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Here is a superb novel about the heroines at home during World War II, the women who sacrificed everything without firing a shot. And it is also the ... More

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In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, Kadare's young narrator both reflects and distorts events as his ancient, magical home town - and his own ... More

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"The Balkan Trilogy" is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty ... More

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An epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs.

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James Gould Cozzens was one of America's most famous writers after the Second World War. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel GUARD OF HONOR balances a ... More

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"A wise and bitter novel about memory and death. A hat should be tipped to the translator, too." The New Yorker

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Published in Japanese in 1949, Citadel in Spring is, at its heart, an autobiographical novel of the author's life from university through induction ... More

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Captured by Germans after World War II's Battle of the Bulge, soldier Kurt Vonnegut and other prisoners were taken to Dresden, Germany, where they ... More

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A wonderful, inventive, first novel (Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, is a great fan) set primarily during WW2. A vivid, highly original, funny, ... More

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Now available for the first time in more than 20 years--the first novel by the beloved "New York Times" bestselling author of "Exodus." This powerful ... More

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It is 1939 and a quiet, unassuming man arrives in a sleepy Georgia town. Known by most of the inhabitants as "the Chinee", Mr Oto is noticed by ... More

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This brilliant analysis of life during World War II brings both the war and the homefront vividly to life--the deprivations, blunders, anxieties and ... More

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The War is just over. In Venice, a city elaborately and affectionately described, the American Colonel, Richard Cantrell, falls passionately in love ... More

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The author of "A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies" has written a captivating, wonderfully funny novel. Set in 1943 Italy, the country and its people ... More

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The best-selling-novel-turned-movie that garnered 9 Oscars including Best Picture. Four people come together in a deserted Italian villa during the ... More

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The novel opens with the confused perceptions of an eleven-year-old boy who, while playing in the village square, hears the tocsin sounding, then a ... More

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Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to ... More

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Portrays the alienation of soldiers home from the war.

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In Poland, in 1939, the comfortable, secure world of assimilated Jews is blown away by the invasion of the Third Reich. Maciek's father disappears ... More

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First published in 1989 to mark the 50th anniversary of World War II, Gilbert's masterful history chronicles the entire war--from the German invasion ... More

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"A feast of a book." The Independent

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By turns ironic and uproarious, "The Thirty Years' War" is about a soldier who carried on World War II by himself, years after it officially ended. ... More

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