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Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Mark T. Sullivan · 460 pages

World War IIRebels and ResistancePlot-DrivenEspionage
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The Bletchley Riddle

Ruta Sepetys · 392 pages

World War IIEspionagePlot-DrivenTense and Suspenseful
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The Book Spy

Alan Hlad · 384 pages

World War IIEspionagePlot-DrivenRebels and Resistance
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Where Eagles Dare

Alistair MacLean · 270 pages

One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a crashed American general before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans.

World War IIEspionagePlot-DrivenTense and Suspenseful
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Code Name Verity

Elizabeth Wein · 347 pages

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

AviationWorld War IIEspionageRebels and Resistance
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The Librarian Spy

Madeline Martin · 400 pages

World War IIEspionageRebels and ResistanceTense and Suspenseful
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Spies of the Balkans

Alan Furst · 283 pages

Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece: northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greece—the city of Salonika. In that ancient port, with its wharves and warehouses, dark lanes and Turkish mansions, brothels and tavernas, a tense political drama is being played out. On the northern border, the Greek army has blocked Mussolini’s invasion, pushing his divisions back to Albania—the first defeat suf

World War IIRebels and ResistanceEspionageTense and Suspenseful
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Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

Alan Gratz · 309 pages

It's the height of World War II. Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany, lives with his family in Berlin. But Michael, like his parents, is a spy. He joins the Hitler Youth, taking part in their horrific games and book-burning, despising everything they stand for but using his insider knowledge to bring important information back to his parents and the British Secret Ser

World War IIEspionageRebels and ResistanceTense and Suspenseful
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The Tristan Betrayal

Robert Ludlum · 521 pages

Moscow --- a city under siege by hardcore Communists threatening to plunge the country back into Stalinist darkness. Into the heart of the firestorm, American ambassador Stephen Metcalfe has been summoned to find the one man who controls the levers of power in absolute secrecy --- an official known only as the Dirizhor. His support of the bloody coup will bring the entire world to the brink of nuc

EspionageWorld War IIPlot-DrivenTense and Suspenseful
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Spandau Phoenix

Greg Iles · 720 pages

One of the great unsolved mysteries of World War II is - to some people - a secret worth killing for... The greatest remaining mystery of World War II will be solved... West Berlin, 1987: Spandau Prison is being torn down. Amongst the rubble, the diary of enigmatic Nazi Rudolph Hess is found, and the secrets it reveals plunge the world into chaos. The Spandau Diary- what was in it? Why did the sec

World War IIEspionageTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Shadow on the Mountain

Margi Preus · 320 pages

In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy.

World War IIRebels and ResistanceEspionageTeen Protagonist
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Patriot Games

Tom Clancy · 503 pages

It is fall. Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets, historian, ex-Marine and CIA analyst Jack Ryan is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter, when a terrorist attack takes place before his eyes. Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot. It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns

EspionageRebels and ResistancePlot-DrivenTense and Suspenseful
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The Eagle Has Flown

Jack Higgins · 335 pages

World War IIEspionagePlot-DrivenThriller
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Prague Counterpoint

Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene · 393 pages

In Vienna Prelude, Elisa Lindheim risked her life helping others escape pre-World War II Austria. The climactic ending finds her safely in Czechoslovakia, but not for long. A million other lives are endangered, and she cannot still their silent cry for help. Prague Counterpoint finds Elisa watching in horror as Hitler's forces sweep through her beloved Vienna and he directs his ambition toward the

World War IIRebels and ResistanceEspionageTense and Suspenseful
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The Unlikely Spy

Daniel Silva · 544 pages

In wartime," Winston Churchill wrote, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." For Britain's counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable-a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent: C

World War IIEspionageTense and SuspensefulThriller
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The Rumor Game

Thomas Mullen · 368 pages

World War IIEspionageTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Left Behind

Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins · 468 pages

Without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun

AviationPlot-DrivenTense and SuspensefulRebels and Resistance
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SS-GB

Len Deighton · 402 pages

For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on.But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself

World War IIRebels and ResistanceEspionageTense and Suspenseful
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The Einstein Prophecy

Robert Masello · 390 pages

World War IIPlot-DrivenTense and SuspensefulMultiple POV
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The Huntress

Kate Quinn · 560 pages

AviationWorld War IITense and SuspensefulMultiple POV
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The Fighting Agents

W.E.B. Griffin, Alex Baldwin · 374 pages

The Philippines, 1943: As the ragged remnants of the American forces stand against the might of the Imperial Japanese Army, a determined cadre of OSS agents becomes their only contact with the outside world-and their only hope for survival.

World War IIEspionagePlot-DrivenHistorical Fiction
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The Last Time I Saw Paris

Lynn Sheene · 359 pages

A young American woman becomes a spy in Paris during World War II.

World War IIEspionageRebels and ResistanceTense and Suspenseful
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The Paris Architect

Charles Belfoure · 371 pages

Paris, 1942. The architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money-- and maybe get him killed. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't

World War IIRebels and ResistancePlot-DrivenTense and Suspenseful
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Under a War-Torn Sky

L.M. Elliott · 288 pages

AviationWorld War IIRebels and ResistanceTeen Protagonist

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