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George Orwell
1971 · 2021 edition
416 pages
Books about the Second World War cover the largest conflict in history, from 1939 to 1945. Battles, resistance, occupation, the home front and the camps are told in novels, memoirs and histories from every side. No war has been written about more, or is more widely read. Only books in French are listed.
See also World War II fiction

George Orwell
1971 · 2021 edition
416 pages

Markus Zusak, Маркус Зусак
1998 · 2007 edition
527 pages

Kristin Hannah
2013 · 2016 edition
523 pages

Anthony Doerr
2014 · 2016 edition
704 pages

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
1970 · 2016 edition
230 pages

Heather Morris
2008 · 2025 edition
272 pages

Diana Gabaldon
1991 · 2014 edition
536 pages

Viktor E. Frankl
1970 · 1988 edition
165 pages

KATHIA VALLADARES
1883 · 2009 edition
384 pages

Howard Jacobson
1970 · 2004 edition
570 pages

William Faulkner
2007 · 2018 edition
454 pages

Truman Capote
1970 · 1972 edition
512 pages

John Steinbeck
1970 · 1992 edition
631 pages

Kate Quinn
Published 2020
672 pages

Lois Lowry
1989 · 2023 edition
56 pages

William Shakespeare
1891 · 2017 edition
78 pages

Ian McEwan
2001 · 2011 edition
487 pages

Rebecca Yarros
2021 · 2024 edition
416 pages

Roald Dahl
1973 · 1997 edition
195 pages

Tatiana de Rosnay
2006 · 2022 edition
368 pages

Mark T. Sullivan
2017 · 2019 edition
462 pages

Kate Quinn
2019 · 2023 edition
744 pages

Art Spiegelman, Art Spieegelman
1980 · 1992 edition
136 pages

Corrie Ten Boom
1971 · 2020 edition
260 pages