検索キーワード： 第一次世界大戦

Una artesana de libros desafía los límites de su época para labrarse un nuevo futuro. Después del éxito de El diccionario de las palabras olvidadas, con más de 500.000 ejemplares vendidos, la nueva novela de Pip Williams aboga por el poder transformador de los libros y del conocimiento. Oxfordshire, Inglaterra, 1914. Cuando el frente reclama a los hombres jóvenes, las mujeres deben mantener el país en marcha. Dos de ellas, las gemelas Peggy y Maude Jones, trabajan en la sección de encuadernación de la editorial Oxford University Press.

During a train journey across Turkey's Anatolian Plain in 1915 during World War I, Shoshana Adelstein witnesses the slaughter of the Armenians and knows she has just come face to face with her destiny. Convinced that her Jewish community in a small outpost of the Ottoman Empire will soon meet a similar fate, she is desperate to save her people. With Turkey and Britain locked in a global conflict, she orchestrates an audacious plan. Enlisting a group of co-conspirators who include her charismatic lover Eli and her impetuous brother Nathan, this young woman forms a clandestine spy ring.

Austria 1914. Il giovane Trotta, nobile per nomina, conduce la stessa vita leggera e vuota del resto della decadente nobile gioventù viennese, finché non conosce il cugino caldarrostaio Joseph Branco e l’amico di questi, il vetturino ebreo Manes Reisiger. Persuaso di trovare in loro la concretezza che ritiene gli manchi, allo scoppio della guerra si arruola nel loro reggimento e li segue fino in Galizia orientale, oggi Ucraina ma allora parte dello sterminato Impero austroungarico, e quindi in Siberia, che nel romanzo di Roth è una magica e remota isola di moralità e bontà.

In 1915, waitress Francie Forrester has a voice like an angel, but few people in her small Midwestern town have ever heard it, outside of church. Between working and keeping an eye on her irresponsible mother and younger brother, who has time for music? Her misty daydream of becoming an opera singer must remain exactly that—a dream—until a new friend unexpectedly sets her on a rocky path leading to Chicago’s glittering opera stage. To rise from slinging spaghetti to singing grand opera takes a lot of courage and hard work, but Francie’s up to the challenge. At least, she hopes she is.

El enero de 1905 el pueblo ruso marchaba, pacífica y esperanzadamente, hacia su patriarca, el zar Nicolás II, para pedirle mejores condiciones laborales. Pero varias cosas salieron mal.

January 1918. Laura Iven has been discharged from her duties as a nurse and sent back to Halifax, Canada, leaving behind a brother still fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now home, she receives word of Freddie's death in action along with his uniform -but something doesn't quite make sense. November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped under an overturned pillbox with an enemy soldier, a German, each of them badly wounded. Against all odds, the two men form a bond and succeed in clawing their way out.

The Street is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1919 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the Wolverine amateur journal. The story traces the history of the titular street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as "but a path" in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.

It’s 1918 in German-occupied Bruges, Belgium. With luck, Evelien will make it to the end of the war and be given what she was promised: a prized painting in exchange for safeguarding her employer’s possessions. Until then, Evelien knows to keep her head down and stay out of trouble. But life never goes to plan, especially in war. A member of the Resistance approaches Evelien: steal a list of names hidden in her employer’s home.

Salzburg, März 1913. Der Schausteller Otto Witte wird in eine Irrenanstalt eingewiesen, weil er steif und fest behauptet, König von Albanien gewesen zu sein. Der junge Doktorand Alois Schilchegger ist von diesem Mann fasziniert und nimmt sich seiner an. Ottos Version der Weltgeschichte beginnt im Oktober 1912 in Konstantinopel. Das Osmanische Reich droht auseinanderzubrechen. Albanien nutzt die Gunst der Stunde, erklärt sich unabhängig und sucht einen König. Otto und sein Kumpan, der Schwertschlucker Max Hoffmann, riskieren einen waghalsigen Coup: Albanien sucht einen König?

