検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

As World War II reaches its final, desperate throes, Captain Edward Hume and his battle-hardened squad of bomb disposal experts—The Kaboom Boys—move methodically through the shattered remnants of Europe. While working to maintain steady hands and unwavering focus, they neutralize the silent killers left in war's wake, each defused bomb a small victory against chaos.

A woman from a small Greek village finds herself swept up in the long and storied history of her island—and its far–reaching impact—in this unforgettable story of love, passion, and resistance. Chania, Crete; 1941. When mainland Greece falls to the Germans after incredible and heroic...

I could take whichever I would of these paths. A Penguin Classic Sammy Mountjoy rises from poverty to become an acclaimed visual artist. He is then swept into World War II and somehow, somewhere, he loses his freedom—as a prisoner of war, through torture, undergoing captivity in total darkness...

"Everything you want in a story" declares Helen Paris, the acclaimed author of The Invisible Women's Club, and indeed, this captivating historical novel weaves together threads of love, loyalty, and revolution against the haunting backdrop of World War II London. "Immersive...

Stærke kvinder, skæbnestunder og en uforglemmelig rejse fra det eksotiske Saigon til et Europa på randen af krig. Da modefotografen Melanie Sommer vender hjem fra en arbejdsrejse til Vietnam, får hun en chokerende besked: Hendes forlovede, Robert, har været ude for en alvorlig bilulykke og ligger i koma. Overvældet af sorg, og efter måneder uden tegn på bedring, søger Melanie tilflugt på landet hos sin elskede oldemor Hanna.

Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured as a German prisoner of war, threatened with torture and locked in a cell of total darkness. He emerges transfigured by his ordeal, realising how his choices have made him the author of his life, interrogating religion and rationality, early loves and formative beliefs - and questioning freedom itself.

France, 1942. Orphaned sisters Léa and Rose live under the increasingly oppressive German occupation in Orléans. Times have been tough since their mother died - all they have left is each other - but practical Léa does her best to take care of Rose, the daydreamer. Then Léa loses her job, just as Rose has a sudden and heart-stopping encounter with André, a handsome young French fugitive, that changes her life forever.

Compiègne, juin 1940. Helena, institutrice de vingt-trois ans, a à cœur de mener sa mission auprès de ses élèves. Mais dans tout le Nord, c'est la débâcle, et elle doit rejoindre dans le Limousin sa famille qui y possède un vaste domaine agricole. Ce domaine, c'est son refuge, l'âme des siens, au passé déjà si tumultueux, et qu'elle chérit si fort. Mais à la fin de l'été, contre l'avis de ses parents, elle rejoint Compiègne pour la rentrée des classes. Elle vit alors un amour sublime, mais maudit, avant de regagner définitivement le sud de la France.

A secret letter. A wartime promise. A courageous act of love... Singapore, 1942: The war is drawing ever closer, and Dorothy faces a heart-rending choice to flee the country she has come to call home. With warplanes advancing across the ocean, she is boarding a boat full of evacuees when...

Rose est sage-femme sur l'île de Groix. Dans le tumulte d'une guerre qui dure depuis trop longtemps, elle se donne corps et âme à ses patientes. Sa vie bascule en septembre 1944 lorsque son domicile est réquisitionné pour héberger deux officiers ennemis.

As the war turns in Britain’s favour, Brin confronts old and new enemies and discovers someone close to him is a British traitor. Jameson finally breaks free of the torturer, Anton Ziegler, but is he walking into even greater danger when the SS takes him captive and extradites him to Berlin? MI5 continues to groom its double-cross agents in the lead up to Britain’s greatest deception against Germany, while the Germans use a legion of British traitors in their propaganda war against Russia.

Her husband vanishes. The truth lies buried in wartime London. The day after their wedding in Dominica, LeJeune sails to England to build a home for them. When Essie receives only a single letter from him, she must leave her Caribbean home and travel across the ocean to post-WWII London, determined to uncover what really happened. In Stepney, the people who knew him—his army friend and the woman who first captured his heart—hold pieces of the truth. As Essie digs deeper, secrets from his wartime past begin to unravel, threatening everything she believed about love, loyalty, and herself.

