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February 19, 2021

REVIEW: Crooked Heart: A Novel by Lissa Evans

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readscon-artist / dysfunctional family / found family / Historical / Historical fiction / London / World War II5 Comments

Recommended Read

Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee. When Noel Bostock—aged ten, no family—is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb ... more >

January 28, 2021

REVIEW: Infinite Stakes by John Rhodes

JayneBook Reviews / C ReviewsBattle of Britain / England / Historical / mathematics / pilot / War / Military / World War II2 Comments

September 1940. Adolph Hitler’s Luftwaffe is poised to defeat Britain’s RAF and conquer England, his last remaining enemy. Winston Churchill faces Nazi Germany from the Battle of Britain bunker. Waves of Luftwaffe bombers sweep over England, carrying death and destruction. Only a handful of heavily outnumbered RAF planes rise against ... more >

December 14, 2020

REVIEW: Beowulf by Bryher

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / 1940s / English Historical / Historical / LGBTQA / London / reprint / slice of life / World War II4 Comments

In this reprint of a classic of wartime literature by historical novelist Bryher, life in London during the Blitz is depicted with realism, empathy, and humor Eighty years ago, the city of London became the target of a relentless bombing campaign by Nazi Germany during WWII that has come to ... more >

December 14, 2020

REVIEW: Clara’s Soldier: A Retelling of the Nutcracker by Brittany Fichter

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewschildhood friends / Christmas / Fantasy / Historical / holiday novella / North-Carolina / novella / Post WWII / PTSD / Retelling / War / Military / World War II1 Comments

A bride-to-be without answers. A soldier who never came home. A nutcracker that might hold one last Christmas wish… World War II has been over for three months, but Clara can’t join in the Christmas festivities with her friends and family. The fiance she sent off to Europe three years ... more >

November 10, 2020

REVIEW: The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsbiracial heroine / Code Name Verity / Historical / Jamaica / pilot / POC / racism / Scotland / Traveler / Gypsy / War / Military / World War II / young adult fiction9 Comments

1940. Facing a seemingly endless war, fifteen-year-old Louisa Adair wants to fight back, make a difference, do something-anything to escape the Blitz and the ghosts of her parents, who were killed by enemy action. But when she accepts a position caring for an elderly German woman in the small village ... more >

May 26, 2020

REVIEW: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park by Dermot Turing

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsBiography / data encryption / England / non-fiction / World War II3 Comments

At Bletchley Park, some of Britain’s most talented mathematicians, linguists, and intellectuals were assembled to break Nazi codes. Kept secret for nearly thirty years, we have now come to realise the crucial role that these codebreakers played in the Allied victory in World War II. Written by Dermot Turing – ... more >

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