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Profound, immersive, tenderly written, and with finely wrought characters drawn from the forgotten archives of American history, A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart is an extraordinary story of a marriage caught at the intersection of radical politics and everyday life.

Berlin, 1939. „Ich liebe dich mehr, als du ahnst. Aber du bist nicht sicher mit mir. Wenn wir nicht verheiratet wären, müsstest du nicht so leiden, terrorisiert von dem gelben Stern auf meiner Brust. Ich könnte niemals wieder glücklich sein, wenn dir meinetwegen etwas zustieße.“ Edith Falkenstein führte einst ein Leben wie aus einem Märchenbuch. Als sie sich in Julius verliebte, öffnete er ihr eine Welt voller Glanz und Pracht. Sie schmückte sich mit den feinsten Juwelen und veranstaltete legendäre Feiern in ihrem prächtigen Herrenhaus.

Flo Butterworth and the village singing group are asked to perform a carol concert at the local hospital. This stirs up bad memories for Flo, who lost her family at Christmas in the Blitz. VAD nurse, Evie Jones, is faced with a dilemma that throws her life into turmoil. Will Evie find a way to solve the problem and keep all she holds dear?

Loch Ewe, 1940. Flora vive en una remota aldea de montaña que, de un día para otro, se convierte en una base militar de la Royal Navy. La comunidad, antes unida, verá como todo cambia para siempre. También su vida, pues se enamora de ella el hijo del laird, y ella no es más que la hija del guarda de la finca… Décadas después, Lexie Gordon, la hija de Flora, se ve obligada a volver a la casa y a la aldea donde creció.

Berlín, 1922. Hulda Gold es una comadrona intrépida, tenaz y muy apreciada en el barrio donde reside. La Primera Guerra Mundial ha dejado a su paso profundas heridas y, aunque la joven República se caracteriza por una atmósfera de renovación, también está marcada por una gran pobreza. Caracterizada por su talante comprometido, Hulda es propensa a meterse en problemas. Cuando una de sus pacientes se muestra muy afectada por la muerte accidental de una vecina, la joven no puede evitar inmiscuirse. ¿Por qué el distante comisario de la Policía Criminal se interesa por este caso?

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.

Rosie Burrows loves being part of the Foyles team, and outwardly, she’s a happy young woman, engaged to the love of her life. But inside, Rosie faces a horrible dilemma. When Alfie enlisted, she promised to wait for him to return from France. And she has waited, quietly preparing for him to come home so they can marry. But for years her letters to him have gone unanswered, and now she doesn’t know where she stands. To keep occupied, Rosie starts volunteering at the local school.

The tidal wave of war crashed upon them, fracturing France like a faultline. This second instalment in the warpath saga lights the spark to ignite an inferno, engulfing Captain Jack Churchill and his Merry Men of the Second Manchester Regiment. Following the events of the L’Épinette ambush, Operation Dynamo becomes initiated to full effect. This is the complete evacuation of the entire British Expeditionary Force out of Dunkirk.

In den Wirren des Nazi-Regimes kämpft eine deutsche Jüdin darum, ihre Tochter aus den Klauen des Bösen zu retten. Paris 1941. Die deutsche Jüdin Sarah sitzt mit ihrer fünfjährigen Tochter Rebekka in Paris fest, während der zweite Weltkrieg tobt. In ihrer Verzweiflung versuchen sie, dem immer enger werdenden Korsett der Nazis zu entkommen und ins neutrale Spanien zu fliehen. I

En un París sombrío, un americano recibe un misterioso paquete de manos de una pareja rusa, solo para ser atacado poco después por delincuentes. Mientras tanto, en un lujoso tren que recorre Europa, las vidas de una heredera en crisis, un detective enigmático y una serie de personajes intrigantes se entrelazan. Entre rubíes legendarios, secretos peligrosos y pasiones ocultas, Hércules Poirot deberá desentrañar un crimen que se convierte en un laberinto de sospechas.

In 1914 Paul Bumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to be killed.Here, he tells their story. A few years after publication, the Nazis would denounce and publicly burn Remarque's novel for insulting the heroic German army - in other words, for 'telling it like it was' for the common soldier on the front line where any notions of glory and national destiny were soon blasted away by the dehumanizing horror of modern warfare.

