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• A Kill in the Morning by Graeme Shimmin
  ...are amongst the most infamous group that has ever walked the planet. They may have been evil, but there was something pantomime about them that has made ...of making a believable alternative in which Churchill was assassinated in 1942 and his successor sued for peace. Probably the best aspect of the alternat
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• Run Rabbit Run by Barbara Mitchelhill
  |summary=In 1942, there is a war on, Lizzie's dad is a conscientious objector and the family ...e (and therefore required to fight), this means he is breaking the law and may well be treated as a criminal. Dad has decided they are going to move to W
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• The Lavender Keeper by Fiona McIntosh
  Provence 1942: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet joins the Maquis (a rural guerrilla wing of the ...und a couple of comments from fans suggesting that ''The Lavender Keeper'' may not show the author at her best. If this is the case, I shall be lining up
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• Five on a Treasure Island - Famous Five by Enid Blyton
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• A Time to Tell Lies by Alan Kennedy
  ...es the story he began with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy|Lucy]]. In the autumn of 1942, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry are among the men and women picked up ...certainly seems to allow for a continuation, so let's hope that the author may have a series, or at least a sequel, in the works.
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• The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS by Gordon Stevens
  ...u enjoy ''The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS'', you may also enjoy: [[The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45 by Frank McLynn]]<br>
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• Jasmine Nights by Julia Gregson
  ...would be a little more careful about trusting people, especially as it is 1942 and I would have thought certain ways of thinking would be entrenched after ...en you might like to try [[Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman]] or [[The May Queen by Helen Irene Young]].
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• The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
  ...wing us that the seeds of Christine and her lover's passionate frustration may have borne fruit in the rise of Nazism. This novel's setting gives us the b ...wife in 1942. 2008 saw the first publication of this novel in English. It may be that the rather abrupt ending – while still oddly satisfactory – wou
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• Front Lines by Michael Grant
  1942: Hitler is pushing his way ever further, the USA adds its strength to the A ...an incredible read but I was unsure how I felt about the love triangle. It may have been realistic as if any environment is going to create desperate and
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• Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945 by Betty Lussier
  |title=Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945 ''Betty Lussier's Secret War'' as the subtitle has it, may have all the elements of a vivid action-movie but it is told in the most do
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• Calamities and Catastrophes: The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History by Derek Wilson
  The Great Freeze of 1709 came little less than a century later. While it may not loom large in the pantheon of disasters or feature prominently in the s ...count of events surrounding the 900-day siege of Leningrad at its worst in 1942, the result of Hitler's attempt to exterminate communism and Stalin's fight
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• The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry
  |date=May 2009 Anne Berry's impressive debut travels from 1942, when Lin Shui is raped and murdered in the Japanese-occupied colony, to 20
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• The Man Who Killed Hitler by Andre Pronovost
  |date=May 2019 ...st-Hitler problems Germany would have had (and would continue to cause) in 1942. And beyond the assassination he changes little initially with his scenari
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• The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me by Sofka Zinovieff
  ...omosexuality was illegal, the addition of Jennifer Fry to the household in 1942, a pregnant high society girl who became Robert's wife, was really rather a ...be fun reads – crumbling buildings filled with people far madder than one may realize at first glance, living lives that are grand, but often filled with
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• The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr
  ...0s) and within a few pages the action has catapulted back to the summer of 1942 and the heartland location, Nazi Berlin. Gunther wakes from a Luminal-induc ...nther but the episode of the Gestapo farmer gored to death by his own bull may be too self-consciously ingenious.
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• In Glorious Technicolor: A Century of Film and How it has Shaped Us by Francine Stock
  ...u Revoir Les Enfants’, a less feted feature film based on an incident from 1942 when a Catholic boarding school gave shelter to Jewish boys during the war. ...le will always want to get out of the house. The big picture (excuse pun) may be changing, but the medium is far from finished.
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• Under Fishbone Clouds by Sam Meekings
  ...minute. The story takes place across fifty-eight years, the earliest being 1942; the last being 2000. This is a great source of intrigue for the reader, be If you want to read more about China, you may also like [[The Slaughter Pavilion by Catherine Sampson]] and [[Brothers by
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• The Road To War: Duty & Drill, Courage & Capture by Steven Burgauer
  ...s eye for detail takes us through his training in a way that other writers may skip over. ...oast. Eye witness Bill retells the tragic story of Exercise Tiger when in 1942 a training exercise on Slapton Sands, Devon, went terribly wrong causing th
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• Dinner with Churchill: The Prime Minister's Tabletop Diplomacy by Cita Stelzer
  ...ailable for those at the top. On Churchill's visit to Stalin at Moscow in 1942, the menu at their official banquet, at which hors d'oeuvres were followed If you enjoyed this, for another book on the era may we also recommend [[Our Longest Days: A People's History of the Second Worl
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• A Magnificent Disaster: The Failure of the Market Garden, the Arnhem Operation, September 1944 by David Bennett
  |date=May 2011 ...mburg, 1943 by Keith Lowe]] or [[The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45 by Frank McLynn]]
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