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WORLD WAR II IN FACT AND FICTION Minnesota Library Association Conference October 5, 2012 Linda’s Picks Sharenow, Robert. THE BERLIN BOXING CLUB (2011) (YA title) Wurtele, Margaret. THE GOLDEN HOUR (2012) Benn, James. MORTAL TERROR, A BILLY BOYLE WORLD WAR II MYSTERY (2011) MacNeal, Susan Elia. MR. CHURCHILL’S SECRETARY (2012) Yallop, Jacqueline. OBEDIENCE (2011) Furnival, Kate. THE WHITE PEARL (2012) McConnon, Aili. ROAD TO VALOR: A TRUE STORY OF WWII ITALY, THE NAZIS, AND THE CYCLIST WHO INSPIRED A NATION (2012) Zuckoff, Mitchell. LOST IN SHANGRI-LA: A TRUE STORY OF SURVIVAL, ADVENTURE, AND THE MOST INCREDIBLE RESCUE MISSION OF WORLD WAR II (2011) Joan’s Choices Duenas, Maria. THE TIME IN BETWEEN (2011) Dunmore, Helen THE BETRAYAL (2010) Gregson, Julia. JASMINE NIGHTS (2012) Leroy, Margaret. THE SOLDIER’S WIFE (2011) McMorris, Margaret. BRIDGE OF SCARLET LEAVES (2012) Richman, Alyson. THE LOST WIFE (2012) Schrobsdorff, Angelika. YOU ARE NOT LIKE OTHER MOTHERS (2012) Schiffer, Vivienne. CAMP NINE (2011) Sarah’s Raves & Faves Nagorski, Andrew. HITLERLAND: AMERICAN EYEWITNESSES TO THE NAZI RISE TO POWER (2012) John, David. FLIGHT FROM BERLIN (2012) Albright, Madeleine. PRAGUE WINTER: A PERSONAL STORY OF REMEMBRANCE AND WAR, 1937-1948 (2012) Gillham, David. CITY OF WOMEN (2012) Kerr, Philip. PRAGUE FATALE (2012) Edugyan, Esi. HALF-BLOOD BLUES (2012) Dobbs, Michael. SIX MONTHS IN 1945: STALIN, CHURCHILL, AND TRUMAN – FROM WORLD WAR TO COLD WAR (2012) Kanon, Joseph. ISTANBUL PASSAGE (2012)

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TITLES YOU WILL WANT TO KNOW, READ, AND SUGGEST! Fiction - Intrepid Females and Others Cantrell, Rebecca. A TRACE OF SMOKE (2009) Duenas, Maria. THE TIME IN BETWEEN (2011) Gregson, Julia. JASMINE NIGHTS (2012) John, David. FLIGHT FROM BERLIN (2012) MacNeal, Susan Elia. MR. CHURCHILL’S SECRETARY (2012) Mawer, Simon. TRAPEZE (2012) Niven, Jennifer. BECOMING CLEMENTINE (2011) Wein, Elizabeth. CODE NAME VERITY (2012) (YA title) Fiction - Parallel Narratives and Flashbacks Edugyan, Esi. HALF-BLOOD BLUES (2012) Fesperman, Dan. THE ARMS MAKER OF BERLIN (2009) Gremillon, Helene. THE CONFIDENT (2012) Hodgkinson, Amanda. 22 BRITANNIA ROAD (2011) Horlock, Mary. THE BOOK OF LIES (2011) Mason, Bobbie Ann. THE GIRL IN THE BLUE BERET (2011) Morton, Kate. THE DISTANT HOURS (2010) Oksanen, Sofi. PURGE (2010) Richman, Alyson. THE LOST WIFE (2012) Riley, Lucinda. THE ORCHID HOUSE (2011) Rosnay, Tatiana de. SARAH’S KEY (2007) Shea, Christina. SMUGGLED (2011) Steiner, Peter. THE RESISTANCE, A THRILLER (2012) Fesperman, Dan. THE ARMS MAKER OF BERLIN (2009) Fiction - Series Characters (first title in series given) Benn, James. Billy Boyle (BILLY BOYLE, 2006) Cantrell, Rebecca. Hannah Vogel (A TRACE OF SMOKE, 2009) Downing, David. John Russell (ZOO STATION, 2007) Grossman, Paul. Willi Kraus (THE SLEEPWALKERS, 2011) Kerr , Philip. Bernie Gunther (BERLIN NOIR trilogy) Lawton, John. Det. Inspector Troy (BLACK OUT, 2002) MacNeal Susan Elia. Maggie Hope (MR. CHURCHILL’S SECRETARY, 2012) Miller, Kathryn Haines – Rosie Winter (THE WAR AGAINST MISS WINTER, 2007) Rabb, Jonathan. Nikolai Hoffner (ROSA, 2005) Shaber, Sarah. Louise Pearle (LOUISE’S WAR, 2011) Wilson, Laura. Det. Ted Stratton (THE INNOCENT SPY, 2009)

