検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

Hanna Majewski y su hermana menor, Stefa, no pueden ser más diferentes: mientras que Hanna deja Polonia para vivir libre de las ataduras que su religión le impone, Stefa es una adolescente modelo, obediente y comprometida con las tradiciones judías. Sin embargo, ambas están seguras de que el amor que sienten la una por la otra es incondicional y, por eso, cuando la Segunda Guerra Mundial estalla y los nazis comienzan a sacar de sus hogares a miles de judíos para encerrarlos en el gueto de Varsovia, Hanna decide regresar a su patria para salvar a su familia, sin importarle que esto pueda costarle la vida.

A small garrison of Australian soldiers is left to defend a town and its people against the might of the Japanese forces. This is a story of those who were left behind and those who waited for them to return.

Pauline Kermadec et Nathalie de Tresnel ont grandi ensemble. A dix-neuf ans, malgré des personnalités opposées, elles sont inséparables. Pauline, fille de diplomate réservée, pose un regard curieux et angoissé sur une Europe au bord du gouffre. Nathalie, issue d'une famille désargentée de la noblesse, lutte avec panache contre les préjugés et les convenances de son milieu. L'actualité de l'été 1938 les rattrape. Pauline doit suivre son père à Berlin, au chevet d'une paix toujours plus fragile.

Stratford-upon-Avon, 1940. Rosalind Arden, born into one of the oldest families in England, has grown up running wild through the walled gardens and secret passages of historic Arden House, known to have once been frequented by Shakespeare himself. But centuries of squandered wealth have left the family destitute, and Papa Arden plans to replenish the coffers by securing hasty marriages to the highest bidder for Rosalind and her sisters. Passionate and headstrong, Rosalind is quickly running out of ways to avoid this fate.

A desperate search for a missing MI6 colleague and the microfilm he possesses leads Professor Katrin Nissen deep into the maelstrom of Nazi-controlled Berlin. Impulsive and reckless, Dieter Weiss may have pushed his luck too far and taken one chance too many. Against all odds, Katrin has just one week to find him.

England, 1943: Deciding to throw herself into war work, Nancy Callaghan joins the Special Operations Executive in Baker Street. There, she begins solving ‘indecipherables’ – scrambled messages from agents in the field. Then Nancy meets Tom Lockwood, a quiet genius when it comes to coding. Together they come up with the idea of printing codes on silk, so agents can hide them in their clothing to avoid detection by the enemy. Nancy and Tom grow close, and soon she is hopelessly in love. But there is a traitor in Baker Street, and suspicions turn towards Tom.

Élevé sur les quais de Bristol, Harry Clifton toujours cru son avenir tout tracé : suivre la tradition familiale et devenir docker. Mais à l‘aube de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, sa réalité est bousculée... L‘image d'un père mort en héros pendant la Grande Guerre se désintègre alors que des doutes s'insinuent dans son esprit. Est-il vraiment le fils d‘Arthur Clifton ? Pourrait-il être l‘héritier légitime des Barrington, la riche famille de marchands ? Et lorsque le monde entre en guerre, deux choix s‘offrent à lui : doit-il saisir la chance rare qui lui est offerte et étudier à Oxford

Paris, 1940. Three years ago, talented art restorer Sophie fled to Paris to escape the horrors of the Nazi regime. But now, with her beloved adoptive city under occupation, Sophie is forced to work at the renowned Jeu de Paume, restoring the art ruthlessly stolen from Jewish families. Fabienne was a rising star of the glamorous Parisian art scene, until the Nazis put a stop to her craft. Mourning the loss of her husband, she's a shadow of her former self - until her estranged sister-in-law Sophie arrives at her door with a stolen painting in hand.

Promoted within the British intelligence service, Paul is sent to Algiers during a ceasefire announced by French General Darlan. But when a deadly new assignment pushes his skills to the limit, will he step up to the challenge of his new role? At Bletchley Park, Claire and her team of analysts discern from decoded messages that the Germans have employed a new type of radar that is decimating RAF bombers. And the messages she decodes grow more troubling by the hour.

Everything has finally fallen into place for Renee. So when vicar Roger asks her to support a new dance hall, it should be a great way to give back to the community. Except Renee has a terrible secret she is holding onto. One that Roger can never know about. Nancy will keep Renee's secret. But she's got her own problems: handsome GI Jack has turned her head, and the American soldiers are causing a stir. Temperance has made a new friend - but now that she has someone who can understand the challenges she faces, will her relationship with Archie survive?

