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Oslo, 1938. Johanna von Fehrsburg hat in Norwegen mit Sven ein neues Leben aufgebaut. Doch der Schatten des nationalsozialistischen Deutschlands reicht weit. Als ihr Bruder Karl-Georg eine gefährliche Widerstandsmission plant, nimmt Johanna gegen dessen Willen seinen Platz ein. In Berlin taucht sie unter falscher Identität in eine Stadt ein, die sie kaum wiedererkennt. Während sie im Auftrag des Widerstands Informationen sammelt, begegnet sie Moritz – dem Mann, der ihr einst das Herz brach.

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The Last of the Greatest Generation captures the disruptive, uncertain times during WWII, as seen through the eyes of the last living WWII veteran. "Papa John" is nearing the end of his life and has been harboring painful wartime secrets for many years. A fateful meeting with a damaged journalist turns the veteran and his granddaughter's life upside down, with shocking reverberations. Told in two timelines, this novel is a fast-paced mystery that embraces generational romance, patriotism, the horrors of war, and the race to find hidden truths that will impact Japan and the United States.

London, 1941. Polly Hope is bravely working as an air raid warden during the Blitz when she saves the life of the charming Freddie Fairbank. Over a thank-you breakfast at the Ritz, he asks Polly to help requisition a sprawling English country house for the war effort. Petherbridge Hall has grand rooms, lovely views and will be a perfect nursing home for injured troops, if they can only persuade the family to give up their house. But then they find the lord of the manor dead behind the gardener’s shed.

In diesem erschütternden und unvergesslichen Roman über Familienbande, Mut und Überleben müssen zwei Schwestern unmögliche Hindernisse überwinden, um wieder vereint zu sein. Nachdem sie sich jahrelang vor den Nazis versteckt haben, werden Rachel Epstein und ihre kleine Schwester Mindel von der Gestapo gefangen genommen und in das Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen gebracht. Doch bei ihrer Ankunft werden sie getrennt. Rachel weiß, dass ihre Schwester ganz auf sich allein gestellt keine Überlebenschance haben wird – es sei denn, sie findet jemanden, der sich um sie kümmert.

Litany of Sorrows is a story of passion, betrayal, and the devastating cost of complicity. It begins when Karl von Richter, a handsome young German with a sinister future, is injured skiing in the Italian Alps. Nursed to health by a beautiful woman, Katrina Amorino, the two fall in love. Unaware that Germany is preparing for war, she naively leaves northern Italy and moves to his home in southern Germany. But days before she arrives, Karl is drafted into the Nazi SS officer training school, where he is radicalized.

Modesto Emanuele Minnai è nato in un paese maledetto, dove nascono pochi figli e muoiono pochi padri. Tutto cambia il giorno in cui i suoi occhi incontrano quelli di Andrea, specchi azzurri capaci di trattenere il mare. Ma tra Modesto e Andrea nasce qualcosa di diverso: una complicità fatta di gesti minimi, di corse nei campi, di silenzi che dicono più delle parole. Gli anni che seguono sono tremendi.

1969: Albert Speer, l'architetto star del regime, ministro dell'armamento e gerarca prediletto di Hitler, pubblica le sue memorie. Grazie a questa rivisitazione del suo passato (a partire dalle monumentali, megalomani messe in scena ideate per i congressi e le adunate naziste fino agli ultimi convulsi, terribili giorni della caduta del Reich) porta a compimento l'ultima delle sue metamorfosi.

In 1941, Manila, Philippines was the hidden gem of the Far East and set to become an independent sovereignty in a few short years. On December 8, 1941, immediately following the Pearl Harbor attack 5,200 miles away in Honolulu, the Japanese Imperial Army bombed the city of Manila and began an occupation that would last more than three years and culminate in a battle for the capital city that would go down as one of the deadliest in World War II history.

Alfredo e Franco crescono negli anni Trenta, in una Romagna che sa di campagna e di mare, quasi ignari del mondo in cui si sono trovati a vivere, tra le marce fasciste, la scuola autoritaria, l'echeggiare lontano di oscure minacce, dentro i giorni scanditi dai giochi, dal pane con la marmellata, e dalla voce di una madre che raccomanda alla famiglia di rimanere unita: «Un ramo solo si rompe, ma tutti insieme no». Quando arriva la guerra la loro infanzia finisce, risucchiata dal caos. Alfredo sembra scomparire nel nulla, il fratello vuole ritrovarlo, a qualsiasi costo.

This provocative alternative history looks at WWII from a new angle—what might have happened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941. Based on authentic history and real possibilities, this unique speculative narrative plays out the dramatic and grotesque consequences of a Third Reich triumphant...

For Detective Constable Faye Smith, London is not as safe as it seems. The criminal underworld is gaining strength, enjoying a lively existence below the surface. Then two bodies are found in the war-time shelters, a man and a woman. Faye, keen to unravel the mystery of the double murder, finds herself tangled up in crimes that stretch far beyond a simple killing. Faye and Ellie must face their toughest case yet as their lives change, irrevocably, for the future.

Amid the turmoil of the Second World War, a group of Italian prisoners is sent to the remote Orkney island of Lamb Holm. Domenico, a talented artist, is among them. He inspires his comrades to create a symbol of peace during these dark days of war, and out of driftwood and scrap they build the Italian chapel: a beacon of hope and beauty in a world ravaged by war. The chapel soon becomes a place of love, too. When Giuseppe, another POW, falls for local woman Fiona, he decides to hide a token of his love there... the secret of which is unveiled for the first time in The Italian Chapel.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILM Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll. As Thomsen and Doll’s...

Brought to you by Penguin. Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the...

Brought to you by Penguin. The tale of female camaraderie and bravery from beloved saga author Rosie Meddon. When one woman's attempt to help the war effort from her sleepy Devon village is thwarted, she is determined to fight back! September 1940: When Isabel Thaxley becomes homeless and...

1939. Norma knows what the world does to women in her position. Pregnant, unmarried… abandoned. And when the man who promised to marry her is arrested for murder, she has only one option left: run. A borrowed wedding ring. A fake name. A one-way ticket to Wales. Mrs Finch never existed before that train journey, but now she’s Norma’s only chance at survival.

The true story behind the world's most beloved children's book is a story the world was never supposed to know. In June 1940, as Hitler's armies closed on Paris, two German-Jewish refugees fled the city on makeshift bicycles assembled from junkyard scrap. Strapped to a luggage rack, wrapped in oilcloth, was a five-pound manuscript about a mischievous, tailless monkey — the book the world would come to know as Curious George.

Viktor Nekrassow kämpfte als Offizier auf sowjetischer Seite, er schildert die Schlacht um Stalingrad aus der Sicht des unmittelbar Beteiligten. Sein Roman, den er im Lazarett zu schreiben begann und der bereits 1946 erschien, gilt bis heute als einer der authentischsten zu diesem Thema. Die Schlacht um Stalingrad 1942/43 war eine der größten und entscheidendsten Schlachten des Zweiten Weltkriegs.

Drei Frauen, drei Generationen − ein Garten am Meer. Ein Roman über Vergänglichkeit, Neubeginn und Hoffnung. Und darüber, was es heißt, in der Fremde Wurzeln zu schlagen. Magdas Leben verändert sich mit einem Schlag: Ihr Mann Alfred, Botaniker in Münster, verliert 1933 seine Professorenstelle, weil er Jude ist. Im fernen Istanbul lockt ein überraschendes Angebot: Republikgründer Atatürk will die Universitäten des Landes modernisieren, und am Bosporus soll ein prächtiger Botanischer Garten mit Pflanzen aus aller Welt entstehen.