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Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant French teacher at an all-girls school in Washington, DC. Everything changes when she’s recruited into the Office of Strategic Services by family friend and legendary WWI hero Major General William Donovan. Donovan has faith in her - and in all his “glorious amateurs” who are becoming Anna’s fast friends: Maggie, Anna’s down-to-earth mentor; Irene, who’s struggling to find support from her husband for her clandestine life; and Julia, a cheerful OSS liaison.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, a mismatched group of passengers flee across the Atlantic to escape Britain and – thousands of feet in the air – find themselves facing grave danger. Night Over Water is a masterful historical thriller from Ken Follett. The Eve of War Britain has just...

Odile Souchet is obsessed with books, and working at The American Library in Paris for the formidable Director Dorothy Reeder is all she has ever dreamed of. The Library and its thriving community of students, writers, diplomats and book lovers provide her with a safe haven. When war is declared, the Library is determined to remain open. But then the Nazis invade Paris, and everything changes. The Nazi 'Library Protector' changes the rules overnight, declaring a war on words and making the librarians risk their lives to do their jobs.

April, 1945. As the Americans storm the Buchenwald concentration camp, among the survivors are Jakob and Emmanuelle, barely more than teenagers. Each of them has lost everything and everyone in the unspeakable horrors of the war. But when they meet, they find hope and comfort in each other. They...

Palm Sunday brings spring to Crofter’s Green—and a deadly secret. When a postal van crashes outside the Cozy Cup, Dorothy agrees to hold a registered parcel for the shaken driver. Minutes later, the parcel vanishes—and the postman is found murdered. The only clues are an address in London and a faint cipher that points back to St Mary’s Church. As Alice, Blake, Harry, and Evie follow the trail, the Homefront Sleuths uncover a chilling wartime plot that could leave the village in ruins.

Love is in the air in wartime England—but so is murder. Crofter’s Green is abuzz with excitement. Seven young couples are preparing to say their vows at a Valentine's Day celebration—an event made even more thrilling by the expected arrival of a very important (and very secret) guest: the most famous woman in the world.

Born into an aristocratic German Jewish family, Ernst Baerwald is a gifted linguist, talented musician, and fearless idealist. When he’s recruited in 1900 to become a spy—his cover working for a company that would become the notorious chemical conglomerate IG Farben—his life becomes an extraordinary adventure spanning two continents, two world wars, and impossible choices that will haunt him forever.

Mes amis est le premier roman d'Emmanuel Bove, paru en 1924, alors que le souvenir de la première Guerre mondiale est encore vivace. Son narrateur est un ancien soldat, esseulé dans Paris ; il rêve de sociabilité mais joue de malchance et de maladresse, et toutes ses tentatives de rencontre échouent les unes après les autres. Son style faussement naïf, simple et mélancolique, habille un humour noir et donne à la voix de son personnage un caractère poignant.

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Leah Johnson carece de un título de enfermera. Sin embargo, acaba como voluntaria en un buque de la Cruz Roja que se dirige hacia las playas de Dunkerque. Cuando empieza a arrepentirse de haber tomado esa estúpida decisión, conoce al apuesto...

En mitad de la guerra que desgarró al mundo, una madre quiere un hijo y una hija necesita a una madre. Invierno de 1939. Danusha y su familia se ven obligados a huir de su hogar cuando los nazis invaden Polonia. La madre de Danusha, Anna, se cambia el nombre y consigue un puesto como ama de...

Lives are torn apart. Lives are woven together. As war approaches... Young Jewish couple Max and Gerda are running their treasured family toyshop, but impending danger will force them to make unimaginable choices to stay alive. There are decisions to be made. Just fifteen and drafted into the SS...

When newlyweds Iris and Harrison are separated by the draft less than a month into their marriage, both are forced into battles they never expected. A dentist by trade, Harrison is thrust into the unforgiving realities of combat medicine, carrying his limited skills from the beaches of Normandy through the brutal winter of the Ardennes and into the haunting aftermath of Dachau liberation. Each step farther south into Europe pulls him away from the man Iris once knew.

The secret to the past is hidden in Jennifer's attic... At twenty-five, Jennifer Ryan—newly divorced and reeling from betrayal—leaves New York City for a quiet town in Ohio, determined to start over. But the past is waiting. In the attic of her restored home, she discovers remnants of...

In 1942, American historian Lydia Burgess has remained in France to study its past, but when a Jewish family in her apartment building is arrested, she can no longer remain a quiet observer of history. Joining a relief agency escorting children to safety, she accompanies them to Le...

Sommertage an einem See in Norddeutschland. Ein Schriftsteller trifft auf eine junge Frau, der er den Namen »Pocahontas« geben wird. Die kurze flimmernde Liebe ist überschattet von Kriegserfahrungen, Skepsis und der Suche nach Orientierung in der Restauration der 1950er Jahre.

A sweeping, absorbing novel that covers pre-war Vienna, 1930s Yorkshire, post-war New York, a retirement community in Florida and the London literary world, Two Lives is as gripping as it is beautifully written, a profound exploration of how we yearn to reconcile our pasts with our present. An...

When the 36th Infantry Division lands at Salerno, the men expect a dangerous beach. What they find is worse: a battlefield already measured by the enemy. German positions overlook the sand. Machine guns control the exits. Mortars wait for the clusters. And somewhere in the stone terraces inland, a sniper begins cutting the nerve lines of the American advance.

A sweeping story of art, courage and forbidden love, set against the beauty and brutality of wartime Malta — the unforgettable new historical novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Soldier’s Daughter. As war rains down on Valletta, barkeeper’s daughter Valentina Camilleri is...

Se i racconti giovanili di Irène Némirovsky trattavano gli stessi temi dei romanzi coevi – l'amore, la nostalgia, il disinganno, l'ambizione, l'avidità, l'ipocrisia dei legami familiari, il rimpianto per le occasioni mancate, l'impossibile assimilazione – con una leggerezza mondana, sia pur velata spesso di malinconia, quelli composti dal 1938 in poi, nell'ultima, febbrile stagione della sua scrittura, offuscata dalla minaccia della persecuzione e della guerra, hanno un tono più grave, a volte quasi cupo.

A sweeping and suspenseful historical novel, based on the author’s relatives, about a family of Jewish tailors pulled into a covert wartime operation where every stitch could change the course of D-Day. Vienna, 1938. Master tailor Rudi and fashion designer Irma are driven from their world of...