検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

A captivating story of love and war. It's 1944 and Dianne Parker serves in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, working closely with the RAF bomber crews who risk their lives flying raids over Germany two or three times a week. Casualties are very high, and many of the planes don't return. The aircrews and WAAF's try to live a normal life - and avoid falling in love, because the future is so uncertain and promises only grief and disappointment.

December 1942, Nazi-occupied France. OSS officer Malcolm Parker parachutes into Brittany to revive the Resistance—only to land in a German trap. Wounded and hunted, his mission becomes survival. In Paris, Marguerite Klotz hides in plain sight, playing the part of a barmaid. Under the protection of her uncle, Abwehr officer Rudy Goethe, she spies for the Nazis to keep her Jewish identity buried. As Goethe dismantles the Resistance from within, tremors are felt across the Channel.

In the National Archives, the evidence waits in acid-free folders: the Munson Report, the Ringle Report, the Ennis memo. Documents proving that Franklin Roosevelt's administration knew—before the evacuation orders, before the camps, before 120,000 people lost everything—that Japanese Americans were loyal. They knew. They did it anyway.

In a place built for death, one woman fought to save life. An elderly doctor stands before a room of students in a lecture hall. What unfolds is a story of courage, brutality, and survival. When Dr. Gisella Perl is deported to Auschwitz, her medical training becomes the only thing that can keep her alive. Forced into the women’s barracks under the command of Josef Mengele, she faces starvation, disease, and relentless brutality. Every day, she must make impossible choices, using her skills to save the women the camp has marked for death.

En 1940, le jeune Adam est envoyé au camp de concentration de Sachsenhausen. Il a été arrêté en Pologne pour avoir voulu résister aux nazis. Malgré le froid, la faim, la peur et la mort omniprésents, Adam refuse de se laisser briser par les horreurs du camp. Avec David, un musicien juif...

Amelia is shattered from an unimaginable loss when she seizes a chance to escape to a remote Italian village. But shortly after arriving at the sun-drenched castello, Amelia discovers a trunk hidden in the basement, and beneath tissue-wrapped evening gowns that still carry the scent of violets, she finds a set of leather-bound diaries and charcoal sketches belonging to a woman called Flavia.

1943, Nazi-occupied Holland. Turning up her collar against the wind, Trix prepares for her rendezvous. Living a double life is desperately lonely, but the longer she goes under her alias, Felix, the more comfortable she becomes with this new version of herself – one who will stand up for what is right, and fight for those who can't. That is, until the warm brown eyes of a pilot from her past spark hope for a life after the war.

A heartbreaking novel from the bestselling author of The Four Streets. Noleen Delaney is one of an army of night cleaners at St Angelus Hospital. Son Finn has done something unheard-of and passed his Eleven Plus exam. How on earth will they pay for his books, his grammar school uniform and shoes?...

County Mayo, Ireland, 1947. In the worst winter in living memory, Ruby Flynn is rescued from the tiny cottage on the Atlantic coast where her family has perished. She is one of the storm orphans, taken in by nuns to be educated for a life in service. Now she must find her own way in the outside...

Jewish refugee Felix Wolff believes he has found safety in England, but he is arrested and thrown into a British internment camp as a suspected Nazi spy. To clear his name and join the fight against Hitler, he must break free of a system that mistakes him for the very evil he fled. Fresh off his ruthless campaign in Poland, Sicherheitsdienst agent Karl Vogt is sent on a chilling mission: to devise a system for controlling the growing Jewish population within the Reich. His cold efficiency lays the groundwork for a coming horror the world has yet to comprehend.

Shelves of sequins in a kaleidoscope of colours. Bolts of silk and tulle against the back wall. The sewing room was the last place anyone had seen her daughter alive. Manchester, 1942. Flora Toussaint packs parachutes for the RAF, haunted by the twin daughters she was forced to give up eighteen...

Zachary Whitlock knows sheep. He knows farming and knows what it's like to have his best friend forced into an internment camp for Japanese Americans. What he does not know much about is goats and traveling by sea on cargo ships, yet he makes a decision to go with a group of volunteers to Japan to help deliver a herd of more than two hundred goats, many of which are pregnant, to survivors of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Goats will provide much-needed milk and nutrition, and people living in the bombed ruins are sick and hungry.

Valencia, 1938. Paz Granell es apenas una niña cuando ve cómo su vida se desmorona con el estallido de la Guerra Civil. Huérfana de madre y con un padre republicano y masón, no tienen más opción que huir a Francia en busca de refugio. La oportunidad de escapar llega gracias a Pablo Neruda y el barco Winnipeg, que los lleva a Chile, un nuevo mundo lleno de promesas y desafíos. Allí, Paz deberá reinventarse, luchar por sus sueños y encontrar el amor en un país que no es el suyo, pero que pronto se convertirá en su hogar.

Alle sieben Jahre blüht der Wald. Von der Mutter gedrängt, heiratet sie mit 21 in eine angesehene Familie, obwohl sie einen anderen liebt. Ganz anders ihre Schulfreundin Burgi, die früh der Enge ihres Elternhauses entflieht und ihrem Drang nach Freiheit unbeirrt folgt. Beide Frauen zahlen einen hohen Preis, um ein selbstbestimmtes Leben zu führen. Aber sie gehen konsequent ihren Weg.

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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.

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.

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.

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.