18 books like The English Patient

What to read after The English Patient — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 534p · ≈ 17h · Moderate De dochter van een Griekse dokter wordt tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog gescheiden van haar geliefde, een kapitein in het Italiaanse leger. Shares Guerre mondiale, War stories, World War II, World War

Le grand cahier Ágota Kristóf · 1986 · ★ 4.2 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Un premier roman à la charnière de deux imaginaires. "L'Ouest intimiste et l'Est politique" (G. Brisac, "Le Monde", 7 mars 1986, p. 22). Les héros sont des jumeaux qui, comme l'écrit J.-Folch-Ribas dans "La Presse" du 10 mai 1986, opposent la perversité au mal. Shares Guerre mondiale, World War II, World War, Romans

The Machine Gunners Robert Westall · 1975 · ★ 3.5 · 187p · ≈ 6h · Moderate After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it. Shares World War II, World War, Historical Fiction

Obasan Joy Kogawa · 1981 · ★ 3.9 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate 224 pages ; 21 cm Shares Canadian fiction, World War II, World War, Historical Fiction

The Winds of War Herman Wouk · 1971 · ★ 4.7 · 890p · ≈ 29h · Challenging Follows the various members of the Henry family as they become involved in the events preceeding America's involvement in World War II. Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation. Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism,… Shares War stories, World War II, World War, Historical Fiction

The dark forest Hugh Walpole · 1916 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Moderate John Durward and John Trenchard are two Englishmen who join a company of Russian doctors, nurses, and orderlies working on the Russian side of the Eastern Front at the height of World War I. Durward, the primary narrator, is a detached and seemingly-objective observer of events; his friend Trenchard is a dreamy, clumsy, and naive man whose fiancee, Marie Ivanova, is serving alongside him as a… Shares War stories, World War, Historical Fiction

Catch-22 Joseph Heller · 1961 · ★ 4.0 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Moderate *Catch-22* is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off Italy, *Catch-22* is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because… Shares Guerre mondiale, War stories, World War II, World War

City of gold Len Deighton · 1992 · ★ 3.7 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Shares World War II, World War with this book.

Prisoners of war C. Alexander London · 2013 · ★ 4.8 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Newly arrived on the Western front and assigned as a medic, Rivera finds himself in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge, cut off behind enemy lines--and his only companion is a Nazi trained Doberman pinscher. Shares War stories, World War II, World War, Historical Fiction

The Boy at the Top of the Mountain John Boyne · 2015 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler's wing, and… Shares Guerre mondiale, World War II, World War, Romans

War and remembrance Herman Wouk · 1978 · ★ 4.4 From the Middle East, to Moscow, to Hitler's death camps, the members of the Henry family face grave danger as they fight in the Second World War. Shares War stories, World War II, World War, Historical Fiction

Ceremony Leslie Silko · 1977 · ★ 3.8 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Navaho young man. Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other… Shares Guerre mondiale, World War II, World War, Historical Fiction

The Nightingale

The Nightingale Kristin Hannah · 2000 · ★ 4.6 · 592p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Vianne is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight and Vianne finds herself isolated so Isabelle is sent by their father to help her. As the war… Shares War stories, World War II, World War, Historical Fiction

Lord of the Nutcracker men Iain Lawrence · 2001 · ★ 3.9 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Ten-year-old Johnny eagerly plays at war with the army of nutcracker soldiers his toymaker father whittles for him. He demolishes imaginary foes. But in 1914 Germany looms as the real enemy of Europe, and all too soon Johnny's father is swept up in the war to end all wars. He proudly enlists with his British countrymen to fight at the front in France. The war, though, is nothing like what any… Shares Guerre mondiale, World War, Historical Fiction, Romans

The Silence of Ghosts

The Silence of Ghosts Jonathan Aycliffe · 2013 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Dominic Lancaster hoped to prove himself to his family by excelling in the Navy during World War II. Instead he is wounded while serving as a gunner and loses his leg. Still recovering from his wounds and the trauma of his amputation when the Blitz begins, Dominic finds himself shuffled off to the countryside by his family, along with his partially deaf sister, Octavia. The crumbling family… Shares World War II, World War

The Last Days of Pompeii Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 425p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Un classique de la littérature qui redonne vie à la civilisation pompéienne disparue dans l'éruption du Vésuve. Pompéi, 24 août 79 après Jésus-Christ. Cette petite ville romaine du sud de l'Italie vit, sans le savoir, ses dernières heures. L'animation de cette cité florissante ne laisse en rien présager le désastre à venir. Pourtant, à quelques centaines de mètres de là, le Vésuve est en train de… Shares Italy, Historical Fiction

The Statement Brian Moore · 1995 · ★ 3.5 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Guerre mondiale, World War II, World War, Romans with this book.

The Spymasters

The Spymasters W. E. B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV · 2012 · ★ 4.1 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Summer 1943. Two of the Allies' most important plans for winning World War II are at grave risk - Operation Overlord's invasion of France, and the Manhattan Project's race to build the atomic bomb. A furious FDR turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan - and Donovan turns to his top agent, Dick Canidy, and his team. Their work is cut out for them. In the weeks to come they will fight not only the… Shares War stories, World War II, World War

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