Heartbreaking Historical Fiction

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    • By: Catherine Hokin
    • Narrated by: Sarah Durham
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Ever since the Nazis came to power, violence has spread through the city Esther Spielmann once called home. Each night she prays her family will be spared.

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    • Beautiful and Heartbreaking World War 2 Historical Fiction
    • By: Catherine Hokin
    • Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 293 ratings
    • Berlin, 1941. Felix Thalberg, a printer’s apprentice, has the weight of the world on his shoulders. Then one night, Felix meets a mysterious young woman in a crowded dance hall, and his life is changed forever....

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    • Absolutely Gripping and Heartbreaking Historical Fiction
    • By: Ann Bennett
    • Narrated by: Naomi Frederick
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,976 ratings
    • An emotional and uplifting reminder that incredible acts of courage can change the course of history, Ann Bennett’s powerful tale is inspired by the lives of the children who lived at her great-grandfather’s orphanage....

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    • A totally gripping and absolutely heartbreaking World War 2 novel
    • By: Ellie Midwood
    • Narrated by: Alison Campbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 405 ratings
    • Millions of people walked through Auschwitz’s gates, but she was the first woman who escaped. This powerful novel tells the inspiring true story of Mala Zimetbaum, whose heroism will never be forgotten, and whose fate altered the course of history....

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    • A Gripping and Utterly Heartbreaking WW2 Historical Novel
    • By: Suzanne Kelman
    • Narrated by: Alison Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 445 ratings
    • As the German Luftwaffe begin a terrifying bombing campaign that will come to be known as the Blitz, thousands are evacuated to safety. But Lizzie Mackenzie finds herself heading toward London....

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    • A missing girl, an accused woman and a family secret in this gripping, heartbreaking historical fiction
    • By: Emily Gunnis
    • Narrated by: Gemma Whelan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • When six-year-old Alice Hilton disappears on New Year's Eve 1979 from Yew Tree Manor, suspicion immediately falls on local boy Bobby James....

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    • Gripping and Heartbreaking French Historical Fiction
    • By: Helen Fripp
    • Narrated by: Anne-Marie Piazza
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • For grieving Nicole Clicquot, saving the vineyards her husband left behind is her one chance to keep a roof over her head and provide a future for her little girl. She ignores the gossips who insist the fields are no place for a woman....

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    • Absolutely Heartbreaking World War 2 Historical Fiction Based on a True Story
    • By: Carly Schabowski
    • Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • A heartbreaking novel of love, betrayal, and a secret passed down through a family. Inspired by an incredible true story. Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, We Were the Lucky Ones, and The Alice Network....

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    • Absolutely Heartbreaking World War 2 Historical Fiction
    • By: Lily Graham
    • Narrated by: Katy Sobey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 724 ratings
    • It is 1942 and Eva Adami has boarded a train to Auschwitz. Barely able to breathe due to the press of bodies and exhausted from standing up for two days, she can think only of her longed-for reunion with her husband Michal, who was sent there six months earlier....

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    • Absolutely Heartbreaking Historical Fiction (Shilling Grange Children’s Home, Book 1)
    • By: Lizzie Page
    • Narrated by: Emily Barber
    • Series: Shilling Grange Children’s Home, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Clara Newton is the new Housemother of Shilling Grange Orphanage. Many of the children have been bombed out of their homes and left without families, their lives torn apart by the war, just like Clara’s....

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    • Beautiful and Heartbreaking World War 2 Historical Fiction
    • By: Sharon Maas
    • Narrated by: Naomi Frederick
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • In the small French town of Colmar, swastikas hang from lampposts, tanks are lined up outside the town hall, and 21-year-old Marie-Claire is in love. She will do anything for her childhood friend Jacques, including spying on her German boss, Dietrich Kurtz....

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    • A completely heartbreaking and gripping World War 2 novel, based on a true story
    • By: Ellie Midwood
    • Narrated by: Alison Campbell
    • Series: Women and the Holocaust, Book 3
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • Auschwitz, 1942: This unforgettable novel, based on a true story, brings to life history’s most powerful tale of forbidden love. Set within the barbed wire of Auschwitz, a man and a woman fall in love against unimaginable odds....

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    • An utterly gripping and heart-breaking World War 2 historical novel
    • By: Anna Stuart
    • Narrated by: Katy Sobey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • Two women. One shocking wartime secret. And a family mystery just waiting to be discovered....

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    • By: Ann Bennett
    • Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Poland, 1944 When twelve-year-old Martha and her little sister Johanna are snatched while out shopping for food and pushed into an army truck with a swastika on the door, they are heartbroken.

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    • By: Anna Stuart
    • Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
    • Series: The Bletchley Park Girls Series, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Inspired by the unforgettable true story of the women of Bletchley Park, this utterly gripping novel of secrets, love, and courage shines a light on the incredible wartime work that changed the course of history....

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    • A Completely Heartbreaking and Gripping World War 2 Historical Novel
    • By: Shirley Dickson
    • Narrated by: Rosie Jones
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 884 ratings
    • An utterly heartbreaking tale of two young girls, worlds apart, who are thrown together when they have lost everything....

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    • By: Ellie Midwood
    • Narrated by: Alison Campbell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Margot and her adoring husband, Jochen, are madly in love. But in Nazi Germany, being in love is the most dangerous act of all. A marriage between Margot, a German woman, and Jochen, a Jewish man, is forbidden under Hitler’s tyrannical rule....

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    • The Emerald Sisters, Book 3
    • By: Kate Hewitt
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
    • Series: The Emerald Sisters, Book 3
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • France, 1939: When Jewish refugee Hannah Lerner and her beloved younger sister Lotte arrive in a small French town alone, with no family to turn to, Hannah takes her sister’s trembling hands in hers and promises they will not be separated, no matter what.

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    • Inspired by True Events, an Absolutely Gripping and Heartbreaking WW2 Historical Novel
    • By: Debbie Rix
    • Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 266 ratings
    • Inspired by a true story, this is a heart-stopping, unforgettable tale of ordinary people fighting for survival in the darkest of times: World War II-era Germany....

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