Why World War 2 Historical Fiction is Gaining Popularity

Batya Casper
2 min readDec 30, 2016

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Have you ever thought about books that are written with a war background or something like that? Well, it sounds interesting, doesn’t it? Although, the new gen-x are happy with various writers, but the real fun comes when the glue to the world war 2 historical fictions. For example books like Hidden has the e story that boosts right off with a melancholy mystery and go across backward in time to discover several peers of a Jewish family inundated by tragedy and war. The book is written quite tight and well-knit, allowing the reader to discover the incidents one after another without losing the interest.

The book is written quite fluently about warfare, bereavement, sadness, bliss, anticipation, and affection. Her knowledge about the war and its consequence are beautifully written on the novel. The reader is transported to 1930 Israel, 1940 England, and make known to children and the world through their eyes. HIDDEN is finished up of two books. The first one takes place in Israel and tells the story of a family who wraps their past in mystery and keeps it hidden from the young granddaughter who lives with them. In back story the reader is led through the loveliness of Israel, the enticement of the marine, the excitement and virtue of new love, the misery of loss, and the price of war. It is a love story that ties generations together.

What really excite the reader is the real pain, emotion and tears which, he or she can feel while going through the whole book. We must understand that these kinds of feelings are helping Historical fictions to ride the crest of popularity, so much so that editors are now promoting not only individual historical novels but complete successions of historical fiction. For many years, publishers shied away from this genre, viewing it as fewer in demand among readers than modern-day fiction or nonfiction. In fact many senior editors referred historical fictions as being something of an embarrassment, like an elderly comparative, to be endured out of a sense of responsibility and unwillingly supported in a situation of refined poverty. However, World War 2 Historical Fiction is getting more support because of its humane touch relevancy and connectivity to the present day and of course to the reader’s mind set. The real “truth” of historical fiction popularity is the following reasons like the query of equilibrium between historic particulars and imaginary elements, the request for genuineness and correctness, and the matter of origin has helped the historical fiction to gain momentum in the world global fan page.

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