検索キーワード： 制作 "-- Kevin Wright --" 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

July, 1940. Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern’s life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in an air raid. But once she discovers that he’d been working undercover as a radio operative – or pianist – for the Dutch resistance, Marnie knows she must complete his mission – no matter the cost. Nazi-occupied Amsterdam: At the other end of the wireless, fellow pianist Corrie Bakker is caught in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse as she desperately tries to keep her loved ones out of the line of fire – even if it means sacrificing herself.

One single moment, one simple decision, is all it takes for destiny to arise and transform a person’s life. For Sebastian Petras, that fateful moment came soon after the Nazis occupied Athens. The decision to shelter British soldiers, who had been left behind enemy lines, forever changed not only his life, but the lives of everyone in his family.

A breathtaking journey across Iran where war and superstition, jealousy and betrayal, and passion and loyalty rage behind the impenetrable walls of mansions and the crumbling houses of the Jewish Quarter.

Occupied France, 1943. Returning home from the daily hunt for the rationed ingredients necessary to keep his family pâtisserie open, Andre Albert finds his four year old son in the street, his wife gone, and a Jewish escapee cowering behind the display case. Without Mireille, the foundation of Andre's world crumbles. He desperately searches for her, but finds more trouble than answers. Lives are further jeopardized when he agrees to hide Émilie, the escapee, and a Nazi officer shows up to investigate Mireille's disappearance.

In der Gegenwart kommen die Verfolger Doktor Nathan Sanders immer dichter und werden gefährlicher. Zur gleichen Zeit droht in Berlin ein Haus einzustürzen. Die Vorkommnisse 1945 auf dem flüchtenden U-Boot spitzen sich zu. Die Lage der Mannschaft scheint aussichtslos. Ein geheimnisvolles Gerät taucht auf.

Ninety-two-year-old Henry Budge defies most of his family by escaping a rehab hospital to make his way to France for the ceremonies of the 70th observance of D-Day. Before he dies, he hopes to at last address a grief he has allowed to simmer for decades and to rekindle memories of Élodie Bedier, the French Resistance fighter with whom he fell in love 70 years earlier, as a way of confronting his grief at losing her.

When battle-hardened Private Bernie Russell witnesses a fellow soldier shoot a young German boy with his hands up, he’s shaken to his very core. Then, as that same boy is dying, he presses a packet of photographs and letters into Bernie’s hand and utters three words in English. "It must end."

Conciliando sapientemente fantasia e realtà storica, con "La banda Gordon" Marco Dell'Omo firma un romanzo irresistibile, che affonda le radici in un Abruzzo di metà Novecento, sospeso fra le follie del regime fascista e la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. La storia prende le mosse da un anziano generale in pensione, Piero Vinci, che a distanza di molti anni ripercorre la sua adolescenza ai tempi del Duce.

Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters—each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next—dominate the English political, literary, and social scenes. Though they've weathered scandals before, the family falls into disarray when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and Unity follows her sister's lead all the way to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress.

Am 20. Juli 1944 sprengen die Verschwörer um Graf Stauffenberg den „Führer“ in die Luft. Doch dem Jubel über Hitlers Tod folgt gleich die Ernüchterung: Die Attentäter haben nicht genug Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung und bei der Wehrmacht. Ihre verzweifelte Lage zwingt sie zu einem Bündnis mit Heinrich Himmler und der SS. Im letzten Augenblick wendet Deutschland die Niederlage im Weltkrieg durch einen Atomschlag ab. Die Deutschen zwingen die Alliierten zu einem Frieden, der dem Reich die Grenzen vom April 1940 garantiert.

Que s'est-il passé en mai 1942 dans la steppe autour de Kharkov, en Ukraine ? L'Armée rouge a lancé une offensive qui s'est conclu, pour elle, par un énorme fiasco. Les Allemands étaient une fois de plus les plus forts ! Mais les leçons seront tirées et ce sera le dernier désastre des troupes de Staline. L'ouvrage Kharkov 1942 décrit, analyse et explique en détail cet énorme affrontement dont l'issue était en vérité imprévisible.