Salzburg, März 1913. Der Schausteller Otto Witte wird in eine Irrenanstalt eingewiesen, weil er steif und fest behauptet, König von Albanien gewesen zu sein. Der junge Doktorand Alois Schilchegger ist von diesem Mann fasziniert und nimmt sich seiner an. Ottos Version der Weltgeschichte beginnt im Oktober 1912 in Konstantinopel. Das Osmanische Reich droht auseinanderzubrechen. Albanien nutzt die Gunst der Stunde, erklärt sich unabhängig und sucht einen König. Otto und sein Kumpan, der Schwertschlucker Max Hoffmann, riskieren einen waghalsigen Coup: Albanien sucht einen König?

In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street, Durham. Anne works for the enigmatic owner Mr Jack. She is highly efficient and whips Mr Jack's disorganised office - and Mr Jack himself - into shape. However, behind her business-like façade, Anne hides a heart-breaking secret. Elsie is feisty, fun and enjoys a good time. However, her gadabout ways get her into trouble when she falls for the wrong man in the sugar-boiling room. And there's dependable Hetty, who's set to marry her boyfriend when he returns from the war. 

July, 1914: In their sunlit Hampshire workshop, Alice Dalton mixes paints for the stained-glass artwork she and Edmund are working on, pausing only to joyfully cradle the soft swell of her stomach. But the looming war threatens her hard-won happiness. A knock at the door announces the arrival of Victor, her estranged brother, returning after six long years in America. But her elation at being reunited is short-lived as she realizes he still hasn’t forgiven her for her part in the heartbreak that sent him abroad.

January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his personal effects—but something doesn’t make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital, where she soon hears whispers about haunted trenches and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion.

San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing’s fallen Summer Palace.

American heiress India, Lady Kilnsey, enjoys the very comfortable life of an English peeress in her husband's ancestral castle. She is deeply in love with her earl, and he adores her. Her inherited fortune provides a life that is elegant, happy, and peaceful, but ominous clouds are gathering across the Channel. The clang of rattling sabers can be heard throughout Europe. In a few short months, their lives are altered forever. Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated, and the world explodes in war bringing previously unimaginable changes to castle life and in India herself.

New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the world’s most luxurious ocean liners, departs for war-torn Europe. Among those on board is Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant in Her Majesty’s government tasked with escorting a British diplomat back to England. When a fellow passenger is believed to have shot himself in his cabin, Gallagher is asked by the captain to investigate the scene but one crucial detail doesn’t fit. The man’s body was discovered in a locked cabin with the key inside and no gun to be found. Was it really suicide? Or murder?

Audiolibro producido con música original y sonido 3D, el mismo esta diseñado para ser escuchado con auriculares. Sin novedad en el frente es una novela antibélica escrita por Erich Maria Remarque, publicada por primera vez en 1929. La historia sigue la vida de Paul Bäumer, un joven soldado alemán que, junto a sus compañeros de clase, se alista voluntariamente en el ejército durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, influenciado por el fervor patriótico y las promesas de gloria de su maestro. A lo largo de la novela, Paul y sus amigos enfrentan las duras realidades de la vida en las trincheras y la crueldad de la guerra.

After her mother becomes too ill to work, the responsibility to provide for the family falls to Violet as the oldest of nine. When the world enters the Great War, she serves as a nurse, helping men who could very well be her brothers. Working as a stewardess and wartime nurse, Violet not only survives a shipwreck but also two sinkings, one on the infamous Titanic. No one can understand why she would return to sea, but something keeps drawing Violet back to the tumultuous waters, where she struggles to put the tragedies of her past behind her and pursue a life and love all her own.

Roman de guerre, roman d’amour, Le Soldat désaccordé ne laissera personne indifférent. La quête d’un disparu de la Grande Guerre entraîne le narrateur dans une histoire échevelée, traversée de personnages tantôt effrayants, tantôt fabuleux.

Der faszinierende biografische Roman von Bestseller-Autorin Charlotte Roth erzählt von der großen, dramatischen Liebesgeschichte zwischen der Revolutionärin Rosa Luxemburg und Leo Jogiches. Rosa Luxemburg: Vordenkerin, Freiheitskämpferin und leidenschaftlich Liebende. Warschau, 1889. Von klein auf träumt das Mädchen Rosa von einer besseren, gerechteren Welt und ist entschlossen, dafür zu kämpfen. Sie ist erst siebzehn, als sie mutterseelenallein vor der Miliz des Zaren in die Schweiz fliehen muss.