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All Quiet on the Western Front stands as one of the greatest condemnations of war of all time. Follow a firsthand account of German enlisted man, Paul Baumer as he recounts details mundane and profound. His account moves and tears at our hearts with the horrors of war and the stark realities of humanity. All while somehow skirting around the question: Why?

The Eagle Scout Picture is a World War II espionage thriller that dives into themes of a spy pretending to be someone he is not and the consequences on his psyche and identity, his morality and the choices he is forced to make, and the duality of balancing the expectations of his American bosses while working in Hitler's war industry to make weapons to kill his countrymen.

After a crushing betrayal by the man she loves, Gillian Gibbons flees to her family home for a much-needed escape, but when she finds an old photograph of her grandmother in the arms of a Nazi officer, Gillian's life gets even more complicated. Rattled by the discovery, Gillian attempts to unravel the truth behind the photos, setting her off on an epic journey through the past..... Rattled by the discovery, Gillian attempts to unravel the truth behind the photos, setting her off on an epic journey through the past....

In this moving novel about the transformative power of storytelling, three women make life-changing decisions set in motion by the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco, shaping the legacy of their family’s Napa Valley winery forever, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris...

The Germans arrived with a plan to occupy a quiet French village. The French Resistance and Allied forces had other plans. Sturmbannführer Gunther Dettmer stands at the Franco-German border, poised with Hitler's war machine to unleash the western Blitzkrieg. Six hundred kilometers away, WWI veteran René Legrand tends to his fields in peaceful Sainte-Mère-Église, trying to forget his past as the French army's deadliest assassin

'Everything you want in a story' - Helen Paris, author of The Invisible Women's Club 'Immersive, thrilling . . . I loved every moment' - Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City WHEN THE WORLD IS BURNING, HOW MUCH IS THERE TO LOSE? London, 1941. As the city thrums with Blitz bombers, lonely air...

In the Jewish district of Leopoldstadt, Felix Wolff watches his beloved city transform into a nightmare. As people are rounded up and sent to destinations whispered in terror, Felix’s world shatters when his father is bound for Dachau. Determined to save his father, Felix makes a fateful decision that places him directly in the Gestapo’s sights, forever altering his destiny.

In the summer of 1921, outside the medieval town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Hanz Wolff finds twin baby girls in a wicker basket in his barn. Wrapped in woolen blankets embroidered with the Star of David, a note begs the German farmer and his barren wife to love and raise them as their own. Believing it to be a gift from God, the ecstatic couple keep the newborns’ Semitic heritage a secret, claiming that Maria had birthed them at home.

The descent into darkness during World War II reveals a chilling yet fascinating facet of human behavior under extreme duress. In the unforgiving landscapes of Singapore and New Guinea, Japanese soldiers engaged in acts of cannibalism that transcended mere survival instincts. This horrific practice was not solely driven by starvation but became a macabre ritual, a twisted means of reinforcing camaraderie among soldiers. The act of consuming the flesh of captured POWs served as a grim assertion of power, a stark statement that they had dominion over life and death.

Жизнь американского летчика Мики была очень проста: он сражался за свою страну, выполнял приказы старших, мечтал о возвращении домой. Проста оказалась и его смерть. Летом 1945 года его бомбардировщик разбился над японской землей. Но его душа осталась неприкаянно блуждать по улицам города, над которым он еще совсем недавно разбрасывал листовки, побуждая японцев к эвакуации. Города, где люди, хоть и истощены войной, продолжают любить и надеяться.

1933. Terwijl het Derde Rijk aan een sluipende opmars begint, proberen vijf met elkaar vervlochten families zich staande te houden in de schaduw van gebeurtenissen die de wereld voorgoed zullen tekenen. In dit indrukwekkende tweede deel van de Century-trilogie zoekt een dappere nieuwe generatie zich een weg in een door oorlog geteisterde wereld.

Croatia, 1941. When the Nazis invade Yugoslavia, nurse Ilona's world is torn apart. Her Serbian husband Jovan has joined the resistance, her best friend Misa has vanished, and children are disappearing from their homes. Working alongside the brave Diana Budisavljević, Ilona risks everything to rescue thousands of children from concentration camps, but she cannot save the two who matter most to her friend's shattered heart.

Chance—an anthropomorphized Lucky Strike—narrates its journey from leaf to factory to ration box in the pocket of Philip Martin, a Missouri farm boy. On the Channel and at Omaha, Chance observes courage in many forms: Sally’s brief blaze, Winston’s unlit benediction, Terry’s loud luck, Philip’s quiet endurance. The landing’s chaos yields a long aftermath—hedgerows, letters unsent, and a silence that follows Philip home.

Elio è un giovane sognatore, maldestro e ingenuo, ma con un talento straordinario per la pittura, che però, nel mondo contadino della Val d'Orcia di inizio Novecento, sembra solo una pericolosa mancanza di quel senso pratico che la miseria esige. Suo fratello maggiore, Cordevole, è invece un tipo pragmatico e autoritario che, ricorrendo alla violenza, proverà a plasmare Elio secondo le proprie esigenze.

La increíble historia real de Mala Zimetbaum, la única mujer que escapó de Auschwitz. Esta poderosa novela narra la inspiradora historia real de Mala Zimetbaum, cuyo heroísmo nunca será olvidado, y cuyo destino alteró el curso de la historia.

Hay numerosos libros sobre el Holocausto, pero ninguno como este. Se basa en una increíble historia real detrás de uno de sus símbolos más potentes: los números azules tatuados en los brazos de los prisioneros de los campos de concentración. Cuando a Lale Sokolov le fue encomendada la tarea de tatuar los números en las víctimas que –como él– eran encerradas en Auschwitz, usó la mínima libertad que su rol le permitía para intercambiar joyas y dinero de judíos asesinados por comida para ayudar a otros a sobrevivir.

Es 1943 y la neutralidad de Suecia en la Segunda Guerra Mundial está bajo presión. Laura Dahlgren, la brillante y joven mano derecha del negociador jefe del gobierno está al tanto de estas tensiones. Sin embargo, cuando la mejor amiga de Laura de la época universitaria, Britta, es descubierta asesinada a sangre fría, Laura está decidida a encontrar al asesino.

As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden.

Toulouse, verano de 1939. Carmen de Pedro, responsable en Francia de los diezmados comunistas españoles, se cruza con Jesús Monzón, un cargo menor del partido que, sin ella intuirlo, alberga un ambicioso plan. Unos años después, en 1944, Monzón, convertido en su pareja, ha organizado el grupo más disciplinado de la Resistencia contra la ocupación alemana, prepara la plataforma de la Unión Nacional Española y cuenta con un ejército de hombres dispuestos a invadir España.

Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners, three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy.