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London 1949. The lives of three very different women are about to collide. Like most working-class daughters, Caroline Wilby is expected to help support her family. Alone in a strange city, she must grab any opportunity that comes her way. Even if that means putting herself in danger. Star of the silver screen, Ursula Delancy, has just been abandoned by the man she left her husband for. Already hounded by the press, it won’t be long before she’s making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Panoramiczny obraz państwa polskiego odradzającego się po latach niewoli. Cezary Baryka urodził się i wychował w pięknym, kosmopolitycznym Baku, w Imperium Rosyjskim. Choć oboje rodzice byli Polakami, mówił po rosyjsku znacznie lepiej niż po polsku. Gdy miał 14 lat, jego dostatnie i szczęśliwe życie przerwał wybuch I wojny światowej. Ojciec został powołany do wojska. W Baku wybuchła rewolucja, potem wojna Ormian z Tatarami, potem przyszli bolszewicy. Dom Baryków został kompletnie splądrowany, matka Cezarego umarła.

"Les Hommes de bonne volonté", parus de 1932 à 1946, constituent l'œuvre majeure de Jules Romains. Cette fresque en vingt-sept volumes, dont l'action s'étend de 1908 à 1933, propose une vaste mise en scène du premier quart du vingtième siècle secoué par la guerre de 1914 et par les bouleversements sociaux qui l'ont précédée et suivie. Une multitude de personnages, issus de toutes les classes sociales, de "bonnes" comme de "mauvaises" volontés sont là, recréés avec un souffle étonnant par un romancier parfaitement maître de son métier.

A struggle. A war. The past. Would you recover? Nathan Olason picks up the pieces of his life in 1893 and becomes a devoted father and grandfather. Except something from his past is holding him back. When his grandson Mike announces that he is joining the Great War, Nath fears the worst. Armed and deadly, his grandson hones his marksmanship skills to a perfection not seen in any other soldier. But once Mike arrives at Vimy Ridge, France, with the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade, the biggest fight of his life has only begun.

In the tradition of The Man from Snowy River comes a gripping and courageous sequel to A Waltz for Matilda The year is 1919. Thirty years have passed since the man from Snowy River made his famous ride. But World War I still casts its shadow across a valley in the heart of Australia...

London, 1914. Sick and injured servicemen are returning home and Lizzie Kellaway and her godmother Margaret Penrose are determined to do their bit to help them. With Lizzie's beautiful singing voice and Margaret's talent for the piano, concerts in hospitals and convalescent homes offer the perfect opportunity to lift the spirits of men who have suffered so much. When Polly Meadows's fiancé rejects her and leaves for the war, she doesn't hesitate before travelling to London to be with her childhood friend, Lizzie.

London, 1917. Anna ist überglücklich, als ihr geliebter Edward von der Front zurückkehrt. Während die beiden eifrig Hochzeitspläne schmieden, muss ihre Freundin Grace sich gegen ihre Eltern behaupten. Die Pflege verwundeter Soldaten ist nicht das, was diese sich als Zukunft für ihre Tochter wünschen. Dulcie indessen scheint ihr Glück gefunden zu haben, als eine unverhoffte Begegnung sie erkennen lässt: Manchmal begegnet einem die Liebe genau da, wo man sie am wenigstens erwartet.

England, 1919: Rose and Ivy board a ship bound for Australia. One is travelling there to marry a man she has never met. One is destined never to arrive. Australia, 2016: Amongst her late-grandmother's possessions, Molly uncovers a photograph of two girls dressed in First World War nurses' uniforms, labelled 'Rose and Ivy 1917', and a letter from her grandmother, asking her to find out what happened to her own mother, Rose, who disappeared in the 1960s.

Frontline is the story of an aristocrat's daughter who joins the war effort as a nurse. In a field hospital in rural France, she meets Will, a dockworker's son serving as a stretcher-bearer. As rumours of an armistice begin to circulate, so, too, does a mysterious respiratory illness that soldiers are referring to as the 'Spanish flu'. 