Verona, 2001. Anna, ventinove anni, è una ragazza ingenua, ricca e viziata dall’adorato padre, un facoltoso imprenditore. Dopo la laurea in medicina Anna vuole specializzarsi in chirurgia plastica per aprire uno studio estetico, sposarsi e avere una famiglia. Quando però un ictus colpisce il padre e un misterioso amico gli fa visita, Anna inizia un’indagine sul passato in guerra del padre. Le tracce la conducono nell’Italia del 1944, nel pieno della furia omicida delle SS in fuga, quando le truppe scelte di Hitler trucidarono per vendetta almeno quindicimila civili.

Sophie Dix fled Stuttgart with her brother as the Nazi regime gained power in Germany. Now, with her brother gone and her adopted home city of Paris conquered by the Reich, Sophie reluctantly accepts a position restoring damaged art at the Jeu de Paume museum under the supervision of the ERR—a German art commission using the museum as a repository for art they’ve looted from Jewish families.

Emmy Lake is an agony aunt at Woman’s Friend magazine, doing all she can to help readers as they face the challenges of wartime life. With her column thriving and a team of women behind her, Emmy finally feels she is Doing Her Bit. But when the glamourous new owner arrives, everything changes. Charming her way around editor Guy Collins, Emmy quickly realises the Honourable Mrs Cressida Porter plans to destroy everything readers love about the magazine.

In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle.

The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece - an audiobook that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities.

Gdzieś w głębi serca wiedziała, że myślami wciąż będzie wracać do nieukojonej tęsknoty, do straconej szansy na miłość i do tamtego mężczyzny o szarym spojrzeniu. Do tamtej obietnicy, która nigdy się nie spełniła. Kończy się II Wojna Światowa, a w Polsce zaczyna się czas powojennej odbudowy i podnoszenia kraju z gruzów. Porucznik Szczepan Andryszek, służący podczas wojny w Wojsku Polskim pod rozkazami Sowietów, zostaje funkcjonariuszem podległym Urzędowi Bezpieczeństwa. Przez przełożonych zostaje oddelegowany do niewielkiej Nowej Soli na Ziemiach Odzyskanych.

Jest rok 1941. Alicja Sambor – lekarka chirurg – ucieka wraz z córką z Warszawy, gdzie dzień wcześniej jej mąż został rozstrzelany przez Gestapo. W trakcie podróży kobiety są świadkami wypadku, w którym ranny zostaje niemiecki żołnierz. Alicja, kierując się poczuciem obowiązku, ratuje mu życie i tym samym nieodwracalnie krzyżuje swoje drogi z komendantem Franzem Hizelem. W konsekwencji staje się wrogiem okolicznych mieszkańców i ukrywających się w pobliskich lasach partyzantów. Jej jedynym sprzymierzeńcem zostanie polski porucznik o pseudonimie „Zając”.

HISTORIA JOSEFA MENGELEGO, OSŁAWIONEGO ANIOŁA ŚMIERCI Z AUSCHWITZ. Wydarzenia w tej książce są oparte na faktach. Prawda bywa bardziej przerażająca od najwymyślniejszej fikcji. Josef Mengele był nie tylko zbrodniarzem, ale również opętanym szaleństwem pseudonaukowcem, który więźniów obozów koncentracyjnych wykorzystywał jako żywy materiał do swych chorych badań. Umyślne zarażanie wirusami, zszywanie tułowi kilku osób, operacje bez znieczulenia i wyrywanie płodów. To nie upiorne science-fiction, a prawdziwa historia. Do tego jedynie jej niewielka część. Ta książka opisuje znacznie więcej. Będziecie przerażeni tym, do czego zdolny jest człowiek.

June, 1941. Eleven-year-old Shmuel Sucha is startled awake by the sound of German planes over his hometown in western Ukraine. As the Nazi shadow begins to fall on their small Jewish community, Shmuel’s parents smuggle their son away to a local farm, just on the border of the surrounding forest.

Sobre el fango negro de Auschwitz que todo lo engulle, Fredy Hirsch ha levantado en secreto una escuela. En un lugar donde los libros están prohibidos, la joven Dita esconde bajo su vestido los frágiles volúmenes de la biblioteca pública más pequeña, recóndita y clandestina que haya existido nunca.