The story jumps forward from 1940 to 1947, when the trio rejoin to contend with the past. Three young female code breakers at the famed Bletchley Park, each very different, are torn apart by a treacherous secret. Set in Rome during Mussolini's reign, this latest from Scottoline (known for her best-selling thrillers) focuses on three friends, Sandro, Marco and Elisabetta, while they grow to adulthood and their way of life is threatened by war and fascism. Other recent or upcoming novels set during World War II
While it remains one of the darkest periods in modern history, she notes, people take comfort in reading about it “with the reassuring knowledge that the conflict ended and the good guys won."īelow are 18 new or upcoming works of historical fiction set during the era, many featuring unlikely spies, family secrets unearthed, brave members of the Resistance and their treacherous enemies, and, yes, lots of heartache and romance. The appeal of these stories is evergreen, says Amanda Bergeron, executive editor at Berkley, publisher of quite a few of the books described below (Bergeron edited The Women of Chateau Lafayette and The Invisible Woman).
The good news for those readers: There are plenty of writers and publishers ready to feed it. In English | There's arguably no time and place more ripe for dramatic tension, tragedy and triumph, than World War II Europe, which helps explain readers’ enormous appetite for novels set in that time and place. From top left: Putnam, Berkley, Knopf, Atria, William Morrow, and Ballantine
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