検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

When Liesl steps between Samuel and a Nazi rifle, trying to save his life, the blow to her head steals everything-her memories, her identity, and any trace of the boy she loved. Samuel watches the girl who saved him wake up not knowing his name, not remembering their promises, not recognizing his face.

Paris, 1940. Shops are being boarded up, Jewish children are loaded onto buses and eighteen-year-old Elise’s heart beats hard as she runs down the cobbled streets under the shadow of swastikas. She hates her father with all her heart: he is working with the Nazis and has forbidden her to be friends with Myriam and Salomé, the Goldman sisters who are closer to her than her own family. Elise will do anything to help the girls she loves as sisters, including sharing her father’s secret business. Every day she creeps out to their apartment, avoiding the cold-eyed soldiers who stalk the streets.

With the reserves of male pilots ready for combat rapidly dwindling, England’s secret service decide to try something revolutionary. They are going to send female pilots into combat. MI6 put Wing Commander James Donovan in charge of the ‘Sirens’. Outwardly, the women chosen appear to be assisting in the transporting of planes, but this is just a cover. In reality, they will be flying secret RAF combat missions into enemy territory.

Annette Oppenlanders mehrfach preisgekrönter biografischer Roman beleuchtet einfühlsam und mitreißend einen selten behandelten Teil des dunkelsten Kapitels deutscher Geschichte: das Schicksal der Kinder im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Vaterland, wo bist Du? erzählt die wahre Lebens-und Liebesgeschichte von Lilly und Günter, die als Kinder über Nacht mit den Schrecken des Dritten Reichs konfrontiert werden.

In the quiet farm town of Guadalupe, California, Emmy Kubo's life revolves around family, friends, and the small, close-knit Japanese-American community. But when World War II erupts, everything changes. As an American-born citizen, Emmy and her Issei parents—immigrants who are denied citizenship—lose their freedom, while she and her Nisei (American born) friends, including the charming Tom, struggle to navigate a nation that now views them with suspicion.

Author of the bestselling and much-loved At the Foot of the Cherry Tree, Alli Parker, returns with another engrossing and moving novel of courage and conviction, Until the Red Leaves Fall. Emmy Darling has a secret. She has a few. Her lemon meringue pie is a recipe from a women's magazine, she's...

September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War, but in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious...

Published in Harper's Magazine in 1946, "Beware of the Dog," by Roald Dahl, is a short story that recounts the experiences of Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot Peter Williamson after he is shot down during a World War II bombing mission.

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.

"Mimi, it's me. Nick," he whispered, his Nazi uniform a mockery of the boy who once promised to protect her. She stared through her tears at eyes she'd never forgotten—now belonging to the enemy. When the Nazis invade Paris, the peaceful world Mimi shares with her beloved grandmother Chloe—is shattered forever. In a single, brutal day, police tear through their neighborhood, ripping Jewish families from their homes and destroying lives built over generations.

Blood surges through Annie’s veins as she stares into the cold eyes of the Nazi who hurt her mother. She knows she must finally make it right… Germany, 1946. Annie draws a deep breath, trying to stop her hands shaking as she takes notes at the Nuremberg Trials. She isn’t just here to expose the horrors the Nazis committed, she also has a personal stake. And as soon as she lays eyes on Margarete, the Nazi who destroyed her family, a flame burns bright in her to deliver justice for her mother too.

December 1941: As bombs fall on Pearl Harbor, singer Hattie James faces a personal nightmare when her sister Olivia vanishes. The kidnappers demand an impossible price—her father's classified list of undercover American and Nazi spies. Wartime paranoia and family loyalty take Hattie to Washington, D.C., with Maya and Commander Leo Bell to hunt an elusive, high-ranking mole in the War Department who is after those lists. Leo, a military intelligence officer with access to classified operations, becomes their crucial inside man, navigating the treacherous corridors of power.

The year is 1940, and the Axis is invading everywhere. As the Battle of England winds down and results in a German defeat, Adolf Hitler set his sights on the South and the Mediterranean theater. The Reich can deal a deadly blow to the British Empire by conquering Gibraltar and the Suez Canal. In doing so, it would cut the British supply lines and make the Mediterranean Sea an Axis lake. The British cannot afford to lose both spots as much as it cannot lose Egypt and the Middle East. It will fight as much as it can to prevail and defeat the Germans, Italians, and Soviets.

Güstrow, Mai 1945: Die 14-jährige Marlen liegt zusammengekauert in der Schublade einer alten Bauernkommode in einem verlassenen Forsthaus. Wilma, eine der wichtigsten Künstlerinnen der Nachkriegszeit, wird langsam blind. Berlin, 2023: Hannah Borowski ist 34 Jahre alt und eigentlich ist alles gut, wenn ihre beste Freundin Rubi nicht plötzlich ausziehen würde, weil sie schwanger ist. Und wenn nicht plötzlich Hannahs Vater wieder aufgetaucht wäre.

In a history where war's darkness intertwines with ancient terrors, John Cody and the soldiers by his side fight a hopeless battle across a darkened 1940s Europe. What begins as a quest to liberate a fallen world quickly reveals an even deeper nightmare: towns and cities swallowed by silence, histories erased, and an unearthly presence lurking in the void.

“A richly textured, gorgeously written debut that I couldn’t put down.” —Joanna Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Whalebone Theatre Portrait of a Lady on Fire meets The Safekeep in this gripping debut that reckons with art forgery, desire, suspicion, and resistance In...

In 1941, Violet Rookwood and her mother flee war-torn London for a Cornwall farm owned by their family. There, under the floorboards of her bedroom, Violet finds a journal written by a Catholic woman more than three hundred years ago, confessing to a forbidden love. In 1606, on this very farm, Maria Wolveden sheltered Jago Carlyon, a fugitive priest sought for treason. In a time when all Catholics were suspect, Maria’s protective love for Jago grew stronger, as did the mortal dangers of harboring a wanted man.

In late-1930s Europe, not everyone is attentive enough to see what the future holds—certain war. In Prague, however, prescient Jaroslav Blaschka is desperate to transport his family’s wealth beyond the reach of the Nazis. In New York, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt are still confident enough to travel on their annual trek to Paris.

The Clara Conjecture is a new interpretation of historical facts. In 1938 Germany occupied Austria. Professor Lise Meitner, no longer shielded by her Austrian passport from measures against Jews, was fired. An equal of Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein, she had led the world's best theoretical physics institute for nearly 30 years. In Berlin she designed the experiment that would split the uranium atom to produce energy.

Meine Glücksinsel nennt die Studentin Frieda die Mansarde, in der sie mit Sebastian lebt. Doch der Terror der NS-Diktatur zwingt sie zu einer folgenschweren Entscheidung. Um das Leben eines jüdischen Mädchens zu retten, schließt sich Frieda zusammen mit Sebastian einer Widerstandsgruppe an. Ab da ist ihr Leben in höchster Gefahr.