THEMES

World War II has long sparked the interest of fiction authors both internationally--especially English writers--and in the U.S. This trying time in history is fraught with real-life drama that translates so poignantly in fiction.

Historical Romance

• SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
  Jill Barnett
  Pocket (2001)
• THE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE
  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  Random House (1990)
  
• STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT
  Katherine Deauxville, Amanda Harte
  
• and Eugenia Riley
  Leisure (2000)
• THE PHOTOGRAPH
  Virginia Ellis
  Ballantine (2003)
• WITH HEART
  Dorothy Garlock
  Warner (1999)
• SHINING THROUGH
  Susan Isaacs
  HarperTorch (1988)
• TILL WE MEET AGAIN
  Judith Krantz
  Bantam (1989)
• THE LAST VALENTINE
  James Michael Pratt
  St. Martin's (2000)
• NO CRYSTAL STAIR
  Eva Rutland
  Mira (2000)
• ANYA
  Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
  Ivy (1991)
  
• THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
  Paullina Simons
  William Morrow (2002)
• HER FATHER'S HOUSE
  Emma Sinclair
  St. Martin's (1997)

Historical Fiction

• CHINA DAWN
  Robert Duncan
  Dell (1988)
• SECOND GENERATION
  Howard Fast
  Dell (1982)
• THE HOUSE OF GENTLE MEN
  Kathy Hepinstall
  Avon (2000)
• ATONEMENT: A NOVEL
  Ian McEwan
  Nan Talese (2002)
• THE ENGLISH PATIENT
  Michael Ondaatje
  Vintage (1993)
• MILA 18
  Leon Uris
  Bantam (1981)
• WAR AND REMEMBRANCE
  Herman Wouk
  Back Bay Books (2002)