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  Medallions

  Medallions (the original Polish title: Medaliony) is a book consisting of eight short stories by the Polish author Zofia Nałkowska. The book was originally published in 1946, soon after the end of the World War II. In it, Nałkowska calmly related selected stories of Nazi atrocities in Poland and...
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  Crash Dive!

  A desperate group of sailors aboard a damaged American submarine that is leaking oil must somehow escape to safety with several German destroyers converging on their location. Radio contact will only clue the Germans on to them as well as possibly provoke another air strike.

• War of the Rats

  War of the Rats is a World War II fiction novel written by David L. Robbins in 1999. The movie Enemy at the Gates is partially based on this book. The plot focuses on a 1942 battle between the Nazi Germans and the Soviets set in Stalingrad, Soviet Union. The battle is declared by Viktor Tabori to...

• The Endless Steppe

  The Endless Steppe (1968) is a book by Esther Hautzig, describing her and her family's exile to Siberia during World War II. In 1941 Esther and her family are arrested by Soviet troops because they were capitalists and were taken away from their home in Vilna, Poland and transported to Siberia in...

• The Guns of Navarone

  The Guns of Navarone is a 1957 novel about World War II by Scottish writer Alistair MacLean that was made into a critically acclaimed film in 1961. The Greek island of Navarone does not exist and the plot is fictitious; however, the story takes place within the real historical context of Dodecanese...

• Catch-22

  Catch-22 is a satirical and historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953, and the novel was first published in 1961. It is set during World War II in 1943 and is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. It uses a distinctive...

• HMS Ulysses

  HMS Ulysses was the first novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean and one of his most popular. Originally published in 1955, it was also released by Fontana Books in 1960. MacLean’s experiences in the Royal Navy during World War II provided the background and the ill-fated PQ-17 convoy to...

• San Andreas

  San Andreas is a novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, first published in 1984. One of his final novels, it returns to MacLean's original (and most successful) genre: war at sea. The British Merchant Navy hospital ship San Andreas is en route from Murmansk to Halifax, Nova Scotia during World...

• Grave of the Fireflies

  Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka) is a 1967 semi-autobiographical novel by Japanese novelist Akiyuki Nosaka. It is based on his experiences before, during, and after the firebombing of Kobe in 1945. One of his sisters died as the result of a sickness, his adoptive father died during...

• Now the Hell Will Start

  Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II is a 2008 book by United States author Brendan I. Koerner. It is a non-fiction narrative investigating and recounting the story of Herman Perry, an African-American World War II soldier stationed in the China...