Fiction, Historical, World War II
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Ironbottom Sound
by Grover Hartt III
In 1942, a series of pivotal WWII land and sea confrontations occurred in the South Pacific between the Allied Forces and the Japanese for control of the island of Guadalcanal and its strategic airfield. For twenty-seven-year-old Scott Ellsworth,...
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Atlantic Overture
by Grover Hartt III
The year is 1941. Talk of the US entering the war is on everyone’s lips, but no one knows quite when or how. But technology is shifting quickly, and the new radar-directed armaments aboard US ships might just be the key to turning the tide. So,...
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His Majesty's Sailor and the Girl in the Blue Coat
by Michael D Gilston
It’s the fall of 1942, and the Second World War rages on. The skies above Britain and the oceans around her are a battleground: German bombers target cities like Liverpool and Crewe, while U-Boats and warships prowl the waters between England and...
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Tracks Of Our Tears
A Family Saga by James Allen
It was late August 1939. Nature’s glorious colors had begun to gradually alter Europe’s picturesque landscape. For those graced with a window to peer through…the peaceful serenity of autumn was time for many to pause for reflective introspection....
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The Aim of Art
Corrected Edition by T. G. Colbert
How does a straight soldier come home from a tour of duty in Iceland with The Works of Oscar Wilde as his cherished souvenir? The answer is the story of Michael Lenihan, an orphan with an eighth-grade education who spent the Great Depression on...
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Camila Boldsky
by Manuel Buchwald
It is 1936, and at fifty-five years old, Camila Boldsky is lost. As she retires ownership of her factory and frets about her estranged son’s emigration to Chile, political tensions in Vienna only grow thicker. But despite being a Jew, Camila...
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Pathfinder
His priority of getting to WW2 became bringing everyone home by Lionel Bennett
In the spring of 1940, on a path barely lit by a thin, crescent moon, a schoolteacher with a hard-held dream sets out on a sixteen-mile trek through Ontario bush. Arriving in time to catch the midnight train, he settles in for the ride to...
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The Dark Clouds Above Us
by Brianna Tran
Kraków, Poland, 1927: when Evette, a young Polish-Jewish woman meets the handsome and charming Frank, she falls in love instantly. But after he becomes abusive, she must leave him to raise their infant son with the help of her grandmother and...
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Just Breathe
by Ilona Salley
The early 1900s were a time of great turmoil in both North America and Europe—two great wars devastated the lives of all. As if that were not enough, the Great Depression threw the world into chaos, the Spanish Flu decimated populations, and the...
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The Mathematician
by Jacob E. Goodman
Professor Claus Eisenstadt, a refugee from Nazi Germany, and a brilliant mathematician, disappears from Columbia University one day. After the police have given up the search, mathematics graduate student Judy Carter, compelled to solve puzzling...
