Women in WWII Books

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War IIby Sonia PurnellHardcover368 Pages2019 The never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of...

Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime SpyBen MacintyreHardback432 Pages2021 The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent...

Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943By: Erica FischerPaperback416 Pages2015 Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim...

Alice on the Island: A Pearl Harbor Survival StoryBy: Mayumi Shimose Poe (Author) and Matt Forsyth (Illustrator)Paperback112 Pages2019Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 7.5 inchesAge Range: 8-12 YearsGrade Level: 3-7 In 1941, thirteen-year-old Alice's days...

Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women, Vol. 1: A-MEdited by: Reina Pennington and Robin D. S. HighamHardcover424 Pages With entries overviewing groups such as the Amazons, women in the Spanish Civil War, and Native...

Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women, Vol. 2: N-Z By: Reina Pennington Hardcover 760 Pages With entries overviewing groups such as the Amazons, women in the Spanish Civil War, and Native American women and entries...

And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II By: Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-GreenleePaperback528 Pages In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of...

Behind the Bookcase: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place by Barbara Lowell (Author) and Valentina Toro (Illustrator)Paperback40 PagesSeptember 2020Ages: 7-11 YearsGrade: 2-5 Anne Frank’s diary is a gift to the world because of Miep Gies...

  Catherine's War By: Julia Billet (Author), Claire Fauvel (Illustrtor), Ivanka Hahnenberger (Translator)Paperback176 Pages2020Grade Level: 3-7Reading Level: 8-12 Years This middle grade graphic novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in...

Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchillby Sonia PurnellPaperback448 Pages2016 A long overdue tribute to the extraordinary woman who was Winston Churchill’s closest confidante, fiercest critic and shrewdest advisor that captures the intimate...

The Courageous Six Triple Eight: The All-Black Female Batallion of World War II (Women Warriors of World War II) by Dr. Tyner, Artika R. (Author) and Cynthia Paul (Illustrator) Paperback32 PagesJuly 2022Age: 8-12Grades: 3-4 When the United States...

Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II (Women of Action)by Cheryl Mullenbachpaperback272 Pages2008 “Allow all black nurses to enlist, and the draft won’t be necessary. . . . If...

Eleanor Roosevelt: The War Years and After, 1939-1962 Blanche Wiesen Cook Paperback 688 Pages 2017 Historians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook’s biography of Eleanor Roosevelt as the essential...

Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: The Early Years 1884 - 1933 by Blanche Wiesen CookPaperback587 PagesMarch 1993 The first volume in the life of America's greatest First Lady, "a woman who changed the lives of millions" (Washington Post).Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2, The Defining Years, 1933 - 1938 by Blanche Wiesen CookPaperback736 pagesJune 2000 The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe).The captivating second...

Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win WWIIby P. O'Connell PearsonHardcover224 PagesProduct Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9 inchesAge Range: 10 and UpGrade Level: 5-6 “A truly inspiring read.” —Booklist (starred...

The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II by Mari EderHardcover400 PagesAugust 2021 For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of...

Hold On To Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Laneby Emil Sher (adapter), Mona Golabek (Author), Lee Cohen (Author), Sonia Possentini (Illustrator)40 PagesPaperbackAges 4-8January 12, 2021Discover the inspiring illustrated...

Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America by Joan Wehlen MorrisonHardcover272 PagesReading Age: 12 Years and UpGrade Levels: 7-9November, 2012 Literary Classics Gold Medal in Historical Young AdultLiterary...

Author: Sonia Purnell  Pages: 528 Published: September 2024   Discover the captivating life of Pamela Harriman, one of the most influential and enigmatic women of the 20th century, in Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell. From her early years as Winston...

Kiyo Sato: From a WWII Japanese Internment Camp to a Life of Service by Connie Goldsmith with Kiyo SatoHardcover140 PagesReading Age: 11-18 yearsGrade Level: 6-12September 2020"Our camp, they tell us, is now to be called a 'relocation center' and not a...

Latina/os and WWII PB: Mobility, Agency, and Ideology by Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez and B. V. OlguínPaperback328 Pages2014 The first book-length study of Latina/o experiences in World War II over a wide spectrum of identities and...

Lindell's List: Saving British and American Women at Ravensbruckby Peter HopePaperback304 PagesAugust 2019British-Born Mary Lindell, Comtesse de Milleville, was one of the most colourful and courageous agents of the Second World War, yet her story has...

Lisa of Willesdan Lane: A True Story of Music and Survival During World War IIby Sarah J. Robbins (Adaptor), Mona Golabek (Author), Lee Cohen (Author)Paperback176 PagesAges 6-10January 12, 2021 An inspiring true story about one girl's escape from the...