Zwischen sanften Hügeln, weiten Feldern, dichten Wäldern und alten Städten entfaltet sich im gesprochenen Wort ein Schlesien, das es so nicht mehr gibt. Dieses Hörbuch erzählt von einer Zeit vor dem großen Umbruch, als das Leben einfacher war, aber nicht leichter. Von Menschen, die arbeiteten, hofften, liebten – und manchmal an einer einzigen Entscheidung wuchsen. Jede Geschichte ist an einen realen Ort gebunden. Bauern, Handwerker, Hebammen, Händler und Kinder stehen im Mittelpunkt – keine großen Helden, sondern Menschen mit stiller Stärke und kleinen Geheimnissen.

‘A woman can get more information about German supply lines and replacements than a man with a knife to a soldier’s throat…’ Germany, 1944 Best friends Viv Allen and Junie Knight are drawn into the covert world of America’s Morale Operations Branch, a dark propaganda campaign designed...

For 13-year-old Sarah Waldman, life in the small Polish town of Olkusz is idyllic, grounded in her loving, close-knit family and the traditions of their Jewish faith. But in 1939, as the Nazis come to power, a storm is gathering—a relentless, unforgiving storm that will sweep Sarah and her family into years of misery in the ghetto and concentration camps, tearing them apart. Will Sarah's strong will and determination be enough for her to survive when everything she loves is taken from her?

El Dr. Ho Fengshan, cónsul general de China, es destinado a Viena junto a su esposa estadounidense, Grace. A medida que la violencia contra los judíos se intensifica, el Dr. Ho se enfrenta a la difícil tarea de emitir miles de visas más para ayudar a los judíos a escapar de Viena antes de que sean deportados a los campos de concentración, de donde difícilmente saldrán con vida. Basada en una historia real extraordinaria, Escape de Viena narra los riesgos asumidos por almas valientes, y el amor y la amistad que construyeron y perdieron en su lucha contra un mal incalculable.

Londres, mai 1941. Pierre de Vomécourt, alias « Lucas », est l'un des premiers agents « action » du SOE parachutés sur le sol français sur ordre de Churchill. Avec René Piercy et sa femme Thérèse, ils vont créer à Lyon le noyau dur du SOE dans le Rhône. Sous le pseudonyme de Lucas, Pierre de Vomécourt est l'un des premiers Français parachutés. Il recrute René Piercy et Thérèse Leblond, un couple lyonnais décidé à tout risquer pour la liberté.

Die Geschichte eines Hauses und der Menschen, die es bewohnen: von der NS-Zeit bis heute, von Leben, Verantwortung und Erinnerung Das alte Haus erzählt. Denn seine Mauern, Dielen und Ritzen bewahren die Erinnerungen an alle Menschen, die es jemals bewohnt haben. Schon als Kind hat Irma Thon mit ihren nazitreuen Eltern im ersten Stock gelebt. Während die 90-Jährige zurückblickt und immer wieder an die kleine Ruth Sternheim von damals denken muss, erfreuen sie die Gespräche mit Nele Bittner aus dem Vierten.

Brides of Bold Street is filled with beautiful, brand-new ivory gowns. But dressmaker Sabrina loves it when brides-to-be wear vintage, family heirloom dresses. Seeing wedding day photographs of future mothers and grandmothers beaming—as if knowing the happiness they feel will be passed down to their daughters—is a bittersweet reminder of the mother she's never known.

After running from her mother's seaside cottage ten years ago following a devastating loss, Sarah returns to the village of Dovecote to fulfil her father's dying wish. As she opens the gate of her childhood home, long-buried emotions rise to the surface. Having drifted from the close-knit community, she can't bear to face those she hurt when she left.