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Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
From Goodreads: Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a...
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In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
From Goodreads: The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered...
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
From Goodreads: From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied...
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Jealousy and Jazz: Half Blood Blues
In 1992, Sidney Griffiths and Chip Jones are traveling to Berlin, Germany together to attend a jazz festival honoring their former band member Hieronymus “Hiero” Falk, who was arrested in a Paris café...
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A Different WWII novel: The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
I’ve wanted to read this book since it was longlisted for the 2014 Women’s Price for Fiction. It took a little while for it to arrive at my library, but it was worth the wait. World War II is not an...
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Cold and Gripping: The Siege by Helen Dunmore
In June of 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and by early September, its soldiers had encircled Leningrad to force the city into submission by cutting off food and fuel. By the end of September,...
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After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
After Midnight is part of the Exilliteratur, literature created by (German) writers living in exile between 1933 and 1945. Irmgard Keun left Germany in 1935 after she was blacklisted by the Nazis....
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Five Facts from The Train to Crystal City
1. During World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt interned 31,275 enemy aliens: 10,905 Germans, 16,849 Japanese, 3,278 Italians, 52 Hungarians, 5 Bulgarians, 25 Romanians, and 161 “others.” These people...
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When the Doves Disappeared, Sofi Oksanen
When I was looking for books to read for August’s Women in Translation event, hosted by Meytal, I came across the name Sofi Oksanen. I had never heard of her, but she is a successful contemporary...
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Assignment in Brittany, Helen MacInnes
I bought this book on a whim last year, mostly because I got a kick out of the cover. The book was written in 1942—I was curious to find out what constituted “a haunting novel of romance and suspense”...
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