new novel I Can't Begin to Tell You.   When the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born Kay Eberstern is sickened when Bror - her ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
    The Undertaking - by Audrey Magee

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782391050 | ISBN 10: 1782391053

    Shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2014  A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of busi ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France by Mary Louise Roberts
    What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France - by Mary Louise Roberts

    £14.50   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780226923116 | ISBN 10: 0226923118

    How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly — but if you’re the US Army ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and the Unknowing by Craig Collie
    Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and the Unknowing - by Craig Collie

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846274428 | ISBN 10: 1846274427

    The events of a few days in August 1945 brought WWII to an end. They also destroyed the city of Nagasaki and killed 80,000 of its inhabitants, half of them instantly.   Craig Collie is the first person to interview elderly survivors and desce ... more

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  • Cover image of book Half of the Human Race by Anthony Quinn
    Half of the Human Race - by Anthony Quinn

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099531944 | ISBN 10: 0099531941

    Summer of 1911. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and the cries of increasingly violent suffragette protests.   Connie Callaway, fired up by the possibilities of independence, wants more than the conventio ... more

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  • Cover image of book A People
    A People's History of World War II - by Marc Favreau

    £16.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781595581662 | ISBN 10: 1595581669

    "I’ve lived about thirty-eight years after the war and about twenty years before. For me it’s B.W. and A.W. — before the war and after the war. I suspect there are a lot of people like me."(Robert Rasmus, interviewed by Studs Terkel) The most ... more

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  • Cover image of book Firefighters and the Blitz by Francis Beckett
    Firefighters and the Blitz - by Francis Beckett

    £13.95   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780850366730 | ISBN 10: 0850366739

    Firefighters in the Second World War were as crucial to victory as the army - and they ran the same sort of risks.  Sixteen thousand were killed and 180,000 injured. The rest never forgot the dreadful things they saw: "Once you've pulled ... more

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