A Novel
by Mary Doria Russell
appears in World War 2, Historical Fiction, and Fiction.
Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God.It is September 8, 1943, and fourteenyearold Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over ...
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Consider City of Thieves by David Benioff. Recommended by 6 sources.
“City of Thieves reads like a compact survival buddy tale set during the siege of Leningrad: brisk plotting, bleak conditions, and a running thread of dark, often gallows humor as two young men hunt for a dozen eggs. Its useful part is the human-sized adventure—small missions expose moral choices under extreme scarcity. The main limitation is tonal whiplash: comic camaraderie and sudden violence can jar, frustrating readers who prefer consistently sober or documentary-style wartime fiction.”
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