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A strong match for readers drawn to detailed military history, battlefield accounts, and stories of elite soldiers in World War II.
The Last Hill
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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The Last Hill recounts the World War II battle for Hill 400, where Lt. Col. James Rudder’s 2nd Ranger Battalion was ordered to take and hold a heavily defended German position against overwhelming odds, with a 4.7-star rating from more than 800 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to detailed military history, battlefield accounts, and stories of elite soldiers in World War II.
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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's heroism and courage in World War II.
They were known as “Rudder’s Rangers,” the most elite and experienced attack unit in the United States Army. In December 1944, Lt. Col. James Rudder's 2nd Battalion would form the spearhead into Germany, taking the war into Hitler’s homeland at last. In the process, Rudder was given two objectives: Take Hill 400 . . . and hold the hill by any means possible. To the last man, if necessary. The battle-hardened battalion had no idea that several Wehrmacht regiments, who greatly outnumbered the Rangers, had been given the exact same orders. The clash of the two determined forces was one of the bloodiest and most costly encounters of World War II.
Castle Hill, the imposing 1320-foot mini-mountain the American Rangers simply called Hill 400, was the gateway to a desperate Nazi Germany. Several entire American divisions had already been repulsed by the last hill's dug-in defenders as—unknown to the Allies—the height was the key to Adolf Hitler's last-minute plans for a massive counterattack to smash through the American lines in what would become known to history as the Battle of the Bulge.
Thus the stalemate surrounding Hill 400 could not continue. For Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, there was only one solution: Call in Rudder's Rangers. Of the 130 special operators who stormed, captured, and held the hill that December day, only 16 remained to stagger back down its frozen slopes. The Last Hill is replete with unforgettable action and characters—a rich and detailed saga of what the survivors of the 2nd Ranger Battalion would remember as “our longest day.”
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During the D-Day invasion of Normandy, a backwoods American hunter faces the feared German “Ghost Sniper” in a lethal duel across France’s hedgerow country.
Ghost Sniper
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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During the D-Day invasion of Normandy, a backwoods American hunter faces the feared German “Ghost Sniper” in a lethal duel across France’s hedgerow country. As Allied forces fight to secure their foothold in Europe, Ghost Sniper turns WWII combat into a tense battle of patience, tactics, and nerve. Book 1 in the Caje Cole series, with 4.3 stars on Amazon and Goodreads.
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June 6, 1944. On the dawn of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, two snipers find themselves fighting a battle all their own. One is a backwoods hunter from the Appalachian Mountains in the American South, while the other is the dreaded German “Ghost Sniper” who earned his nickname on the Eastern Front. Locked in a deadly duel across the hedgerow country of France, the hunter matches wits and tactics against the marksman, both of them one bullet away from victory—or defeat—as Allied forces struggle to gain a foothold in Europe.
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Good for readers who want realistic World War II fiction about naval duty, command pressure, and survival at sea.
Pacific Interlude
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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A young officer braves enemy fire and a maverick crew on the open waters and in the steamy ports of the South Pacific during World War II. Pacific Interlude has a 4.2-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want realistic World War II fiction about naval duty, command pressure, and survival at sea.
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During the last days of World War II, a young officer braves enemy fire and a maverick crew on the open waters and in the steamy ports of the South Pacific
Twenty-five-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant Sylvester Grant, a veteran of the Greenland Patrol, has just been given command of a small gas tanker, running shuttle and convoy duties for the US Army. Sally, his wife of three years, is eager for him to get back to Massachusetts and live a conventional suburban life selling insurance—but Syl longs for adventure and is bound to find it as the captain of a beat-up, unseaworthy vessel carrying extremely flammable cargo across dangerous stretches of the Pacific Ocean.
