Second World War fiction

Eternal

Eternal

Lisa Scottoline

What war destroys, only love can heal.

Unfolding over decades, Eternal is a tale of loyalty and loss, family and food, love and war – all set in one of the world’s most beautiful cities at its darkest moment.

Sergeant Salinger

Sergeant Salinger

Jerome Charyn

Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, Sergeant Salinger is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind The Catcher in the Rye, a novel that has marked generations….

Cesare

Cesare

Jerome Charyn

On a windy night in 1937, a seventeen-year-old German naval sub-cadet is wandering along the seawall when he stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none other than spymaster Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr, German military intelligence. Canaris adopts the young man and dubs him ‘Cesare’…

The Ashes of Berlin

The Ashes of Berlin

Luke McCallin

World War II is over, and former German intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt has returned to Berlin. He’s about to find that the bloodshed has not ended – and that for some, death is better than defeat. A year after Germany’s defeat, Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin’s civilian police force. The city is divided among…

Hunting the Hangman

Hunting the Hangman

Howard Linskey

Based on true events, this gripping historical thriller is the culmination of Howard Linskey’s fifteen-year fascination with the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Holocaust. With a plot that echoes The Day of the Jackal and The Eagle Has Landed, Hunting the Hangman is…