What WWII 'Ficition' have you read?

Currently am reading a book called 'The Black Sun' about an ultra secret order of the SS responsible for taking out of Germany all of the loot still in German hands.

What have you read and which is a good one to read? A while back I posted about reading a book about FM Rommel not having been murdered but instead Hitler was successfully assasinated and how things turned around in the war. It was interesting reading. Book was called 'Rommel at the Front'. Can't remember the author's name.

 

Night by Elie Wiesel and The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer D let the madness begin! ).

 

Two excellent works of fiction concerning the war in the air are Len Deighton's 'Bomber' and Derek Robinson's 'Piece Of Cake'....

 

Bomber is incredible, though I found the radio version, broadcast in real time, particularly moving. Oddly enough I read loads of historical fiction but little WW2. I do recommend Catch 22 though, read it in about a week last summer (literally couldn't put it down ad wsa stuck in barracks with nothing to do).

I do enjoy writing fiction though so you never know, one day you might wind up reading something I have written.

 

I've read the 'Honour Bound' triology and it was very good. Worth reading

 

Night, is not fiction.....

 

I thought so too, at first. However, the story (about his father/family) is "slightly variant" from fact. My history 556 (Nazi Germany) professor could explain it better but, I can't remember that long ago. I think all of his books in the trilogy are fiction.

 

And I mustn't forget Evelyn Waugh's incomparable 'Sword Of Honour' trilogy....

 

Oh, and of course Christopher Landon's 'Ice Cold In Alex'......

 

How about Harry Turtledoves books? He has numerous ones dealing with the US Civil War (south wins) and its consequences in WWI and WWII.

I've read his WWII books: Days of Infamy and End of the Beginning
Also, Ruled Britannica, follows Shakespeare and his quest to write a play to cause a revolt, 10 years after the Spanish Armada conquered England.

 

There are a lot. HMS Ulysses was really good (Alistair MacLean) as was the Guns of Navaronne. I also have been reading Ken Follets thrillers, Jackdaws, Hornet Flight, the Key to Rebecca, and Eye of the Needle. I just finished Run Silent, Run Deep, by Edward Beach and found it much, much better than the movie.

 

I have the 'civil war' books but havent started reading.

Ruled Britannia was pretty interesting i must say.

The Infamy series was very plausible. You see the invasion of Hawaii through the eyes of several people, so you see what it was like for various people: a surf bum, a japanese soldier, a japanese officer, a japanese family (father = pro japan, sons = pro america), american officer, american officers divorced wife...think thats it.

 

If you like alternative histories, there's one called The Foresight War

 

"Piece of Cake" was also made into a miniseries in 1988 and subsequently shown on PBS; it is available on DVD. The air combat scenes are really good. Robinson also wrote "A Good CLean Fight" about North Africa. Several of the Hornet Squadron members are in the 2nd book.

 

I too have read many of Griffin's books. They do get a bit predictable and he likes to reuse paragraphs from one book to another. That said, the Men at War series (OSS) is quite good and nicely blends actual events and real people with his dozen or so continuing characters.

 

I've read everything written by Jack Higgins. Great books, IMO.