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Include books by the same authorMy Brother's Secret
Dan Smith
Twelve-year-old Karl is a good German boy. He wants his country to win the war - after all, his father has gone away to fight. But when tragedy strikes and his older brother Stefan gets into trouble, he begins to lose his faith in Hitler. Before long, he's caught up in a deadly rebellion.
Snow Treasure
Marie McSwigan · 196 pages
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
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.
Hitler's Canary
Sandi Toksvig · 208 pages
Bamsé Skolvud a 12 ans quand les nazis envahissent Copenhague. Son meilleur ami, Anton Beilin, est juif. Confronté à l'antisémitisme, il va tout faire pour protéger Anton et sa famille.
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 Boy Who Dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti · 192 pages
Day 264. It's morning. Soft gray light slips over the tall redbrick wall. It stretches across the exercise yard and reaches through the high, barred windows. In a cell on the ground floor, the light shifts dark shapes into a small stool, a scrawny table, and a bed made of wooden boards with no mattress or blanket. On that bed, a thin, huddled figure, Helmuth, a boy of seventeen, lies awake. Shiver
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry · 138 pages
Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend, Ellen Rosen, often think about life before the war. But it's now 1943, and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching in their town. The Nazis won't stop. The Jews of Denmark are being "relocated," so Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be part of the family. Then Annemarie is as
The Nazi Invasion, 1944
Lauren Tarshis · 90 pages
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Michelle Magorian · 318 pages
During World War II, an aging recluse's stony heart is softened by his friendship with a young evacuee from London.
The Children of Freedom
Marc Levy · 371 pages
Early in 1942, two young brothers join a resistance group. All the members of the group are young, most of their families came from elsewhere in Europe or North Africa and all of them are passionately committed to the freedom of France and Europe.
Resistance
Carla Jablonski · 121 pages
The Lavender Keeper
Fiona McIntosh · 485 pages
The Saboteur
Andrew Gross · 401 pages
Kurt Nordstrum, an engineer in Oslo, puts his life aside to take up arms against the Germans as part of the Norwegian resistance. After the loss of his fiancée, his outfit whittled to shreds, he commandeers a coastal steamer and escapes to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis's progress towards an atomic bomb at an isolated factory in Norway. There, he joins a team of dedicated Norwegi
Friend or Foe
Michael Morpurgo · 104 pages
During the Second World War, David and his friend Tucky are evacuated to the countryside. One night they see a German plane crash on the moors. They feel they should hate the airmen inside, but can they just leave them to die?
Partisans
Alistair MacLean · 234 pages
In wartime, people are either friends or enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die.
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
Camp X
Eric Walters · 233 pages
Jack and George have assumed new identities and are back at work as special operatives, keeping an eye out for suspicious activity at an ammunitions plant. They don't have to wait long before they uncover a plot by German spies to blow up the plant and everyone in it! It's up to the quickthinking boys to find a way to stop them and stay alive while doing it ...
Tamar
Mal Peet · 432 pages
When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before. His story is one of passionate love, jealousy, and tragedy set against the daily fear and casual horror of the Second World War -- and unraveling it is a
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Mark T. Sullivan · 460 pages
The Darkroom of Damocles
Willem Frederik Hermans · 400 pages
Winter in Wartime
Jan Terlouw · 197 pages
Jan Terlouw's award-winning novel tells the story of a German-occupied village in Holland living through the Bleakest winter of World War II. Food is scarce: starving refugees wander the countryside: able-bodied young men are sent to labor camps in Germany. Fifteen-year-old Michiel Van Beusekom finds himself burdened with the dangerous task of hiding a wounded English paratrooper under the very e
Spark of Life: A Novel of Resistance
Erich Maria Remarque
Mila 18
Leon Uris · 539 pages
An historical novel about the Jewish Resistance fighters who took on the might of the Nazis in German occupied Warsaw during WW2. As the Jewish ghetto gradually shrinks and becomes cut off from the outside world a handful of its residents take up arms to maintain their freedom and their dignity in a struggle they know cannot be won.