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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorRose Under Fire
Elizabeth Wein · 414 pages
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
The Darkest Hour
Barbara Erskine · 552 pages
"From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak. Love is as uncertain and as untameable as war ... In the summer of 1940, most eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England. The battle for Britain has just begun. But young Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but a dashing young pilot called Tony. Evie has a glittering career as an artist ahead of
A Distant Melody
Sarah Sundin · 422 pages
Will a chance meeting in a time of war change her life forever? Never pretty enough to please her gorgeous mother, Allie will do anything to gain her approval -- even marry a man she doesn't love. While Allie has nearly resigned herself to that fate, Lt. Walter Novak -- fearless in the cockpit but hopeless with women -- takes his last furlough at home in California before being shipped overseas. W
Sapphire Skies
Belinda Alexandra · 447 pages
In 1942, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a squadron composed entirely of Russian women fighter pilots was formed. Most were no older than twenty and, because they were women, were given obsolete planes to fly. However, under the skillful command of record-breaking aviatrix Marina Raskova, the squadron soon became one of the most feared in the history of the Second World War. The wom
Lone Eagle
Danielle Steel · 400 pages
Danielle Steel, la reina indiscutible de la novela romántica, nos ofrece en esta ocasión una tórrida historia de amores imposibles que se inicia en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando Kate se enamora a primera vista de Joe, un audaz piloto de combate. Mientras está en la universidad, Kate ansía una vida estable junto a su amor; Joe, en cambio, sigue cosechando un triunfo tras otro, deseoso de vivir
Flygirl
Sherri L. Smith · 296 pages
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Where the Sky Begins
Rhys Bowen · 364 pages
Resistance
Anita Shreve · 302 pages
"As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Dussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. But the B-17 bomber that crash-lands outside the village of Delahaut contains the man who will be both the last and the most significant of her temporary residents.
Letters to the Lost
Iona Grey · 380 pages
"An accomplished novel from a talented writer, Letters to the Lost is a stunning, emotional love story. Iona Grey's prose is warm, evocative, and immediately engaging; her characters become so real you can't bear to let them go. I promised to love you forever, in a time when I didn't know if I'd live to see the start of another week. Now it looks like forever is finally running out. I never stoppe
Captain Marvel, Volume 1: In Pursuit of Flight
Kelly Sue DeConnick · 136 pages
Hornet Flight
Ken Follett · 518 pages
Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II...It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande an discovers an astonishing sight that will change the momentum of the war. He must get word to Engla
Till We Meet Again
Judith Krantz · 534 pages
The story of three daring women and their unconventional lives from Paris to Hollywood.
The Secrets of Flight
Maggie Leffler
"Estranged from her family since just after World War II, Mary Browning has spent her entire adult life hiding from her Jewish heritage. Now eighty-seven years old and a widow, she is haunted by a lifetime of secrets and fading memories of the family she left behind. Her one outlet is the writing group she's presided over for a decade, but when a new member walks in--a fifteen year old girl who re
The Victory Club
Robin Lee Hatcher · 350 pages
Four women, working at an air field during World War II, face loneliness, hardship, and difficult choices, and experience the comforts of friendship while their loved ones are abroad fighting the war.
Flight of Eagles
Jack Higgins · 338 pages
A wartime thriller about two brothers, separated as boys, who find themselves on opposing sides: one, taken back home by his German mother, is a brilliant Luftwaffe pilot, while the other is an American ace flying with the RAF. From the author of ANGEL OF DEATH, THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER and YEAR OF THE TIGER.
Studio Saint-Ex
Ania Szado · 358 pages
In fashion-driven 1940s New York, ambitious fashion designer Mignonne Lachapelle falls for French expatriate writer and war pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery, while the author's estranged Salvadoran wife, Consuelo, is determined to win him back at all costs.
Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson · 219 pages
Having felt deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.
Some Day I'll Find you
Richard Madeley · 434 pages
"James Blackwell is sexy and handsome and a fighter pilot - every girl's dream partner. At least that is what Diana Arnold thinks when her brother first introduces them. Before long they are in love and marry hastily just as war is declared. Then fate delivers what is the first of its cruel twists: James, the day of their wedding, is shot down over Northern France and killed. Diana is left not onl
Bomber
Len Deighton · 493 pages
The classic novel of the Second World War that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour story of an allied bombing raid.Bomber is a novel war. There are no victors, no vanquished. There are simply those who remain alive, and those who die.Bomber follows the progress of an Allied air raid through a period of twenty-four hours in the summer of 1943. It portrays all the participants in a terrifying
The Aviator's Wife
Melanie Benjamin · 402 pages
Despite her own major achievements--she becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States--Anne Morrow Lindbergh is viewed merely as Charles Lindbergh's wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, life's infinite possibilities for