Last Updated: March 22, 2025
The Restless Wave: A Novel of the United States Navy
by Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.)
The first in a series of historical novels about the 20th century US Navy, centered around an American naval officer and his key relationships, professional and personal, set during WWII.
Zero Option
by W.E.B. Griffin
November 1943. Stalin is pressing the Allies to open a second front in Europe in order to ease the pressure on the bloody war grinding on in the East. Roosevelt and Churchill agree to meet the Soviet premier at a top-secret conference in Tehran. But loose lips sink ships and Wild Bill Donovan, the charismatic leader of the OSS, has intelligence that the top-secret meeting may be secret no longer. Someone is planning to assassinate either or both of the Western leaders at the conference. He sends his best agent, Dick Canidy, to thwart the plan, but can the OSS’s finest succeed when he doesn’t even know if the killer is a Nazi or an Ally?
Betrayal at Blackthorn Park
by Julia Kelly
Freshly graduated from a rigorous training program in all things spy craft, former typist Evelyne Redfern soon realizes that Blackthorn Park, a requisitioned manor house in the sleepy Sussex countryside, is more than meets the eye, and an upcoming visit from Winston Churchill means that security at the secret weapons research and development facility is of the utmost importance. When Evelyne discovers Blackthorn Park’s chief engineer dead in his office, her simple assignment becomes more complicated. Evelyne must use all of her-and David’s-detection skills to root out who is responsible and uncover layers of deception that could change the course of the war.
Hold Strong
by Robert Dugoni, Jeff Langholz, and Chris Crabttree
Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam Carlson is one of eighteen hundred starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful. Determined to use her math skills on the home front, Sarah Haber is recruited to Washington, DC, into the covert field of code breaking. When Sarah intercepts a message about a Japanese convoy, the US Navy’s mission is clear: sink the Arisan Maru and send it to the bottom of the South China Sea. Now, the lives of the two young lovers are about to inadvertently collide in one of the most shocking acts of World War II.
The Sunflower House
by Adriana Allegri
The Sunflower House is a meticulously-researched debut historical novel that uncovers the notorious Lebensborn Program of Nazi Germany. Women of “pure” blood stayed in Lebensborn homes for the sole purpose of perpetuating the Aryan population, giving birth to thousands of babies who were adopted out to “good” Nazi families. Allina must keep her Jewish identity a secret in order to survive, but when she discovers the neglect occurring within the home, she’s determined not only to save herself, but also the children in her care.
The Rest is Memory
by Lily Tuck
Fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, and tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz, Czeslawa is then photographed. Three months later, she is dead. How did this happen to an ordinary Polish citizen? This is the question that Tuck grapples with in this haunting novel, which frames Czeslawa’s story within the epic tragedy of six million Poles who perished during the German occupation.