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They call Cade Parker a sniper. Ortega calls him something simpler: the man who fixes problems at long range. When Operation Husky throws their units into chaos, Cade and Ortega become the sharp edge. The pair that clears the angles so everyone else can move. But Sicily isn’t Tunisia. Sound lies between stone walls. Sightlines collapse into short windows. And a hostile marksman is cutting the invasion apart by killing leadership and communications at the worst possible moments.

1943. The tide of war is turning. For months, the Japanese Empire has dominated the Pacific. Now, for the first time, it is being pushed back. Across the ocean, the Allies are striking on every front. Pearl Harbor is under relentless assault, American industry is surging back to life, and new fleets are entering the fight. In China, Japanese armies are reeling. In the Pacific, their once unstoppable advance is slowing… then faltering.

When war changes everything, can friendship hold fast? Life is hard for Kathleen Deery. With five children to feed and her husband struggling to find steady work, the family depends on her wages at the infamous Tillie and Henderson shirt factory at the heart of Derry. Every shift is a battle...

C'est la lecture de ce roman vrai qui a inspiré Steven Spielberg pour réaliser son célèbre film La Liste de Schindler. Comme l'a écrit le Guardian, " c'est une chose de rassembler des documents historiques et des témoignages. C'en est une autre de les ramener à la vie comme l'a fait Thomas Keneally ". Et en effet, l'auteur reconstitue l'histoire d'Oskar Schindler – industriel allemand qui dirigeait une usine rattachée à un camp de concentration durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale...

Eine junge Frau kämpft um ihren Tulpenhof, ihre Familie und die Liebe – der neue bewegende Roman von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin Kerstin Lange Holland, 1940. Die Familie de Boer bewirtschaftet seit Generationen einen Tulpenhof. Ihr ganzer Stolz ist die legendäre Sorte »Kaiserblut«. Als deutsche Soldaten den Hof besetzen, zerbricht die Welt der 24-jährigen Femke. Ihr eigener Bruder kollaboriert mit den Besatzern, beide Eltern sind krank.

Auschwitz, 1945. The gates are flung open. Prisoners flee for their lives. But as Celina stumbles toward safety, a man in a German uniform seizes her arm. She knows it’s impossible… but he looks just like her husband. Celina has given up hope of ever leaving Auschwitz. Only memories of her beloved husband Noah keep her sane—her childhood sweetheart, her protector, once her entire world. If she allows herself to remember that he was killed, she knows she’ll be lost too…Now, as the Soviets liberate the camp, Celina screams when a man in a German uniform grabs her.

9 juin 1944. L'ambiance est à la fête dans les rues de Tulle tout juste libérée lorsque la division SS « Das Reich », en route vers Oradour-sur-Glane, entre dans la ville pour y semer la terreur. 99 hommes sont pendus « pour l'exemple » aux balcons des maisons, sous le regard horrifié de la population. Ce jour-là, Hortense Chambel assiste impuissante au supplice de son mari alors qu'elle s'apprête à donner la vie.

When the German march across Europe reaches France, young Michelle Naget and her family join the throngs fleeing for safety. But their flight ends in capture by the Nazis, with one member of the family taken, while the rest of the family is sent back to their village of Braquis, France, to serve the enemy who has commandeered their home.

Wartime London. The air-raid sirens may scream across the sky, but for Vera, the real terror waits behind closed doors. On War Street, every family hides something — and Vera’s secret could destroy everything she holds dear. This powerful saga follows one woman’s fight to survive: battling not only the bombs raining from above, but the fury of an abusive husband whose temper blazes as fiercely as the fires lighting the night. When he’s sent overseas to serve, Vera finally dares to breathe again — until a handsome fireman arrives to battle the flames consuming London.

Grete always longed to be a mother, but it never happened for her so, as the clouds of war gather over Europe, she’s devoting her time to helping Jewish children escape the Nazis. She remembers the face of every single child she’s taken on trains to freedom in the Netherlands. The danger increases with each trip, but, today, she has to get her best friend’s children to safety, because they are closest thing she has to family.