As the Allies prepare to retake the Philippines, the only thing the sailors aboard the Y-18 want is for the war to be over. First, however, they must survive their mission to bring two hundred thousand gallons of high-octane aviation fuel to shore. From below-deck personality clashes to the terrifying possibility of an enemy attack, from combating illness and boredom to the constant stress of preventing an explosion that could blow their ship sky high, the crew of the Y-18 must learn to work together and trust their captain—otherwise, they might never make it home.
Based on Sloan Wilson's own experiences, Pacific Interlude is a thrilling and realistic story of World War II and a moving portrait of a man looking toward the future while trying to survive a precarious present.
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Good for readers who like emotional historical fiction about courage, sacrifice, and mothers making impossible choices.
The Twins on the Train
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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In 1939 Berlin, Rosa gives her newborn twins to Dora, a woman helping children escape by train to England, even though babies are not authorized to travel. The Twins on the Train is a heartbreaking World War Two historical novel about two women risking everything to protect children from war, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 2,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like emotional historical fiction about courage, sacrifice, and mothers making impossible choices.
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Berlin, 1939. Tears pouring down her cheeks, Rosa pushes through the crowds and thrusts the basket containing her darling newborn twins at the woman closing the door to the carriage. All she can say is please take them. Then she runs, praying the train will reach England safely…
As the smell of smoke drifts through the air, Jewish people lock their doors. They no longer feel welcome in their home city, and while some mothers hide their children, others take them, clad in dark threadbare coats, to the crowded train station and the hope of a new life.
Rosa has feared for her twins since they were born two weeks ago. As she huddles in her filthy house, crammed in with her neighbours, she sees children growing weaker. It may be too late for her and her seven-year-old daughter Therese. But can she find a way out for her precious babies?
Dora scans the desperate crowd on the platform, despairing as she knows there isn’t room for all of them on the train to England. And when a woman thrusts a basket containing newborn twins into her arms, a shiver of dread slides down her spine. Babies aren’t authorised to travel – how can she keep them hidden from the cold-eyed soldiers?
She knows this mother wants the same thing she does – safety for these innocent children. But will she be able to help this brave woman before it is too late?
An unforgettable World War Two novel about two courageous women who risked everything for the innocent victims of war. Fans of The Nightingale and The Alice Network will be utterly gripped by this unputdownable page-turner from bestselling author Suzanne Goldring.
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For readers who like gritty WWII thrillers, battlefield dilemmas, and behind-enemy-lines missions.
The Black Jackals
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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Left behind to cover the British retreat, Peter Lamb and his troop must delay the German tank pursuit, blow a bridge, and face the deadly consequences of following orders. In The Black Jackals, their mission pushes them behind enemy lines in occupied France, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 100 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like gritty WWII thrillers, battlefield dilemmas, and behind-enemy-lines missions.
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The start of a WWII series from Iain Gale, author of Alamein.
A masterly portrayal of World War Two heroism, with vivid action and stirring personal journeys.
A small team of soldiers, left behind to cover the British retreat, are ordered to blow the bridge as late as possible to stem the German tank pursuit. Although successful, the operation kills desperate refugees fleeing the scene. Who will be made to face the court-martial: the men carrying out the orders or their commanding officer?
This is only the first of many dilemmas that Peter Lamb and his troop must face during the chaotic first months of World War Two. After becoming cut off from the rest of their regiment, and assigned a mission that takes them deep into France behind the fast-moving enemy lines, the cracks begin to appear.
In these unexpected, tense circumstances, Lamb's men face internal struggles, taking their focus off both their French allies and the German enemy.
Black Jackals shows how men react to the challenges of war, and gives a fresh and fascinating picture of the frontlines.
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A good pick for readers who like emotional WW2 historical fiction based on real events, family bonds, and art tied to memory.
The Girl in the Oil Painting
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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Set between Rhodes in 1940 and 2023, The Girl in the Oil Painting follows sixteen-year-old Dora Behar, her cousin Sarah, and a young artist whose recurring painting connects the present to a Jewish family’s impossible wartime choice, with a 4.5-star average from more than 500 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for readers who like emotional WW2 historical fiction based on real events, family bonds, and art tied to memory.
