Anthony Doerr has written a wonderful story set in horrible situations during World War II in his new book, “All the Light We Cannot See.’’ With a blind French girl, an orphaned German boy, and a cursed jewel thrown in, the book is truly memorable and moving.

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La trilogía sobreStalingrado, que puede acabar como una pentalogía, representa probablemente la historia más veraz, precisa y objetiva sobre esta batalla tan mitificada. Para cualquier aficionado a la historia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, es obligada su lectura, que actualiza y revisa por fin...read more

Ellen Feldman's novel Next to Love tells the story of three women who come of age at the dawning of the Second World War. Babe, Millie, and Grace are friends, even though Babe lives below Sixth Street. All three find romance and rush into marriage as their boyfriends become soldiers. The novel...read more

A NEW book by journalist Roger Maynard provides a compelling account of one of World War II’s most brutal prisoner of war camps — on the Indonesian island of Ambon. It is a tale of mateship, heroism and the triumph of the human spirit but controversially, Ambon reveals what happened when Allied...read more