War Stories

I've always found history interesting, but something that is most useful in a trivia game night. However, maybe due to the pandemic or my reading taste has changed, but when updating the "Catch the Reading Bug" blogpost, war stories are the ones I remember the most. Throughout COVID-19, the very real biological war the world is going through now and hopefully will have subsided by the time you are reading this, there have been countless frontline heroes but also of conflict and divide as well. Inequality and inequity are both prominent and continues to harm those in the lower socioeconomic classes. Therefore, I sought out history to see how people fought and persevered to get through hard times. I discovered it is not the war itself that makes the stories so memorable, but the characters. Below are some of my favorites.

1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

2. All the Light We Cannot See

3. The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

4. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

5. Dunkrik

6. War Horse

7. 1917

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