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These twenty-six stories illustrate Heinrich Boll's finely nuanced storytelling at its best. In stunning portraits of ordinary people, Boll creates a rich tapestry of the dark years in postwar Germany.
In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II.
A Time of Violence (1966) is an anti-war and activist novel by French writer Jean-Pierre Simon, a lesser-known author from the mid-20th century, whose work bears traces of leftist literature of the 1930s and 1940s.
The Thin Red Line (1962) is a realistic depiction of war through the experiences of soldiers in the Battle of Guadalcanal during World War II. The novel follows Company C of the U.S. Marines in the Pacific in 1942, focusing on their internal struggles und
The novel is a kaleidoscopic, polyphonic account of the life of Gerda Taro (née Gerda Pohorylle, 1910–1937), the first female war photographer to die on the battlefield. A must-read for fans of historical fiction about strong women and anti-fascism.
Hans Hellmut Kirst's trilogy 08/15 follows soldier Asch from his life in the barracks, through the front and the post-war period. Through irony and dark humor, he exposes the senselessness of war, the moral collapse of the Wehrmacht, and a society that pr