検索キーワード： 第一次世界大戦

Na het overlijden van haar ouders moet het vissersmeisje Julie voor haar jongere broers en zusje zorgen. Samen proberen ze stand te houden in een bestaan dat wordt getekend door armoede en ontbering. In oktober wordt de kuststad ingenomen door het Duitse leger. De bewoners kreunen onder bombardementen, voedseltekorten en de strenge hand van de bezetter. Om tijdens die harde oorlogsjaren te overleven, wordt Julie een alsjeblieftmeisje: gedwongen om als prostituee te werken voor de Duitse soldaten.

When George Hardy, surgeon and photographer, sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers: Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.

Inspired by true events, Christy Hall of Fame author Cathy Gohlke delivers a powerful new historical novel weaving together the discovery of insulin―a breakthrough that revolutionized modern medicine―and one woman’s brave fight to cling to her family and hope against unspeakable odds. New...

From the author of Teddy, a dazzling historical novel about an American librarian in 1920s Switzerland who must face the truth of decisions she made to survive during the First World War. In the wake of the Great War, American Helen Fox lives a solitary life in Switzerland as a librarian...

'A superior historical thriller, which is both a murder mystery and espionage novel...for fans of Alan Furst and Philip Kerr.' - Thomas Waugh Manchester, 1919. To Detective Chief Inspector Frank Tinsley, it initially appears to be a straightforward crime. A drunkard has been stabbed to death and...

Novo romance do vencedor do prêmio Camões de 2013, A cegueira do rio nos leva ao norte de Moçambique nos dias que antecedem a guerra para contar uma história extraordinária de subversão do domínio colonial, em que a palavra escrita e a leitura são os únicos meios de fuga e salvação...

Bradford, 1916 With her husband on the Western Front, Hattie Braithwaite throws herself into work at the local mill. When Maggie Flemming, an avid football fan, joins the production line the pair soon bond over their shared love of the game, encouraging others to join them in a lunchtime...

An exquisite Arabian mare. A small boy leaving home in colonial North Africa. A young woman in France fighting to survive World War I. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Ride of Her Life braids a sweeping novel of love, war, empire, and the power of kindness in a world descending...

Na ziemi białskiej trwa rewolucyjna burza. Ścierają się poglądy i ludzie. Dochodzi do brutalnych aresztowań i carskich represji, w wyniku których Anastazja musi uciekać. Poznaje tam Eugenię, która odsłania przed nią rodzinne sekrety, i Ignacego, który ofiaruje jej ciepło i czułość. W drugim tomie dylogii „Burza na Podlasiu. Krzysztof" poznajemy dalsze losy Anastazji i Krzysztofa.

The Battle of Arras is about to begin and the new German fighters will rule the skies in what will become Bloody April when the Royal Flying Corps begin to lose pilots and crews in huge numbers. 41 Squadron become the one hope on the Arras front and Bill, Gordy and Ted have to fight for their lives against the new Albatros and Baron Manfred Von Richthofen. The novel moves between the war in France and the home front to give a graphic snapshot of the war in the Spring of 1917.

A stunning adaptation of a First World War masterpiece showing man's inhumanity to man German playwright Karl Kraus's early twentieth-century satirical play about the First World War was originally 15 hours long, but his classic satire The Last Days of Mankind, has been deftly distilled into a...

Have you ever wondered why the “war to end all wars” left an entire generation physically alive but spiritually shattered? All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is one of the most powerful and unflinching portrayals of war ever written, revealing the true human cost behind the battlefield. Through the eyes of Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier, readers are drawn into the brutal reality of trench warfare during World War I.

In The Vagabond, Colette delivers a beautifully observed and deeply moving portrait of independence, desire and self-discovery. Renée Néré, a successful music-hall performer recovering from a painful marriage, has rebuilt her life on her own terms. Touring the theatres of France, she cherishes the freedom she has fought to earn—until an unexpected romance forces her to question whether love and independence can truly coexist.

Ironbridge, 1911: Childhood sweethearts Jo and Alfie Woodvine couldn't be happier to finally be married with a home of their very own. But when their son, Harry, arrives, Jo finds herself quickly cut off from the world. Though she loves her baby, she hadn't anticipated the confines of motherhood...

Été 1912. Dans un champ de blé, une charrette bascule, une femme meurt. Mais les larmes n'ont pas leur place dans ce monde paysan, où la vie tient au travail incessant des bras et des saisons : à dix-sept ans, Marie Guillou doit taire sa peine et assurer la suite de sa mère, apprendre à son tour le labeur des champs, conduire la demeure familiale. Au sein de ce modeste hameau où vit sa famille, les jeunes filles n'ont pas la possibilité de se plaindre, encore moins d'aimer ou de rêver.

After spending her childhood in Haddon House Children's Hostel, Alice Tucker is selected to go into service at Holmorton Lodge. Left behind in the workhouse after the death of her father and the disappearance of her mother, the only clues to Alice's past lie in hazy childhood memories. Now, ten years later, she longs to uncover the truth about her family and who she really is. When a chance discovery leads her from a Welsh nursing home to a solicitor's office in Manchester, Alice begins to unravel a story far more tangled than she imagined.

Dive into a tense WWI historical mystery of espionage and murder as a female codebreaker hunts a wartime conspiracy. Perfect for a gripping commute, this atmospheric thriller pulls you from a secretive London intelligence bureau into the blood-soaked trenches and shadowy black markets of the...

Ein falscher Ton und der Vorhang fällt für immer.

Theresienstadt, 1943.

Als Sophie erfährt, dass Eugen, der jüdische Theaterregisseur, den sie liebt, nach Theresienstadt verschleppt wurde, fasst sie den verzweifelten Entschluss ihn zu retten.

Im Ghetto hängt sein Überleben an einer zerbrechlichen Illusion: Sein Talent hat ihm die Gunst der Frau des Lagerkommandanten eingebracht. Doch an einem Ort, der von Grausamkeit beherrscht wird, kann solche Gunst über Nacht verschwinden.

New Year 1988/1989: A theatre student, a taxi driver, a partisan, and a crook join a detective's family in Kiev for an ill-fated reunion. They and the Soviet nation face a violent reckoning as old secrets and fugitive hopes emerge. Sequel to The Girl in the Water in the award-winning series Next Year's Snow.

The second in the highly praised Emily Grey series ‘Emily Grey proves so engaging that I hope she'll keep going into the Cold War', JakeKerridge, Daily Telegraph At the height of the First World War, Emily Grey finds herself far away from the action, collating Swiss rubber imports in a hut in...