A War is not one story, but many.
Here is the second of three lists of fiction that views the war through many eyes, reflecting the diverse experiences of civilians and soldiers around the world whose lives were drawn into the Second World War.
- A Place on Earth, by Wendell Berry.
As the war draws to its close, the lives of men and women in a rural Kentucky town are indelibly changed whether they are returning from the front lines or waiting back at home.
- Red Sky at Morning, by Richard Bradford
Humor and pathos punctuate this coming-of-age novel in which Josh, a witty 17-year-old, navigates his New Mexico town and tends to his ditzy, alcoholic mother while his father is off serving in the Navy.
- Love and War in California, by Oakley Hall
Young, idealistic Payton Daltry is just finding his place in the world when the invasion of Pearl Harbor challenges his beliefs, alters his visions of the future, and sends his life in unexpected directions.
- The Keeper’s Son, by Homer Hickam
German U-boats maraud the waters off North Carolina, and it falls to Coast Guard Lt. Josh Thurlow and his motley crew to protect defenseless ships against the roving wolves of the deep. First in a series.
- No-No Boy, by John Okada
Ichiro goes to prison for refusing to fight for a nation that has interned his family behind barbed wire, only to find himself shunned for his lack of loyalty by the Japanese-American community after the war.
- Prisoners of War, by Steve Yarbrough
Dan Timms longs to go and fight half a world away from Loring, Mississippi, but questions of patriotism and racism will ignite a battle on the homefront as a group of German POWs are set to work in the fields
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