Book Reviews: WWII

These are links to reviews from all over the blogosphere.  Not all are participants in the challenge, but all participant reviews featured on War Through the Generations are linked here.

10 Days:  Anne Frank by David Colbert [reviewed by Diary of an Eccentric, Peeking Between the Pages]

1945:  A Novel by Robert Conroy [reviewed by Doolittle's]

A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan [reviewed by Doolittle's]

A Cup of Tears:  A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto by Abraham Lewin [reviewed by MissDaisyAnne's Garden]

Adam Resurrected by Yoram Kaniuk [reviewed by Poet-in-Residence]

After Long Silence by Helen Fremont [reviewed by Age 30+...A Lifetime of Books, MissDaisyAnne's Garden]

After the Train by Gloria Whelan [reviewed by Tripping Toward Lucidity]

A Life of One’s Own:  A Guide to Better Living Through the Work and Wisdom of Virginia Woolf by Ilana Simons [reviewed by Books and other Stuff]

All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein [reviewed by Magistra Mater]

A Lovely Little War:  Life in a Japanese Prison Camp Through the Eyes of a Child by Angus Lorenzen [reviewed by Bookfoolery and Babble]

A Lucky Child:  A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal [reviewed by Bookfoolery and Babble, The Book Inn, Books and Cooks, Book Reviews By Bobbie, Devourer of Books, Diary of an Eccentric, Jackets & Covers, Luxury Reading, Reading Extravaganza, Shhh I'm Reading]

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon [reviewed by Lit and Life, MariReads]

An Interrupted Life:  The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43 by Etty Hillesum [reviewed by Books and other Stuff]

An Obsolete Honor:  A Story of the German Resistance to Hitler by Helena P. Schrader [reviewed by Diary of an Eccentric, Kay's Bookshelf]

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro [reviewed by Medieval Bookworm]

A Pure Double Cross by John Knoerle [reviewed by EnRoute to Life]

A Separate Peace by John Knowles [reviewed by things mean a lot]

A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell [reviewed by Scrappy Cat]

Auschwitz by Pascal Croci [reviewed by Ticket to Anywhere]

Auschwitz:  A History by Sybille Steinbacher [reviewed by MissDaisyAnne's Garden]

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald [reviewed by A Book Sanctuary]

The Avengers:  A Jewish War Story [reviewed by Age 30+...A Lifetime of Books]

A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff [reviewed by Book girl of Mur-y-Castell]

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose [reviewed by Magistra Mater]

Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee [reviewed by Maw Books Blog]

Bending Toward the Sun:  A Mother and Daughter Memoir by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie with Rita Lurie [reviewed by The Book Inn, Cheryl's Book Nook, Lit and Life, The Printed Page]

Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov [reviewed by Matt's Book Blog, Page247]

Beside a Burning Sea by John Shors [reviewed by Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin'?]

Beyond Band of Brothers:  The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters [reviewed by Magistra Mater]

Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse [reviewed by In Spring it is the Dawn, things mean a lot]

Bloody Good by Georgia Evans [reviewed by J. Kaye's Book Blog, The Tome Traveller's Weblog, What Kate's Reading]

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak [reviewed by Adventures in Never-Never Land, A Reader's Respite, At Home With Books, Bookatopia, ChainReading, In the Shadow of Mt. TBR, Jackets & Covers, Jules' Book Reviews, Kay's Bookshelf, Never Not Reading, Out of the Blue, SmallWorld Reads, Suko's Notebook, Ticket to Anywhere, Under The Boardwalk]

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne [reviewed by A Reader's Respite, Bermudaonion's Weblog, Bibliophile By the Sea, Book Addiction, Books and other Stuff, It's All About Books, Jo-Jo loves to read!!!, Kay's Bookshelf, Kitting: Books, Medieval Bookworm, Out of the Blue, The Sleepy Reader, SmallWorld Reads, Whimpulsive, worducopia]

The Boy Who Dared:  A Novel Based on the True Story of a Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti [reviewed by Under The Boardwalk]

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen [reviewed by Carol's Notebook, ReadingAdventures, SmallWorld Reads]

Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie [reviewed by Booking Mama, The Burton Review, Medieval Bookworm]

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller [reviewed by Trish's Reading Nook]

Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War by Patrick J. Buchanan [reviewed by Magistra Mater]

City of Thieves by David Benioff [reviewed by The Boston Bibliophile, Life in the Thumb, Regular Rumination]

The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan [reviewed by Scrappy Cat]

Coventry by Helen Humphreys [reviewed by A Season to Read, Diary of an Eccentric, FRESH INK BOOKS, Life and Times of a "New" New Yorker, The Literate Housewife Review, Peeking Between the Pages]