Ce roman relate l'histoire vraie de deux Allemandes exceptionnelles : Hanna Reitsch et Melitta von Stauffenberg. Atteintes du virus de l'Aviation depuis leur plus jeune âge, elles ont dû se battre avec leurs propres armes pour assouvir leur rêve dans un milieu aussi machiste qu'élitiste. Le début de la seconde guerre mondiale va les obliger à participer à l'effort national. Pour ces deux intrépides, ce sera la mise au point de bombardiers modernes et ultraperformants.

When the love of Tasha’s life, Luca, joins the air force to fight against the evil Nazi invaders, she knows she has to follow her heart—and him—into battle. Headstrong, impulsive and a daredevil, she’s the perfect recruit. Tasha’s sensible older sister, Nadia, plans only to stop Tasha’s madness and bring her home. But a chance encounter puts her in a plane, soaring above the clouds, and she also finds her calling.

La trahison qui a ébranlé les services secrets britanniques. Tout est invraisemblable dans ce récit aux allures de roman. Et pourtant, tout est vrai. Au milieu des années 1930, les maîtres-espions de Staline recrutent cinq étudiants de la prestigieuse université de Cambridge. Des jeunes pousses qui s'appellent Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, John Cairncross, Donald Maclean et Kim Philby.

Der Real-Fiction Thriller geht in die nächste Runde. Die Lesestaffel basiert auf wahren Begebenheiten und anonymen Berichten. Ursprung der Geschichte ist Berlin, am Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Die Ereignisse dort, haben eine gravierende Folge für die Gegenwart. In Berlin hat eine Zeitbombe mit unfassbarem Ausmaß zu ticken begonnen. Eine mörderisch Jagd beginnt und zieht weltweite Kreise...

Liverpool, World War II. Monica Eustace and Joan McDonald met as next-door-neighbours living in Mersey View in Liverpool. Their friendship is a close as ever, though they're married now, and sharing Monica's grand house on the other side of the city. But war clouds are gathering, casting a shadow over the happy future they dream of with their young husbands. Meanwhile, in London, Joan's half-sister Bella is overwhelmed with the glitz and glamour of the city while she's training as a singer - but will she forget her friends back home?

Eine genial erzählte Geschichte über Menschlichkeit in einem der dunkelsten Kapitel der Weltgeschichte! Im Jahr 1944 tobt der Zweite Weltkrieg. Auf einem Bauernhof in Österreich taucht eines Tages das Flüchtlingsmädchen Nelli auf; traumatisiert, allein und ohne jegliche Erinnerung. Die Bauernfamilie Leithner nimmt die Jugendliche bei sich auf und versucht, ihr ein sicheres Zuhause zu bieten. Doch dann tritt ein weiterer Fremder in ihr Leben: ein junger Russe, dessen wertvollster Besitz ein geheimnisvolles Gemälde ist.

France, 1942: When Kasia is told she will be smuggled out of Poland to work as a radio operator with a French Resistance group, she plans to make the dangerous journey across the border alone. But when she meets a mute girl who she names Elodie, in a ghetto in Warsaw on the eve of her departure, she reminds Kasia so strongly of someone she loved–with one brown eye, and one green–that she knows she can’t leave her behind, no matter the risk....

In 1942, an impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to close the library, she invents a book club to keep its doors open. The women she convinces to attend the first meeting couldn't be more different—a wealthy spinster determined to aid the war effort, an exhausted mother looking for a fresh start, and a determined young war worker.

Artist Marguerite Segal is recruited by British Intelligence into befriending Etienne Valade, a local priest. Her mission is to persuade him to pass on information from the high-ranking German officers who attend his church: evidence of their war crimes. Connected by a passion for art, Marguerite and Etienne soon fall in love, but their association increasingly puts her at danger of violent reprisals. With his church frequented by Nazis, Etienne is a suspected collaborator, and distrust is high.