18 books like The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Machine Gunners
After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it.
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City of gold
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To die in spring
"The lunacy of the final months of World War II, as experienced by a young German soldier. Distant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son -- the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel -- is curious about Walter's experiences during World War II, and so makes him a present of a blank notebook in which to write down his memories. Walter dies, however,…
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War and remembrance
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.
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The Silence of Ghosts
The Silence of Ghosts
"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…
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The Hand Of Justice
The Hand Of Justice
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The distant summer
Set in England during world War II, this is the story of seventeen-year-old Kate who is courted by two young fliers - a sensitive, serious Englishman and a happy-go-lucky American.
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Three came home
"Three Came Home" tells of the author's time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same
name in 1950. It describes Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and
suffering, separated from her husband Harry, and with a young son to care for. Keith was…
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The Cabin at the End of the World
The Cabin at the End of the World
"The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts gives a new twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King's Misery, Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum's cult hit The Girl Next Door"--
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The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her household for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's…
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The Awful Secret
The Awful Secret
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Dead Men's Money
A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself…
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London Belles
London Belles
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Into the Killing Seas
Into the Killing Seas
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Horizon, a novel
A wartime story of conflicting emotions and loyalties. Some Tyrolean citizens, north and south, sick of being under Italian rule, look to the Nazi invasion as a liberation, their promises of freedom as something worth fighting for. Other wiser heads, including liberated POW Roy know the Nazi's treachery. Roy is holed up for 8 months in a family home as liaison between the local resistance and…
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Night of the Fox
Narra unos acontecimientos que hubieran podido cambiar radicalmente el desenlace de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Un veterano agente secreto británico debe rescatar a cualquier precio a un coronel norteamericano que ha naufragado cerca de la isla de Jersey, ocupada por los alemanes. El éxito de la operación resulta aún más problemático por la presencia en la isla de un doble del mariscal Rommel. La…
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Fathom five
A teenage boy and his friends spend the spring of 1943 trying to discover who in Garmouth, a sleepy English seaport, is passing information to the Germans.
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Works (La tregua / Se questo è un uomo)
The author's survival in Auschwitz and his travels through Eastern Europe and Russia are the subjects of this memoir.
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