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A heartbreaking saga of hope, family, and longing set in one of the untold parts of war-torn Europe.
Rhodes, 1940. Sixteen-year-old Dora Behar and her cousin Sarah are as close as sisters, planning their future and painting the sunsets that wash over the Mediterranean. But that was before the Nazis rose to power, blackening every corner of their once-peaceful Jewish district. And while some believe the war and discrimination will eventually pass, Dora’s family is about to make an impossible choice that will change her life forever…
2023. The war is long over, and for many, it remains in memory, a story to pass down to the next generation. But for a particular young artist, the war is more than just a memory—it’s a recurring painting: a solemn figure standing on the very edges of an abandoned harbor, watching a ship sailing away, unaware that it will never come back to Rhodes…
With its heart based on real historical events, The Girl in the Oil Painting is an unputdownable story of hope and longing, perfect for fans of Kristin Harmel and Rhys Bowen.
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In occupied Berlin, survival no longer ends with the war.
From the Ashes
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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In occupied Berlin, survival no longer ends with the war. In From the Ashes, Marlene’s defiance of the Soviet regime puts her in the path of Werner, a communist official forced to choose between party loyalty and conscience. Marion Kummerow frames postwar historical fiction through fear, ideology, and forbidden attachment as Berlin begins its slide into the Cold War.
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"Well-researched, dramatic, and heartbreaking, this tale is historical fiction at its very best." ~ Alexa Kang, USA Today bestselling author of the Rose of Anzio series
Inspired by true historical events, From the Ashes is the unforgettable story of a tortured man, torn between his ideals, the iron fist of Stalinism and the woman he loves.
World War II is over, but another battle has just begun…
Marlene has no love lost for the Soviet occupying forces, who turn out to be every bit as cruel as the Nazis were. Living in constant fear of the Russian soldiers, she works in a hospital to make ends meet, where she meets Werner, a cold-hearted career politician.
Werner, a German émigré to Moscow, returns to his hometown with the highest hopes for a better future. Sent by the communist party to bring freedom, wealth and happiness to the people, he’s soon caught in a moral conflict between loyalty to his party and his conscience.
When Marlene criticizes the communist regime, she becomes the target of powerful men. Oblivious to the danger for her own life, she refused to back down, and there’s only one thing Werner can do to save her life: defy the party line.
But will he be able to shed decades of indoctrination for the woman he loves? And what will become of him if he does? Because those who speak up against the regime, usually find themselves on a train to Siberia or worse.
From the bestselling author of the 'War Girls Series' comes this nail-biting story about Berlin sliding into the Cold War.
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Debt and desperation drive two broken people into a landscape where survival and destruction begin to look dangerously alike.
Savage Country
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · Western
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Debt and desperation drive two broken people into a landscape where survival and destruction begin to look dangerously alike. In Savage Country, a Civil War veteran and his widowed sister-in-law cross into Indian Territory on a brutal buffalo hunt, chasing economic rescue through a violent frontier that tests their bodies, their conscience, and whatever remains of their hope.
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"The year was 1873 and all about was the evidence of boom and bust, shattered dreams, foolish ambition, depredation, shame, greed, and cruelty . . ."
Onto this broken Western stage rides Michael Coughlin, a Civil War veteran with an enigmatic past, come to town to settle his dead brother's debt. Together with his widowed sister-in-law, Elizabeth, bankrupted by her husband's folly and death, they embark on a massive, and hugely dangerous, buffalo hunt. Elizabeth hopes to salvage something of her former life and the lives of the hired men and their families who now depend on her; the buffalo hunt that her husband had planned, she now realizes, was his last hope for saving the land.
Elizabeth and Michael plunge south across the aptly named "dead line" demarcating Indian Territory from their home state of Kansas. Nothing could have prepared them for the dangers: rattlesnakes, rabies, wildfire, lightning strikes, blue northers, flash floods—and human treachery. With the Comanche in winter quarters, Elizabeth and Michael are on borrowed time, and the cruel work of harvesting the buffalo is unraveling their souls.