Berlin 1943. Nachdem es den vielen mutigen Frauen in der Rosenstraße gelungen ist, ihre jüdischen Verwandten, vor der Deportation in die Lager zu bewahren, trifft David eine mutige Entscheidung: Nach seiner Freilassung will er nicht länger tatenlos zusehen, wie die Nazis seine Freunde ermorden. An der Seite seiner Freundin Roxi, beschließt er, in den Widerstand zu gehen. Unter Lebensgefahr helfen sie anderen Verfolgten und schließen sich einem geheimen Untergrundnetzwerk an.

Roisin O'Byrne, a young lawyer with a passion for protecting the Darling River where her family has lived for almost two hundred years, finds herself embroiled in a battle. Her commitment to environmental justice pits her against formidable adversaries within the corporate landscape, working with her enigmatic boss Seth Brodie. As her family continue their quest to uncover the history of the settlement of Ceann Mara and the hidden life of one of its first settlers, Samuel O'Byrne, Roisin plunges deeper into the murky waters of corporate interests and corruption.

1917: Europa steht an der Schwelle zu einem seismischen Wandel. Im Alpendorf St. Niklaus scheint der Krieg weit weg zu sein. Doch jeder führt einen persönlichen Kampf. Im Schatten der Berge hilft die 14-jährige Seraphine Mama bei der Bewirtschaftung des Bauernhofs, während Papa die Schweizer Grenzen verteidigt. Sie träumt davon, die Welt zu sehen. Nach dem Krieg.

En el último carnaval de la Segunda República, Fidel Ruiz, el chirigotero más admirado de la tacita de plata, se alza con el primer premio en el concurso de agrupaciones. Nadie sospecha que detrás de su exquisito talento se encuentra María, su asistenta. Para continuar alcanzando la gloria carnavalera, el arrogante y maquiavélico señorito no dudará en manipularla y sacar tajada del amor incondicional que ella le profesa.

In a world where love and duty collide, Florence finds herself wedded young to a stern man, her life a silent testament to obedience and sacrifice. Cast out into the cold from seeking solace in forbidden arms, she faces her exile with the weight of a shattered family—one son by her side, the other left behind in the grip of her unforgiving husband. With doors shut firmly by those she once called family and the church that promised sanctuary, Florence embarks on a humble journey as a nurse.

Private Cyril Bagger has managed to survive the unspeakable horrors of the Great War through his wits and deception, swindling fellow soldiers at every opportunity. But his survival instincts are put to the ultimate test when he and four other grunts are given a deadly mission: venture into the perilous No Man’s Land to euthanize a wounded comrade. What they find amid the ruined battlefield, however, is not a man in need of mercy but a fallen angel, seemingly struck down by artillery fire.

Stalin ya no está entre los vivos. En 1954, después de tres décadas preso en campos penitenciarios, Iván Grigórievich regresa a Moscú para comprobar que la vida allí ha seguido sin él. Desde el desangelado reencuentro, cargado de contención y culpa, con su primo Nikolái, un científico que siempre se ha mantenido fiel al Partido, o el paseo por el lugar donde vivía la mujer a la que amaba, Iván toma conciencia de la magnitud de la tragedia: la libertad no sólo ha sido asesinada en la política, sino también en la agricultura, en la filosofía y, sobre todo, en el alma de los rusos.

After a difficult few years with her husband Victor, Prue's life is about to change in a dramatic and unexpected way. Will she have the strength to carry on into a more positive future? Rookery House is bursting at the seams after Thea welcomes two WAAFs to stay while their accommodation is being built on the new aerodrome.

Antonio Renzi è un giovane ufficiale degli alpini. Quando l'Italia entra nella Grande Guerra il 24 maggio 1915 ha poco più di vent'anni, ma nel deserto della Libia ha già conosciuto la violenza e la morte. Ora tutto cambia, e dal caldo e dalle tempeste di sabbia deve passare alle bufere di neve delle Dolomiti. Antonio è nato a Firenze, e oltre alle difficoltà del terreno e del clima, e ai colpi dei fucili e dei cannoni austro-ungarici, deve superare la diffidenza degli alpini nati in Veneto, Piemonte e Lombardia, che si muovono sulla roccia e sulla neve come a casa propria.