Best world war i historical fiction books according to redditors

Shades of Ben Elton's "Time and Time Again".

A brief list! (I generally read 5 or 6 books at once.)

The Circle by Dave Eggers

Dear Life by Alice Munro

Truman by David McCullough

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

It might be A High Mortality of Doves, by Kate Ellis.

>1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still reeling from four terrible years of war, and now, just when the village is coming to terms with the loss of so many of its sons, the brutal murder of a young girl shatters its hard-won tranquillity.
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>Myrtle Bligh is found stabbed and left in woodland, her mouth slit to accommodate a dead dove, a bird of peace.
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>During the war Myrtle worked as a volunteer nurse with Flora Winsmore, the local doctor's daughter, caring for badly wounded soldiers at the nearby big house, Tarnhey Court.
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>When two more women are found murdered in identical circumstances, Inspector Albert Lincoln is sent up from London, a man not only wounded in war but damaged in peace by the death of his young son and his cold, loveless marriage. Once in Wenfield, Albert begins to investigate the three recent murders and the Cartwright family of Tarnhey Court and their staff fall under suspicion as their hidden lives and secrets are uncovered.
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>With rumours of a ghostly soldier with a painted face being spotted near the scene of the murders, the village is thrown into a state of panic - and with the killer still on the loose, who will be the next to die at the hands of this vicious angel of death?

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I recently "discovered" [Kate Morton] (http://www.amazon.com/Kate-Morton/e/B00JD24ETO) and have read a couple of her books. All of the ones that I've read are set up similarly -- alternating chapters between present time and some time period in the past accompanied with a little bit of suspense and mystery. I've read [The Forgotten Garden] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Forgotten-Garden-A-Novel-ebook/dp/B001NLKWLW/ref=pd_sim_351_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=51D0HsZnaqL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR96%2C160_&refRID=1S0NM7322D9X086AEMV0) and [The House at Riverton] (http://www.amazon.com/The-House-Riverton-Kate-Morton-ebook/dp/B0013TTLDE/ref=pd_sim_351_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=51p4r1ib93L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR99%2C160_&refRID=0SDDBPQJQYTG027FD0J6) and am currently reading The Secret Keeper.

I also thoroughly enjoyed [Wish You Well] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FA5QMM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1) by David Baldacci. It's about a girl and her brother who move from New York City to the Appalachian Mountains to live with their grandma. I think it's loosely based on his mom and grandma's lives.

I also enjoy reading books that take place during WWII (mostly non-fiction and autobiographical). If you're interested in that genre I can recommend a few.

While Historical Fiction, I thought the Morgan Llewellyn books 1916 and 1921 were good reads. There's plenty of hard fact there, backed with enough conjecture to fill in a story to keep the whole thing rollicking along.

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I also really loved The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton:

"A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book—a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-fi rst birthday, they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and very little to go on, "Nell" sets out to trace her real identity. Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is not until her granddaughter, Cassandra, takes up the search after Nell’s death that all the pieces of the puzzle are assembled. A spellbinding tale of mystery and self-discovery, The Forgotten Garden will take hold of your imagination and never let go."

And my favorite book of last year, besides Blood, Bones, and Butter was Her Fearful Symmetry:

"Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense attachment to each other. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. Their English aunt Elspeth Noblin has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions for this inheritance: that they live in the flat for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the girls’ aunt Elspeth and their mother, Edie.

The girls move to Elspeth’s flat, which borders the vast Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Stella Gibbons, and other luminaries are buried. Julia and Valentina become involved with their living neighbors: Martin, a composer of crossword puzzles who suffers from crippling OCD, and Robert, Elspeth’s elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. They also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including—perhaps—their aunt."

Did this come out? https://www.amazon.com/August-1914-Novel-Red-Wheel-ebook/dp/B00L0I2GMG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504656676&sr=8-1&keywords=the+red+wheel