WWII

Love and Humanity Are Proven as the Most Powerful Weapons in This WWII Tale

In July 1944, 19-year-old Sam Ryan is drafted into the 89th Infantry Division, the “Rolling W,” as part of a cadre of “citizen soldiers” sent to Europe to replace the battle-scarred American regulars who made it through D-Day. In 1941, Gerda Berghmann is a young, intrepid German woman working at…

Peggy KurkowskiNovember 8, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

Mike Bond’s “America” Explores the Turbulent and Transformative Era of the 1960s

“One of the 21st Century’s most exciting authors.” — Washington Times —∞— “Mike Bond’s books are a national treasure.” — Art Zuckerman, WVOX —∞— Bestselling author Mike Bond is best known for his thrillers. His Pono Hawkins series, along with his novels of international espionage and military action, have garnered…

BookTribApril 28, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

War Through the Eyes of Female Pilots

Inspired by the team of women pilots who trained soldiers in the second World War, Noelle Salazar's The Flight Girls (MIRA) innovatively weaves the struggles of misogyny, trauma and platonic relationships with the paradoxical truth of war’s powerful capacity to both fracture relationships and bring individuals together. Seldom are readers…

Emily WolfeJune 26, 2019

Book Club Network Fiction

Self-Discovery and Espionage in “The Lost Girls of Paris”

A fresh, new and exciting tale of espionage, The Lost Girls of Paris (Park Row Books) by Pam Jenoff is engaging historical fiction that follows three women all at different stages in their lives but brought together in crazy twists of fate. For Grace, World War II is over (it's 1946)…

Meagan FoyJanuary 16, 2019

Fiction

Tall Poppies Review: “Daughters of the Night Sky” Pays Homage to WWII Female Pilots

When I sat down with this book, I knew nothing about the Night Bomber Regiment in the Red Army—a group of all-female Russian pilots that bombed Germany during WWII. I quickly found myself captivated by this band of determined women, who not only wanted to save their country from invasion…

Heather WebbJanuary 4, 2018

Fiction

‘Strong to the Bone’ is Jon Land’s Most ‘Introspective’ Book in Series

In September, author James R. Hannibal (The Fourth Ruby) gave an outstanding review of Jon Land's latest in the Caitlin Strong series, Strong to the Bone, which was released today. Here we revisit Hannibal's review of what he calls Land's most "introspective" and deeply "insightful" book in the series. …

James R. HannibalDecember 5, 2017

Fiction

Q&A with David Plante, Author of ‘American Stranger’ and ‘Difficult Women’

Brought up in a secularized Jewish household on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Nancy Green knows little about her parents’ past. She knows they were World War II Jewish refugees who were able to escape Germany with precious family heirlooms that are constant reminders of a lost life and a world…

BookTribJanuary 3, 2018

Fiction

“Our Darkest Night:” Terror and Faith in Wartime Italy

Novelist Jennifer Robson does not spare readers a bit of horror in her new book, Our Darkest Night: A Novel of Italy and the Second World War (William Morrow). As she has demonstrated in Somewhere in France, Goodnight From London and The Gown, Robson has a predilection for placing indomitable…

Claudia KeenanJanuary 5, 2021

BooksToScreen Fiction

Messineo’s ‘The Fire by Night’ Sheds Light on Nurses During Wartime

Though all wars result in the same atrocious outcome, they are hardly similar in their origins. They often start with an incident, a provocation, appearing to be insignificant, but releasing long-supressed emotions. This can be a process which may take years to burn out. On May 8, 2017, we celebrated…

Frederic ColierOctober 17, 2017

Fiction

Books That Go Great with Barbecue on Father’s Day

Father's Day is Sunday, June 18, and it’s officially time to decide what you’re going to buy the men in your life. Whether it’s your own father, your partner, or even a friend, this is the time of year to celebrate everything that dads do for us. From raising cool kids…

Rachel CarterJune 6, 2017

Fiction

Books Capturing the Romance and Heartbreak of ‘The Light Between Oceans’

The Light Between Oceans comes out in theaters Friday, September 2 and We. Can’t. Wait. And not just because it stars Michael Fassbender (though, yum). Originally a book written by M.L. Stedman in 2012, The Light Between Oceans is one of those heart-wrenching stories that stays with you long after you…

Rachel CarterSeptember 1, 2016

Fiction

A Darkly Humorous Tale, Maria Kuznetsova’s “Something Unbelievable” Exceeds Expectations

A book about the struggles of new motherhood in modern-day Manhatten and surviving hostile living situations in the Ural Mountains circa World War II is not what comes to mind when one hears the phrase “laugh-out-loud funny”; however, that is the case for Maria Kuznetsova’s Something Unbelievable (Random House). In…

Madison HillApril 14, 2021

BooksToScreen Fiction Thrillers

Journalist Recruited to Stop Hitler’s A-Bomb in “The Armageddon Secret”

“He needed time to clear his mind, to fight through. He’d just looked in the face of the anti-Nazi underground, seen mental images of H.G. Wells’s super bombs, grasped the truth about his father’s murder, received a summons to help defeat Nazism — all simultaneously mind-boggling. Was this Black Orchestra…

David ToddNovember 15, 2021

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured

Donna Urbikas Comes to Terms With the Past Through Writing It Down

In the 1950s, baby boomer Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the American Midwest yearning for a “normal” American family. But during World War II, her Polish-born mother and half-sister had endured hunger, disease and a desperate escape from slave labor in Siberia. War and exile created a profound bond…

BookTribJanuary 10, 2022

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured

Robert Burnham Analyzes Writing and World War II

In this debut World War II thriller by Robert Burnham, a small group in Germany aims to stop the Nazis from completing the world’s first atomic bomb. And it’s inspired by actual events, lending the narrative an exemplary edge. It’s time to find out The Armageddon Secret. Alex Drake, an…

Judy MorenoNovember 29, 2021

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured Fiction

S. Kirk Walsh on Her Debut Historical Novel of War, Loss and Animal Companionship

After reading S. Kirk Walsh’s piece that ran in the New York Times this past January, “How the Author of ‘Ragtime’ Taught an Aspiring Writer to Hear the Music,” I was eager to read her new novel, The Elephant of Belfast (Counterpoint). Having also studied with E.L. Doctorow at NYU…

Susan Shapiro BarashApril 5, 2021

Love and Humanity Are Proven as the Most Powerful Weapons in This WWII Tale

Mike Bond’s “America” Explores the Turbulent and Transformative Era of the 1960s

War Through the Eyes of Female Pilots

Self-Discovery and Espionage in “The Lost Girls of Paris”

Tall Poppies Review: “Daughters of the Night Sky” Pays Homage to WWII Female Pilots

‘Strong to the Bone’ is Jon Land’s Most ‘Introspective’ Book in Series

Q&A with David Plante, Author of ‘American Stranger’ and ‘Difficult Women’

“Our Darkest Night:” Terror and Faith in Wartime Italy

Messineo’s ‘The Fire by Night’ Sheds Light on Nurses During Wartime

Books That Go Great with Barbecue on Father’s Day

Books Capturing the Romance and Heartbreak of ‘The Light Between Oceans’

A Darkly Humorous Tale, Maria Kuznetsova’s “Something Unbelievable” Exceeds Expectations

Journalist Recruited to Stop Hitler’s A-Bomb in “The Armageddon Secret”

Donna Urbikas Comes to Terms With the Past Through Writing It Down

Robert Burnham Analyzes Writing and World War II

S. Kirk Walsh on Her Debut Historical Novel of War, Loss and Animal Companionship

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