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WWII Resources: Fiction & Non-Fiction Books, Movies & Documentaries: Home

World War II as a reading topic is extremely popular right now. This guide gives reading selections for adults, for fiction books set during World War II, as well as non-fiction titles on World War II history.

Fiction and Non-Fiction Books on World War II, Movies/DVDs on WWII

These books can be found in the PHPL Library in print, or e-book format.  Movies/Series can be found in DVD format.

Fiction Books for Adults, Set During World War II

V. S. Alexander - The Taster

Sarah Bird - Above the East China Sea

Chris Bohjalian - The Light in Ruins

Elaine Everest - Woolworths Book Series

Kristin Hannah - The Nightingale

Karen Harper - The Queen's Secret

Shirley Hazzard - The Great Fire

Stephen Hunter - Basil's War

Marion Kummerow - A Light in the Window

Soraya Lane - The Last Correspondent

Frances Liardet - We Must Be Brave

Julia Kelly - Light Over London

Martha Hall Kelly - Lilac Girls

Madeline Martin - The Last Bookshop in London

Alexander McCall Smith - La's Orchestra Saves the World

Leila Meacham - Dragonfly

Heather Morris - Tattooist of Auschwitz series

Kate Quinn - The Huntress

Kate Quinn - The Rose Code

Kelly Rimmer - The Warsaw Orphan

Jennifer Robson - Our Darkest Night

Jeffrey Shaara - No Less Than Victory

Jeffrey Shaara - To Wake the Giant

Mark Sullivan - Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Deborah Swift - The Lifeline

Herman Wouk - The Winds of War

WWII Movies/DVDs

The Auschwitz Report

Battleground

The Book Thief

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Casablanca

The Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Foreign Correspondent

Foyle's War

From Here to Eternity

The Great Escape

I'll Be Seeing You

In Harms Way

Life is Beautiful

The Longest Day

Midway

Mister Roberts

Mrs. Miniver

Operation Petticoat

A Place to Call Home

Saving Private Ryan

To Hell and Back

The Tuskegee Airmen

Unbroken

The Zookeeper's Wife

 

 

Fiction Books for Adults, Set During WWII, Subgenre: Inspirational Fiction

Kristy Cambron - The Butterfly and the Violin

Kristy Cambron - The Paris Dressmaker

Kristy Cambron - A Sparrow in Terazin

Melody Carlson - The Mulligan Sisters series

Melanie Dobson - The Curator's Daughter

Melanie Dobson - Hidden Among the Stars

Melanie Dobson - Memories of Glass

Mario Escobar - Auschwitz Lullaby

Mario Escobar - Children of the Stars

Mario Escobar - The Librarian of Saint-Malo

Irma Joubert - The Girl from the Train

Michele Phoenix - Fragments of Light

Katherine Reay - London House

Chris Stewart - Winter Sky

Sarah Sundin - Sunrise at Normandy series

Sarah Sundin - When Twilight Breaks

Camron Wright - In Times of Rain and War

*Some of the above titles will be cataloged very soon.

WWII Documentaries/DVDS

The 1940's House

The Battle for Midway:  The Discover of the USS Yorktown

Iwo Jima:  36 Days of Hell:  A True Story

The Queen at War

Royal Wives at War

Secrets of War:  Shadows of the Third Reich

War Classics:  Crusade in the Pacific

Weapons at War:  The Fighting Leathernecks of WWII

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Fiction Books for Adults, Set During WWII, Subgenre: Mystery Fiction

WWII Fiction - Mysteries

Agatha Christie - N or M?

Christopher Fowler - Bryant & May series

Susan Elia MacNeal - Maggie Hope series

Anne Perry - Elena Standush series (1 book so far)

Sarah Shaber - Louise's War series

Jacquelyn Winspear - Maisie Dobbs series

World War II - Non-Fiction

Thomas Alexander - The Stars Were Big & Bright

Walter Borneman - The Admirals

Deborah Dwork - Holocaust:  A History

Robert Edsel - The Monuments Men

James Fenelon - Four Hours of Fury

Franciose Frankel - A Bookshop in Berlin

Malcolm Gladwell - The Bomber Mafia

Doris Kearns Goodwin - No Ordinary Time

Wendy Holden - Born Survivors

James Hornfischer - All Books by James Hornfischer

Sean Judge - The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War

Alex Kerhsaw - Books by Alex Kershaw

Katherine Sharp Landdeck - The Women with Silver Wings

Erik Larson - The Splendid and the Vile

Adam Makos - Spearhead

Robert Matzen - Dutch Girl:  Audrey Hepburn and World War II

Liza Mundy - Code Girls

Lynne Olson - The Girls of Atomic City

Hannah Pankowsky - East of the Storm

Bradford Pearson - The Eagles of Heart Mountain

Marcel Prins - Hidden Like Anne Frank

Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez - Latina/os and World War II

Andrew Roberts - Churchill:  Walking with Destiny

Jan Jarboe Russell - The Train to Crystal City

Hampton Sides - Ghost Soldiers

Timothy Snider - Black Earth

John Wukovits - Books by John Wukovits