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Far to go
By Alison Pick. 2011
Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are affluent, secular Jews, whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the German…
forces in Czechoslovakia. Desperate to avoid deportation, the Bauers flee to Prague with their six-year-old son, Pepik, and his beloved nanny, Marta. When the family try to flee without her to Paris, Marta betrays them to her Nazi boyfriend. But it is through Marta's determination that Pepik secures a place on a Kindertransport, though he never sees his parents or Marta again. 2011.Goodbye, Piccadilly: In 1914, They Face A New Kind Of War... (War at home. #1.)
By Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. 2015
In 1914, Britain faces a new kind of war. For Edward and Beatrice Hunter, their children, servants and neighbours, life…
will never be the same again. For David, the eldest, war means a chance to do something noble; but enlisting will break his mother's heart. His sister Diana, 19 and beautiful, longs for marriage. She has her heart set on Charles Wroughton, son of Earl Wroughton, but Charles will never be allowed to marry a banker's daughter. Below stairs, Cook and Ada, the head housemaid, grow more terrified of German invasion with every newspaper atrocity story. Ethel, under housemaid, can't help herself when it comes to men and now soldiers add to the temptation; yet there's more to this flighty girl than meets the eye. Followed by "Keep the home fires burning". 2015.Beirut Hellfire Society
By Rawi Hage. 2018
Beirut of the 1970s, during the Civil War. Pavlov is the twenty-something son of an undertaker and as such has…
watched funeral processions pass below his window throughout his childhood. When his father dies, Pavlov is summoned by his former teacher, Mr. Tarraff, and tasked with providing burials that, for a variety of reasons--because the deceased is homosexual, or an outcast, or abandoned by their family, or an atheist--must happen in secret. The society that arranges such burials is a hidden anti-religious sect called the Beirut Hellfire Society. Pavlov accepts this assignment, and over the course of the novel acts as a survivor-chronicler of his torn and fading community, bearing witness to both its enduring rituals and its inevitable decline. 2018.Exit west: a novel
By Mohsin Hamid. 2017
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained…
Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors--doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As violence and the threat of violence escalate, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. 2017.I can't begin to tell you
By Elizabeth Buchan. 2014
Denmark, 1940. War has come and everyone must choose a side. For British-born Kay Eberstern, living on her husband Bror's…
country estate, the Nazi invasion and occupation of her adopted country is a time of terrible uncertainty and inner conflict. With Bror desperate to preserve the legacy of his family home, even if it means co-existing with the enemy, Kay knows she cannot do the same. Lured by British Intelligence into a covert world of resistance and sabotage, her betrayal of Bror is complete as she puts her family in danger. 2014.The narrow road to the deep north
By Richard Flanagan. 2014
Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the…
rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. Bestseller. 2014.War dog: a novel
By Martin Booth. 1996
Autumn 1939 and Britain is at war. Jet, the poacher's dog, is taken into the army when her owner is…
sent to prison. She is trained to run an assault course, track the enemy and rescue the injured. Soon after, she is sent away to France on active service. Will Jet survive - and will she ever find her much-loved owner again? Junior high readers.The key to Rebecca
By Ken Follett. 1980
German spy Alex Wolff steals the British army's secret plans and sends them to Rommel. British major William Vandam picks…
up Wolff's elusive trail and seeks to destroy him. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1980.Stones from the river
By Ursula Hegi. 1994
Trudi, born in Germany in 1915, is a Zwerg or dwarf. After her troubled mother dies, Trudi lives with her…
beloved father, helping in his library and learning the stories of the townspeople. She has friends, but her role in the town is shaped by the hidden or blatant disgust she generates in some. As a child Trudi strikes back, but later, working against Hitler's regime, Trudi learns to belong: to initiate, build, and be. Some descriptions of violence. 1994.A farewell to arms
By Ernest Hemingway. 1995
Lieutenant Henry, an American ambulance driver in Italy during World War I, meets Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. They fall…