Bracing, direct, and quintessentially American, Olmstead's gripping narrative follows that infamous hunt, which drove the buffalo to near extinction. Savage Country is the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as a road to economic salvation. But it's also the intimate story of how that hunt changed Michael and Elizabeth forever.
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One prisoner holds knowledge that could change the war, but reaching him means entering one of the most guarded places on earth.
The One Man
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · War Fiction · World War 2
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One prisoner holds knowledge that could change the war, but reaching him means entering one of the most guarded places on earth. The One Man follows Nathan Blum, a Jewish intelligence officer and ghetto survivor, as he takes on a near-impossible mission to break into a Nazi concentration camp and rescue a physicist the Allies desperately need. It is historical thriller fiction built on wartime stakes, moral urgency, and rescue under impossible conditions.
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“As moving as it is gripping. A winner on all fronts.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Heart-pounding…This is Gross’s best work yet, with his heart and soul imprinted on every page.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Poland. 1944. Alfred Mendl and his family are brought on a crowded train to a Nazi concentration camp after being caught trying to flee Paris with forged papers. His family is torn away from him on arrival, his life’s work burned before his eyes. To the guards, he is just another prisoner, but in fact Mendl—a renowned physicist—holds knowledge that only two people in the world possess. And the other is already at work for the Nazi war machine.
Four thousand miles away, in Washington, DC, Intelligence lieutenant Nathan Blum routinely decodes messages from occupied Poland. Having escaped the Krakow ghetto as a teenager after the Nazis executed his family, Nathan longs to do more for his new country in the war. But never did he expect the proposal he receives from “Wild” Bill Donovan, head of the OSS: to sneak into the most guarded place on earth, a living hell, on a mission to find and escape with one man, the one man the Allies believe can ensure them victory in the war.
Bursting with compelling characters and tense story lines, this historical thriller from New York Times bestseller Andrew Gross is a deeply affecting, unputdownable series of twists and turns through a landscape at times horrifyingly familiar but still completely new and compelling.
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A strong match for readers drawn to WWII espionage, wartime broadcasting, and divided loyalties.
The Shadow Network
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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Called “A superbly plotted historical drama” by The Wishing Shelf, this novel follows Lilli Bergen, a refugee recruited to sing for a British propaganda radio station in 1942. When her former boyfriend appears, she investigates the man she believes betrayed her father to the Nazis. A strong match for readers drawn to WWII espionage, wartime broadcasting, and divided loyalties.
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‘A superbly plotted historical drama… highly recommended!’ The Wishing Shelf
One woman must sacrifice everything to uncover the truth in this enthralling historical novel, inspired by the true World War Two campaign Radio Aspidistra…
England, 1942: Having fled Germany after her father was captured by the Nazis, Lilli Bergen is desperate to do something pro-active for the Allies. So when she’s approached by the Political Warfare Executive, Lilli jumps at the chance. She’s recruited as a singer for a radio station broadcasting propaganda to German soldiers – a shadow network.
But Lilli’s world is flipped upside down when her ex-boyfriend, Bren Murphy, appears at her workplace; the very man she thinks betrayed her father to the Nazis. Lilli always thought Bren was a Nazi sympathiser – so what is he doing in England supposedly working against the Germans?
Lilli knows Bren is up to something, and must put aside a blossoming new relationship in order to discover the truth. Can Lilli expose him, before it’s too late?
Set in the fascinating world of wartime radio, don’t miss Book 2 in the WW2 Secret Agent Series, a heart-stopping novel of betrayal, treachery, and courage against the odds.
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A mother’s worst fear becomes a mission that demands performance, deception, and impossible courage under Nazi rule.
