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Nonfiction

An Uncom­mon Jour­ney: From Vien­na to Shang­hai to Amer­i­ca – A Broth­er and Sis­ter Escape to Free­dom Dur­ing World War II

Deb­o­rah Strobin and Ilie Wacs, with S.J. Hodges

Nonfiction

Vil­la Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille

Rose­mary Sullivan

Nonfiction

Wolf Trapped: The Life and Death of a Young Artist in Hitler’s Europe

Robert Fol­lett as told by Peter Natan

Nonfiction

The Lib­er­a­tor: One World War II Sol­dier’s 500-Day Odyssey from the Beach­es of Sici­ly to the Gates of Dachau

Alex Ker­shaw

Nonfiction

Human Smoke: The Begin­nings of World War II, the End of Civilization

Nichol­son Baker

Nonfiction

The End: The Defi­ance and Destruc­tion of Hitler’s Ger­many, 1944 – 1945

Ian Ker­shaw

Children's

I Will Come Back For You: A Fam­i­ly in Hid­ing Dur­ing World War II

Maris­abi­na Russo

Nonfiction

Lili Mar­lene: The Sol­diers’ Song of World War II

Liel Lei­bovitz and Matthew Miller

Nonfiction

A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Miss­ing Agents of World War II

Sarah Helm

Nonfiction

An Amer­i­can in Hitler’s Berlin: Abra­ham Plotk­in’s Diary, 1932 – 33

Cather­ine Col­lomp and Bruno Grop­po, eds. and intro.

Nonfiction

The Jews of Bia­lystok Dur­ing World War II and the Holocaust

Sara Ben­der

Nonfiction

We Are On Our Own

Miri­am Katin

Nonfiction

Nazi Pro­pa­gan­da for the Arab World

Jef­frey Herf

Nonfiction

Fromms: How Julius From­m’s Con­dom Empire Fell to the Nazis

Götz Aly and Michael Son­theimer; Shel­ley Frisch, trans.

Children's

Refus­ing to Crum­ble: The Dan­ish Resis­tance in World War II

Michael Bur­gan

Nonfiction

Hel­lu­va Town: The Sto­ry of New York City Dur­ing World War II

Richard Gold­stein

Nonfiction

Once They Had a Coun­try: Two Teenage Refugees in the Sec­ond World War

Muriel R. Gillick

Children's

Defi­ance: Resis­tance Book 2

Car­la Jablon­s­ki; Leland Purvis, illus.

Nonfiction

As If It Were Life: A World War II Diary from the There­sien­stadt Ghetto

Philipp Manes

Nonfiction

The Ene­my I Knew: Ger­man Jews in the Allied Mil­i­tary in World War II

Steven Kar­ras