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Ellie Midwood Books in Order

Browse Ellie Midwood books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and clear starting points for her World War II novels and thrillers.

Last updated: June 10, 2026

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The New York Doll

by Ellie Midwood

2014

Mila comes to New York from Russia chasing freedom and reinvention, only to find a much harsher city than she imagined. Her story traces work, survival, and self-discovery on the city's edges.

Gruppenführer's Mistress

by Ellie Midwood

2015

Annalise is already playing a deadly double game when grief pushes her toward revenge. To strike at Heydrich, she must work dangerously close to Ernst Kaltenbrunner, a man she neither trusts nor fully understands.

The Brooklyn Boys Club

by Ellie Midwood

2015

Born and raised in Bensonhurst, Renzo grows up fast in a world of neighborhood codes, petty crime, and mob-adjacent bravado. It is a rough, funny, restless coming-of-age story with real bite.

The Girl from Berlin

by Ellie Midwood

2015

In prewar Berlin, Annalise Meissner, a Jewish ballerina living under false papers, is swept into espionage after marrying Heinrich Friedmann. Together they try to save lives while hiding inside the machinery of the Reich.

War Criminal's Widow

by Ellie Midwood

2015

As Nazi Germany collapses, Annalise must choose between escape, loyalty, and the future promised by the Allies. The end of the war brings freedom, but not an end to consequence.

Emilia

by Ellie Midwood

2016

Emilia is a young Jewish woman whose life narrows from ghetto streets to the camps. Faced with brutal choices, she fights to protect herself and the people she loves without losing the last pieces of herself.

The Austrian

by Ellie Midwood

2016

From a cell in Nuremberg, Ernst Kaltenbrunner looks back on the choices that made him a powerful Nazi. The novel follows his rise through Austria and Germany without softening the darkness of that path.

The Austrian, Part 2

by Ellie Midwood

2016

Ernst's story continues as war, power, and private obsessions pull him deeper into the Reich. With prison and the past closing in on each other, the cost of every compromise grows harder to escape.

The Indigo Rebels

by Ellie Midwood

2017

In occupied Paris, siblings Giselle, Kamille, and Marcel are pulled into very different battles against the invaders. Love, fear, and resistance bind their fates together as France falls under Nazi rule.

The Lyon Affair

by Ellie Midwood

2017

The fight moves from Paris to Lyon, where resistance cells, collaborators, and spies crowd every street. Blanche and her allies must decide what they are willing to sacrifice for a country still under occupation.

A Motherland's Daughter, A Fatherland's Son

by Ellie Midwood

2018

Soviet interpreter and sniper Kira Miloslavskaya falls in love with German officer Werner Suss as Europe tears itself apart. Their romance crosses enemy lines and keeps colliding with war.

Liberation

by Ellie Midwood

2018

With the resistance battered but unbroken, the fighters in occupied France face betrayal, terror, and the long wait for Allied landings. The war is turning, but the Gestapo is getting more dangerous.

Of Knights and Dogfights

by Ellie Midwood

2018

Four young pilots enter flight school in 1938 dreaming of the freedom of the sky. As the war spreads across Europe and beyond, loyalty, friendship, and illusion are tested to the limit.

Killing the Hangman

by Ellie Midwood

2019

A small Czech resistance team is ordered to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, the Hangman of Prague. The novella follows the fear, urgency, and sacrifice behind a mission that offers almost no second chances.

The Girl in the Striped Dress

by Ellie Midwood

2019

Helena arrives at Auschwitz expecting death, but a guard's impulsive choice spares her life. Their forbidden bond unfolds inside the camp, where survival, guilt, and love are painfully entangled.

The Girl Who Survived

by Ellie Midwood

2019

Deported to the Minsk ghetto, young Ilse joins the underground and clings to life. Then an impossible bond with a German officer forces her to weigh love, survival, and betrayal.

Metropolis

by Ellie Midwood

2020

In 1920s Berlin, Margot is pulled back from despair and into the city's wild creative life. Her path leads to photographer Paul Schneider and the set of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, where art and politics collide.

Spies

by Ellie Midwood

2020

Weimar Berlin looks glittering again, but danger is gathering beneath the surface. When Margot is asked to help the German communists and Goebbels begins his rise, staying neutral is no longer possible.

The Aftermath

by Ellie Midwood

2020

In ruined Berlin, Auschwitz survivor Tadeusz works with American intelligence to track a fleeing SS officer. To find him, he must win over the man's daughter, who still believes the lies she was raised on.

The Violinist of Auschwitz

by Ellie Midwood

2020

Alma Rosé is forced to conduct the women's orchestra at Auschwitz, a role that can save lives even as it serves the camp. Music becomes both weapon and refuge in a place built to erase hope.

The Girl on the Platform

by Ellie Midwood

2021

In Berlin in 1939, Libby runs from her Nazi-allied family and is drawn into the resistance by Harro, the man she loves. As surveillance tightens, separation may prove as deadly as arrest.

The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz

by Ellie Midwood

2021

Mala Zimetbaum uses her position as an interpreter to help fellow prisoners survive Auschwitz. When she falls for resistance fighter Edward, they dare the unthinkable and plan an escape together.

