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A gripping novel of America’s King of Swing stranded in Nazi Germany—inspired by true events. Big band leader George Alton is savoring his climb to fame in America when war begins to consume Europe. Determined to serve, he enlists in the Army and is soon sent across the Atlantic—not to fight, but to lift the spirits of Allied soldiers with his trumpet and his music. When the war is nearing its end, George’s plane crashes inside Nazi Germany. With the help of a brave tavern-keeper, he hides in a quiet town where danger lurks in hidden corners and trust is never certain.

The life and tribulations of Lotte, a German girl in Nuremberg, after WW2 ends. How she copes with life after the Nazis are gone is lived by a young woman trying to survive occupation by the Allies unlucky in various ways.

Der Roman erzählt vom Leben in einer deutschen Stadt in den Jahren von 1920 bis 1934 am Beispiel der Geschicke von fünf Familien, die ganz unterschiedliche gesellschaftliche Milieus repräsentieren. Im Vordergrund die Kinder, sowohl des klassenbewussten, politisch engagierten Arbeiters als auch des großbürgerlichen jüdischen Bankiers. Daneben die des liberalen, konfessionslosen intellektuellen Arztes, des faschistischen Kleinbürgers und schließlich des verarmten ostjüdischen Einwanderers.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Frederic Henry is an American serving as a lieutenant in the Italian ambulance corps, drinking his way through a war that has not yet touched him personally. Catherine Barkley is an English nurse at the hospital in Gorizia whose fiancé was blown to...

Утром 22 июня 1941 года молодой лётчик летит на биплане У-2 к границе, чтобы передать приказ командующего Западным военным округом генерала Павлова. Это война? Или провокация? Ответа нет, связь потеряна, этим утром никто ничего не знает. Рушатся военные планы, совершают внезапный поворот человеческие жизни.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Paul Bäumer is nineteen when his schoolmaster talks his whole class into enlisting. Within weeks the boys learn what their teachers never told them: that a generation can be destroyed by the war even when it escapes the shells. At the front Paul and...

Året är 1944 och fronten närmar sig den estniska staden Tartu. Urmakaren Rein Aule tvingas bryta fyra års tystnad för sin hustru Liina: han har i hemlighet förbättrat en tysk krypteringsmaskin, och nu är han en jagad man. Tre stormakter vill till varje pris kontrollera hans unika kunskap...

An all new edition from the best-selling author of ME BEFORE YOU and THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER. A moving novel based on a true story. Australia, 1946. 650 brides are departing for England to meet the men they married in wartime. But instead of the luxury liner they were expecting, they...

Set in 1945 between Hitler's death and Hiroshima, The Second Child is a satirical thriller about one young woman's plot to outsmart the supreme dictators in a world on fire. From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The First Friend. You can't choose your family, but you can choose...

Defeat is a moment; victory is a legacy. In the blistering heat of the North African desert, the air crackles with tension as the unrelenting Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel, closes in on the beleaguered forces of the Allied troops. Private John ‘Hawkeye’ Sharratt, a battle-sharpened soldier...

The clever and compelling tale of a war-scarred journalist caught in the lives of a country rebuilding itself from one of the greatest chroniclers of our times, Kate Atkinson. It's the summer of 1951 and everyone is looking to put the dark days of the war behind them. The government’s solution...

Welcome to the Hotel Artemis - and an opening night to remember. The White Lotus meets Peaky Blinders in this page-turning new mystery from the bestselling author of The Housekeepers. 'Wildly entertaining, twisty, and elegant (with a modern twist)... Alex Hay is a rare talent' WILL DEAN 'The...

Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis (1916) ha sido el primer best-seller de la historia y el libro más leído en los EE.UU. después de la Biblia, según The Illustrated London News. La novela cuenta la historia de dos familias provenientes de un tronco común, los Desnoyers y los Von Hartrott, que se enfrentan con el estallido de la contienda en Europa. En una metáfora del absurdo de la guerra, ambas familias terminan combatiendo en bandos opuestos en la Primera Guerra Mundial.

“A beautiful, moving portrait of lives reshaped by war and its aftermath. Tara Lynn Masih is a tremendous talent.” —Olivia Hawker, bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow An extraordinary novel inspired by the real women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee—the Manhattan...

Two brothers fight for survival in icy waters! For fans of Dewey Lambdin, Patrick O’Brian, Nicholas Monsarrat, C.S. Forester and Max Hennessy. The worst journey in the world…1941. Twin brothers Romulus and Remus Hutchinson have been serving in a range of challenging environments as the naval threat intensifies, but none more so than the icy waters of the Arctic. Following the trauma of the death of a family member in a Luftwaffe bombing raid on Liverpool, the twins are battling with their grief as they fight to survive in the face of the most ruthless of enemies and the harshest of climates.

Deutschland 1945, der Krieg hat viele Träume zerstört. Auch die von drei Freundinnen in Tübingen: Helene will Ärztin werden, Charlotte hatte von einer Karriere als Schauspielerin geträumt, und Eleonore will einfach an der Seite eines geliebten Mannes ein gutes Leben führen. Als Charlotte merkt, dass sie von dem marokkanischen Besatzungssoldaten Amir schwanger ist, steht sie vor einer schwierigen Entscheidung. Ihre Freundin Eleonore hat dasselbe Problem. Der Roman erzählt kenntnisreich eine Geschichte von Aufbruch, Verleugnung und Enttäuschung. Aber auch von Hoffnung und Zuversicht.

Na het overlijden van haar ouders moet het vissersmeisje Julie voor haar jongere broers en zusje zorgen. Samen proberen ze stand te houden in een bestaan dat wordt getekend door armoede en ontbering. In oktober wordt de kuststad ingenomen door het Duitse leger. De bewoners kreunen onder bombardementen, voedseltekorten en de strenge hand van de bezetter. Om tijdens die harde oorlogsjaren te overleven, wordt Julie een alsjeblieftmeisje: gedwongen om als prostituee te werken voor de Duitse soldaten.

Two friends. Two lifetimes. One unfinished promise. On the first night of Hanukkah, a brick crashes through the window of Adara Cohen’s home, breaking a sacred, defiant night of celebration. Inside, three of her children are badly injured. Outside, a small Midwestern community is forced to confront the repercussions of an act of hatred that echoes a bloodstained past. For Adara’s closest friend, Lily Sullivan, the attack awakens more than anger.

When George Hardy, surgeon and photographer, sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers: Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.

Eine junge Frau kämpft um ihren Tulpenhof, ihre Familie und die Liebe – der neue bewegende Roman von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin Kerstin Lange Holland, 1940. Die Familie de Boer bewirtschaftet seit Generationen einen Tulpenhof. Ihr ganzer Stolz ist die legendäre Sorte »Kaiserblut«. Als deutsche Soldaten den Hof besetzen, zerbricht die Welt der 24-jährigen Femke. Ihr eigener Bruder kollaboriert mit den Besatzern, beide Eltern sind krank.