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Fiction – Great Britain and France Gremillon, Helene. THE CONFIDENT (2012) Horlock, Mary. THE BOOK OF LIES (2011) Houghteling, Sara. PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (2009) Leroy, Margaret. THE SOLDIER’S WIFE (2011) Mason, Bobbie Ann, THE GIRL IN THE BLUE BERET (2011) Mawer, Simon. TRAPEZE (2012) Niven, Jennifer. BECOMING CLEMENTINE (2011) Schaffer, Mary Ann. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY & POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY (2008) Steiner, Peter. THE RESISTANCE, A THRILLER (2012) Yallop, Jacqueline. OBEDIENCE (2011) Fiction – Germany Bohjalian, Chris. SKELETONS AT THE FEAST (2008) Kerr, Philip. PRAGUE FATALE (2012) Edugyan, Esi. HALF-BLOOD BLUES (2012) Fesperman, Dan. THE ARMS MAKER OF BERLIN (2009) Follett, Ken. WINTER OF THE WORLD (2012) Frost, Mark. THE SECOND OBJECTIVE (2007) Funder, Anna. ALL THAT I AM (2011) Gillham, David. CITY OF WOMEN (2012) John, David. FLIGHT FROM BERLIN (2012) Kerr, Philip. PRAGUE FATALE (2012) Sharenow, Robert. THE BERLIN BOXING CLUB, 2011 (YA title) Schrobsdorff, Angelika. YOU ARE NOT LIKE OTHER MOTHERS (2012) Vyleta, Dan. PAVEL AND I (2008) Young, Sara. MY ENEMY’S CRADLE (2008) Fiction – Italy and the Mediterranean Capella, Anthony. THE WEDDING OFFICER (2007) Diamant, Anita. DAY AFTER NIGHT (2009) Duenas, Maria. THE TIME IN BETWEEN (2011) Gregson, Julia. JASMINE NIGHTS (2012) Hickey, Christine Dwyer. LAST TRAIN FROM LIGURIA (2010) Hislop, Victoria. THE THREAD (2011) Kanon, Joseph. ISTANBUL PASSAGE (2012) Marani, Diego. NEW FINNISH GRAMMAR (2011) Mills, Mark. THE INFORMATION OFFICER (2009) Olafsson, Olaf. RESTORATION (2012) Wurtele, Margaret. THE GOLDEN HOUR (2012)

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Fiction – Russia and Eastern Europe Ausubel, Ramona. NO ONE IS HERE EXCEPT ALL OF US (2012) Benioff, David. CITY OF THIEVES (2008) Binet, Laurent. HHHH (2012) Dean, Debra. THE MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD (2006) Dunmore, Helen THE BETRAYAL (2010) Hodgkinson, Amanda. 22 BRITANNIA ROAD (2011) Orringer, Julie. THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE (2010) Richman, Alyson. THE LOST WIFE (2012) Sem-Sandberg, Steve. THE EMPEROR OF LIES (2011) Shea, Christina. SMUGGLED (2011) Vyleta, Dan. THE QUIET TWIN (2012) Fiction – Far East and Pacific Edlin, Nicholas. THE WIDOW’S DAUGHTER (2012) Furnival, Kate. THE WHITE PEARL (2012) Jin, Ha. NANJING REQUIEM (2011) Jio, Sarah. THE BUNGALOW (2012) Kalla, Daniel. THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY (2012) Lee, Janice Y.K. THE PIANO TEACHER (2009) Riley, Lucinda. THE ORCHID HOUSE (2011) Wagenstein, Angel. FAREWELL SHANGHAI (2007) Yan, Geling. THE FLOWERS OF WAR (2012) Fiction – North America Blake, Sarah. THE POSTMISTRESS (2010) Dunning, John. TWO O’CLOCK, EASTERN WARTIME (2001) Ford, Jamie. HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET (2009) Itani, Frances. REQUIEM (2011) Mathews, Francine. JACK 1939 (2012) McMorris, Margaret. BRIDGE OF SCARLET LEAVES (2012) Miller, Kathryn Haines. THE WAR AGAINST MISS WINTER (2007) Rosenheim, Andrew. FEAR ITSELF (2012) Saber, Sarah. LOUISE’S WAR (2011) Schiffer, Vivienne. CAMP NINE (2011)

