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El 8 de noviembre de 1939, apenas comenzada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Adolf Hitler dio un discurso inusualmente corto en una cervecería de Múnich. Once minutos después de que abandonara el lugar, estalló una bomba que alguien había instalado bajo el estrado. La explosión derrumbó parte del edificio y dejó ocho muertos. De haber seguido allí, con toda seguridad Hitler habría sido asesinado. Jorge Carrasco nos sumerge en un momento crucial del siglo XX y nos descubre la vida de este héroe discreto que se atrevió a hacer frente al horror.

In the ghetto, the last 50,000 Jews await their fate, but, unlike those who preceded them to the death camps, these Jews are prepared to fight. Jan Kalisz, Kripo investigator and Resistance double-agent, has promised to supply them with weapons. But how will he fulfil his vow? The murder of a German officer appears to provide an opportunity.

Der packende neue Band der großen Familiensaga von Bestsellerautorin Mina Baites. Berlin, 1917: Der große Krieg fordert unzählige Opfer. Um seine Familie und die Arbeiter von Schuherzeugung Breitenbach & Sohn durchzubringen, ist Georg beinahe jedes Mittel recht, und sei es noch so gefährlich. Unterdessen muss Felix seine schwangere Frau und den kleinen Sohn zurücklassen und in Nordfrankreich an der Front kämpfen. Auch Carolines Tochterfirma in Mailand ist in Schwierigkeiten und sie hat eine schwere Entscheidung zu treffen.

Two Necklaces is the story of a German girl's coming of age who dares to think for herself at a time when that very act was dangerous, even life-threatening. It delves into the very nature of the human condition with its frailty, strength, and the struggle of mind and heart.

Может ли пришелец из будущего в одиночку изменить мир? Умные политики и маститые ученые доказывают нам, что нет. Но Илья Лисов не знал этого авторитетного мнения. Против своего желания оказавшись 22 июня 1941 года на советско-германской границе, он вынужден был вступить в бой с фашистами просто для того, чтобы выжить. А потом, освоившись в новом времени, Илья решает сделать попытку повлиять на события, чтобы уменьшить количество погибших в войне. С трудом, но это ему удается. И вот на дворе — конец лета 1944 года.

هكذا بدأ الكاتب روايته ليؤسس لفكرةٍ عظيمة تتمحور حول الشعوب ومدى ارتباطها بأفكار وقرارات قادتها وزعمائها الذين يخلدهم التاريخ رغم طغيانهم عن طريق حكاية آلةٍ موسيقية أثرية لا تقدَّر بثمن تنتقل عبر ثلاثة قرون قبل أن تصل إلى يد عائلةٍ ألمانية تُعاصر الحكم النازي فتصير الآلة إرثًا لأبناء العائلة اللواتي يتفرقن بعد سقوط النازية وتمدّد حائط برلين.

"England, 1940. Dearest Ruby, you must have heard the news by now. The very worst has happened. Our countries are at war. What can I do? How can I stop this nightmare from happening? One day soon we’ll be together again. I swear. I love you. E. x". Ruby Summers is a tapestry of memories, her ninety-six years laced with both love and loss. The echoes of a wartime Norfolk summer, where young Ruby's heart entwined with Edmondo's under orchard skies, are as vivid as ever. Yet a single, haunting secret - born from a love tested by war and a betrayal that shattered her - remains locked within her.

1943. Alice Fafard, vingt ans, étudie à l’École normale pour devenir enseignante. Elle suit avec un mélange de résignation et de désenchantement une voie déjà toute tracée. Son Brevet obtenu, elle cherche un poste dans une école de la région, en attendant de trouver un prétendant en cette époque où les hommes de son âge se font rares. Pourtant, derrière ses airs tranquilles se cache une grande passionnée de mathématiques, un domaine dans lequel elle excelle. Plus que tout, Alice veut vivre pleinement, goûter à la liberté au-delà des limites imposées aux femmes.

Assigned to US Navy Rescue Tug, the ATR-3X, not long after the German surrender in North Africa, Ensign Hal Goff and four other officers must support the Allied invasion of Sicily and Italy, shepherding navy ships to and from the bitter fighting. With the Allied advance finally stopped cold along the Winter Line beneath Monte Cassino, Hal and his ship become part of the grueling invasion of Anzio and the seemingly endless stalemate across Anzio's bloody beaches. Phillip Parotti's thrilling novel treats his listeners to gripping World War II naval action in the Mediterranean Sea.

