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5 sie 2022 · THE TUSCAN CHILD has sold close to a million copies worldwide and The Venice Sketchbook is on its way to repeating that success. So clearly people are interested in WWII. In the past few years there have been many successful novels about the war—I’ll give you some suggestions at the end of this.
From the Holocaust to the Pacific theater, from the home front to the battlefields, "World War II" books offer readers a deep understanding of one of the most significant and devastating events in human history.
The literature of the Second World War has emerged as an accomplished, mov-ing, and challenging body of work, produced by writers as different as Norman Mailer and Virginia Woolf, Primo Levi and Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and W.H. Auden. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the international literatures of the war: both ...
9 gru 2008 · At the end of his book, The Second World War, John Keegan offers a list of 50 books in English that "together provide a comprehensive picture of the most important events and themes of the war, which are readable and from which the general reader can derive his own picture of the war as a…
But World War II continues to be the most important war in history because of the effect that it had on so many people’s lives and on so many countries. The most important lesson I ever learned came to me in the French archives when I was researching a book about Paris after the liberation.
30 sty 2019 · From action-packed eyewitness accounts such as Guadalcanal Diary to devastating Holocaust memoirs like The Diary of Anne Frank and Night to the thrilling espionage tale of Operation Mincemeat, World War II is the subject of some of the most fascinating and influential nonfiction books ever written.
From biographies to bird's-eye views, memoirs to timeless reportage, here is a selection of the best non-fiction books ever written about the Second World War. To call the Second World War merely a war is almost a misnomer; it was never just one war, but so many wars in one.
