Last week I introduced the RUSA’s Genre Picks for 2008 with their Adrenaline Winners. This week, check out their picks for…
Historical Fiction
The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara
In this riveting tale of D-Day and its aftermath, Shaara closely follows events through the lives common soldiers and generals, Allies and Axis alike. A journalistic style underscores the drama of events, and the engaging warts-and-all portrayals add to the immediacy of the novel.
Read-Alikes:
- Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell
- An Army at Down: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
- Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield
Shortlist
- Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
- The Given Day by Dennis Lehane, William Morrow
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
- The Whiskey Rebels byDavid Liss
I’m on the waiting list for The Given Day and Guernsey… Anyone read any of these picks?
Wow! I don’t have much knowledge with historical fictions but I really love to read the historical fiction The Steel Wave, and I want to read more about this.