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A desperate search for a missing MI6 colleague and the microfilm he possesses leads Professor Katrin Nissen deep into the maelstrom of Nazi-controlled Berlin. Impulsive and reckless, Dieter Weiss may have pushed his luck too far and taken one chance too many. Against all odds, Katrin has just one week to find him.

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper, but she longs to be breaking the news herself. When she successfully applies for a junior reporter role at The Tyke, a magazine serving the Yorkshire Dales, she's thrilled – even if she only gets the position because so many men are away fighting. Bobby moves to the sleepy village of Silverdale, but she quickly discovers life in the countryside is a different world.

1939. Bess Dudley's life is filled with possibility. As the daughter of the groom at historic Foxden Hall, she has worked hard to secure a sought-after teaching position in London. Then, on a visit home for the holidays, Bess reconnects with handsome and aristocratic James Foxden, whom she has loved since childhood. There’s a new spark between them and Bess travels to London with James’s card and joy in her heart.

England, 1943: Deciding to throw herself into war work, Nancy Callaghan joins the Special Operations Executive in Baker Street. There, she begins solving ‘indecipherables’ – scrambled messages from agents in the field. Then Nancy meets Tom Lockwood, a quiet genius when it comes to coding. Together they come up with the idea of printing codes on silk, so agents can hide them in their clothing to avoid detection by the enemy. Nancy and Tom grow close, and soon she is hopelessly in love. But there is a traitor in Baker Street, and suspicions turn towards Tom.

Paris, 1940. Three years ago, talented art restorer Sophie fled to Paris to escape the horrors of the Nazi regime. But now, with her beloved adoptive city under occupation, Sophie is forced to work at the renowned Jeu de Paume, restoring the art ruthlessly stolen from Jewish families. Fabienne was a rising star of the glamorous Parisian art scene, until the Nazis put a stop to her craft. Mourning the loss of her husband, she's a shadow of her former self - until her estranged sister-in-law Sophie arrives at her door with a stolen painting in hand.

Promoted within the British intelligence service, Paul is sent to Algiers during a ceasefire announced by French General Darlan. But when a deadly new assignment pushes his skills to the limit, will he step up to the challenge of his new role? At Bletchley Park, Claire and her team of analysts discern from decoded messages that the Germans have employed a new type of radar that is decimating RAF bombers. And the messages she decodes grow more troubling by the hour.

Everything has finally fallen into place for Renee. So when vicar Roger asks her to support a new dance hall, it should be a great way to give back to the community. Except Renee has a terrible secret she is holding onto. One that Roger can never know about. Nancy will keep Renee's secret. But she's got her own problems: handsome GI Jack has turned her head, and the American soldiers are causing a stir. Temperance has made a new friend - but now that she has someone who can understand the challenges she faces, will her relationship with Archie survive?

When Amy's chosen as part of a programme to resettle displaced children in Canada, her life changes tack. Her great sadness is having to say goodbye to Ruth and Ellen, the friends who became family to her during the dark days at the orphanage. As she steps on board the ship to Montreal, the promise of a new life lies ahead. But during the long crossing, Amy discovers a terrifying secret.

Verona, 2001. Anna, ventinove anni, è una ragazza ingenua, ricca e viziata dall’adorato padre, un facoltoso imprenditore. Dopo la laurea in medicina Anna vuole specializzarsi in chirurgia plastica per aprire uno studio estetico, sposarsi e avere una famiglia. Quando però un ictus colpisce il padre e un misterioso amico gli fa visita, Anna inizia un’indagine sul passato in guerra del padre. Le tracce la conducono nell’Italia del 1944, nel pieno della furia omicida delle SS in fuga, quando le truppe scelte di Hitler trucidarono per vendetta almeno quindicimila civili.

Sophie Dix fled Stuttgart with her brother as the Nazi regime gained power in Germany. Now, with her brother gone and her adopted home city of Paris conquered by the Reich, Sophie reluctantly accepts a position restoring damaged art at the Jeu de Paume museum under the supervision of the ERR—a German art commission using the museum as a repository for art they’ve looted from Jewish families.

Emmy Lake is an agony aunt at Woman’s Friend magazine, doing all she can to help readers as they face the challenges of wartime life. With her column thriving and a team of women behind her, Emmy finally feels she is Doing Her Bit. But when the glamourous new owner arrives, everything changes. Charming her way around editor Guy Collins, Emmy quickly realises the Honourable Mrs Cressida Porter plans to destroy everything readers love about the magazine.

