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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorIn Perfect Time
Sarah Sundin · 416 pages
Bold, sophisticated, and coy, Army Air Force flight nurse Lt. Kay Jobson collects hearts whever she flies, leaving men pining in airfields all across Europe. So how can ruggedly handsome C-47 pilot Lt. Roger Cooper be all but immune to her considerable charms? In fact, he seems to do everything he can to avoid her. Still, as they cross the skies between Italy and southern France, evacuating the
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.
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
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
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
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.
While You Were Mine
Ann Howard Creel · 299 pages
The Balkan Trilogy: "Great Fortune", "Spoilt City" and "Friends and Heroes"
Olivia Manning · 928 pages
At the Water's Edge
Sara Gruen · 354 pages
After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis's father, a former army Colonel who is already embarrassed by his son's inability to serve in WWII due to his being colorblind. To Maddie's horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favor is to succeed in a
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
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
The Paperbark Shoe
Goldie Goldbloom · 374 pages
In the wake of a thwarted career as a concert pianist and the accompanying emotional fallout, Gin accepts a marriage proposal from the peculiar Mr. Toad. But nothing from the albino Gin Toad's upbringing in the bourgeois drawing rooms of Perth has prepared her for a hardscrabble existence on a subsistence farm in the Australian outback.
The German Wife
Kelly Rimmer · 464 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.
Shala de yao shi
Tatiana de Rosnay · 335 pages
The Wives of Los Alamos
TaraShea Nesbit · 233 pages
"Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with P.O. box add
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
Unexploded
Alison MacLeod · 339 pages
On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news of the expected enemy landing on the beaches of Brighton. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien camp at the far reaches of town, while Philip is gripped by the rumour that Hitler will make Brighton's Royal Pavilion his English HQ.
The Room on Rue Amelie
Kristin Harmel · 400 pages
Mudbound
Hillary Jordan · 335 pages
"It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm; a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not; charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eld
Rose 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.