World War, 1939-1945 Books to Read Free Online

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World War, 1939-1945

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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

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

Het Achterhuis

Anne Frank

1958 ★ 4.2

Robinson Crusoe

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

1686 ★ 3.9

Terre des hommes

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1936 ★ 4.2

Farewell to Manzanar

James D. Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

1973 ★ 4.0

Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand

2010 ★ 4.1

Those Who Save Us

Jenna Blum

2004 ★ 2.8

The Hiding Place

Jill De Haan, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill et al.

1971 ★ 4.6

Snow Treasure

Marie McSwigan

1942 ★ 4.3

La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour

Elie Wiesel

1986 ★ 4.7

The Key to Rebecca

Ken Follett

1980 ★ 2.5

The Prize

Daniel Yergin

1991 ★ 4.5

Verhaaltjes en gebeurtenissen uit het Achterhuis

Anne Frank

1966 ★ 5.0

Going Solo

Roald Dahl

1986 ★ 4.2

A town like Alice

Nevil Shute

1952 ★ 4.2

The Winds of War

Herman Wouk

1971 ★ 4.7

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