Which World War 2 Books Follow Civilian Survival Under Occupation?

I keep circling back to 'A Woman in Berlin'. It's a journal, really, not a novel, but the line blurs. That's what makes it so devastating. It charts the daily, grinding terror of a woman in Berlin during the Soviet advance in 1945. It's not about battlefields; it's about bartering for food, hiding in cellars, and the brutal compromises of survival. The resilience here isn't heroic or glamorous. It's a quiet, dogged, and often ugly determination to see the next sunrise, told with a stark, unflinching honesty that fictional accounts often smooth over. For a different axis of civilian life, Hans Fallada's 'Alone in Berlin' is monumental. It follows a working-class Berlin couple, the Quangels, after their son is killed. Their grief manifests in a tiny, seemingly futile act of resistance: dropping postcards criticizing the regime around the city. The tension is almost unbearable because the threat isn't a distant army but the neighbor downstairs, the grocery clerk. Their resilience is found in that stubborn, quiet refusal to be complicit, even when it costs them everything. The book’s pace is deliberate, building a crushing portrait of how tyranny seeps into apartment blocks and family dinners. On the Allied side, Elizabeth Bowen's 'The Heat of the Day' captures the strange, suspended reality of London during the Blitz. The resilience is in the continued cocktail parties and fraught romantic liaisons, all happening under the constant threat of bombs. It’s a brilliant study of how personal betrayals and national loyalties intertwine when the social fabric is under immense strain. The resilience feels brittle, performed, and all the more human for it.

Does anyone else get overwhelmed by the sheer number of recommendations? I start one and then see three more in this thread that sound amazing. My 'to-read' pile is becoming a historical archive all by itself. Guess it's a good problem to have.