New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very different novel from Turow's usual ones - a son delving into his father's papers discovers a mystery about the events he was involved in during World War II - including a court martial and imprisonment, as well as the fact that he rescued the woman who became his wife from a concentration camp. Cover praise from Alan Furst. Note on sources. 378 pp. ISBN: 0-374-184216.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one which moves between 1944 and 1953 and told from the shifting perspectives of several of the characters. During the German occupation of Paris, a woman on her way to a concentration camp gives her newborn infant to a stranger, hoping against hope that it will save her sons life. He and his wife manage to escape from france with the baby and bring him up in California as their son - and then 9 years later, the parents Sarah and David find their son. A novel which explores the lengths a parent will go to to ensure their childs survival and asks what would you sacrifice to preserve their well-being? 445 pp. ISBN: 978-1538735183.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to "The Empire of the Sun" - based on Ballard's own experiences as a boy, this follows James from the Japanese prison camps and Shanghai to England after the end of the war. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-374-181101.

New York: Putnam, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 'temporary residence' of the title is the Mt. Hope Assembly Center, a former race track converted during the early days of World War II into a detention center for Japanese-Americans. This is a well-researched and emotionally charged portrait of how the lives of those Japanese-Americans - including a World War I veteran and grandfather, a sculptor and his Jewish wife, already displaced by the Nazis several time, and others. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-399133127.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Identical twins Pearl and Stacha Zamorski become part of Josef Mengele's horrific "Experiments" in Auschwitz and when Pearl disappears, Stacha grieves but is sure she is still alive. After the death camp is liberated by the Soviet Army, she and another young survivor take off through the ruins of Poland in search of Pearl. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. A story of terrible inhumanity, but also of hope and love and survival despite the horror. 344 pp. ISBN: 978-0316308106.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second thriller, set in neutral Portugal in 1940 in the early days of World War II as Germany has overrun France and is preparing to attack England. Jack Teller arrives "on the arm of international screen legend Lili Sterne, to help her search for her childhood friend, Eva Lange. Having escaped Germany, staying one step ahead of the Nazi terror, Eva is believed to be hiding among the thousands of desperate refugees who have descended upon Lisbon. But Jack isn't the first on her trail. Top Hollywood detective Eddie Grimes had been on the case until he turned up dead." 310 pp. ISBN: 978-0061188435.

New York: SOHO Press, (2021). SIGNED first edition - Set in 1946 Los Angeles, this is the second book in a new award-winning series focusing on the struggles of one Japanese American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II. In this, they have been allowed to return home to California from Chicago, but nothing is as they left it. SIGNED on the title page. Includes a list of more reading and resources. 290 pp.

New York: Picador, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - An autobiographical novel illuminating the profound and incomparable bonds forged between prisoners of war, this is based on Tatamkhulu Afrika's own capture in North Africa and his experiences as a prisoner of war during World War II in Italy and Germany. Originally published in the UK in 2002 (just weeks before his death at 82) this is the first appearance of this novel in the US. Publisher's note. vii, 220 pp. ISBN: 978-1250043665.

London: Atlantic Books, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature with its roots in a World War II tragedy. "His recurring protagonist and literary alter-ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase fabled to hold documents revealing the details of his fathers death during WWII: details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel." Translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm. 424 pp. ISBN: 978-0857895455.

New York: The Vanguard Press, (1955) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel - a World War II espionage story - by the author best known for "Bridge on The River Kwai" and "Planet of the Apes"." Originally published in 1950 as "William Conrad" and not published in translation until 1955. Translated by Xan Fielding. 235 pp.

Woodbridge, Connecticut: Ox Bow Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, featuring Kona detective Ben McMillan, who becomes involved in the mysterious death of an elderly Japanese man who had been a spy during World War II - and soon others are murdered and Ben's life is threatened as he uncovers a surprising act of heroism in the days just before Pearl Harbor . 297 pp. ISBN: 0-918024935.

London: Hutchinson, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a World War II thriller set in 1943 Betchley Park - "Tom Jericho, a brilliant British mathematician is working as a member of the team struggling to crack the Nazi Enigma code. Jericho's own struggles include the mysterious disappearance of a former girlfriend, the suspicions of his co-workers within the paranoid high-security project, and the certainty that someone close to him, perhaps the missing girl, is a Nazi spy. The plot is pure fiction but the historical background, Alan Turing's famous wartime computing project that cracked the German U-boat communications code, is real and accurately portrayed." 390 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-091779235.

New York: G. P. PutnamÕs Sons 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the sea, about the rapid fall of Singapore - 'the Gibraltor of the East' - during World War II, by the author who also writes historical naval fiction under the pseudonym of Alexander Kent. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-399-133887.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel based on the little known World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris - where the author herself worked in 2010. A story of "friendship, romance and the power of literature to bring us together." 351 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-1982134198.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2023). First edition - The first book in a new series of historical mysteries, set in London in 1940 during World War II and introducing Evelyne Redfern, "known as 'The Parisian Orphan' as a child, who is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her fathers old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchills cabinet war rooms." 294 pp. Publisher's material laid in.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Ritz Hotel in occupied Paris is rocked by an explosion on 17 January 1943. Millions of francs worth of diamonds destined for the Third Reich are missing. The international safe-cracker Gypsy has surfaced and is about to hold the city and its Occupier to ransom. The unlikely team of Jean-Lous St.-Cyr of the Surete and Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo are joined by Herr Max of the Internationalen Krminalpolizei in this, their ninth investigation." 256 pp. ISBN: 0-094771502.

New York: Putnam (Penguin), (2010). First edition - The author's first novel, set in 1940 as London is enduring the blitz and the US is still on the verge of war. "In the thick of the chaos is a young American radio reporter Frankie Bard. Listening to Frankie are Iris James, a Cape Cod postmistress, and Emma Fitch, a doctor's wife. But one night in London the fates of all three woman entwine when Frankie finds a letter - a letter she vows to deliver." Historical note. 340 pp.

New York: SOHO Press, (2021). First edition - Set in 1944 Chicago, this is the first book in a new series and the winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award at the Edgar Awards. "The story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II." Includes a list of more reading and resources. 305 pp.

New York: SOHO Press, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1944 Chicago, this is the first book in a new series and the winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award at the Edgar Awards. "The story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II." Includes a list of more reading and resources. 305 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-1641292498.

New York: Bantam, (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's 9th mystery, a thriller set during World War II. Taking a break from spying, Maggie is working to defuse bombs in London. Traumatized by her past, she is living dangerously, but when it appears that a serial killer is targeting the conscientious objectors who work alongside her on the bomb squad, she is drawn into the investigation. Sources. 337 pp. ISBN: 978-0399593840.

New York: Macmillan Audio, (2015). Audio Book format of this very highly praised novel of the French Resistance - and especially the role played by women - during World War II. Set of 14 cds with a running time of 17.5 hours.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A major novel, the first in ten years, by Hungary's most distinguished writer -
the "rich, poetic story of a man, a family, and a country. David Kobra's enchanted childhood in a small town in the heart of Central Europe comes to an abrupt end. As the Jews of the town are being put on trains to concentration camps, young Kobra escapes to Budapest. He survives the war years in a protected house, grows up with death and violence, witnesses Soviet liberation, lives under Soviet oppression. David Kobra is a writer; he remembers, and he creates. Sharp images of the past alternate with the confused present." Translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein. 394 pp. ISBN: 0-15130548X.