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When you like thrillers set at sea during World War II: The hunt for the Peggy C.

Review of The Defeated on Netflix

Review of "The drowned village" - how a village in Wales disappeared under water when a reservoir was created and in this novel as a backdrop of a love story

Yorkshire and Italy as a backdrop for a great detective novel linking WW2 and the present day

"Rubies from Burma" - a coming of age story set in the 1940ties and 1950ties in South Georgia

"The Sapphire Child " - pre World War two Northern India (now Pakistan)

Nice read situated in Malay pre, during and post WW2: The Planter's Wife by Ann Bennett

Review: The tea planter's club - the horror of an evacuation from Birma through the jungle towards India

Review of "A Single Swallow" by Zhang Ling - Three men and a Chinese girl bond during WW2 in China

WW2 Norway seen from a child's point of view: review of the novel "Occupied" by Kurt-Blorstad

A Christmas Tale - Review of "What child is this" by Rhys Bowen

Review of "The Book Ghost" by Lorna Gray - Britain just after WW2. A young widow has to find roots again

Review of "House on endless waters" by Emona Elon - Amsterdam Jews during the war

Review of "Tears of the Dragon" by Jean Moran - Hongkong WW2 - Japanese internment

Our selection of free novels and textbooks of today ( 15th of August, Part 2)

Abelard and Héloïse? Was he not that guy who got castrated?

Novel "The Lushai girl" - How a simple convent girl survives a famous WW2 battle and becomes a businesstycoon

One day in 1941 seen by many different eyes around the world. Review of "Pearl Harbor and More: Stories of WWII"