Books like Un secret by Philippe Grimbert

In the closing months of World War II, an American bomber squadron off Italy becomes the stage for humor and horror as pilot Yossarian battles absurd regulations and the threat of death.

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

A 1930s wartime tale of a blind French girl and a German boy whose lives intersect in occupied France, weaving themes of survival, friendship, and the moral choices people make amid World War II.

A tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

A collection of linked short stories that follows a platoon of American soldiers and their experiences, thoughts, and burdens during the Vietnam War.

Frank McCourt's memoir recounts a harsh childhood in Depression‑era Brooklyn and Limerick, where poverty, a neglectful father, and a mother named Angela shape his survival through storytelling.

A Fine Balance is Rohinton Mistry's critically acclaimed second novel, set in India in the mid-1970s and focusing on four unlikely individuals who come together in a city apartment during a state of emergency.

A poignant and intimate historical novel set during World War II, Suite française by Irène Némirovsky vividly depicts the desperate situation of a war-torn France.

When a ten‑year‑old Sarah is seized in the 1942 Vel' d'Hiv’ roundup, her friend Julia, a journalist two decades later, discovers that the past still haunts their families and forces her to confront her own identity in post‑war France.

Framboise Simon returns to a Loire‑bank village where her past as the daughter of a wartime figure remains concealed. A scrapbook of recipes and memories she inherited from her mother holds the key to a tragedy that scarred her childhood.

A Thread of Grace: The story of Italian citizens who saved the lives of 43,000 Jews during World War II’s final phase

A young girl in 1941 Long Island faces parental separation and fears the Pacific war, finding courage and friendship as events like Pearl Harbor unfold.

A novel of courage, violence, and passions set against the backdrop of World War II, focusing on soldiers and their bonds within the military setting.

During the Nazi occupation of Paris, the Boltanski family hides a Jewish doctor in their Saint‑Germain mansion, revealing wartime secrets, family bonds, and the psychological aftermath of hiding.

Jeroen discovers his grandmother’s attic scrapbook, uncovering the story of her youth in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, her father's Nazi sympathies, and the mysterious disappearance of her Jewish best friend.

An important new work based on newly declassified archives. As defeat loomed over the Third Reich in 1945, its officials tried to destroy the physical and documentary evidence about the Nazis' monstrous crimes. Great Britain already had some of the evidence, however, for its intelligence services had for years been intercepting, decoding, and analyzing German police radio messages and SS ones, too. Yet these important papers were sealed away as "Most Secret," "Never to Be Removed from This Office"--And they have only now reappeared. Integrating this new evidence with other sources, historian Richard Breitman reconsiders how Germany's leaders brought about the Holocaust--and when--and reassesses Britain's and America's suppression of information about the Nazi killings. His absorbing account of the consequences of keeping this information secret for so long, including the failure to punish many known war criminals, shows us the danger of continued government secrecy.--From publisher description.

Lucinda Franks recounts her search for her father, a WWII spy who served in the Third Reich, trying to piece together his past as his dementia deepens and secrets emerge.