検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

Norte da África, Segunda Guerra Mundial. As tropas britânicas na região estão sofrendo perdas significativas. Não há dúvidas de que alguém está informando o inimigo sobre os movimentos e planos estratégicos do exército britânico. O espião é conhecido por seus compatriotas alemães como Esfinge, mas para todos os outros é o empresário europeu Alex Wolff. Após cruzar o deserto, ele chega ao Cairo, no Egito, munido de um rádio, uma lâmina letal e um exemplar do livro Rebecca, de Daphne du Maurier. Violento e implacável, ele está disposto a tudo para cumprir a missão que recebeu.

Poland, January 1945. Two women and four men escape from a Nazi death march after enduring the horrors of imprisonment at Auschwitz. Despite their individual backgrounds and nationalities, they form their own family caught between the euphoria of freedom and the terror of their circumstances. This is a tale of exploding joy within a hothouse of fear, of human beings erupting into life after breaking free of death’s embrace–an unusual and moving tale that cements Albert Maltz’s reputation as a compassionate observer of character and one of the finest storytellers of his generation.

It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to be a routine murder investigation sends him into a world of espionage, deceit, and betrayal.

John von Neumann was a titan of science. A Hungarian wunderkind who revolutionized every field he touched, his mathematical powers were so exceptional that Hans Bethe—a Nobel Prize-winning physicist—thought he might represent the next step in human evolution. After seeking the foundations of mathematics during his youth in Germany, von Neumann emigrated to the United States, where he became entangled in the power games of the Cold War; he designed the world's first programmable computer, invented game theory, pioneered AI and digital life, and helped create atomic bombs.

Ein Serienmörder im Berlin des 2. Weltkriegs – Fall 1 für den jüdischen Kommissar Richard Oppenheimer und ein grandioser historischer Krimi. Berlin, 1944: In der zerbombten Reichshauptstadt macht ein Serienmörder Jagd auf Frauen und legt die verstümmelten Leichen vor Krieger-Denkmälern ab. Alle Opfer hatten eine Verbindung zur NSDAP, doch laut einem Bekennerschreiben ist der Täter kein Regimegegner, sondern ein linientreuer Nazi. Als die Ermittlungen stagnieren, reaktiviert die Gestapo schließlich den suspendierten jüdischen Kommissar Richard Oppenheimer, einst erfolgreichster Ermittler der Kripo Berlin.

World War II is raging overseas, but life remains painfully quiet on the rugged New England fishing island of Fourth Cliff. With most of its able-bodied male inhabitants away in the service, the island is now home only to aged fishermen, concerned women and children, and second-rate soldiers guarding a low-priority military emplacement and camp for Italian POWs.

Trieste, 1941. Giorgio e Mattia Gherdovich sono i figli di un importante esponente del Partito fascista. Partiti per Lubiana convinti di poter fare la differenza nella fondazione della nuova provincia da poco annessa, scoprono presto quanto la guerra può essere cruda e straziante sia con i vinti che con i vincitori. Così nel 1943, pochi giorni dopo l'armistizio dell'8 settembre, i due fratelli decidono di prendere due strade diverse.

When a woman discovers a rare book with connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood in the English countryside during World War II are revealed in this “beguiling blend of hope, mystery, and true familial love” (Sadeqa Johnson, New York Times...

Brought to you by Penguin. September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain. An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, the world's smallest...

È il 1945, la guerra volge al termine. Ma in un piccolo villaggio greco la vita continua come niente fosse, in una convivenza con gli occupanti tedeschi ormai diventata abitudine. Un giorno, però, cominciano a cadere, inaspettate, le bombe inglesi. Anche sulla scuola. Gli studenti si rifugiano in una grotta, guidati dalla loro insegnante, l’incantevole Signorina, "sottile come una lama di luce". E qui lei, per far passare il tempo, racconta loro di un’altra guerra, quella combattuta dagli Achei sotto le mura di Troia per le grazie della bellissima Elena, rapita da Paride al suo sposo Menelao.

Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper...Venice. Caroline’s quest: to scatter Juliet “Lettie” Browning’s ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than 60 years.

De Milan à la Lombardie rurale, cette saga familiale bouleversante suit le destin de deux femmes – une mère et sa fille – prises dans la tourmente de l'Histoire. Italie, 1939. Enfant vive, Bianca grandit dans une belle maison milanaise où sa mère, Giovanna, travaille comme domestique. Le...

Award-winning writer delivers a pulse-pounding espionage thriller. Missing soldiers, MI6 secrets and European partisans collide in a deadly game where the lines between lies and reality are fast disintegrating. In the dying days of the Second World War, a new conflict is about to ignite. May...

Everyone is gripped by Stephen Ronson: 'A brilliant noir thriller set in the darkest days of the Second World War' Stephen Leather 'A gripping World War Two thriller . . . Every shadow hides a potential threat and the tension never lets up. A must read' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Ronson...

To rebuild her life, grieving widow Maya Bishop moves to a cottage she inherited in the Pacific Northwest, next door to a charming new neighbor, Nick. She is looking to regain some peace. But one day Maya finds a painting with a bloodstained frame hidden in a linen chest. On the back of the canvas is a confession—I killed her. I’m sorry. Before she knows it, Maya is drawn into a decades-old mystery.

What a treasure I found that my mother had left me. It was a typed, bound book, Heavy Bombardment. My father, Grenville Mott and his co-author, Martin Kern, wrote this play after being stationed in England with the Eighth Air Force during World War II and returning home in 1946. Mott and Kern hoped to sell their play as a screenplay to Hollywood. This historical three act play is a 24 hour eye-witness account in the War Room of a B-24 466th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force, one day in England, during World War II and March 1945.

Endlich: Das größte Geheimnis der Verlorenen Töchter wird gelüftet! Der atemberaubende Abschluss der Nr.-1-SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Reihe: Wir erfahren vom Schicksal der Frau, die den Heldinnen der sieben Vorgängerbände in deren schwersten Zeiten beistand und Erbstücke für deren Töchter versteckte. London, Gegenwart: Mia hält das letzte Kästchen, das sie in Hope's House gefunden hat, in ihren Händen.

War photographer Terry Tusley is on the hunt for that perfect shot. From his beginnings in the hallowed halls of George Eastman’s Kodak laboratories in upstate New York, to war-torn Nazi-occupied France and beyond, Terry traverses the globe for that elusive, truthful photograph—and a chance to win the Pulitzer Prize. But the quest for fame doesn’t come without a lifetime of cost: Terry’s neglected daughter, thousands of miles away, struggles with their family dynamic and who her father really is.

Entre las ruinas de Londres, el verdadero heroísmo se escribía en cartas. Noviembre de 1941, Londres. La Segunda Guerra Mundial arrecia, pero para Emmeline Lake, el futuro brilla con una nueva esperanza: se ha convertido en columnista de consejos de la revista Woman's Friend. Su relación con Charles florece, y su mejor amiga, Bunty, mira con valentía hacia un futuro incierto, aún recuperándose de las secuelas de los bombardeos alemanes. Pero la guerra no da tregua, y un nuevo frente se abre para Emmy.

In 1940, as the shadows are lengthening over Europe, painter Louis Duval decides to leave his studio in Brittany and, in his small motor boat, make the short but perilous journey to England. His aim is not to flee from the enemy, but to join the Resistance to fight for his beloved France. He...