Historical Fiction - World War II Genre
Books in the Historical Fiction - World War II genre:
Pierre Keeps Watch (1944)
Author(s):
Maria Gleit
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Watch Me, Said the Jeep (1944)
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
Let Our People Live (1945)
A pamphlet addressing the working conditions of the poor post-WWII, the cost of living and underpaid workers. Includes illustrations depicting impoverished families and children.
Author(s):
Joseph Gaer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
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)
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)
Author(s):
Noel Langley
Hazel Pynegar
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Legacy (1950)
Author(s):
Neville Shute
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
There’s No Escape (1950)
Author(s):
Ian Serraillier
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
A Town Like Alice (1950)
Author(s):
Neville Shute
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Bulldozer (1951)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edwin Schmidt
The Waiters (1953)
The story of a waiter who struggles to overcome the barriers of race after World War II.
Read online at archive.org
Author(s):
William Fisher
Illustrator(s):
Joe Krush
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)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Peter Rudland
Project Boy (1954)
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
Sabre Pilot (1956)
Kirk Owen signs up for the Air Force and is assigned to mechanic’s school where he trains on the F-86 jet fighter. When he gets a chance to attend pilot’s training he jumps at it and winds up fighting in the skies over North Korea.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
John Polgreen
The Silver Sword (1956)
The story of three Polish children and their experience in Europe during World War II.
Read online at archive.org
Author(s):
Ian Serraillier
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Bull and Brass (1958)
Dust jacket by Ardizzone. A tale of five years at the War Office - after the war.
Author(s):
John Foley
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Rib of the Green Umbrella (1960)
It’s 1944 and in a small town in Italy the children are aiding the partisans battle the occupying Germans.
Author(s):
Naomi Mitchison
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Winged Watchman (1962)
The story of a Dutch family during the German occupation in World War II.
Read online at archivie.org.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Little Riders (1963)
Author(s):
Margaretha Shemin
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Children Who Stayed Behind (1964)
Author(s):
Bruce Carter
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Long Trains Roll (1965)
Randy MacDougal stumbles on evidence of a sabotage ring aimed at the trains passing through Calico Gap and contacts the FBI.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
A Dinner of Herbs (1966)
Twenty years after the war, Verney revisited the scenes of his imprisonment and escape, and the result is an exhilarating story of wartime daring.
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
In Spite of All Terror (1968)
Liz Hawtin, orphaned at twelve, is evacuated to the country during the London Blitz and participates in the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk.
Author(s):
Hester Burton
Illustrator(s):
Victor Ambrus
The Empty Moat (1969)
Author(s):
Margaretha Shemin
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant
The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Gold From Crete (1970)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant
Gold from Crete (1971)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Graham Humphreys
The Borrowed House (1975)
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Song of the Trees (1975)
Cassie Logan does not want her mother to sell their timber while her father is away working on the railroad during the Great Depression.
Author(s):
Mildred D. Taylor
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
The Battle Lost and Won (1978)
A novel set in Egypt at the time of the Battle of El Alamein sports a dust jacket by Ardizzone. This is volume two of The Levant Trilogy.
Author(s):
Olivia Manning
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Fragile Flag (1984)
Author(s):
Jane Langton
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
South Pacific (1992)
Author(s):
James A. Michener
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
God Bless the Child (2003)
To the sounds of the swing spiritual sung by Billy Holiday, a southern African American family moves north to Chicago.
Author(s):
Arthur Herzog, Jr.
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Bulldozer (2004)
Bill Crane has just graduated from high school when he and his friend Ducky Davis discover a Caterpillar D2 in a Maine Pond. Soon Bill has salvaged the machine and started a career as a contractor.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edwin Schmidt
Sabre Pilot (2004)
Kirk Owen signs up for the Air Force and is assigned to mechanic’s school where he trains on the F-86 jet fighter. When he gets a chance to attend pilot’s training he jumps at it and winds up fighting in the skies over North Korea.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
John Polgreen
The Sea Snake (2005)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Mystery at Witchend (2008)
The first adventure of the Lone Pine Club, a British war time mystery with spies and sabateurs, adapted for radio from the novel by Malcolm Saville.
Author(s):
Malcolm Saville
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Val Biro
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