13 Top historical books like The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein

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The Enigma Game

By: Elizabeth Wein

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A German soldier risks his life to drop off the sought-after Enigma Machine to British Intelligence…

If you liked the historical plot in The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Flygirl

By: Sherri L. Smith

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Ida Mae Jones dreams of flight. Her daddy was a pilot and being black didn't stop him from fulfilli… read more

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  • teen
  • historical
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

2. Year of the Jungle

By: Suzanne Collins , James Proimos

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the… read more

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3. Wounded

By: Jasinda Wilder

3.80

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

War has taken everything from me. My family. My home. My innocence. In a country blasted by war and… read more

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4. You Know When the Men Are Gone

By: Siobhan Fallon

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Tim O'Brien, an unforgettable collection of interconnected short … read more

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5. Fear: A Novel of World War I

By: John Berger , Gabriel Chevallier , None

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation 1915: Jean Dartemont … read more

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6. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two book and Elizabeth Wein's The Enigma Game

  • war
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7. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

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8. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

By: K.G.E. Konkel

4.32

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more

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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

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9. The Paper Girl of Paris

By: Jordyn Taylor

4.04

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Now: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and … read more

Similar categories in Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris book and Elizabeth Wein's The Enigma Game

  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
"Things never get any easier during wartime. Either the war ends or life gets worse."

-Jordyn Taylor, The Paper Girl of Paris

"For years, we lingered on the bank of the river, scared to dip our toes in the water - but how do you cross to the other side that way? There's only one way to do it, and we've finally figured it out…"

-Jordyn Taylor, The Paper Girl of Paris

"Here is the thing that is true about fire: it creates power, but it also creates destruction. My fire has fueled many victories, but it has destroyed what I had with the person I love most in the wor…"

-Jordyn Taylor, The Paper Girl of Paris

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10. They Went Left

By: Monica Hesse

4.24

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over,… read more

Similar categories in Monica Hesse's They Went Left book and Elizabeth Wein's The Enigma Game

  • historical
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Choose to love."

-Monica Hesse, They Went Left

"Our minds are nothing. That's the biggest nothing, the reason we are still in the hospital. Our minds are soft. Confused."

-Monica Hesse, They Went Left

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11. The Enigma Game

By: Elizabeth Wein

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A German soldier risks his life to drop off the sought-after Enigma Machine to British Intelligence… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Wein's The Enigma Game book and Elizabeth Wein's The Enigma Game

  • teen
  • adventure
  • historical
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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12. In Another Time

By: Caroline Leech

3.82

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Love is worth the fight It’s 1942, and Maisie McCall is in the Scottish Highlands doing her bit… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Leech's In Another Time book and Elizabeth Wein's The Enigma Game

  • teen
  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Artifice

By: Sharon Cameron

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A dramatic story of duplicity and resistance, betrayal and loyalty, set against the backdrop of Wor… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Cameron's Artifice book and Elizabeth Wein's The Enigma Game

  • historical
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. The Brightwood Code

By: Monica Hesse

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Seven months ago Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred “Hello Girls,” femal… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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15. Girl in the Blue Coat

By: Monica Hesse

4.04

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods t… read more

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  • teen
  • historical
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
"Sometimes hope can be poisonous."

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

"Isn't love the opposite of rational?"

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

"But when it comes down to it, we all die alone."

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

"Girls in love will do desperate and creative things."

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

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16. The War Outside

By: Monica Hesse

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal.It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe… read more

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  • teen
  • historical
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Code Name Kingfisher

By: Liz Kessler

4.58

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

When Liv finds a secret box from her grandmother’s childhood she uncovers an extraordinary war-time… read more

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  • adventure
  • historical
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. All Is Fair

By: Dee Garretson

3.42

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

Lady Mina Tretheway knows she's destined for greater things than her fancy boarding school, where s… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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19. The Hummingbird Dagger

By: Cindy Anstey

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

1833. After young Lord James Ellerby witnesses a near-fatal carriage accident on the outskirts of h… read more

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  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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20. Trajectory

By: Cambria Gordon

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The stirring and dramatic story of one young woman who must find a way to overcome her deepest fear… read more

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  • teen
  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Sherri L. Smith

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

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4.04

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They Went Left

Monica Hesse

4.24

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Janette Rallison , Cyril Laumonier

3.93

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Patricia Forde

3.67

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4.05

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3.87

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