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In the Trenches: WWII

  1. A Game with Sharpened Knives
    Belton, Neil
    1941, murder is in the air, and on the sea beyond the mouth of the river Liffey.  German bombs are dropping on Dublin, accidentally, it is alleged.  Ireland is a country not truly at peace, either with Germany, or with its neighbour across the Irish Sea, or indeed with itself.  Erwin Schrodinger, an Austrian physicist living in exile, is haunted by his past and by threats in the present.

  2. The Welsh Girl
    Davies, Peter Ho
    At the height of World War II, a forbidden romance blossoms between seventeen-year-old Esther Evans, the daughter of a Welsh shepherd, and Karsten Simmering, a troubled young German POW, who questions what he has been fighting for.

  3. The Eleventh Man
    Doig, Ivan
    Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU's 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated.  Two years later, the team is caught up in World War II.

  4. Human Voices
    Fitzgerald, Penelope
    During the height of enemy bombing during WWII, a series of human dramas unfold as the BBC transforms its concert hall into a dormitory for men and women.  Conflict erupts between two departmental directors, and sixteen-year-old Annie falls hopelessly in love.

  5. Hornet Flight
    Follett, Ken
    It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England.  Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the RAF's flight paths, and shooting down British bombers with impunity.  Hermia Mount, an intelligence analyst with MI6, wonders if the Germans could have perfected a radar system like the one the British themselves are struggling to design.

  6. Dark Voyage
    Furst, Alan
    In 1941, Eric DeHaan, the captain of the Noordendam, a Dutch tramp freighter, is recruited by the Dutch Naval Intelligence Section for dangerous secret missions that take the ship and its crew behind enemy lines in Europe and North Africa.

  7. The Naked and the Dead
    Mailer, Norman
    A platoon of foot soldiers is part of a force of six thousand invading the island of Anopopei near the end of the war.  The men find themselves fighting not only the Japanese, but also the geography of the island and each other.

  8. Suite Francaise
    Nemirovsky, Irene
    This is the first English publication of an extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation, recently discovered and published 64 years after the author's death in Auschwitz.  A piercing record of its time and a profoundly moving work of art.

  9. Liberation Road: a novel of World War II and the Red Ball Express
    Robbins, David L.
    A gripping and authentic story set against one of the greatest wartime achievements: the Red Ball Express.  Six thousand trucks and twenty-three thousand men, most of them African-American, forged a lifeline of supplies in the Allied struggle to liberate France.

  10. Double Cross Blind
    Ross, Joel N.
    Locked in a British military asylum after being woulded in a massacre resulting from his own brother's betrayal, American Tom Wall is offered his freedom if he can persuade a captured Nazi spy to reveal his sources.