It’s 1913 when Mina, the young and carefree daughter of a Jewish merchant, roams into a forest on the edge of the Baltic Sea looking for mushrooms. Instead, she encounters a gang of unruly, charismatic Bolsheviks—an adventure that will become the stuff of familial lore for generations to come. Intending to save her from further corruption, and in an act that forever changes the trajectory of their family’s life, Mina and her eldest brother, Jossel, board a ship to England.

After the horrors of World War One, disillusioned army chaplain John Elliot arrives at Hern Hall, an isolated estate in the mist-shrouded English countryside. The mystery of the estate's tragic past seems to linger in the shadows when John catches a glimpse of a drowned child's face beneath the dark waters of the lake.

In a sleepy German village, Allina Strauss’s life seems idyllic: she works at her uncle’s bookshop, makes strudel with her aunt, and spends weekends with her friends and fiancé. But it's 1939, Adolf Hitler is Chancellor, and Allina’s family hides a terrifying secret—her birth mother was Jewish, making her a Mischling. One fateful night after losing everyone she loves, Allina is forced into service as a nurse at a state-run baby factory called Hochland Home. There, she becomes both witness and participant to the horrors of Heinrich Himmler’s ruthless eugenics program.

In the heat of World War II, deep behind enemy lines, there are missions so secret that even history forgot about them—until now. The second explosive installment in the Code Name series uncovers one of the most daring and covert operations in WWII—so much so that it had to be cleared for publication by the Department of Defense eighty years after the real-world mission took place.

In this fifth book of the epic Barton Family Series, Hattie Barton finally marries her first love, Will Kendrick, and is set to travel with him to Shanghai where he’d served as a missionary after their broken engagement thirty years earlier. A family crisis interrupts their plans and Will is forced to go alone to Shanghai. He is detained when the US enters World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية يقع جنديٌّ مصري في الأسر من قبل الجيش الإنجليزي ليتنقَّل بين السجون والمعسكرات وينتهي به المطاف جنديًا في جيش المرتزقة يُقاتل أناسًا لا يعرفهم ويدافع عن بلادٍ لا تمتُّ له بصلة الأمر الذي يولِّد عنده مشاعر غريبة ودوافع لا متناهية للانتقام..

"El destino de un hombre" de MIJAIL SHOLOJOV es una lección de entereza de un hombre, sometido al horror del cautiverio nazi, y sus sueños por sobrevivir y de reencontrar algún día a los suyos. El marco histórico es el de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y a través de un monólogo, realista al mejor estilo ruso, el personaje Andréi Sokolov nos cuenta la historia de una Unión Soviética angustiada por la invasión alemana.

Four people's lives are dramatically torn apart by a single terrifying event. Two days before Christmas the express train to Strasbourg crashes into a local train in the winter darkness outside Paris. On board is Gilles Malroux, a man with a shady past and a strong reason to avoid the police. In the mayhem of the crash he is badly injured but to avoid capture by the police he swaps identity papers with one of the other victims of the impact. Gilles tries to flee in the dark but finds himself taken to the house of a woman he doesn't know but who calls him Davide.

It is 1944, and Twyla Campbell has been transporting fighter planes to Alaska for the Army Air Force, President Roosevelt, and Premier Stalin. In Fairbanks she befriended Marina, a Russian pilot with indefatigable courage and an odd sense of humor. When tragedy struck again, Twyla boarded a transport, only to find herself arrested on the Eastern Front scheduled for execution.

Book One of the Twyla & the Warbirds saga, Family Lost, traces a difficult path for an American-Ukrainian rural girl from Boonville California. At a tender age, Twyla Campbell loses her family in a freak aeroplane accident. Her young life is salvaged from indenture by the neighbor boy, who teaches her to fly.

1940: Dover waits for the Nazi invasion… but what if Hitler's agents are already here, among them? Canadian journalist Jessica Marshall is reporting from Dover as the town is on the brink of a German invasion. But her story never makes it into the paper… Meanwhile, Louis Renard, an intelligent, damaged man and onetime Scotland Yard murder detective, is recuperating from wounds received in the Dunkirk invasion, working in Dover's barely functioning police station.