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Fiction – Before the War Cantrell, Rebecca. Hannah Vogel series, starting with A TRACE OF SMOKE (2009) Downing, David. ZOO STATION (2007) and SILESIAN STATION (2009) Funder, Anna. ALL THAT I AM (2011) Furst, Alan. MISSION TO PARIS (2012) Hickey, Christine Dwyer. LAST TRAIN FROM LIGURIA (2010) John, David. FLIGHT FROM BERLIN (2012) Mathews, Francine. JACK 1939 (2012) Rosenheim, Andrew. FEAR ITSELF (2012) Vyleta, Dan. THE QUIET TWIN (2012) Fiction – After the War Downing, David. LEHRTER STATION (2012) Hodgkinson, Amanda. 22 BRITANNIA ROAD (2011) Kanon, Joseph. ISTANBUL PASSAGE (2012) Steinhauer, Olen. THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS (2004) Vyleta, Dan. PAVEL AND I (2008) Fiction - Mysteries and Thrillers Duenas, Maria. THE TIME IN BETWEEN (2011) Fesperman, Dan. THE ARMS MAKER OF BERLIN (2009) Frost, Mark. THE SECOND OBJECTIVE (2007) Gregson, Julia. JASMINE NIGHTS (2012) John, David. FLIGHT FROM BERLIN (2012) MacNeal, Susan Elia. MR. CHURCHILL’S SECRETARY (2012) Mathews, Francine. JACK 1939 (2012) Mawer, Simon. TRAPEZE (2012) Niven, Jennifer. BECOMING CLEMENTINE (2011) Rosenheim, Andrew. FEAR ITSELF (2012) Steiner, Peter. THE RESISTANCE, A THRILLER (2012) Wein, Elizabeth. CODE NAME VERITY, 2012 (YA title) Military Fiction Deutermann, P.T. PACIFIC GLORY (2011) Griffith, W.E.B. – too many titles to count . . . Hickham, Homer. THE FAR REACHES (2007) Shaara, Jeff. THE FINAL STORM, A NOVEL OF THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC (2011) Shaara, Jeff. THE RISING TIDE (2006), THE STEEL WAVE (2008), and NO LESS THAN VICTORY (2009)

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Literature in Translation Binet, Laurent. HHHH (2012) Gremillon, Helene. THE CONFIDENT (2012) Marani, Diego. NEW FINNISH GRAMMAR (2011) Schrobsdorff, Angelika. YOU ARE NOT LIKE OTHER MOTHERS (2012) Wiazemsky, Anne. MY BERLIN CHILD (2010) Fiction - Fantasy, Time Travel and Alternate History Ausubel, Ramona. NO ONE IS HERE EXCEPT ALL OF US (2012) Chabon. Michael. THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION (2007) Roth, Philip. THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA (2004) Sheers, Owen. RESISTANCE (2007) Turtledove, Harry. THE WAR THAT CAME EARLY series (WEST AND EAST, 2010) Walton, Jo. FARTHING (2006), HA’PENNY (2007), and HALF A CROWN (2008) Willis, Connie. BLACKOUT (2010) and ALL CLEAR (2010)

Nonfiction – The War in One Volume Evans, Richard. THE THIRD REICH AT WAR (2009) Hastings, MAX. INFERNO, THE WORLD AT WAR, 1939-1945 (2011) Beevor, Anthony. THE SECOND WORLD WAR (2012) Roberts, Andrew. THE STORM OF WAR, A NEW HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (2011) Nonfiction – Before the War Evans, Richard J. THE COMING OF THE THIRD REICH (2005) and THE THIRD REICH IN POWER (2006) Larson, Erik. IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS: LOVE, TERROR, AND AN AMERICAN FAMILY IN HITLER’S BERLIN (2011) MacDonogh, Giles. 1938: HITLER’S GAMBLE (2009) Nagorski, Andrew. HITLERLAND, AMERICAN EYEWITNESSES TO THE NAZI RISE TO POWER (2012) Nonfiction - Military History Ambrose, Hugh. THE PACIFIC (2010) Atkinson, Rick. AN ARMY AT DAWN: THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA, 1942-1943 (2003) and THE DAY OF BATTLE, THE WAR IN ITALY AND SICILY, 194-1944 (2007); third volume of trilogy to be published in May 2013 Clark, Lloyd. THE BATTLE OF THE TANKS, KURSK, 1943 (2011)

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Gillon, Steven M. PEARL HARBOR: FDR LEADS THE NATION INTO WAR (2011) Hastings, Max. ARMAGEDDON: THE BATTLE FOR GERMANY, 1944-1945 (2005) and RETRIBUTION: THE BATTLE FOR JAPAN, 1944-1945 (2008) Merridale, Catherine. IVAN’S WAR: LIFE AND DEATH IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY, 19391945 (2006) Neitzel, Soenke. SOLDATEN: ON FIGHTING, KILLING, AND DYING (2012) Reid, Anna. LENINGRAD, THE EPIC SIEGE OF WORLD WAR II, 1941-1944 (2011) Toll, Ian W. PACIFIC CRUCIBLE: WAR AT SEA IN THE PACIFIC, 1941-1942 (2012) Weintraub, Stanley. PEARL HARBOR CHRISTMAS: A WORLD AT WAR, DECEMBER 1941 (2011) Nonfiction - True Crime in Wartime French, Paul. MIDNIGHT IN PEKING: HOW THE MURDER OF A YOUNG ENGLISHWOMAN HAUNTED THE LAST DAYS OF OLD CHINA (2012) King, David. DEATH IN THE CITY OF LIGHT: THE SERIAL KILER OF NAZIOCCUPIED PARIS (2011) Nonfiction - Spies and Lies MacIntyre, Ben. DOUBLE CROSS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE D-DAY SPIES (2012) MacIntyre, Ben. OPERATION MINCEMEAT: HOW A DEAD MAN AND A BIZARRE PLAN FOOLED THE NAZIS AND ASSURED AN ALLIED VICTORY (2010) MacIntyre, Ben. AGENT ZIGZAG: A TRUE STORY OF NAZI ESPIONAGE, LOVE, AND BETRAYAL (2007) Booth, Nicholas. ZIGZAG: THE INCREDIBLE WARTIME EXPLOITS OF DOUBLE AGENT EDDIE CHAPMAN (2007) Helm, Sarah. A LIFE IN SECRETS: VERA ATKINS AND THE MISSING AGENTS OF WWII (2005) Stevenson, William. SPYMISTRESS: THE LIFE OF VERA ATKINS, THE GREATEST FEMALE SECRET AGENT OF WORLD WAR II (2007) Nelson, Anne. RED ORCHESTRA: THE STORY OF THE BERLIN UNDERGROUND AND THE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS WHO RESISTED HITLER (2009) Brysac, Shareen Blair. RESISTING HITLER: MILDRED HARNACK AND THE RED ORCHESTRA (2000) Nonfiction - More Personal Battles Albright, Madeleine. PRAGUE WINTER: A PERSONAL STORY OF REMEMBRANCE AND WAR, 1937-1948 (2012) Avey, Denis. THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ: A TRUE STORY OF WORLD WAR II (2011)