in love, and Henry ends up deserting to be with the now pregnant Catherine. Based on his own World War I experiences, Hemingway presents a portrayal of men and women finding the courage to go on in the face of certain loss.The tiger claw: a novel
By Shauna Singh Baldwin. 2004
A story of love and espionage, cultural tension and displacement, inspired by the life of Noor Inayat Khan - code…
name "Madeleine" - who worked against the Occupation after the Nazi invasion of France. The novel opens in 1943; Noor traces the events that led to her capture, and exploring the consequences of her love for a Jewish man. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language, descriptions of violence. 2004.The dream of Scipio
By Iain Pears. 2002
Set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilization - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the…
fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth century, and World War II in the twentieth century - this novel follows the fortunes of three men: Manlius Hippomanes, a Gallic aristocrat obsessed with the preservation of Roman civilisation; Oliver de Noyen, a poet; and Julian Bareuve, an intellectual who joins the Vichy government. 2002.Camp X (Camp X ; #1)
By Eric Walters. 2002
It's 1943 and George and his older brother Jack are living in Whitby, Ontario. Their father is fighting World War…
II in Europe and their mother works in a munitions factory. One afternoon the boys stumble across Camp X, a secret spy base. In the most exciting summer of their lives, George and Jack find themselves enlisted in the fight against the Axis powers. Winner of the 2003 Silver Birch Award. Followed by "Camp 30" (EB72862). For junior high readers. 2002. (Camp X ; 1)The final journey
By Gudrun Pausewang. 1996
Since Hitler came to power, Alice, a young Jewish girl, had lived hidden with her grandparents in the basement of…
her former home. But they were discovered. Grandmother has been taken away, and Alice and her grandfather herded into a crowded cattle-truck to begin a journey to an unknown destination. But what tragic fate awaits her at the journey's end? Junior high readers. Uniform title: Reise im August.Your sad eyes and unforgettable mouth
By Edeet Ravel. 2008
When Maya and Rosie meet, their instant friendship quickly blossoms into an inseparable bond. Both are children of Holocaust survivors,…
but Maya refuses to become entangled in her mother's past, while Rosie is drawn into her parents' haunted world. A novel about the strength and nature of friendship, the weight of the secrets we keep, and whether or not we are ever able to truly live beyond the past. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2008.What is left the daughter
By Howard A Norman. 2010
Nova Scotia, 1967. Loner Wyatt Hillyer decides to write a memoir in the form of a letter on the occasion…
of his estranged daughter Marlais' twenty-first birthday. He slowly discloses the events of his parents' scandalous deaths in 1941, his teenage years living with his aunt and uncle, the joys of fatherhood, and what led to his abandoning his only daughter and her mother. 2010.The battlefield ghost
By Margery Cuyler. 1999
Eight-year-old John Perkins's family moves into an old farmhouse. From the first day, John is convinced the house is haunted.…
His twelve-year old sister Lisa soon senses a spooky presence as well. When John and Lisa meet the ghost, they learn that he is a Revolutionary War soldier who needs their help in solving a mystery surrounding his horse, who was separated from him during a bloody battle. Grades K-3. 1999.Johnny got his gun
By Dalton Trumbo. 1982
Joe, a young American soldier in the Great War, lies helpless in hospital, struggling to retain his sanity and find…
a foothold in the world all but lost to him. He is so horrifically injured that he cannot even communicate with the outside world. He wanders back and forth through memories, his thoughts becoming a persuasive argument against all war.American war: a novel
By Omar El Akkad. 2017
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even…
she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike. Canada Reads 2018. Bestseller. 2017.The night watch
By Sarah Waters. 2006
Former ambulance driver Kay lives life fast, wandering the war-torn streets and hunting for other women. Kind and clever Helen…
guards her secrets - and her lover - closely. Glamorous Viv remains utterly devoted, for better or worse, to the soldier she adores. And Duncan fights to make a new life for himself after spending time in prison. As these four people survive the devastation of war and the experience life's dizzying highs, their paths cross in ways none of them can forsee. 2006.