検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.

En 1935, Giovanni Tinni se hace cargo de la estación ferroviaria de Fornello. Llega con su esposa Lucía, que está embarazada, y un perro. Ha ganado una competencia que le permite obtener ese puesto; aunque apenas ve el lugar descubre que no es propiamente un ascenso en su carrera. Ese pueblo pequeño y solitario recién cobrará vida para la pareja cuando nazca Romeo, el hijo. Las rutinas y la monotonía ya no estorban; la felicidad sucede cada día. Durante ocho años agradecen esa vida. Pero en 1943 todo cambia.

Quince años han pasado desde el día que David tuvo que huir a Sudamérica. Ahora vuelve a Madrid, al país que lo vio nacer. Aquí, mientras se encarga de una tienda de antigüedades heredada en el centro de la ciudad, descubre un juego de mesa que esconde mucho más de lo que parece. Su inventor ha ocultado en ello el tesoro de los vencidos, y para acabar el juego David y sus amigos tendrán que resolver misterios y pruebas ingeniosas que nos llevarán por las calles y sitios más famosos de Madrid.

1945. Une maison de pierres blanches, aux volets bleus : Vallongue est l'image de la sérénité. Pourtant, entre ces murs, la guerre est loin d'être finie. Clara constate avec tristesse les malheurs que ces cinq ans de conflit ont infligé à sa famille. Son fils Charles, de retour d'Allemagne où il était prisonnier, n'est plus que l'ombre de lui-même. Quant à Édouard, le second fils Morvan, la disparition de sa femme et de sa fille le ronge de l'intérieur. Et entre les deux hommes, le feu couve.

Pearl, Thea and Jenny fling themselves into making Fenthorpe as festive as it can be, hoping they will be able to celebrate the end of C-Charlie’s tour. Disaster strikes when the squadron has to make a forced landing behind enemy lines and all the crewmen are reported missing. Pearl and Thea’s grandmother, Edith, immediately travels to Lincoln to support her granddaughters. But Edith has history at Fenthorpe – can the girls uncover her secrets to help their grandmother find new romance? And can C-Charlie evade capture and survive in enemy-occupied Holland to make it home for Christmas?

The year is 1938 and Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany. Klaus Lehner plays first violin for the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and when the concertmaster is amongst other Jews expelled from Philharmonic, he sees the opportunity for a position he covets He is bitterly disappointed when he is passed over. In the wake of his disappointment, Klaus’s lover Eva, a virtuoso cellist, urges him to become a soloist.

​Plus de deux millions de lecteurs conquis par la saga Les Déracinés. Découvrez la jeunesse de son inoubliable héroïne, Almah. Vienne, 1911. Almah Kahn naît au sein d'une famille de la grande bourgeoisie juive. Son père, chirurgien réputé et grand amateur d'art, est aussi un mécène qui côtoie les plus grands artistes de l'époque. Sa mère, pianiste de talent, soigne son spleen auprès du docteur Freud dont elle est l'une des premières patientes. Au cœur de ce bouillonnement culturel, Almah chemine vers l'âge adulte.

"En el contexto de una Europa devastada por la guerra y sus consecuencias, Mi nombre es Lídice narra un itinerario vital que enlaza dos ejes fundamentales de la existencia humana: la identidad y la memoria. En una búsqueda incansable por recomponer los vínculos amorosos, una serie de personajes entrañables se desplazan por las calles de Tumaco, Lídice, Praga, París, Roque Sáenz Peña y Buenos Aires atravesando diversos tiempos marcados por la tragedia.

Relato histórico de amor y de espionaje ambientado en la Guerra del Pacífico. La presente es una edición revisada de esta novela, cuyo éxito –más de un millón y medio de ejemplares vendidos– se debe a lo bien documentada y al estilo apasionado de la narración.

Esta novela demuestra una vez más que a Martin Amis no le tiembla el pulso a la hora de abordar temas controvertidos. Después de la demoledora Lionel Asbo. El estado de Inglaterra, que levantó ampollas por su crudo retrato de lo peor de la sociedad británica, el autor regresa al nazismo y al Holocausto, que ya había tratado en La flecha del tiempo. Y lo hace desde un ángulo cuando menos sorprendente, cediendo la palabra a los verdugos, y sin renunciar a incomodar al lector con ciertos toques de comedia negra.

