Tag: wwii fiction
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Book Review: The Vienna Writers Circle by J.C. Maetis
When I picked up this book, I had been expecting something more cerebral. Instead, it has more of a thriller tone. However, I didn’t find this all too thrilling, personally…
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Book Review: The Banned Books of Berlin by Daisy Wood
This is the third book I’ve read by Daisy Wood, so I was confident that I would enjoy it. Although in general, I’ve lost some of my taste for historical fiction with a past and present timeline, I’ve grown fond of the way this author writes it. I found the modern storyline stood out this…
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Book Review: The Booklover’s Library by Madeline Martin
Widowed and left to take care of her young daughter Olivia on her own, Emma struggles to find work. Eventually, she finds a job at a library. But the onset of war makes being a single parent even more difficult…
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Book Review: The Girls of the Glimmer Factory by Jennifer Coburn
Theresienstadt, a ghetto in Czechoslovakia, is the stage the Nazis set to show ‘proof’ that Jewish people aren’t being harmed at the hands of the Third Reich. The reality, of course, is a living hell for the prisoners sent there…
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Book Review: The Secret Pianist by Andie Newton
I read A Child for the Reich last year and I appreciate this author’s use of lesser-discussed nuances of the WWII time period. In The Secret Pianist, the use of carrier pigeons is one of the main focuses in correlation to Resistance work which I found intriguing…