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De la fin tragique des tsars aux archives secrètes du Vatican, une intrigue au cœur de la guerre 1914-1918. En juin 1914, le lieutenant russe Dimitri Malkine est chargé de se rendre à Paris pour une mission diplomatique. La tsarine mère en profite pour lui demander secrètement de remettre à Londres un superbe bijou à sa sœur, la reine Alexandra.

C'est l'histoire d'Adrien, un jeune ingénieur officier en 1914, à qui tout sourit. Mais, dans les premiers jours de la guerre, lors d'une reconnaissance sur les bords de la Meuse, un éclat d'obus le défigure. En un instant, il est devenu un monstre, une "gueule cassée". Adrien ne connaîtra ni l'horreur des tranchées ni la boue, le froid, la peur ou les rats. Transféré au Val-de-Grâce, il rejoint une chambre réservée aux officiers. Une pièce sans miroir où l'on ne se voit que dans le regard des autres.

Durant les premiers jours de novembre 1920, l'Angleterre attend l'arrivée du Soldat inconnu, rapatrié depuis la France pour une cérémonie d'hommage. À Londres, trois femmes vivent ces journées à leur manière. Evelyn, dont le fiancé a été tué et qui travaille au bureau des pensions de l'armée ; Ada, qui ne cesse d'apercevoir son fils pourtant tombé au front ; et Hettie, qui accompagne tous les soirs d'anciens soldats sur la piste du Hammersmith Palais pour six pence la danse.

L'idée de passer tout l'été coupés du monde angoissait Franck mais enchantait Lise, alors Franck avait accepté, un peu à contrecœur et beaucoup par amour, de louer dans le Lot cette maison absente de toutes les cartes et privée de tout réseau. L'annonce parlait d'un gîte perdu au milieu des collines, de calme et de paix. Mais pas du passé sanglant de cet endroit que personne n'habitait plus et qui avait abrité un dompteur allemand et ses fauves pendant la Première Guerre mondiale.

Janvier 1917. Cinq soldats français condamnés à mort en conseil de guerre, aux bras liés dans le dos. Toute une nuit et tout un jour, ils ont tenté de survivre. Le plus jeune était un Bleuet, il n'avait pas vingt ans. A l'autre bout de la France, Mathilde, vingt ans elle aussi, plus désarmée que quiconque, aimait un Bleuet d'un amour à l'épreuve de tout. La paix venue, elle va se battre pour connaître la vérité et le retrouver, mort ou vivant, dans le labyrinthe où elle l'a perdu.

The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of...

Pirandello ci accompagna all'interno dello scompartimento di un vagone ferroviario in cui ritroviamo il timore e le angosce di un intero paese allo scoppio della Grande Guerra. Uno spaccato umano eccezionale con cui Pirandello riesce a raccontarci un mondo intero.

Gaetano Marino interpreta "La camera in attesa", classica novella di Pirandello incentrata sul patetismo degli affetti familiari sullo sfondo della Grande Guerra.

Pubblicata per la prima volta nell'agosto del 1915 sul Giornale di Sicilia, "Colloquii coi personaggi" è una novella in cui possiamo ascoltare lo stesso Pirandello mentre dialoga con un personaggio e con il ricordo della madre defunta. Ambientata allo scoppio della Prima Guerra Mondiale, la novella presenta un'interessante riflessione sui doveri dell'intellettuale e su quelli dell'autore.

Pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1919, "Berecche e la guerra" verrà poi inserita da Pirandello in "Novelle per un anno". Pirandello ci presenta la storia del Prof. Berecche, studioso e cultore della Germania, che dovrà confrontarsi con il dramma e l'insensatezza della Prima Guerra Mondiale.

Allo scoppio della Grande Guerra Marco Leccio decide di arruolarsi. Si presenta così alla leva con tanto di divisa da garibaldino. Le motivazioni alla base del suo gesto sono politiche e sentimentali: vuole partecipare alla liberazione delle terre irredente interrotta a Bezzecca, ma vuole anche andare al fronte insieme a suo figlio.

WW1 is over. As a nurse at the front, Clementine has found and lost love but has settled for middle-class marriage. Vincent had half his face blown off and wants more than life offers now. Drawn together by their shared experiences at the Front, they have a compulsive relationship, magnetic and parasitic, played out with blackmail and ending in disaster for one of them.

London, 1938. You are cordially invited to the wedding of the year! When fiercely independent chambermaid Nancy Nettleton first moved to London and the Buckingham hotel, the last thing on her mind was finding love, let alone falling for the debonair demonstration dancer Raymond De Guise. As the...

Spring 1900. Ever since she was nine years old, Mairi McGloughlin has known she wants to be a farmer, but by the law of the land it's her scholarly brother, Ian, who will someday inherit. The next best thing might be to marry a farmer, and charming, confident Jack could be the perfect answer. But then there's Robin, her brother's best friend, more a man of books than of the land - and yet there's something about him.... But with the outbreak of the Great War, their choices change completely, and neither Mairi, Ian nor Robin can hope to escape unscathed.

Set in the ancient city of Smyrna, this powerful novel follows the intertwining fates of four families as their peaceful city is ripped apart by the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. On an orange-tinted evening in September 1905, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother in the ancient city...

In 1930s Northern India, childhood friends Stella and Andrew have grown up together in the orbit of the majestic Raj Hotel. Spirited Stella has always had a soft spot for boisterous Andrew, though she dreams of meeting a soulmate from outside the close-knit community. But life is turned on its head when one scandal shatters their friendship and another sees her abandoned by the man she thought she loved.

England 1922. It’s been four years since Rudy’s brother Edgar went missing in war-torn France. Still deep in mourning and grappling with unanswered questions, Rudy and his mother struggle to move on. When the enigmatic Mariette arrives unexpectedly at the family’s manor claiming to be Edgar’s widow, and the mother of his child, Rudy urges her to stay, hoping she’ll shed light on the missing pieces.

Christmas 1889. A baby is born in the early hours at Vienna General Hospital, only to be abandoned by her unwed mother and entrusted to a foundling home and its loving caretaker. Fanny Schindler grows from a precocious girl into a strong-willed young woman. Undeterred by the rules of her station, she’s determined to rise above her humble origins and pursue her dreams at all costs, becoming an apprentice to one of the most glamorous fashion houses in Austria-Hungary.

In 1917, after Arlene Favier’s home burns to the ground, taking her father with it, she must find a way to support her mother and younger brother. If she doesn’t succeed, they will all be impoverished. Job opportunities are scarce, but then a daring possibility arises: the American Women’s Hospital needs ambulance drivers to join a trailblazing, all-female team of doctors and nurses bound for war-torn France.

From the internationally bestselling author of the “fascinating epic” (Associated Press) Between Love and Honor comes a rich, sweeping tale based on the captivating true story of the Mata Hari of Russia, featuring a beautiful aristocrat fighting for survival during the deadly upheaval of the...