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Together, they resisted the Nazi grasp for power...
Jackdaws

Ken Follett - Dutton
Format: Book

D-Day is approaching. They don’t know where or when, but the Germans know it'll be soon, and for Felicity “Flick” Clairet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) responsible for sabotage, Flick has survived...

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Lilac Girls: A Novel

Martha Hall Kelly - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah's Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances.New...
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Chateau of Secrets: A Novel

Melanie Dobson - Howard Books
Format: Paperback

A courageous young noblewoman risks her life to hide French resistance fighters seventy years later her granddaughter visits the familys abandoned chateau and uncovers shocking secrets from the pastGisle Duchant guards a secret that could cost her life Tunnels snake through the hill under...
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The Paris Architect: A Novel

Charles Belfoure - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times Bestseller!"A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war." -- Malcolm GladwellA thrilling debut novel of World War II Paris, from an author who's been called "an up and coming...
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Resistance Women: A Novel

Jennifer Chiaverini - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, an enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American - Mildred Fish Harnack - and her circle of women friends who waged a clandestine...
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The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin...
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Until Leaves Fall in Paris

Sarah Sundin - Fleming H. Revell Company
Format: Paperback

As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but she finds a way to aid the resistance...
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From These Broken Streets: A Novel

Roland Merullo
Format: Paperback

Italy, 1943. The Nazi occupation has cemented its grip on the devastated city of Naples.Giuseppe DiPietra, a curator in the National Archives, has a subversive plan to aid the Allies. If he's discovered, forced labor or swift execution. Lucia Pastone, secretary for the Italian Fascist...
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Churchill's Secret Messenger

Alan Hlad - A John Scognamiglio Book
Format: Paperback

...Recruited from Churchill's typing pool to become an undercover spy in German-occupied France, a young woman from London bravely endures daring missions, audacious escapes, and harrowing imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp, risking everything for the country--and the man--she...
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The Postmistress of Paris: A Novel

Meg Waite Clayton - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Train to London revisits the dark early days of the German occupation in France in this haunting novel - a love story and a tale of high-stakes danger and incomparable courage - about a young American heiress who helps artists hunted by the Nazis...
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The Award: A Novel

Danielle Steel - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Capturing historical events, terrifying moments of danger, tragedy, the price of war, and the invincible spirit of a woman of honor, The Award is a monumental tale from one of our most gifted storytellers - Danielle Steel's finest, most emotionally...
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Liberation

Imogen Kealey - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

To the Allies, she was a fearless freedom fighter, a special operations legend, a woman ahead of her time. To the Gestapo, she was a ghost, a shadow, the most wanted person in the world.
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When Hell Struck Twelve

James R. Benn - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

US Army detective Billy Boyle and Lieutenant Kaz are assigned to the French Resistance with delicate orders: help them with their mission, but only enough to keep up a deception campaign - the outcome of the war depends on it.August, 1944: US Army Captain Billy Boyle is assigned to track...
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Under Occupation: A Novel

Alan Furst - Random House
Format: Hardcover

From the master of espionage and intrigue, this novel about heroic resistance fighters in 1942 occupied Paris is based on true events of Polish prisoners in Nazi Germany, who smuggled valuable intelligence to Paris and the resistance.Occupied Paris in 1942, a dark, treacherous city now ruled...
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Citadel: A Novel

Kate Mosse - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover

Combining the rugged action of Labyrinth with the haunting mystery of Sepulchre, #1 bestselling author Kate Mosse's eagerly awaited Citadel is a mesmerizing World War II story of daring and courage, in which a group of determined women fighting for the French Resistance risk their lives...
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