Lacy Farrington Forbes never wanted the life of a debutante. But after a family tragedy pulls her back to America from a post-deb whirl in London on the brink of WWII, she trades ballrooms for battlefields—volunteering with the Red Cross to raise funds for a field hospital near the Russian-Finnish front. Dr. Charles Pembroke III is a young Boston-based doctor who defies familial pressure by earning a degree in structural design at night and then impulsively joins Dr. Noah Fischer’s Finland Field Hospital project as a favor to his Harvard classmate.

It's 1942, and best friends Mary and Marge leave their teaching jobs behind in Iowa to move to Washington D.C. to work for the FBI. Excited yet apprehensive, neither of them could anticipate the rapid changes the war will bring into their lives. Arriving at Union Station, they meet Dotty, a quick-witted woman who left her all-girl band in New York City in search of new opportunities. Despite rampant racism, Dotty manages to find a clerical job with the government, thanks to her prized possession - a typewriter.

Vienna, 1941. In a city drowned in silence under Nazi occupation, one forbidden sound refuses to die. Elijah Rosen, a young Jewish violinist, survives by hiding in the attic of a grand opera house—its broken rafters his sanctuary, its abandoned stage his only audience. Each night, he lifts his bow and plays into the darkness, letting music speak the name he is no longer allowed to utter: freedom. Below him, German Lieutenant Viktor Weiss walks the corridors of the same opera house, a soldier haunted by the memory of a sister who once played the violin.

France, 1941. Margot locks her bookshop door and slips into the cellar, where a circle of brave women gather by candlelight to read the books the Germans are burning. They are risking everything to share forbidden stories and fight back. But one seat is empty. . . Esther is missing, and as a Jewish woman, she is in terrible danger. Whatever happens, Margot has promised to take care of Esther’s baby, darling Isabelle. . .

Quelque part en Dordogne. François, apiculteur, est un coeur simple, une pâte d’homme. Il parle à ses abeilles dans une langue connue de lui seul et possède une sorte de fluide, comme parfois les êtres sans colère et pleins d’innocence, qui a fait de lui guérisseur. Depuis que sa femme a mystérieusement disparu, il élève seul son fils, Alban. Le petit garçon, en butte à l’hostilité de nombreux villageois, a trouvé l’affection qui lui manque auprès d’une famille de réfugiés espagnols, dont les enfants sont devenus ses amis.

Ein falscher Ton und der Vorhang fällt für immer.

Theresienstadt, 1943.

Als Sophie erfährt, dass Eugen, der jüdische Theaterregisseur, den sie liebt, nach Theresienstadt verschleppt wurde, fasst sie den verzweifelten Entschluss ihn zu retten.

Im Ghetto hängt sein Überleben an einer zerbrechlichen Illusion: Sein Talent hat ihm die Gunst der Frau des Lagerkommandanten eingebracht. Doch an einem Ort, der von Grausamkeit beherrscht wird, kann solche Gunst über Nacht verschwinden.

Bloomsbury presents Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding, read by Sian Thomas SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Iasi, Romania, the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of a hospital. Deaf and mute, he is unable to communicate until a young nurse called Safta brings...

Christmas with the Teashop Girls is a heartwarming and moving story of wartime love, bravery and hope, by the bestselling author of the Woolworths series, Elaine Everest. It is late 1940 and the war feels closer to home than ever for Rose Neville and her staff at the Lyon’s Teashop in Margate...

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A celebrated bartender at the Ritz Hotel during the Nazi occupation of Paris harbors a dangerous secret in this “magnificent” (ELLE), “brilliant” (Le Parisien) international bestseller based on a true story. "The...

To live among wolves, first you must become one An unmissable new spy thriller from best-selling master of the genre, Alex Gerlis. War is coming to Europe. British spymaster Barnaby Allen begins recruiting a network of agents in Germany. With diplomatic relations quickly unravelling, this pack...