Books set in war zones
There’s many books set in war zones and detailing heroic stories of the men and women who fight and/or keep the home fires burning. This weekend as we remember those who fought for our freedom, choose a book that pays homage to their courage and tells the stories behind them.
There’s stories of battlefield bravery, soldiers suffering with PTSD and trying hard to return to normal life. Novels which value the courage of these men and women who sacrificed so much including, for many, their lives.
These books reveal a hidden side of war – the stories of hope and despair, a small English village, a unknown Paris bookshop and a man discovering his past…
The secrets hidden by generations…
This is quite a novel. A journey in every sense – setting, locations and its emotional heart. An epic and heartbreaking read. A young man’s desperate quest to unlock his family’s tragic secrets takes him on a long journey.
He travels from Norway to the Shetlands, and to the battlefields of France and eventually to the discovery of a very unusual inheritance.
Sixteen Trees of the Somme
Occupied Paris
Everything changes when the Germans invade Paris and take over control of the city. Even for a family working in a bookshop, there is little safety…but sometimes in war, things are never as they seem..
The Paris Secret (c) Lily Graham
Life in a Displaced Persons Camp
This is a completely unique look at war because we don’t get to hear about this side of things.
Essentialy, a DPC was a camp where people from all sides of war were brought together. People with no where else to go. Germans and Jews, women who had lost their husbands, men who had lost everything. It’s a terrible place and the stories we learn of here are heartbreaking yet insightful and emotional.
The role of women
This book, in particular, looks at the role of women after the war and the fight for the vote. Lissa Evans has really achieved something special with this book. It’s packed full of information woven into a charming tale so you never feel you’re ‘learning’ . However, you do feel so much wiser and enlighted by the end.
When a small English village stood up to Hitler
A very personal account as the author writes from the heart. He tells of the time when as a young boy, he and his family were in Wales in a small cottage beside the sea. The time when they heard the news that war had been declared. His father had been one of the first 80, 000 professional soldiers who’d gone to France with the British Expeditionary Force at the beginning of the First World War..
