Lavender, known as La to her friends, flees London in 1939 hoping to escape the horrors of war and the memories of her shattered marriage, and to combat boredom and despair in her new town, La creates an orchestra that boosts the town's morale and shows people the beauty of music and friendship.

Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer, orphaned when his parents both commit suicide on the same day, goes to live with his aunt and uncle in Nova Scotia in 1941 and falls in love with Tilda, his cousin by adoption, but things go tragically wrong when Tilda brings home German student Hans Mohring, a young man viewed with suspicion by everyone in town.

Three sisters living in Chicago at the end of World War II struggle to cope with rations, metal drives, and the uncertainty of their futures as their boyfriends and fiances fight overseas.

The lives of a young English nurse and her forbidden Indian lover are tragically altered as Britain struggles to hold on to her most precious possession, the colony of India, during World War II.

Naomi Nakane, a child of Japanese immigrant parents, is interned by the Canadians at the beginning of World War II when she is five years old.

Samuel and Julia Wortham find their faith and their relationship with one another tested after their son joins the army after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

A fictionalized account of the final months of World War II that recounts the experiences of the Allied soldiers and military leaders who faced the German army and the atrocities they left in their wake.

Costa Zannis, a senior police officer who deals with special political cases, tries to secure an escape route from Berlin to the Greek port city of Salonika and then into Turkey while the Nazis of World War II are busy conquering the rest of Europe in 1940, but his task is complicated by spies from the Turkish legation and the German secret service and Zannis becomes a target for the Gestapo.

Jews have limited opportunities in Hungary in the years prior to World War II, so Andras Levi leaves to Paris to study architecture, where he meets Klara, a fellow Hungarian; but when war breaks out, he and Klara return to their homeland where they take up the fight against the Nazis.

British officer Max Chadwick, having been assigned to manipulate the news on Malta in an attempt to maintain the Maltese people's loyalty to the war effort, uncovers evidence that indicates a fellow officer murdered a young island woman, and conducts an undercover investigation while trying to figure out how to go about revealing what he learns.