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