Books about World War 2
Books about the Second World War, from the front lines to occupied cities and the camps. Art Spiegelman's Maus tells his father's story as a graphic novel, Markus Zusak's The Book Thief is narrated by Death in a small German town, and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale follows two sisters in occupied France. Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and Elie Wiesel's Night bear witness to the Holocaust.
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- 1Maus
9.09.0 / 10 - 2The Nightingale
8.68.6 / 10 - 3The Book Thief
8.68.6 / 10 - 4The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
8.68.6 / 10 - 5All the Light We Cannot See
8.58.5 / 10 - 6If This Is a Man
8.48.4 / 10 - 7Man's Search for Meaning
8.48.4 / 10 - 8The Power of One
8.38.3 / 10 - 9Night
8.38.3 / 10 - 10Mother Night
8.38.3 / 10 - 11Diary of Anne Frank
8.38.3 / 10 - 12Different Seasons
8.38.3 / 10 - 13Eichmann in Jerusalem
8.28.2 / 10 - 14Winter of the World
8.28.2 / 10 - 15King Rat
8.28.2 / 10 - 16Going Solo
8.28.2 / 10 - 17Slaughterhouse-Five
8.28.2 / 10 - 18Unbroken
8.28.2 / 10 - 19The Devil's Arithmetic
8.18.1 / 10 - 20Gravity's Rainbow
8.18.1 / 10 - 21Number the Stars
8.18.1 / 10 - 22Code Name Verity
8.18.1 / 10 - 23Catch-22
8.08.0 / 10 - 24Captain Corelli's Mandolin
8.08.0 / 10 - 25The Diary of a Young Girl
8.08.0 / 10 - 26Memoirs of a Geisha
8.08.0 / 10 - 27The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
7.97.9 / 10 - 28A Resistance of Witches
7.97.9 / 10 - 29The Never War
7.97.9 / 10 - 30Atonement
7.97.9 / 10