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The Dark Arena
by Mario Puzo
After coming home at the end of World War II, Walter Mosca finds himself too restless for his civilian role in America. So he returns to Germany to find the woman he had once loved-and to start some kind of life in a vanquished country. Now he enters a different kind of war, one in which he must make a fateful decision-between love and ambition, passion and greed, life and death. . . .
Year: 1955
Genre: WWII: Post-War
Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.
Year: 1961
Genre: WWII: Post-War
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
Billy Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great deal of money as an optometrist, and on his wedding night he is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore. So begins a modern classic by a master storyteller.
Year: 1969
Genre: Anti-War, Satire, Science Fiction, WWII: Post-War
The Odessa File
by Frederick Forsyth
The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called Odessa ...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga.."of a young German journalist tumed obsessed avenger.......and, ultimately, of brilliant, ruthless plot to reestablish the worldwide power of SS mass murderers and to carry out Hitler's chilling "Final Solution."
Year: 1972
Genre: Action, WWII: Post-War
Titles
| Got It | Want It | Read It | Year | Title | |||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1955 | The Dark Arena | by Mario Puzo | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1961 | Mother Night | by Kurt Vonnegut | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1969 | Slaughterhouse-Five | by Kurt Vonnegut | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1972 | The Odessa File | by Frederick Forsyth | ||||||