For some reason I have been reading book after book – novels from time of WWII . These are new books, written lately, and I have no idea what is behind this reading. Yes, they are just really good stories,but it is interesting to me that these stories are consuming my reading time these days. I was born in June of 1944 — D-day was on June 6 and my father was in the Navy during WWII — I saw him when I was 1 month old and again at 18 months. The war must have had an influence on me — we lived with my Grandparents in Madison, Wisconsin while my father was in the war stationed in the Panama Canal Zone and on a destroyer. I always wonder about the influence of these early months on my psyche.
Lately I am reading the stories from Phillip Kerr, the Bernie Gunther stories, — mysteries with Gunther as the main character, a sarcastic, witty and basically decent man who tries to stay alive in Germany during the war.The series begins when Bernie is a detective in Berlin in the “Berlin Noir series starting with March Violets.” which I read some time ago. I recently realized he is still writing and has two new ones out — I am just starting the second — “The Lady from Zagreb.” 
having just finished 
Other books that I found myself reading about this period were, ” All the Light We Cannot See” France during the war — a blind French girl and a German boy/soldier. – excellent
and “The Nightingale” 
two sisters in France at the beginning of WWII – one joins the resistance.