WW I or WW II books out there???

baseballmom5 · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 159 Location: Sunny Florida

Looking for any books with WWI or WWII theme???
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Vol Fan · Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 281 Location: Tennessee

If you haven't read it yet, "The Bronze Horseman" by Paullina Simons is one of my all time favorite books. It is set in Leningrad during WWII. It is the first of a trilogy with "Tatitana and Alexander" and "The Summer Garden" following.

These books are amazing. I cannot get them out of my mind. I read them on my kindle & ordered the hard copy to keep in my bookshelf. I've since given them to my mother to read and she is enthralled with them too.

Yulie · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 1045 Location: Elsewhere

TBH would be my first recommendation, too.

Several of Suzanne Brockmann's books have a secondary romance set during WW2; I liked the one in which the heroine's grandmother was involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk - I think it was in The Defiant Hero, maybe?

Though it's not a romance, I'd definitely recommend A Very Long Engagement, which is set around the time of WWI. The final book in Jennifer Donnelly's Rose trilogy, The Wild Rose, is set during WWI, but I wasn't as impressed by it as the first two.

I understand Carrie Lofty's working on a romance set during WW2, though I'm not certain where that stands.

PWNN · Joined: 11 Apr 2010 Posts: 817

Eva Ibbotson: The Morning Gift (WW II) though most all her books take place from 1910s-1940s.

LaVyrle Spencer: Morning Glory (WW II)

I second Japrisot's The Very Long Engagement as a romantic non Romance. Similarly I also rec Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice (WW II) and James Hilton's Random Harvest (from WWI to WWII)

If you like romantic suspense/espionage thrillers there's Helen MacInnes who wrote quite a few books that take place during WWII. I'd rec titles but I lost (actually lent then never got back) my collection years ago and can't remember specific titles.

I haven't read these but have seen rec'd before for this theme:

Jill Barnett: Sentimental Journey
Rosamund Pilcher: The Shell Seekers
Laura Leone: Nights of Fire
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MrsFairfax · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 1065

Julie Orringer's Invisible Bridge begins with a love story. It's based on the author's grandparents, set in Paris and WWII Hungary.

Have to second Random Harvest. Love that book.
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Kristie(J) · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:48 am Post subject:

Poor Splendid Wings by Patricia Veryan

veasleyd1 · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 2064

Paul Gallico, The Lonely (WWII); written during that period.

baseballmom5 · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 159 Location: Sunny Florida

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MMcA · Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 624

Shining through by Susan Isaacs.

And another romantic non romance - The Charioteer by Mary Renault. Hero has been injured at Dunkirk. It's m/m written in the 50s, and just a lovely book. Also the Connie Willis books - Blackout and All Clear which take you right through WW2. There are moments of romance, but that's all really. Plus Rilla of Ingleside for the home front in Canada right through WW1 - again only moments of romance, but a lovely book. Always makes me cry.

Rosario · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 326 Location: Liverpool, UK

NoirFemme · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 1397 Location: America

Carrie Lofty's WWII romance is titled His Very Own Girl is being released as an e-book by Pocket: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13223671-his-very-own-girl

I second the recommendation of Morag McKendrick Pippin's Blood Moon Over Britain, and also her second WWII romance, Perfidia, published under the name Elspeth McKendrick.

KayWebbHarrison · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 1206 Location: SE VA. USA

Emilie Loring was writing romances through the 1930s and 1940s. Many of her books are set during WWII--mostly stateside, but with many of the plots and characters involved in the war effort. You can still find her books at libraries.

Also, several of Elswyth Thane's Williamburg novels were set before, during and after WWI, and before and at the beginning of WWII. Homing, the last in the series, ends in 1940 or 1941.

I second the recommendation of Helen McInnes.

Kay

maggie b. · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 2252

Our Yanks by Margaret Mayhew
Sentimental Journey Barbara Britton
In the Arms of the Enemy by Lisbeth Eng
Letters from Home Kristina McMorris (review http://www.likesbooks.com/cgi-bin/bookReview.pl?BookReviewId=8331)
If you don't mind inspriationals:

A Distant Melody, The Memory Between Us, Blue Skies Tomorrow by Sarah Sundin

Women's Fiction
Coming Home Rosmund Pilcher (starts before war years, ends a little after them but has romance)
Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart (sweet romance tale right after the war)
Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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cheri · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 1348 Location: michigan

LOSING JULIA, while not a romance it does have a strong romantic theme. It is centered on the memories of a WWII veteran remembering the war and his life. Wonderful read, however there is NO HEA.

Cheri

Vol Fan · Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 281 Location: Tennessee

I have Alexis Harrington's Home By Morning on my kindle. I understand it is set during WWI. I haven't read it yet, but it has excellent reviews and a sequel coming out soon. (BTW, the kindle version is only 2.99)