Loyal Forces: The American Animals of World War IIBy: Toni M. Kiser and Lindsey F. BarnesHardcover192 Pages During World War II, the U.S. called upon all its citizens to contribute to the war effort, encouraging them to enlist, buy war bonds, and collect...

Mare's War By: Tanita S. Davis Paperback 354 Pages Age Range: 12 and up Grade Level: 7 and up 2011 Meet Mare, a World War II veteran and a grandmother like no other. She was once a willful teenager who escaped her less than perfect life in the...

My Paintings, My Memories, My Message... Hanka Kornfeld-Marder Paperback 26 Pages 2010 By viewing this Holocaust Remembrance Book of Paintings and sharing it with relatives and friends, you are showing your commitment to remember the innocent...

Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Piolts of World War IIby Sarah Byrn RickmanPaperback352 PagesJuly 2014 She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nancy...

  One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC by Charity Adams Earley Paperback232 Pages Ocotber 1995   When America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the...

Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germanyby Nathan StoltzfusPaperback388 Pages2021 In February 1943 the Gestapo arrested approximately 10,000 Jews remaining in Berlin. Most died at Auschwitz. Two thousand of...

Rosie's Riveting Recipes: Cooking, Cocktails, and Kitchen Tips from 1940s America By: Daniela Turudich Paperback 288 Pages From an era when American women pulled up their trousers, slipped on their gloves, and stepped up to the plate comes this...

Ruth and the Night of Broken Glass: A World War II Survival StoryBy: Emma Carlson Berne (Author) and Matt Forsyth (Illustrator) Paperback112 Pages2019Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 7.5Age Range: 8-12 yearsGrade Level: 3-7 In the late summer and...

The Diary of a Young Girl By: Anne Frank(Author), Otto H. Frank (Editor), Mirjam Pressler (Editor), Susan Massotty (Translator), Francine Prose (Introduction) Hardcover 320 Pages The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a...

The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Backby Shannon McKennaHardcover352 PagesApril 2024 The first book to tell the full story of Eleanor Roosevelt's unprecedented and courageous trip to the Pacific...

The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Fron Lines by Kara Dixon VuicHardcoverFeb 2019392 Pages The story of the intrepid young women who volunteered to help and entertain American servicemen fighting overseas, from World War I through the...

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War IIby Denise KiernanPaperback400 pages2013 At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City...

The Life of Anne FrankBy: Kay WoodwardHardback48 PagesAges: 9-14Grade: 4-122020 Produced in association with the Anne Frank House. A compelling visual account of how a Jewish family tried to escape Nazism. In August 1944, Anne Frank and her family were...

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettoby Judy BatalionHardcover576 pagesApril 2021 THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston...

The Phenomenon of Anne Frank  by David Barnouw, Jeannetter K. Ringold (Translator)Paperback141 pagesFebruary, 2018 “Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer...

The Real Tenko: Extraordianry True Stories of Women Prisoners of The Japanese By: Mark FeltonPaperback176 Pages2011 This book details the treatment of Allied service-women, female civilians and local women by the Japanese occupation forces. While a...

The War Bride's Scrapbook: A Novel in PicturesCaroline PrestonHardcover224 Pages2017 A World War II love story, narrated through a new bride’s dazzling array of vintage postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs, and more. Lila Jerome has never...

Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana Lawrence N. Powell Paperback 616 Pages 2002 This powerful work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, the Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into...

Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War IIby Lena S. AndrewsHardcover168 PagesAugust 2023 National Bestseller * Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist "An ingenious look at WWII.” —Publishers...

War Bonds: Love Stories from the Greatest GenerationBy: Cindy HvalHardcover216 Pages2015 America’s World War II is most often told through the stories of its great battles, when an entire generation of our young men was suddenly thrust across the...

We Band of Angels Elizabeth Norman Paperback 384 Pages 2013 In the fall of 1941, the Philippines was a gardenia-scented paradise for the American Army and Navy nurses stationed there. War was a distant rumor, life a routine of easy shifts and...

Wings, Women, and WarBy:Reina PenningtonPaperback304 Pages The Soviet Union was the first nation to allow women pilots to fly combat missions. During World War II the Red Air Force formed three all-female units--grouped into separate fighter, dive...

Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazisby Nathan StoltzfusPaperback236 Pages2021 This timely volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to explore the ways that women responded to situations of immense...

Women Heroes of World War II—the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival (Women of Action)Kathryn J. AtwoodHardcover240 Pages2016 Glamorous American singer Claire Phillips opened a nightclub in manila, using the...

Women in War: From Home Front to Front Line By: Celia Lee and Paul Strong Forward By: Gary Sheffield Paperback387 pages2012 The changing role of women in warfare, a neglected aspect of military history, is the subject of this collection of...

Yours, For Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 Janet Somerville Hardback528 Pages2019 Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today,...