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Historical Fiction - World War II Genre
Books in the Historical Fiction - World War II genre:
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
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)
A collection of eight short stories of men at war in World War II.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant
The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969)
A collection of eight short stories of men at war in World War II.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Gold From Crete (1970)
A collection of ten short stories set during World War II.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant
Gold from Crete (1971)
A collection of ten short stories set during World War II.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Graham Humphreys
The Borrowed House (1975)
A story about a young German girl in Holland during the occupation in World War II.
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)
Adapted from the Broadway musical, this book tells the story of Nellie and Emile, Joe and Liat.
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)
Barney Cannon stumbles on a German spy and discovers a hidden U-boat base in the Bahamas.
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