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Berlin, in den 1940er-Jahren: Martha E. ist fleißig und äußerst sparsam. Gute Eigenschaften für die Stelle als Hausbesorgerin, die sie im Schöneberger Mietshaus der Brüder Berkowitz innehat. Liane Berkowitz kommt aus gutem Hause, ein neugieriges und lebenslustiges Mädchen, das mitten im Krieg die Liebe kennenlernt – und den Widerstand gegen die Nationalsozialisten. Jahrzehnte später wandert Martha die Straßen Schönebergs entlang, zerlumpt und abgerissen. Jeder kennt sie, doch keiner weiß, wer sie wirklich ist: eine Millionärin und Zeugin von Lianes schicksalhaftem Leben.

Under den tyska ockupationen av Nederländerna dras tobaksägaren Henri Osewoudt med i motståndsrörelsen. Han rekryteras av den handlingskraftige Dorbeck och ges farliga uppdrag som han utför utan att tveka. Han framkallar illegala mörkrumsfilmer, samarbetar med brittiska spioner och likviderar oönskade motståndare. Han grips av tyskarna, flyr, fångas igen–det blir allt svårare för honom orientera sig i tillvaron. Han har själv flera namn. Vilket är hans riktiga?

A powerful blend of love, resilience, and history. Spanning from World War II through the 1990s, this lesbian historical romance explores the untold stories of women in the military—their struggles for recognition, the bonds of found family, and the courage to claim their own voice. This audiobook shines a light on the fight for equality and the triumph of self‐discovery.

Paris, 1940. With its cheerful, pink-painted walls, St Agnes Orphanage is the only place that Lucie has ever felt truly safe. Fleeing the German occupation of Paris broke her heart, so when she is separated from her sisters on the road, she makes the terrifying decision to return. The orphanage is unrecognisable – the walls painted stark white, the ivy and wisteria that once clambered over them cruelly destroyed. Lucie's heart stops when she sees the red and black Nazi flags hanging from the windows. She'd dreamt of the warmth of St Agnes every night, but her home has new owners.

Christmas is coming, and Alice Starling is trying hard to get into the festive spirit. Two years ago, she lost her beloved husband at Dunkirk, and it feels like a piece of her heart will always be missing. With almost nightly raids on London, all Alice can think about is her important work defending the city with the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force until, on a rare night out with her friends Nell, George, and Maeve, she encounters US Army Lieutenant Brogan Rafferty.

En roman om den tidligste barndom. Handlingen udspilles under anden verdenskrig i en kvistlejlighed i Nyhavn – i Københavns inderste by. I Nyhavn er der studerende og kunstnere, modstandsfolk og betjente, sømænd, bolværksmatroser og ludere – og en lyd af banjomusik og skibes evindelige tuden.

Hamburg, 1913: Als Hedda ihre Stelle als Obergärtnerin bei der jüdischen Bankiersfamilie Clarenburg antritt, hat sie es nicht leicht. Auf dem parkähnlichen Anwesen oberhalb der Elbe ist sie die erste Frau auf diesem Posten und wird von den ausschließlich männlichen Kollegen entsprechend kritisch beäugt. Auch körperlich wird ihr viel abverlangt, denn das Anwesen über der Elbe ist riesig, und der Erste Weltkrieg fordert ihr gärtnerisches Können noch einmal besonders heraus.

In 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic, Nabiha “Bea” Nohra is traveling to America to find work, eager to earn the funds necessary to afford passage for the family she left in Lebanon. On the same ship, heiress Marguerite Ashby sails home to celebrate her engagement to a dull British lord, a...

Thirteen-year-old Lisa has escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. She arrives in London unable to speak a word of English, her few belongings crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind. Lonely and homesick, Lisa is adopted by a childless couple. But when the Blitz blows her new home apart, she wakes up in hospital with no memory of who she is or where she came from. The authorities give her a new name and dispatch her to a children's home. With the war raging around her, what will become of Lisa now?

Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage – not knowing that the papers she has signed will entitle them to do what they like with the children. And it is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of orphans to their sister institution in Australia. Among them – without their family's consent or knowledge – are Rita and Rosie, the throwaway children.

From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Yellow Birds comes a gorgeous, haunting love story set in the Virginia mountains and on the battlefields of World War I France. Ewer’s Rock, Virginia, 1917. Roy Young is restless, eager to leave this isolated rural valley for university and...

Un viaggio a ritroso che porterà il lettore a Berlino alla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, poi in Provenza, fino al Campo di concentramento di Fossoli e in seguito a quello di Alberobello, la Casa Rossa. Fino a quando, ai giorni nostri, Sara decide di portare la nonna ad Avignone, dove riceverà una sorpresa inaspettata.

Le vite parallele di due ragazzi nati agli albori del Novecento e costretti a una vocazione forzata: Marcello proviene da una famiglia piemontese di pastori, Francesco è figlio di un armatore genovese e di una contessa che, per punire il marito seduttore, costringe alla tonaca il figlio da lui prediletto. Malinconico e fragile il primo, avventuroso e dalla straordinaria bellezza il secondo. Ormai adulti, si incontrano in Vaticano, dove Marcello assiste Francesco, divenuto cardinale, nella traduzione delle encicliche papali. Tra loro nasce una profonda e inaspettata amicizia.

Pompeo crede nel fascismo, si arruola volontario e combatte con le Camicie Nere. A casa, a Villa Potenza, sua moglie Dina lotta contro le difficoltà di sopravvivere con il proprio duro lavoro, di crescere i figli da sola, di fronteggiare il nemico tedesco e l'ostilità crescente dei suoi compaesani.

La nipote di una anziana donna slovena, morta da poco, torna da Parigi per svuotare la casa di sua nonna Ivana, quando trova una foto di lei, visibilmente incinta, che stringe fra le braccia una bambina: "Ma come" si chiede, "non era figlia unica mamma?". La donna si mette alla ricerca del significato di quell'immagine, stridente come un bianco e nero privo di grigio. Una fotografia che il Secondo conflitto mondiale sembra aver lasciato proprio perché fosse lei a scoprirlo.

Una storia ambientata durante la Prima guerra mondiale e negli anni successivi, e ispirata alla vicenda della scultrice Anna Coleman Ladd, la donna che restituì la dignità ai volti deturpati dal conflitto. Amore, amicizia e legami familiari in un'intensa narrazione.

Dimenticate tutto quello che sapete sul nazismo. Preparatevi alla verità. Settembre 2015. Germania, Foresta Nera. Karl Jerzyck, professore di criminologia di Monaco, scopre casualmente delle ossa in un borgo vicino a Karlsruhe. I resti appartengono a persone scomparse venticinque anni prima in circostanze mai chiarite. Jerzyck e Arno Schultze, ex ispettore della Kripo che al tempo aveva seguito il caso, riprendono a investigare. Si trovano coinvolti nelle trame di alcuni gruppi neonazisti legati a sette esoteriche e occulte.

A priest experiencing a crisis of faith and the married woman to whom he is attracted. A scroll newly discovered near Jerusalem that, if authentic, could open Christianity to a complete reinterpretation. A tragic love affair unfolding in Fascist-dominated Rome during World War II. These are the...

1942: Saba Tarcan is a talented young singer with big dreams. So when an opportunity arises to entertain the troops in the Middle East, she jumps at the chance, cutting short a burgeoning love affair with a young RAF pilot, Dom. It soon becomes clear that entertaining won’t be Saba’s only mission. It's a move that will jeopardize not only her own safety, but also the love of her life.

In this “thrilling, seductive, and utterly absorbing” (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author) historical suspense novel in the tradition of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile and Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Cabin 10, pre-war tension and forbidden romance abound, and not...