This book captures a slice of history that embodies the evolution of America from a simple life with stay-at-home women to a technology-driven society with strong females.
Category: WWII
Unbroken | WWII
Books such as this one illuminates what I already know: the human will can do anything; love can heal all.
Flags of Our Fathers | WWII
Heroism is dying for someone when necessary; it’s living when life is hard.
Ghost Soldiers | WWII
Before we had books and movies about Rangers and SEALs and Green Berets, a group of brave men snuck far behind enemy lines to save the survivors of the Bataan Death March.
Finding Zasha | WWII
This book felt too rushed and too contrived; the personalities of the puppies were the best part about it.
Between Shades of Gray | WWII
Good thriving in such a hostile environment is a powerful beacon of hope for us, both for the past and the future. This book whispers of that hope.
Leningrad | WWII
During the three-year siege, about 800,000 people died. That’s nearly the entire population of the Salt Lake Valley or San Francisco.
The Zookeeper’s Wife | WWII
Human compassion and love overcomes the worst sort of circumstances, bridging the divide of religion, race, and country.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | WWII
This book was horrifying in some ways and beautiful in others. In the end, it described war as something that engulfs all, not just adults, not just Jews, not just Nazis. It destroys everything.
Auschwitz | WWII
Every person should read this book because darkness needs to have a light shined on it; it should be acknowledged and discussed and known.
Escape from Warsaw | WWII
This book was about what love and forgiveness can accomplish, about how it can rebuild. There’s good out there even within the depths of evil.
Natural Born Heroes | WWII
This book isn’t really about World War II or Greeks or fitness or even heroism. It’s about compassion, about love.
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