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Featured Genre:A drawing of soldiers raising the American flag.

Uncommon Valor
World War II In Literature

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue."
-Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz,
March 16, 1945

European Theater


"Never in the field of human conflict, has so much, been owed by so many to so few!"
-Winston Churchill, September 1940
  • Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
  • The Longest Night by Greg Keizer
  • The Parachutists by Edward Klein
  • The Eagle has Landed by jack Higgins
  • Black Cross by Greg Iles
  • Rising Tide by Jeff Shaara
  • Enigma by Robert Harris
  • Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst
  • Corelli's Mandolin by louis De Bernieres
  • Hornet Flight by Ken Follet
  • Night of Flames by Douglas W. Jacobson
  • Valhalla Exchange by Harry Patterson
  • Double Agents by W.E.B. Griffin
  • When All the World Was Young

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Pacific Theater


"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 -a date which will live in infamy- The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attached by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... With confidence in our armed forces -with the unbounded determination of our people- we will gain the inevitable triumph-so help us God."
-President F. D. Roosevelt , December 8, 1941
  • Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener
  • Behind the Lines by W.E.B. Griffin
  • Pearl Harbor by Newt Gingrich
  • Ticket Home by James Michael Pratt
  • Dirty Distant War by E. M. Nathanson
  • Time and Tide by Thomas J. Fleming
  • To the White Sea by James Dickey
  • Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
  • Battleground by W.E.B. Griffin
  • Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen
  • The Far Reaches by Homer H. Hickam
  • The Pilots by James Spencer
  • The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan
  • Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

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A pster from the time period showing an American woman working a factory job.

Home Front


  • When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otasuka
  • Color of the Sea by John Hamamura
  • When All the World Was Young by Ferrol Sams
  • Homefront by Winston M. Estes
  • Los Alamosby Joseph Kanon
  • A Woman's Place by Lynn N. Austin
  • Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Loose Lips by Rita Mae Brown
  • Trespassing Hearts by Julie Elli

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Nonfiction Companion Reads

  • D-Day Normandy: the Story and Photographs by Donald M. Goldstein
  • Flyboys: a True Story of Courage By James Bradley
  • The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
  • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted. W. Lawson
  • The Times Atlas of the Second World War By John Keegan
  • Touched by Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud
  • The Oxford Companion to World War II By Ian Dear
  • American Heritage New History of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose
  • Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E.Ambrose
Find more books by using the PINES catalog to subject search: "World War, 1939-1945"
Axis Powers:
Germany, Italy, Japan

Allied Powers:
Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Soviet Union (from June 1941), United Kingdom, United States (from December 1941)

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