A British nurse in WWI Egypt races to deliver explosive intelligence that could change the course of the war in this novel of suspense, adventure, and love.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE PAGE-TURNING NEW NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE WITCHFINDER'S SISTER I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire. Smoke unravelling from an upper window, and the terrace bathed in a hectic orange light . . . Now I see that the decision I made at...

In this "briskly entertaining" (New York Times Book Review), "transporting and wholly original" (People Magazine) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything. In 1916, Sven Ormson...

July 1914. Britain is in turmoil as WW1 begins to change the world. While the young men disappear off to foreign battlefields, the women left at home throw themselves into jobs meant for the boys. Hiding her privileged background and her suffragette past, Constance Copeland signs up to be a Clippie on the trams in Staffordshire, despite her parents' disapproval. Constance, known as Connie, soon makes fast friends with lively fellow Clippies, Betty and Jean, as well as growing closer to the charming, gentle Inspector Robert Caldwell.

West Yorkshire, 1914. Newly married to Noah Jackson, Beth is happily content working on her family's market stall while Noah fulfils his dreams of being a teacher. When war erupts, Beth's peaceful life is shattered by events beyond her control. Noah enlists to fight alongside his brothers. A devastating accident occurs that changes all their lives. Once a loving home, Beaumont Farm becomes Beth's responsibility.

At the dawn of World War Two, German-born nurse Emma Taylor sits by the bedside of a Jewish heiress in London as she reminisces over her dear friend, Oscar Wilde. As the story of Wilde unravels, so does Emma’s past. What really happened to her husband? She’s taken back to her days in Singapore on the eve of World War One. To her disappointing marriage to a British export agent, her struggle to fit into colonial life, and the need to hide her true identity.

France, 1916: Estelle Graham faces a nightmare. Expecting to be met by her beloved husband and their newly-adopted daughter, she instead finds him gravely injured and unconscious in a casualty clearing station. Taking solace in his journals and letters, she fights for his care - and his life. Discover the depth of love and faith in the face of brutality as they learn to live while surviving the Great War.

A day in Clarissa Dalloway's life is explored through her thoughts, actions, and reminiscences and by the flashbacks of those about her. Virginia Woolf's writing was never better!

Berlin, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Sie nennen ihn "Merlin", weil er alle verzaubert - der Mann, den ihr Bruder ihr als seinen Freund vorstellt. Paula Oppenheimer, die in einem offen jüdischen Haushalt groß geworden ist, verliebt sich sofort in den jungen Dichter Richard Dehmel. Ihre Eltern aber stellen sich gegen diese Verbindung. Richard ist ihnen zu wild und unkonventionell. Entgegen aller Warnungen, Paula heiratet den Dichter und wird kurz darauf schwanger. Richard hat große Pläne - er verkehrt mit vielen jungen Literaten und will als Künstler leben.

In ihrem neuen Werk erzählt die preisgekrönte Bestsellerautorin Melanie Metzenthin die bewegende Geschichte von Helen Mandeville, der Mutter des Arztes Fritz Ellerweg aus "Im Lautlosen". England 1896: Von der eigenwilligen Helen Mandeville erwartet ihre Familie vor allem eine standesgemäße Heirat. An ihrer Verlobung mit James Mitchell, einem schneidigen Anwalt mit besten Verbindungen, geht kein Weg vorbei. Aber dann verliebt Helen sich auf einer Bildungsreise in den deutschen Arzt Ludwig Ellerweg. Für ihn riskiert sie es, für immer mit ihrer Familie zu brechen.

London, 1914. Als drei junge Frauen ihre Ausbildung am Londoner Nightingale Hospital beginnen, geht für jede von ihnen ein Traum in Erfüllung. Doch für ihr persönliches Glück müssen sie Opfer bringen. Während die aus einfachsten Verhältnissen stammende Sadie alles daransetzt, ihre Herkunft zu verbergen, erfährt Sonnenschein Anna zum ersten Mal, was es heißt, nicht dazuzugehören. Und Kate, die wie ihre Brüder Medizin studieren will, muss gegen den erbitterten Widerstand ihres Vaters kämpfen.