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Crouch, Gregory. CHINA’S WINGS: WAR, INTRIGUE, ROMANCE, AND ADVENTURE IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF FLIGHT (2012) Davidson, Martin. THE PERFECT NAZI: UNCOVERING MY GRANDFATHER’S SECRET PAST (2010) Edsel, Robert M. THE MONUMENTS MEN: ALLIED HEROES, NAZI THIEVES, AND THE GREATEST TREASURE HUNT IN HISTORY (2009) Finell, Karen. GOOD-BYE TO THE MERMAIDS: A CHILDHOOD LOST IN HITLER’S BERLIN (2006) Frater, Stephen. HELL ABOVE EARTH: THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF AN AMERICAN WWII BOMBER COMMANDER AND THE COPILOT ORDERED TO KILL HIM (201) Glass, Charles. AMERICANS IN PARIS: LIFE AND DEATH UNDER NAZI OCCUPATION (2009) Grant, Kimi Cunningham. SILVER LIKE DUST: ONE FAMILY’S STORY OF AMERICA’S JAPANESE INTERNMENT (2012) Hillenbrand, Laura. UNBROKEN: A WORLD WAR II STORY OF SURVIVAL, RESILIENCE, AND REDEMPTION (2010) Kershaw, Alex. THE ENVOY: THE EPIC RESCUE OF THE LAST JEWS OF EUROPE IN THE CLOSING MONTHS OF WORLD WAR II (2010) and THE LIBERATOR: ONE WORLD WAR II SOLDIER’S 500-DAY ODYSSEY FROM THE BEACHES OF SICILY TO THE GATES OF DACHAU (2012) Lochery, Neill. LISBON: WAR IN THE SHADOWS OF THE CITY OF LIGHT, 1939-1945 (2011) Maitland, Leslie. CROSSING THE BORDERS OF TIME: A TRUE STORY OF WAR, EXILE, AND LOVE RECLAIMED (2012) McConnon, Aili. ROAD TO VALOR: A TRUE STORY OF WWII ITALY, THE NAZIS, AND THE CYCLIST WHO INSPIRED A NATION (2012) Moorehead, Caroline. A TRAIN IN WINTER: AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF WOMEN, FRIENDSHIP, AND RESISTANCE IN OCCUPIED FRANCE (2011) Olson, Lynne. CITIZENS OF LONDON: THE AMERICANS WHO STOOD WITH BRITAIN IN ITS DARKEST, FINEST HOUR (2010) Reichart, Jasia. 15 JOURNEYS: WARSAW TO LONDON (2012) Zimering, Sabina S. HIDING IN THE OPEN: A HOLOCAUST MEMOIR (2006) Zuckoff, Mitchell. LOST IN SHANGRI-LA: A TRUE STORY OF SURVIVAL, ADVENTURE, AND THE MOST INCREDIBLE RESCUE MISSION OF WORLD WAR II (2011) Nonfiction – The End and Beyond Best, Nicholas. FIVE DAYS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD; EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS FROM EUROPE AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II (2011)

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Cherny, Andrei. THE CANDY BOMBERS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERLIN AIRLIFT AND AMERICA’S FINEST HOUR (2008) Dobbs, Michael. SIX MONTHS IN 1945: STALIN, CHURCHILL, AND TRUMAN – FROM WORLD WAR TO COLD WAR (2012) Kershaw, Ian. THE END; THE DEFIANCE AND DESTRUCTION OF HITLER’S GERMANY, 1944-1945 (2011) Kohl, Christiane. THE WITNESS HOUSE: NAZIS AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS SHARING A VILLA DURING THE NUREMBERG TRIALS (2010) Lowe, Keith. SAVAGE CONTINENT: EUROPE IN THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II (2012) MacDonogh, Giles. AFTER THE REICH: THE BRUTAL HISTORY OF THE ALLIED OCCUPATION (2009) Shephard, Ben. THE LONG ROAD HOME: THE AFTERMATH OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (2011) Forthcoming Nonfiction Budiansky, Stephen. BLACKETT’S WAR: THE MEN WHO DEFEATED NAZI U-BOATS AND BROUGHT SCIENCE TO THE ART OF WARFARE (February 2013) Geoghagen, John. OPERATION STORM: JAPAN’S TOP SECRET SUBMARINES AND THEIR PLAN TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF WORLD WAR II (May 2013) Kennedy, Paul. ENGINEERS OF VICTORY: THE PROBLEM SOLVERS WHO TURNED THE TIDE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR (January 2013) Movies MAX MANUS. Norway, 2008 BLACK BOOK. Netherlands, 2006 A WOMAN IN BERLIN. Germany, 2008 PROTEKTOR. Czech Republic, 2009 JOHN RABE. Germany, 2009 IN DARKNESS. Poland, 2011 WINTER IN WARTIME. Netherlands, 2008 THE FLOWERS OF WAR – China, 2011 FLAME AND CITRON – Denmark, 2008 Linda Dallavalle, Dakota County Library [email protected] Joan Ennis, Northfield Public Library [email protected] Sarah Nagle, Carver County Library [email protected]