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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.

Turning towards the lighthouse, Sarah wipes a tear from her eye as she reads the inscription on the faded photograph. Will this discovery tear her family apart for good? After running from her mother's seaside cottage ten years ago following a devastating loss, Sarah returns to the village of...

Nederland 1939. De oorlog staat op het punt van uitbreken. Sportvlieger Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten probeert haar droom te verwezenlijken en is begonnen als stewardess bij de KLM. Ida leeft voor de lucht, alleen boven de wolken voelt ze de vrijheid waar ze zo’n behoefte aan heeft. Maar als de Duitsers Nederland bezetten en Schiphol wordt gebombardeerd gaat haar droom letterlijk in rook op.

Set against the brutal backdrop of World War II on the Greek island of Kefalonia, The Weight of Loyalty follows Oliver Graham, a British sailor whose life becomes entangled with the local resistance after a submarine disaster leaves him stranded behind enemy lines. Sheltered by courageous villagers, Oliver is drawn into a dangerous web of secrecy, sacrifice, and love—particularly with Natalía Giannatos, a young woman whose quiet strength masks the daily risks of defying occupation forces.

La giovane Juni, in fuga da un marito violento, si rifugia nella casa dei nonni su un'isola norvegese, un luogo ormai quasi disabitato che in lei evoca ricordi felici: è qui che è cresciuta insieme agli amati nonni, che ora non ci sono più. Rovistando tra i loro cimeli, Juni trova una fotografia che ritrae la nonna Tekla da giovane insieme a un uomo che non è il nonno; l'immagine è datata giugno 1945, l'uomo è un soldato e i due hanno tutta l'aria di essere innamorati.

In der größten Buchhandlung Europas leistet die junge Frieda Wehlau stillen Widerstand, indem sie verbotene Literatur an Regimegegner verkauft. Hans wird an der Front vermisst. Als im April 1945 schließlich die Rote Armee einmarschiert, beginnt das wahre Grauen. Königsberg wird zu Kaliningrad. Von den 120.000 Zivilisten überleben nur 20.000 die folgenden zwei Jahre. Getarnt als Krankenschwester erlebt Frieda Hunger, Gewalt und Typhus. Sie sucht verzweifelt nach Hans, doch sie findet nur den Tod.

A BRAND NEW heartwarming and emotional WWII saga of love, healing and friendship. Perfect for fans of Call the Midwife, Donna Douglas and Nancy Revell! ❤️ ‘Come on, Kathy… tell me a secret.’ 1943: Becoming a Home Front nurse, meant Kathy Scott was finally able to escape the violence of...

Malta, 1940. An Irish officer's wife, Adelle Ottaway, has just given birth to a baby with serious problems. Her husband insists the baby should be left in an institution. Adelle decides otherwise and joins a convoy on a perilous journey home to Ireland. She makes a secret promise to her daughter that she will look after her no matter what it takes. But she didn't expect to fall for a US Army medic who is stationed in her village. Northern Ireland, 1987. Adelle's life is falling apart.

'A powerful and beautifully told novel about hidden secrets and the hunger to belong. I loved it' Clare Leslie Hall, author of BROKEN COUNTRY 'Has future classic written all over it' Red Magazine 'I loved everything about this book' Julia Quinn, author of BRIDGERTON A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK A...

Brought to you by Penguin. For sale: Greek cottage. Price: One Euro. Skye doesn’t make impulsive decisions. But when she sees a derelict Greek cottage for sale by lottery, she enters with dreams of a fresh start. However, her heart sinks as she pushes open the tattered blue door weeks later...

The Germans arrived with a plan to occupy a quiet French village. The French Resistance and Allied forces had other plans. Sturmbannführer Gunther Dettmer stands at the Franco-German border, poised with Hitler's war machine to unleash the western Blitzkrieg. Six hundred kilometers away, WWI veteran René Legrand tends to his fields in peaceful Sainte-Mère-Église, trying to forget his past as the French army's deadliest assassin

Inspired by true events, blending white–knuckle suspense with wartime romance, a woman who would become known as the female Schindler risks everything to smuggle children out of the ghetto and away from the grasp of the Gestapo . . . Warsaw, 1939. The Nazi invasion shatters the city, as Nazi...

As one of the masterminds behind the US 8th Air Force's daring raids into Nazi Germany, Colonel Matt Barrington is accustomed to making decisions that send men to their deaths. But when a mission goes terribly wrong, resulting in the loss of sixty bombers, the weight of command threatens to crush him.