The Darkroom of Damocles by W.F. Hermans [reviewed by Asylum]

Dark Star by Alan Furst [reviewed by Life and Times of a "New" New Yorker]

Davita’s Harp by Chaim Potok [reviewed by The Book Nest]

Dawn by Elie Wiesel [reviewed by Books 'N Border Collies]

Day After Night by Anita Diamant [reviewed by SmallWorld Reads]

Dear America:  One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping:  The Diary of Julie Weiss by Barry Denenberg [reviewed by Carmen Alexis' Book Talk]

Defiance:  The Bielski Partisans by Nechama Tec [reviewed by MissDaisyAnne's Garden]

Dieppe:  Canada’s Darkest Day of World War II by Hugh Brewster [reviewed by SMS Book Reviews]

The Diplomat’s Wife by Pam Jenoff [reviewed by Jackets & Covers, Jules' Book Reviews]

Doing Battle:  The Making of a Skeptic by Paul Fussell [reviewed by Matt's Book Blog]

Doreen by Barbara Noble [reviewed by Fleur Fisher Reads, Page After Page]

Down the Coaltown Road by Sheldon Currie [reviewed by A Season to Read]

Dr. Seuss Goes to War:  The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel by Richard H. Minear and Dr. Seuss [reviewed by Magistra Mater]

Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy MacLean [reviewed by Matt's Book Blog]

The Endless Steppe:  Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig [reviewed by SmallWorld Reads]

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje [reviewed by Bermudaonion's Weblog, Beth Fish Reads, Booking Mama, Lit and Life, My Friend Amy]

Escape From the Deep:  The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew by Alex Kershaw [reviewed by You've GOTTA read this!]

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer [reviewed by Books and other Stuff]

Eyewitness Auschwitz:  Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller [reviewed by Book Reviews By Bobbie]

Five Chimneys:  A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel [reviewed by Book Reviews By Bobbie]

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith [reviewed by A Patchwork of Books, Book Gazing, Presenting Lenore, Pop Culture Junkie, worducopia]

From Here to Eternity by James Jones [reviewed by Matt's Book Blog]

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michael [reviewed by Katrina's Reads, Medieval Bookworm]

Gertruda’s Oath:  A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II by Ram Oren [reviewed by My Life In Not So Many Words]

Gilgamesh by Joan London [reviewed by Books and other Stuff]

The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill [reviewed by Magistra Mater]

Going Solo by Roald Dahl [reviewed by Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog]

The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates [reviewed by FRESH INK BOOKS]

The Great World by David Malouf [reviewed by Matt's Book Blog]

Guernica by Dave Boling [reviewed by A Reader's Respite, FRESH INK BOOKS, worducopia]

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows [reviewed by As Usual I Need More Bookshelves, Book Addiction, Book Chatter and other stuff..., Book Club Classics, The Book Nest, Books on the Brain, Books & other thoughtsChainReading, Diary of an Eccentric, FRESH INK BOOKS, It's All About Books, It's All About Me (Time), Jackets & Covers, Katrina's Reads, The Literate Housewife Review, Never Not Reading, Peachybooks, Rhapsodyinbooks's Weblog, SmallWorld Reads, Suko's Notebook, Ticket to Anywhere, What Kate's Reading, Whimpulsive, Write Meg!, You've GOTTA read this!]

The Happy Warrior:  The Life Story of Sir Winston Churchill, As Told Through Great Britain’s Eagle Comic of the 1950s by Clifford Makins [reviewed by Doolittle's]

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom [reviewed by Library Queue]

Hiroshima by John Hersey [reviewed by Page247]

Hitler and Mars Bars by Dianne Ascroft [reviewed by Diary of an Eccentric, Fyrefly's Book Blog, Wendi's Book Corner]

Hitler’s Willing Executioners:  Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen [reviewed by MissDaisyAnne's Garden]

Hitler Youth:  Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti [reviewed by A Small Accomplishment]

The Holocaust Chronicle:  A History in Words and Pictures by John Roth Ph.D. [reviewed by You've GOTTA read this!]

The Holocaust:  The Nazis Seize Power, 1933-1941 by Stuart A. Kallen [reviewed by Diary of an Eccentric]

The Hours After:  Letters of Love and Longing in War’s Aftermath by Gerda Weissmann Klein [reviewed by Magistra Mater]

Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink [reviewed by Ready When You Are, C.B.]