A Child for the Reich
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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A mother’s worst fear becomes a mission that demands performance, deception, and impossible courage under Nazi rule. After her daughter Ema is taken for the Reich’s child program, Anna Dankova goes undercover as a loyal German subject to find her and bring her home. A Child for the Reich is emotional WWII historical fiction about stolen children, maternal devotion, and resistance shaped by love.
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From the USA Today bestselling author comes a gripping new emotional WW2 historical novel. Inspired by a true story!
‘Easily my favorite historical novel of the year If you love WWII fiction, this is a must read’ Soraya M. Lane, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Wives of War and The Last Correspondent
Rumours of the Nazis coming for Czech children swept through the villages like a breeze through the trees, and the story was always the same…
They wanted our children to raise as their own
Since her husband, Josef, joined the Czech resistance three years ago, Anna Dankova has done everything possible to keep her daughter, Ema, safe. But when blonde haired, blue-eyed Ema is ripped from her mother’s arms in the local marketplace by the dreaded Brown Sisters, nurses who were dedicated to Hitler’s cause, Anna is forced to go to new extremes to take back what the Nazis have stolen from her.
Going undercover as a devoted German subject eager to prove her worth to the Reich, the former actress takes on a role of a lifetime to find and save her daughter. But getting close to Ema is one thing. Convincing her that the Germans are lying when they claim Anna stole her from her true parents is another…
‘A powerful story told with humanity, skill and empathy’ Kate Thompson, author of The Little Wartime Library
'A moving story of a mother's love battling against the determination of the Reich to create a pure Aryan race' USA Today bestseller Glynis Peters
'An intensely moving, brilliantly researched novel about love, loss, and the lengths a mother will go to for her child' USA Today bestseller Deborah Carr
'Pulls you in on page one and never lets go! A chilling look at a Nazi program most of us have never even heard of…Historical fans will love this one!' Sara Ackerman, USA Today bestselling author of The Codebreaker's Secret
'Oh my heart! This was such a poignant and powerful story…It will stay with me for a long time.' – Gill Thompson, USA Today bestselling author of The Lighthouse Sisters
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This espionage thriller fits readers who want Arctic atmosphere, political danger, personal stakes, and conspiracies built on silence.
Arctic Sun
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · War Fiction
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Arctic Sun turns a remote Soviet investigation into a frozen Cold War trap where secrets carry lethal consequences. When Dr. Amelia Blackburn uncovers signs of a hidden disaster near the Norway-Russia border, British intelligence pulls reluctant spy Tom Fox back into the field. This espionage thriller fits readers who want Arctic atmosphere, political danger, personal stakes, and conspiracies built on silence.
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THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH
‘Strange alliances, personal vendettas and Cold War conspiracies build to a bloody climax in the snow’ - The Times Thriller of the Month
‘This is a proper page-turning high-stakes thriller’ Crime Time
From the award-winning author of Moskva and Nightfall Berlin, a gripping suspense-filled thriller in the frozen North . . .
Kola Peninsula, 1987. High in the Soviet Arctic, a tiny village houses an apocalyptic secret . . .
When research zoologist Dr Amelia Blackburn ventures north to investigate the ravages of the Chernobyl reactor meltdown, she stumbles on the evidence of another sinister disaster on the Norway-Russia border - one that appears far from innocent. Mother Russia will stop at nothing to prevent this information from being revealed, putting Amelia and her team in grave danger from the moment they leave the site.
When the news reaches London, the eyes of British intelligence turn to the one man with the knowledge and skills to bring her back to safety - and find out what has really happened in the frozen North.
Major Tom Fox thought he'd put his intelligence career behind him, but wrapped in a custody battle for his young son, Charlie, a request from his high-ranking father-in-law forces his hand. When the reluctant spy reaches Russia, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary mission.
As Fox and Amelia fight for their lives - and their country - in Russia, Charlie is lead into dangers of his own in England. Three lives are about to be embroiled in the darkest secrets of the Cold War conflict - and a plot that, if left unchecked, will echo through history . . .
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