https://pithybooks.com/tags/world-war-ii/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “world war ii”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:11 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/the-alice-network/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-alice-network/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two women, two wars: Eve spied for the Alice Network in 1915 France, Charlie searches for her cousin in 1947, and their road trip pulls both stories together. https://pithybooks.com/books/all-the-light-we-cannot-see/ https://pithybooks.com/books/all-the-light-we-cannot-see/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See retold: blind Marie-Laure, Werner the radio boy, and Saint-Malo. https://pithybooks.com/books/night/ https://pithybooks.com/books/night/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Elie Wiesel's account of Sighet, the cattle cars, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, told in short flat sections by a boy about fifteen. Why the book carries the year 1956, and what it leaves out. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-book-thief/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-book-thief/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Markus Zusak's The Book Thief retold: Liesel in Molching, Hans and Rosa, Max in the basement, and Death as narrator. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-nightingale/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-nightingale/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nightingale retold: Vianne and Isabelle in occupied France, hide children, run routes, trials. https://pithybooks.com/books/diary-of-a-young-girl/ https://pithybooks.com/books/diary-of-a-young-girl/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anne Frank's diary explained: two years in the Secret Annex, the entries on fear and boredom, what Otto Frank cut, and why the book still reads like a conversation.