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford [reviewed by A Comfy Chair and a Good Book, A Journey of Books, A Reading Collection, At Home With Books, Bibliophile By the Sea, The Book Lady's Blog, Bookworm's Dinner, Life in the Thumb, MariReads, Medieval Bookworm, Musings of a Bookish Kitty, Not Enough Books, Pudgy Penguin Perusals, Redlady's Reading Room, Under the Boardwalk]

How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher [reviewed by Magistra Mater, Page247]

The Ice Soldier by Paul Watkins [reviewed by Lynda's Book Blog]

I Escaped From Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba [reviewed by The Bookworm's Hideout]

If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan [reviewed by My Life In Not So Many Words]

I Have Lived a Thousand Years:  Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson [reviewed by Leafing Through Life, SmallWorld Reads, Ticket to Anywhere]

In My Hands:  Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke [reviewed by Becky's Book Reviews]

Into That Darkness by Gitta Sereny [reviewed by You've GOTTA read this!]

Irretrievably Broken by Irma Fritz [reviewed by At Home With Books]

Jimmy’s Stars by Mary Ann Rodman [reviewed by SmallWorld Reads]

Keeping Hannah Waiting by Dave Clarke [reviewed by Diary of an Eccentric, Puss Reboots]

Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield [reviewed by Books 'N Border Collies]

The Kommandant’s Girl by Pam Jenoff [reviewed by Jackets & Covers, Lynda's Book Blog, Should Be Reading]

L’albero di Goethe (Goethe’s Tree) by Helga Schneider [reviewed by Out of the Blue]

The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire:  Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana by Peter Clarke [reviewed by Doolittle's]

The Lieutenant’s Lover by Harry Bingham [reviewed by Medieval Bookworm]

Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff [reviewed by Maw Books Blog]

Lizzi & Fredl:  A Perilous Journey of Love and Faith by Dr. William B. Stanford [reviewed by Dan's Journal, Falling Off the Shelf]

The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean [reviewed by FRESH INK BOOKS, Scrappy Cat]

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl [reviewed by Kay's Bookshelf]

The Mascot:  Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father’s Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurzem [reviewed by At Home With Books]

Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis [reviewed by A Patchwork of Books]

Maus I:  A Survivor’s Tale:  My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman [reviewed by At Home With Books, Becky's Book Reviews, Jackets & Covers, Medieval Bookworm, Reading Thru the Night]

Maus II:  A Survivor’s Tale:  And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman [reviewed by At Home With Books, Becky's Book Reviews, Jackets & Covers, Medieval Bookworm, Reading Thru the Night]

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler [reviewed by Magistra Mater]

Memory by Philippe Grimbert [reviewed by The Boston Bibliophile, Diary of an Eccentric]

Moscow 1941:  A City and Its People at War by Rodric Braithwaite [reviewed by Books and other Stuff]

The Museum Guard by Howard Norman [reviewed by FRESH INK BOOKS, Peachybooks]

My Enemy’s Cradle by Sara Young [reviewed by Jackets & Covers]

My Lucky Star by Zdenka Fantlova [reviewed by Magistra Mater]

The Nazi Officer’s Wife:  How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer [reviewed by Lynda's Book Blog, SmallWorld Reads]

Night by Elie Wiesel [reviewed by A Season to Read, Book Addiction, Bookmarked!, It's All About Me, SmallWorld Reads, You've GOTTA Read This!]

Night of Flames by Douglas W. Jacobson [reviewed by Book Addiction, The Book Nest, Book Reviews by Bobbie, Books and Needlepoint, Diary of an Eccentric, Historical Tapestry, Lit and Life, Pudgy Penguin Perusals, ReadingAdventures, Savvy Verse & Wit, Starting Fresh, You've Gotta Read This!]

Night of Many Dreams by Gail Tsukiyama [reviewed by Pudgy Penguin Perusals]

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters [reviewed by Regular Rumination, things mean a lot]

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry [reviewed by Brittney's Blog, You've GOTTA read this!]

One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downs [reviewed by A Comfy Chair and a Good Book]

Our Longest Days:  A People’s History of the Second World War by Sandra Koa Wing [reviewed by Medieval Bookworm]

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson [reviewed by Scrappy Cat]

Outwitting History:  The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky [reviewed by Age 30+...A Lifetime of Books]

The Pages in Between:  A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home by Erin Einhorn [reviewed by Age 30+...A Lifetime of Books, Bookfoolery and Babble]

Passage to Freedom:  The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee [reviewed by Maw Books Blog]

The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee [reviewed by A Girl Walks Into a Bookstore..., Medieval Bookworm, Pudgy Penguin Perusals]

Poets of World War II edited by Harvey Shapiro [reviewed by Ticket to Anywhere]

The Polski Affair by Leon H. Gildin [reviewed by The Boston Bibliophile]

