検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

Blackpool, 1939 Elsie Harper has spent her whole life fighting to escape poverty. Touring the country with her best friend Kathleen O'Rourke and a small variety troupe, she finally dares to dream of love and happiness when she falls for charming performer Alec Morrison. But when war tears her...

Singapur, Anfang 1945: Das japanische Kriegsgefangenenlager Changi ist die Hölle auf Erden. Unter extremen Bedingungen – geplagt von Hunger, Tropenkrankheiten und der Willkür der Wachen – kämpfen tausende alliierte Soldaten ums bloße Überleben – und doch bestehen die alten Hierarchien und Rivalitäten fort. Nur dem »King«, einem amerikanischen Korporal, ist es gelungen, einen florierenden Schwarzhandel aufzubauen, womit er die hierarchische Ordnung auf den Kopf stellt und was ihn zum gefürchteten und meistgehassten Mittelpunkt des Lagers macht.

Sweep away to Greece with this uplifting, escapist summer read, for fans of Lucinda Riley, Victoria Hislop and Karen Swan. Sometimes we find love where we least expect it … When Victoria escapes New York for the Greek island of Folegandros, she hopes a new life there will heal her marriage and...

Two brothers fight for survival in icy waters! For fans of Dewey Lambdin, Patrick O’Brian, Nicholas Monsarrat, C.S. Forester and Max Hennessy. The worst journey in the world…1941. Twin brothers Romulus and Remus Hutchinson have been serving in a range of challenging environments as the naval threat intensifies, but none more so than the icy waters of the Arctic. Following the trauma of the death of a family member in a Luftwaffe bombing raid on Liverpool, the twins are battling with their grief as they fight to survive in the face of the most ruthless of enemies and the harshest of climates.

Deutschland 1945, der Krieg hat viele Träume zerstört. Auch die von drei Freundinnen in Tübingen: Helene will Ärztin werden, Charlotte hatte von einer Karriere als Schauspielerin geträumt, und Eleonore will einfach an der Seite eines geliebten Mannes ein gutes Leben führen. Als Charlotte merkt, dass sie von dem marokkanischen Besatzungssoldaten Amir schwanger ist, steht sie vor einer schwierigen Entscheidung. Ihre Freundin Eleonore hat dasselbe Problem. Der Roman erzählt kenntnisreich eine Geschichte von Aufbruch, Verleugnung und Enttäuschung. Aber auch von Hoffnung und Zuversicht.

Through the story of one family in post-Soviet Lviv, The Apartment on Lepky Street is the story of a city and a nation grappling with the meaning of homeland and history, narrated by an inimitably charming abandoned dog. The story follows three generations of the family of an old Soviet military...

Bari, 1938. Mentre l'ombra delle leggi razziali inizia ad allungarsi sull'Italia, un delitto scuote la quiete apparente di un elegante palazzo del centro. In questo scenario di ordine imposto si incrociano i destini di due uomini: Nino Grimaldi, stimato pediatra e figlio di un influente gerarca fascista, e Gianni Ancona, un commerciante che tenta disperatamente di proteggere la propria famiglia dalla persecuzione.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Wish returns with a masterful new novel that captures the astonishing bravery of ordinary people in extraordinary times. In 1942, the Nazis come for a Jewish family living in the Montparnasse area of occupied Paris...

Two friends. Two lifetimes. One unfinished promise. On the first night of Hanukkah, a brick crashes through the window of Adara Cohen’s home, breaking a sacred, defiant night of celebration. Inside, three of her children are badly injured. Outside, a small Midwestern community is forced to confront the repercussions of an act of hatred that echoes a bloodstained past. For Adara’s closest friend, Lily Sullivan, the attack awakens more than anger.

It is the autumn of 1945 and identical twins Joy and Gillian Lawrence are on their way home to Liverpool, having been evacuated to Devonshire five years earlier. Their mother has been killed in the Blitz but the girls hope that with their beloved father's help they will be able to manage without assistance. All goes well until there is a terrible accident and Joy loses her sight. At first she is bitter and resentful whilst Gillian is racked with guilt.

Initially viewed with scepticism, the female pilots who served with the Air Transport Auxiliary in Britain during World War II became a crucial, high-skilled and often unsung force that ferried 309,000 aircraft – from trainers to heavy bombers – from factories to Royal Air Force frontline bases, freeing up male combat pilots. The flying conditions were often dangerous – the so-called 'Attagirls' were required to fly 'anything to anywhere', usually with no radios or navigational equipment, and in high-risk conditions.

From National Book Award finalist Laird Hunt, a novel of love and resistance inspired by the real-life events of The Battle for Crete—for readers of Michael Ondaatje and Sebastian Barry. On the third Tuesday in May, 1941, the skies over Crete filled with German planes and out came the...

Raised within a cosseted circle of British ex-pats in Florence, Iris shocked her family and friends when she married Antonio. Despite the protests of both families, they found a crumbling villa on a windy Tuscan hilltop, called La Foce, and they poured themselves into the house and the land--and...

Tartu, augusti 1944. Röda armén närmar sig, och urmakaren Rein Aule får en varning som förändrar allt: hans namn har kommit upp i Berlin. Under kriget förbättrade han en tysk chiffermaskin — ett arbete han aldrig berättat om, inte ens för sin hustru. Nu är han inte längre en...

A heart-warming and rich tale of camaraderie and friendship among the land girls on the Suffolk coast in WWII, from the author of The Bomb Girls April 1942. Nestled on the beautiful Suffolk coast lies Deben Hall, welcoming conscripted women eager to help the war effort. Dreaming of leaving...

Flowers don't grow in concentration camps… Georg Gottlieb knows this better than anyone. Before the war, he was a joker, madly in love with Rose and living in Prague – but he had a gift for forgery that condemned him to one of the Nazis most secret projects: the counterfeiting of British...

Biting cold, thick fog and frigid, torrential rain…The perfect recipe for misery. The perfect cocktail for a deadly battle of wits. Near the end of the bitter Aleutian winter, a Soviet weather aircraft is shot down over the Japanese-held island of Attu. What few realize is that the five crewmembers aboard are not ordinary airmen, but members of a crack Soviet intelligence team carrying information vital to the coming Allied offensive. The Japanese know something is different… and they're determined to find the survivors before anyone else.

Den svenske diplomaten Harald Edelstam, med täcknamn Svarta nejlikan, anländer till Oslo 1942, mitt i deporteringen av de norska judarna till förintelseläger. Edelstam blir snabbt involverad i det smutsiga kriget mellan Gestapo och en spretig motståndsrörelse. Snaran dras åt runt den...

Akari is Outlander meets Farewell to Manzanar from New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson. Applied quantum physicist Akari Sato is working late at Los Alamos National Laboratory one night when she hears commotion from her lab. She finds intruders dressed in dated clothing rifling...

I Ödesnatten -44 möter läsaren 16-årige Erik från den Augustnominerade Land i lågor, 1992. Han har blivit antagen som volontär vid I 19 i Boden när en konvoj dyker upp på den finska sidan och Erik dras in i de dramatiska händelserna hösten 1944 vid den svensk-finska gränsen. Finska...