 | Random Harvest by James Hilton
A beautiful romance that takes place between the two world wars. Although written in the 1930s, it's still wonderful.
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 | Middlemarch (Wordsworth Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Several story lines, but the best is the love between Dorathea and Will Ladislaw. Takes place during major changes in England in the 1840s.
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 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy used from: £9.98 Iconic American novel set in the Civil War.
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 | Exodus (Modern Classics) by Leon Uris
Buy used from: £24.81 Love story set against the events leading up to the founding of Israel.
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 | A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Buy used from: £2.36 It has a very complicated plot, but stick with it. Love in WWI Italy.
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 | An Infamous Army: A Novel of Love, War, Wellington and Waterloo by Georgette Heyer
Buy used from: £2.55 Excellent description of Duchess of Richmond's Ball before Battle of Waterloo.
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 | The Clouds Above by Andrew Greig
Buy used from: £1.44 Love story between RAF pilot and WRAF radar operator during the Battle of Britain. A touching story.
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 | A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Buy used from: £0.49 An Australian POW and an English woman captured by the Japanese in 1941 fall in love. London/Maylasia/Australia are the settings. TV adaptation is excellent.
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 | Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Thackeray
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 With the background of the Napoleonic Wars, Becky Sharpe (a Regency Scarlett O'Hara) uses her wit and beauty to climb up and over people.
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 | The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £2.10 Epic story of WASP family and intellectual Jewish family, Old-fashioned love story.
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 | War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
Buy new: £9.14 / Used from: £4.00 Sequel to Winds of War. If you read the first book, you'll have to read the second.
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 | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Buy used from: £1.21 Love for the Lost Generation. Picture Ava Gardner as Lady Ashley
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 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Buy used from: £0.01 Beautifully written. Set in North Africa during WWII. Can be slow at times.
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 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy used from: £0.19 An ambulance driver and a nurse's aide fall in love in WWI Italy. Stilted dialog, but a good story.
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