Also not strictly h/b or noir but definitely dark and
truthful - British writer Alexander Baron's war trilogy -
From The City, From The Plough ( D Day and the events leading
up to it), There's No Home (set in Sicily, during a lacuna in
the war) and The Human Kind ( the whole damn thing, filmed as
The Victors by Carl Foreman). Baron was a fine writer, who
later wrote the London noir classic The Lowlife, and the
books are firmly rooted in his own experience serving in
Italy and Normandy.
Lighter but quite noir are one of my favourite series in
contemp fiction - Alan First's wartime novels, the new one
Dark Voyage is pretty good, but it's worth starting with the
earlier ones - The World At Night for instance.
Getting a bit closer to on-topic Ross Thomas's excellent The
Eighth Dwarf is set in Germany just after the war - a very
noir time indeed.
John
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