D-Day 75th Anniversary: WWII Books

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, often referred to as D-Day. The prolific day in history was the starting point for the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Did you know that D-Day was the largest joint military operation ever undertaken?

Learn more about the events and time period with these fiction and nonfiction picks.

Agent Zigzag
By Ben Macintyre
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Blood of Victory By Alan Furst
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China Dolls
By Lisa See
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Crossing the Borders of Time By Leslie Maitland
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Double Cross
By Ben Macintyre

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Dunkirk
By Joshua Levine

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Eisenhower in War and Peace
By Jean Edward Smith
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Number the Stars
By Lois Lowry
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The Book of Aron
By Jim Shepard
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The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
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The Boy in Striped Pajamas By John Boyne
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The End
By Ian Kershaw
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The Pacific
By Hugh Ambrose

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The Ship of Brides
By Jojo Moyes
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The Wives of Los Alamos
By TaraShea Nesbit

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Those Who Save Us
By Jenna Blum

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Twelve Desperate Miles
By Tim Brady
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Unbroken
By Laura Hillenbrand
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Uprooted
By Albert Martin Download | Listen

When Books Went to War
By Molly Guptill Manning
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