1944, New Mexico: Alice Katz is a young Jewish physicist, one of the only female doctoral students at her university, studying with the famous Dr Oppenheimer. Her well-to-do family wants her to marry and settle down. Instead, Alice answers her country's call to go deep into the desert and lend her skills to a secret project at the heart of the fight against Germany. At Los Alamos, Alice meets Caleb, who has been assigned to the explosives division. Around them are other young scientists and engineers who have left their ordinary lives behind.

Alice Katz is a young Jewish physicist, one of the only female doctoral students at her university, studying with the famed Dr. Oppenheimer. Her well-to-do family wants her to marry a man of her class and settle down. Instead, Alice answers her country’s call to come to an unnamed city in the desert to work on a government project shrouded in secrecy. At Los Alamos, Alice meets Caleb Blum, a poor Orthodox Jew who has been assigned to the explosives division. Around them are other young scientists and engineers who have quietly left their university posts to come live in the desert.

In the midst of World War II, a Tennessee farm boy, a Jewish Cambridge student, and a German POW forge a connection that endures—against all odds. But now everything that Will Dobbins, Dov Silverberg, and Hans Hessler fought for is at risk as their descendants clash for control of the corporation they founded together. In an attempt to remake its tattered corporate image, the firm hires event planner Hadley Jacks and her sister Kitzie to organize a reunion for the families on St. Simons Island, Georgia, the place that changed all three men’s lives forever.

Scott Bradley James arrives in Annapolis, Maryland, as a plebe in the class of 1941 without a terribly good idea why he wants to be a naval officer, other than that his father was a sailor, and he wants to see the world, whatever that means. Scott and his roommate become fast friends, and, after surviving scrapes of their own making, the two fetch up at Pearl Harbor. War is brewing, and their class has graduated early. They have been sent to battle stations.

"Kindsein in Zeiten des Krieges" Krieg und NS-Zeit aus der Sicht eines Kindes. Ein Roman über die Südtiroler Auswanderung und die NS-Verbrechen an Menschen mit Behinderung Eine Familie aus Südtirol entscheidet sich 1942 im Zuge der »Option» für die Auswanderung ins Deutsche Reich. Der 11-jährige Ludi erzählt von den letzten Tagen im Dorf und der ersten Station im Deutschen Reich: Innsbruck. Auf Anweisung der Ärzte muss sein behinderter Bruder Hanno in eine Anstalt bei Hall gebracht werden. Die restliche Familie zieht weiter nach Oberösterreich.

Jersey, 1940. In the quiet of the English Channel, war is brewing. When the Nazis first set foot on her island home, 16-year-old Marcy comes to realize that nothing will ever be the same. Fueled by the devastating disappearance of the man she loves and in defiance of her distant mother, Violet, she joins forces with fellow islander Louisa to aid Jersey’s secret resistance.

In a city scarred by war, can love and loyalty survive? In war-torn Poland, 1944, Julia searches for her missing father - a high-ranking officer - and risks everything to join the resistance in Warsaw. But her mission takes a terrifying turn when she's corralled into the ghetto by Nazis. Just when it seems she'll share her best friend's tragic fate, Nikolaj, her childhood sweetheart, resurfaces in a German uniform.

Martin Friedrich, a German philosopher, is cycling through an intersection on his way to give a lecture when a speeding car strikes and kills him. Shortly afterwards, Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter - an Austrian-born cockney Jew, whose parents were interned during the war as enemy aliens - stands over the body of Friedrich, contemplating the age-old question: who did it?

Freshly graduated from a rigorous training program in all things spy craft, former typist Evelyne Redfern is eager for her first assignment as a field agent helping Britain win the war. However, when she learns her first task is performing a simple security test at Blackthorn Park, a requisitioned manor house in the sleepy Sussex countryside, she can’t help her initial disappointment. Making matters worse, her handler is to be David Poole, a fellow agent who manages to be both strait-laced and dashing in annoyingly equal measure.

Los Alamos, 1943. The US Army has gathered scientists to create the world’s first nuclear weapon. Their families, abruptly moved to the secret desert base with no explanation, have simple orders: Stand by. Make do. Above all, don’t ask questions. Christine, forced to abandon her art restoration business in New York for her husband’s career, struggles to reinvent herself and cope with his increasing aloofness. Gertie, the inquisitive teenage daughter of a German Jewish refugee physicist enlists Christine to help her unravel hidden truths and deal with parents haunted by their past.