The White Rose Network

by Ellie Midwood

2022

At Munich University, Sophie Scholl finds allies, love, and purpose in a student resistance cell. As leaflets spread and the Gestapo closes in, every act of defiance becomes a final test of courage.

The Wife Who Risked Everything

by Ellie Midwood

2022

In 1943 Berlin, Margot joins the wives protesting outside Gestapo headquarters after her Jewish husband is seized. Their love story becomes a public act of defiance in the heart of Nazi Germany.

The Child Who Lived

by Ellie Midwood

2023

Sent to Mauthausen after helping a Jewish friend, a young Viennese woman finds love in the camp and then discovers she is pregnant. To save her baby, she may have to surrender the child she fought to keep.

The Undercover Secretary

by Ellie Midwood

2023

In occupied France, Dora Schaul infiltrates the Gestapo as a secretary and smuggles names to the resistance. Every typed letter and casual office routine could expose her and cost her life.

I Have to Save Them

by Ellie Midwood

2024

Nurse Orli is forced to work beside Josef Mengele at Auschwitz, where every day brings new horrors. She and the women around her risk everything to hide children and outwit the camp's most feared doctor.

When the World Went Silent

by Ellie Midwood

2024

Deaf physicist Mina is taken to Berlin because the Nazis want her mind for their atomic program. She must decide whether to help them survive the war or sabotage a weapon that could kill millions.

The Photographer's Secret

by Ellie Midwood

2025

American photojournalist Maggie Sullivan enters Germany in 1944 with a camera and a secret past. When evidence points toward her own family, her mission to expose the camps turns painfully personal.

To Save Her Husband

by Ellie Midwood

2025

In 1933 Berlin, Aurelia sees the world closing around her Jewish husband, Max. Separated by fear, power, and family ties to the regime, she must decide what she is willing to trade to keep him alive.

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The Woman in Seat 13

by Ellie Midwood

2026

After surviving a plane crash that kills the stranger beside her, a woman tries to rebuild her life in a new apartment. Then the notes start arriving, and survival begins to look like the beginning of a trap.

Where should I start?

If you want Holocaust stories based on true events: The Girl Who Escaped from AuschwitzThe Violinist of AuschwitzThe Girl in the Striped Dress
If you want resistance and espionage: The White Rose NetworkThe Undercover SecretaryThe Girl on the Platform
If you want a longer Nazi Germany saga: The Girl from BerlinGruppenführer's MistressWar Criminal's Widow
If you want occupied France and family drama: The Indigo RebelsThe Lyon AffairLiberation
If you want Weimar Berlin before the fall: MetropolisSpies

Author bio

Ellie Midwood writes historical fiction that stays close to the human cost of war. Most of her books are set in Nazi Germany or occupied Europe, and many focus on people trying to keep their dignity, loyalty, or humanity when the world around them has turned cruel and unstable.

Her interest in the Second World War started early. She has spoken about hearing her grandfather's frontline stories when she was young, and those stories stayed with her. Over time, that early curiosity turned into serious reading, collecting, and research, especially around Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and the everyday lives of people trapped inside those systems.

That curiosity became a career.

After earning a BA in Linguistics, Midwood decided to write full time and began work on her first full-length historical novel, The Girl from Berlin. That book set the tone for much of what followed. She writes page-turning plots, but she is just as interested in moral pressure, private grief, divided loyalties, and the way ordinary people make choices inside impossible situations.

A lot of readers first meet her through books like The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz, The Violinist of Auschwitz, or The Girl in the Striped Dress. Those novels, all rooted in real events, show what she does well: close-up storytelling, strong emotional stakes, and a steady focus on survival without smoothing away the horror. In books like The White Rose Network, The Undercover Secretary, and The Girl on the Platform, she turns toward resistance work, espionage, and the quiet bravery of people who fight back with leaflets, false papers, coded messages, and timing.

She also likes stepping outside the most familiar wartime settings.

Series such as The Indigo Rebels and The Austrian let her widen the lens. One moves into occupied France and the French Resistance. The other looks at war, guilt, and power from the point of view of Ernst Kaltenbrunner, which makes for a darker and more uncomfortable read. Then there is Metropolis, which goes back to Weimar Berlin and the making of Fritz Lang's film, showing that her interest is not only in the war years themselves, but in the unstable world that came before them.

Again and again, Midwood returns to people caught inside systems larger than themselves. Some resist openly. Some compromise. Some survive by doing things they will hate themselves for later. Even when her novels include romance, the real tension often comes from clashing duties, shifting identities, and the question of what decency can still look like under pressure.

That focus is tied to the way she works. Midwood has said that she is always adding to her library and feeding her research habit with wartime documents, memoirs, and memorabilia. Some of her early books also picked up award recognition, including The Girl from Berlin, The Austrian, Emilia, and A Motherland's Daughter, A Fatherland's Son, which helped bring more readers to her work.

She lives in New York, and that mix of city energy and deep archival curiosity seems to suit her. If you are new to her books, you can start with one of the Holocaust novels based on true stories for a standalone read, or with The Girl from Berlin if you want a longer, twistier series. Either way, you will quickly get a feel for what Midwood does best, intimate stories set inside very large events.

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