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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.

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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

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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

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Pearl Harbor

Randall Wallace · 309 pages

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True Valor

Dee Henderson · 338 pages

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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.

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Touching the Clouds

Bonnie Leon · 364 pages

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Pastoral

Nevil Shute · 246 pages

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A Refuge at Highland Hall

Carrie Turansky · 338 pages

"The Great War shakes the world of a spirited young woman and the brave British pilot she loves, taking her from London to her family's magnificent country estate, and sending him into the war-torn skies over France"--

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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

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Corelli's Mandolin

Louis de Bernieres · 437 pages

The Greek island of Cephallonia - peaceful, remote, famed for its beauty, its light, its mythic history - and only just beginning to enter the twentieth century when the tide of World War II rolls onto its shores. This is the setting for Louis de Bernieres's lyrical, heartbreaking, and hilarious chronicle of the days and nights of the island's inhabitants over fifty tumultuous years. "It was an i

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Letters From Home

Kristina McMorris · 376 pages

In 1944 Chicago, Liz Stephens reluctantly agrees to ghostwrite a letter to soldier Morgan McClain, who is stationed overseas, for her friend Betty and becomes torn by her feelings for a man who doesn't know her true identity.

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Velva Jean Learns to Fly

Jennifer Niven · 412 pages

Velva Jean leaves Appalachia to pursue her dream of being a singer, but instead discovers she wants to be a female pilot after her brother treats her to a surprise flying lesson.

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All God's Children

Anna Schmidt · 314 pages

Living in Munich with relatives, Beth Bridgewater, a German American, finds herself in a nightmare as World War II erupts in a war which she takes no side, for she is a Quaker pacifist. Just as she gains opportunity to escape Germany, Beth decides to stay.

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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

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Love by the Letter

Melissa Jagears

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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

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Letter Perfect

Cathy Marie Hake · 448 pages

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Evidence of Mercy

Terri Blackstock · 401 pages

The plane crash nearly ended Lynda's life. Was it an accident or sabotage? Lynda Barrett, a young lawyer, hates to sell her plane, but she can no longer afford to keep it. Enter Jake Stevens: wealthy, arrogant, and interested in buying Lynda's beloved Piper. Together, he and Lynda embark on a test flight that ends in disaster--hurling them into a terrifying sequence of events. One thing becomes c

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Everyone Brave is Forgiven

Chris Cleave · 464 pages

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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.

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Fair Stood the Wind for France

H.E. Bates · 256 pages

An English fighter pilot brings his plane down in Occupied France during WWII. The family of a French farmer risk their lives to protect him. He and the daughter of the house are drawn to each other, but it is not time to fall in love.

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