World War, 1939-1945 Books to Read Free Online

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World War, 1939-1945

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Atonement

Ian McEwan

2002 ★ 3.7

Tamar

Mal Peet

2005

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

1973 ★ 4.0

Postcards from No Man's Land

Matt Jones, Aidan Chambers

1999

Schindler's ark

Thomas Keneally

1982

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

1952 ★ 4.1

House Made of Dawn

N. Scott Momaday

1968

The separation

Christopher Priest

2002

Storm Island

Ken Follett

1978 ★ 4.0

Freedom from fear

David M. Kennedy

1999

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

1979

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

1986

A Pale View of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro

1982 ★ 4.3

The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill

1948 ★ 3.8

Le Dernier des Justes

André Schwarz-Bart

1959

Robinson Crusoe

Petrus Borel, N. C. Wyeth, Les éditions du Rey et al.

1686 ★ 3.9

Het Achterhuis

Anne Frank

1958 ★ 4.2

A spy on the home front

Alison Hart

2005 ★ 5.0

Closing time

Joseph Heller

1994 ★ 3.0

The Last Days of Hitler

H. R. Trevor-Roper

1947 ★ 4.0

Copenhagen

Michael Frayn

1999 ★ 3.8

El invierno del mundo / Winter of the World

Ken Follett

2012 ★ 3.9

Berlin diary

William L. Shirer

1941 ★ 4.7

The Shell Seekers

Rosamunde Pilcher

1987 ★ 2.8

I Survived The Nazi Invasion, 1944

Lauren Tarshis, Georgia Ball, Álvaro Sarraseca

2018 ★ 4.3

The liberator

Alex Kershaw

2012 ★ 4.0

The Holcroft covenant

Robert Ludlum

1978 ★ 4.3

Der Funke Leben

Erich Maria Remarque

1981 ★ 4.7

Pink and Say

Patricia Polacco

1994 ★ 4.5

Then

Morris Gleitzman

2010 ★ 4.6

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