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake [reviewed by The Book Inn, Bookmagic, Cerebral Girl in a Redneck World, My Life In Not So Many Words]

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink [reviewed by A Guy's Moleskine Notebook, Bermudaonion's Weblog, Book Psmith, Caribousmom, Jackets & Covers, MariReads, MissDaisyAnne's Garden, Scrappy Cat, S. Krishna's Books, Suko's Notebook]

Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas [reviewed by Diary of an Eccentric, Savvy Verse & Wit]

Rescuing Da Vinci by Robert M. Edsel [reviewed by At Home With Books]

Resistance by Agnes Humbert [reviewed by Shelf Love]

Resistance by Anita Shreve [reviewed by A Book Sanctuary]

Resistance by Owen Sheers [reviewed by Page247]

Rise and Fall of the Nazis by Claire Welch [reviewed by Ticket to Anywhere]

Rue Ordener Rue Labat by Sarah Kofman [reviewed by A Guy's Moleskine Notebook]

Rutka’s Notebook:  A Voice From the Holocaust edited by Time Magazine, Yad Vashem, and Kelly Knauer [reviewed by The Book Nest]

Saplings by Noel Streatfeild [reviewed by Peachybooks]

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay [reviewed by Bookmagic Julie's Jewels, MariReads, MissDaisyAnne's Garden, Peeking Between the Pages, SmallWorld Reads]

Scheisshaus Luck by Pierre Berg [reviewed by The Book Nest, Luxury Reading]

Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally [reviewed by things mean a lot]

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally [reviewed by Kay's Bookshelf]

The Second World War in Color by Stewart and Adrian Wood [reviewed by Magistra Mater]

The Sentinels:  Fortunes of War by Gordon Zuckerman [reviewed by Dan's Journal]

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See [reviewed by Life in the Thumb]

Shelter Me by Alex McAulay [reviewed by The Book Muncher]

The Shipwreck of a Nation by H. Peter Nennhaus [reviewed by Puss Reboots]

Shooting an Albatross by Steven R. Lundin [reviewed by Dan's Journal]

Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian [reviewed by Books 'N Border Collies, Jackets & Covers, Scrappy Cat, SmallWorld Reads, Thoughts of Joy]

The Sky Rained Heroes:  A Journey From War to Remembrance by Frederick E. LaCroix [reviewed by Puss Reboots]

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson [reviewed by Carmen Alexis' Book Talk]

Soul Survivor:  The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot by Bruce and Andrea Leininger with Ken Gross [reviewed by Dan's Journal]

The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst [reviewed by Luxury Reading, Medieval Bookworm]

Stalingrad:  The Fateful Siege 1942-1943 by Anthony Beevor [reviewed by Books and other Stuff]

Stalin’s Own Children by Owen Matthews [reviewed by As Usual I Need More Bookshelves]

Strange Defeat:  A Statement of Evidence by Marc Bloch [reviewed by Matt's Book Blog]

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky [reviewed by Age 30+...A Lifetime of Books, Magistra Mater, What Kate's Reading, You've GOTTA read this!]

Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas [reviewed by Jo-Jo Loves to Read, Life in the Thumb]

Tamar by Mal Peet [reviewed by Writing Wrongs]

Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher [reviewed by Under The Boardwalk, worducopia]

Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum [reviewed by A Bookworm's World, Books and Cooks]

The Train by Georges Simenon [reviewed by Matt's Book Blog]

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy [reviewed by Book Addiction]

The Vanished Kingdom:  Travels Through the History of Prussia by James Charles Roy [reviewed by Mauriel Joslyn]

Visas for Life by Yukiko Sugihara [reviewed by Matt's Book Blog]

War on the Margins by Libby Cone [reviewed by 60 Going on 16, BCF Book Reviews, dovegreyreader scribbles, robaroundbooks]

Wartime:  Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War by Paul Fussell [reviewed by Matt's Book Blog]

We Are on Our Own by Miriam Katin [reviewed by Age 30+...A Lifetime of Books, The Book Nest, things mean a lot]

The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies [reviewed by Book girl of Mur-y-Castell]

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell [reviewed by Never Not Reading, Under The Boardwalk]

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka [reviewed by The Book Nest, SmallWorld Reads]

Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom [reviewed by A Reader's Respite, Elizabeth Willse]

Winter Passing by Cindy McCormick Martinusen [reviewed by MissDaisyAnne's Garden]

You Went Away by Timothy Findley [reviewed by A Season to Read]

The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman [reviewed by Age 30+...A Lifetime of Books, The Book Nest, Doolittle's, Jackets & Covers, Trish's Reading Nook]

Zoo Station by David Downing [reviewed by Musings of a Bookish Kitty]

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