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Historical Fiction - World War II Genre
Books in the Historical Fiction - World War II genre:
Watch Me, Said the Jeep (1944)
The Jeep shows the brass what it can do.
Author(s):
Helen Josephine Ferris
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Young Man of the House (1944)
Nine year old Eben becomes the man of the house when his father is called up to fight in World War II.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Hunt
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Censored the Goat (1945)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Mitchells (1945)
The five Mitchell children and their mother stay behind in Washington D.C. as father goes off to war.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Brave Bantam (1946)
A hen goes all out for the War Production Board in World War II.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louise H. Seaman
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
No Ponies (1946)
Jane, Andy and Colin arrive on the Riviera, faced with the dread prospect of ponies only to find the ponies have vanished.
Author(s):
Mary Treadgold
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Gervis
The Red Danube (1947)
Dust jacket by Ardizzone for this novel of the British Military Government in Vienna shortly after World War II.
Author(s):
Bruce Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Toller Reports (1947)
A collection of sketches from Punch about an inefficient subaltern in WWII, illustrated by various official war artists.
Author(s):
Jeremy Taylor
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
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The Chestry Oak (1948)
A young Hungarian orphan comes to America. This is also the story of a boy and his horse.
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Niche Over the Door: A Story for Children (1948)
Lucie is a war orphan in France who lives with her distantly-related aunt while waiting for her uncle Jules to return. In her loneliness, she is visited by a little girl from long ago who helps her find the hidden statue in the attic.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Somebody’s Rocking My Dreamboat (1949)
A group of women flee England on a tramp steamer during WWII.
Author(s):
Noel Langley
Hazel Pynegar
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Legacy (1950)
Author(s):
Neville Shute
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
A Town Like Alice (1950)
Author(s):
Neville Shute
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Bulldozer (1951)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edwin Schmidt
The Nightmare (1954)
Ten stories based on Nazi atrocities, as documented at the Nuremberg trials.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
David Soshensky
The Nightmare (1954)
Ten fictionalized stories of Nazi atrocities.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Peter Rudland
Project Boy (1954)
Young families live in former army barracks after World War II.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Going to the Wars (1955)
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
The Good Shepherd (1955)
Commander George Krause is the shepherd who brings a convoy home across the Atlantic in the face of the German wolfpack.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
David Cobb
The Good Shepherd (1955)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
R. A. Genders