In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle.

A stunning and unexpected portrait of Lucy Maud Montgomery, creator of one of literature’s most prized heroines, whose personal demons were at odds with her most enduring legacy—the irrepressible Anne of Green Gables.

OSTATNIE TAKIE LATO... Sierpień 1939 roku był piękny – nadmorskie kurorty, takie jak Jurata, Chałupy czy Jastarnia tętniły życiem. Tylko niemiecki Sopot wydawał się nieco opustoszały, cichy, jakby już wiedział i zamarł w oczekiwaniu nieuchronnego... Od sielskich kresów przez kosmopolityczną Warszawę, aż po nadmorskie plaże niedawno odzyskanego morza, ludzie żyją i kochają, pełni nadziei i ufności. Wrześniowy świt w jednej chwili zmienia ich losy, obraca w nicość marzenia i plany. Pierwsze dni wojny są jedynie zapowiedzią nadchodzących lat, pełnych mroku i strachu, wypełnionych cierpieniem i lękiem o siebie i najbliższych.

Isaac, based on a true story, follows the journey of a Polish teen-aged boy from near-death to ultimate triumph. In parable-like prose, it captures Isaac's miraculous survival of the Nazi massacre of his family and fellow Poles and his escape into a vast, nightmarish European forest. After being saved by a gentile from near his village, Isaac joins a group of Russian partisans and becomes a demolition expert. He falls in love with a Russian partisan nurse while striving—even among the partisans—to hide his Jewish background.

Londres, 1940. Los pertinaces bombardeos han vuelto aún más plomizo el horizonte y han teñido de desesperanza los corazones de sus habitantes, pero Selina y Angelina han descubierto que el remedio para los malos augurios es una humeante taza de té. Juntas administran una acogedora cafetería que, pese a la prohibición de vender una pieza de pan por persona, busca ofrecer a sus clientes lo mejor.

Gdzieś w głębi serca wiedziała, że myślami wciąż będzie wracać do nieukojonej tęsknoty, do straconej szansy na miłość i do tamtego mężczyzny o szarym spojrzeniu. Do tamtej obietnicy, która nigdy się nie spełniła. Kończy się II Wojna Światowa, a w Polsce zaczyna się czas powojennej odbudowy i podnoszenia kraju z gruzów. Porucznik Szczepan Andryszek, służący podczas wojny w Wojsku Polskim pod rozkazami Sowietów, zostaje funkcjonariuszem podległym Urzędowi Bezpieczeństwa. Przez przełożonych zostaje oddelegowany do niewielkiej Nowej Soli na Ziemiach Odzyskanych.

Jest rok 1941. Alicja Sambor – lekarka chirurg – ucieka wraz z córką z Warszawy, gdzie dzień wcześniej jej mąż został rozstrzelany przez Gestapo. W trakcie podróży kobiety są świadkami wypadku, w którym ranny zostaje niemiecki żołnierz. Alicja, kierując się poczuciem obowiązku, ratuje mu życie i tym samym nieodwracalnie krzyżuje swoje drogi z komendantem Franzem Hizelem. W konsekwencji staje się wrogiem okolicznych mieszkańców i ukrywających się w pobliskich lasach partyzantów. Jej jedynym sprzymierzeńcem zostanie polski porucznik o pseudonimie „Zając”.

HISTORIA JOSEFA MENGELEGO, OSŁAWIONEGO ANIOŁA ŚMIERCI Z AUSCHWITZ. Wydarzenia w tej książce są oparte na faktach. Prawda bywa bardziej przerażająca od najwymyślniejszej fikcji. Josef Mengele był nie tylko zbrodniarzem, ale również opętanym szaleństwem pseudonaukowcem, który więźniów obozów koncentracyjnych wykorzystywał jako żywy materiał do swych chorych badań. Umyślne zarażanie wirusami, zszywanie tułowi kilku osób, operacje bez znieczulenia i wyrywanie płodów. To nie upiorne science-fiction, a prawdziwa historia. Do tego jedynie jej niewielka część. Ta książka opisuje znacznie więcej. Będziecie przerażeni tym, do czego zdolny jest człowiek.

June, 1941. Eleven-year-old Shmuel Sucha is startled awake by the sound of German planes over his hometown in western Ukraine. As the Nazi shadow begins to fall on their small Jewish community, Shmuel’s parents smuggle their son away to a local farm, just on the border of the surrounding forest.