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D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

10 best books like D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II (Sarah Rose): Lost Roses, The Lost Girls of Paris, A Single Thread, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II, Wunderland, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Mistress of the Ritz, Resistance Women, Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Lost Roses
AuthorMartha Hall Kelly
ISBN1524796379
The runaway bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. This sweeping new novel, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow...
The Lost Girls of Paris
AuthorPam Jenoff
ISBN0778330273
From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan’s Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female spies during World War II.

1946, Manhattan

Grace Healey is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war....
A Single Thread
AuthorTracy Chevalier
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother....
Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
AuthorRobert Matzen
ISBN1732273537
Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered her intense experiences...
Wunderland
AuthorJennifer Cody Epstein
ISBN0525576908
East Village, 1989
Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes...
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
AuthorDavid McCullough
ISBN1501168681
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.

As...
Mistress of the Ritz
AuthorMelanie Benjamin
ISBN0399182241
A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife...
Resistance Women
AuthorJennifer Chiaverini
ISBN0062841114
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, an enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American—Mildred Fish Harnack—and her circle of women friends who waged a clandestine...
Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
AuthorLarry Loftis
ISBN1501198653
The true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy

The year is 1942, and World War II is in full swing. Odette Sansom decides to follow in her war hero father’s footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. Five failed attempts and...
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
AuthorSonia Purnell
In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."

The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston...
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
AuthorLynne Olson
The dramatic true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade--codename Hedgehog--the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days.

In 1941, a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman...
The Spies of Shilling Lane
AuthorJennifer Ryan
Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed following her husband’s selfish divorce petition. Never deterred, the threat of a family secret being revealed sets her hot-foot to London to find the only person she has left—her...
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
AuthorKaren Abbott
ISBN0451498623
The epic true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant...
The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
AuthorAlex Kershaw
ISBN0451490053
The New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat.

"Meet the assaulters: Pathfinders plunging from the black, coxswains plowing the whitecaps, bareknuckle Rangers scaling sheer rock......
The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis
AuthorWilliam Geroux
ISBN0525557466
An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort.

On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy...
The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light
AuthorJean Edward Smith
ISBN1501164929
Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the “rousing” (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the liberation of Paris during World War II—a triumph achieved only through the remarkable efforts of Americans, French, and Germans, racing to save the city from destruction.

Following...
Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
AuthorGordon Thomas
ISBN0451489047
An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi rule

Nazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial...
The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip
AuthorJeff Guinn
ISBN1501159305
The fascinating story of two American giants—Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship altered dramatically.

In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist...
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