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Titles with one or two nominations:

*Word of Honor by Nelson DeMille [gmw]
Amazon US - $7.99 | Amazon UK - £6.99 | Amazon CA - $9.10 | Amazon AU - $12.99 | Kobo US - $7.99 | Kobo UK £6.99 | Kobo CA - $9.99 | Kobo AU - $12.99

Spoiler:

Goodreads:

He is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest, handsome family man admired by men and desired by women. But a lifetime ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam. There the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity -- and together swore never to tell the world what they had done. Now the press, army justice, and the events he tried to forget have caught up with Ben Tyson. His family, his career, and his personal sense of honor hang in the balance. And only one woman can reveal the truth of his past -- and set him free.

This is not (what has become) DeMille's usual gung-ho American hero stuff*, but I think it is one of DeMille's best books. It is quite long (750 pages in paperback). It is a disturbing and thought provoking story about honour and what it may mean; of responsibility and how it may be carried; of loyalty and what may be hidden behind it; of war and the realities we prefer to forget.

750 pages

**The Alice Network by Kate Quinn [Catlady, Dazrin]
Amazon U.S. $9.99 | Amazon UK £5.99 | Amazon CA $8.24 | Amazon AU $14.99 | Kobo U.S. $9.99 | Kobo UK £5.99 | Kobo CA $10.99 | Kobo AU $14.99 | Overdrive, Hoopla, Scribd, Axis360

Spoiler:

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.

1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.

1915. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she's recruited to work as a spy. Sent into enemy-occupied France, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the "Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy's nose.

Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launches them both on a mission to find the truth...no matter where it leads.

510 pages

*Armageddon by Leon Uris [drofgnal]
Amazon US $5.99

Spoiler:

At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O’Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O’Sullivan struggles against his animosity towards the nation he is helping restore. Meanwhile, Soviet forces blockade Germany in a bid for power, and the Western Allies must unite to prevent a communist takeover. When the airlift begins, the Allies find their deepest convictions tested as they fight against a threat even more dangerous than Hitler.

Meticulously researched, this New York Times bestselling novel gives a historically accurate account of the early days of the Cold War and the fight for German redemption.

632 pages

*War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy [Catlady]