検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

Bravery, courage, fear, and love in a time of war. Despite their differences sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content with life in the French countryside with her husband, Antoine, and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight, and Viann finds herself isolated, so Isabelle is sent by their father to help her. As the war progresses, the sisters' relationship and strength are tested.

After Grand-mere Ursule gives her life to save her family, their magic seems to die with her. Even so, the Orchires fight to keep the old ways alive, practicing half-remembered spells and arcane rites in hopes of a revival. And when their youngest daughter comes of age, magic flows anew. The lineage continues, though new generations struggle not only to master their power, but also to keep it hidden. But when World War II looms on the horizon, magic is needed more urgently than ever.

Once upon a time in an enormous forest lived a woodcutter and his wife. The woodcutter is very poor and a war rages around them, making it difficult for them to put food on the table. Yet every night, his wife prays for a child. A Jewish father rides on a train holding twin babies. His wife no longer has enough milk to feed both children. In hopes of saving them both, he wraps his daughter in a shawl and throws her into the forest. While foraging for food, the woodcutter’s wife finds a bundle, a baby girl wrapped in a shawl.

Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world...and in the process, my own'. And it is her story, from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others, and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love.

It's 1940, and for newlywed Daisy Turner, Kew Gardens is a haven away from the bombs that are falling nightly on her East End home. She grew up around plants - her parents met when they were gardeners at Kew in the last war. And her work on the Dig for Victory campaign at Kew keeps her occupied while her husband, Rex, is away in the RAF. Beth Sanderson works with Daisy at the gardens, but she dreams of being a doctor while juggling her gardening job with nursing shifts. And there's the added complication of her forbidden romance with her colleague, Gus Campbell.

London, 1943: war and dwindling resources are taking their toll on the staff of Partridge Press. The pressure is on to create new books to distract readers from the grim realities of the war, but Partridge's rising star, Alice Cotton, leaves abruptly and cannot be found. Alice's secret absence is to give birth, and although her baby's father remains unnamed, Alice's mother promises to help her raise her tiny granddaughter, Eadie. Instead, she takes a shocking action. Theo Bloom is employed by the American office of Partridge.

Mes amis est le premier roman d'Emmanuel Bove, paru en 1924, alors que le souvenir de la première Guerre mondiale est encore vivace. Son narrateur est un ancien soldat, esseulé dans Paris ; il rêve de sociabilité mais joue de malchance et de maladresse, et toutes ses tentatives de rencontre échouent les unes après les autres. Son style faussement naïf, simple et mélancolique, habille un humour noir et donne à la voix de son personnage un caractère poignant.

Based on real events, Elaine Hume Peake and Don Keith deliver a gripping, cinematic tale of bravery and sacrifice, capturing the relentless perseverance of the men and women who answered the call to war. Perfect for fans of Lee Jackson’s After Dunkirk series and Mark Sullivan’s Beneath a Scarlet Sky.

Occupied Norway, 1944. While the war rages on, Anni is surviving as best she can, contributing to the resistance whenever possible and standing firm without her sailor husband Lars, who she hasn't heard from in three years. Her daughter Ingrid is the bright spot in her life and Anni is determined to keep her safe and happy. However, when a German official is billeted at their house, the situation for them both becomes far more dangerous, and Anni faces an impossible choice. London, 1952.

Driven by a blind devotion to the Communist Party, self-centered Katya Karavayeva has broken the most important rule in Soviet society: never say anything that can be used against you. On the heels of that betrayal, Nazi Germany invades and the Soviet Union mobilizes. Katya hopes to halt her downward spiral by joining the volunteer militia, but within a few short weeks finds herself under attack.

Pearl Harbor has been bombed. The Nazis unleash their U-boats against the east coast and sink American ships. Young men overwhelm the recruiting offices and James Brand is determined to serve in the U.S. Navy and not in some research laboratory. He plans to become just another recruit, but his talents are known to most of the scientific community, including Einstein.

En el Lyon ocupado de 1943, donde la Resistencia francesa se hace fuerte para combatir las barbaridades nazis y liberar a Francia de su yugo, un grupo de jóvenes se tendrá que enfrentar al jefe de la Gestapo al que se conoce como «El Carnicero de Lyon».

Gun fire, explosions, bombs, and maybe even instant death lie in wait as you follow the lives of two young men and their families from opposite sides of the globe as they become enmeshed in deadly world events that culminate in the war-torn skies above Europe.

From every corner of America, they crossed the Atlantic to destroy the Nazi war machine on its own turf: the B-17 bomber crews flying bloody bombing missions over northern Europe. On March 6, 1944, General Doolittle launched a massive operation he believed would change the air war. The largest air armada the Eighth Army Air Force had ever launched. The first full-scale daylight bombing of Berlin, capital of the Third Reich.

Nineteen-year-old Hedy can't bear her country's neutrality in the face of the ultimate evil. This is not the Switzerland she loves, and she realises she cannot stand by without acting any longer. She joins a group smuggling Jewish children through the forest from France to refugee camps in Geneva. It's dangerous work—there are German patrols everywhere—but finally Hedy feels she is doing something worthwhile.

Scion of a wealthy New York family, Captain Hank Mitchell is a hot shot fighter pilot flying escort for American bombers as they penetrate Nazi-occupied Europe. His P-51 is hit over Germany and he bails out over the English Channel. Burned terribly, he is pulled from the freezing water of the English Channel to realize his life has forever changed. Angry and bitter, he meets Doctor Roger Hanson, an Army Air Corps flight surgeon, who knows that Hank’s best chance is to take part in the RAF’s cutting edge burn treatment program.

In the final days of World War II, deep in the ruins of Berlin, Quintus—a soldier transformed by sinister experiments using the Blood of the Gods—begins to question everything he once fought for. Disillusioned with the Nazi regime and its twisted vision, he faces a choice: protect the innocent or let the Reich collapse under its own weight. But as he hunts down an “enemy of the state,” Quintus must decide—can he change fate without damning his own soul?

The war stole Roza Meszaros’s dreams of becoming a ballerina and her aristocratic family’s fortune. But the penniless Hungarian countess’s fate takes a hopeful turn when she meets an American soldier named Joe, who promises to marry her and take her to the States. After two years of waiting to obtain the necessary money and paperwork to emigrate, Roza finally arrives in Minnesota—and discovers Joe has married someone else.

La vie d'une jeune fille italienne après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Graziella Ponti naît dans les années 1930 en Italie, au sein d'une famille aimante, dans un petit village de Lombardie, Pieve Santa Clara. Ses parents ne sont pas riches, mais la petite fille connaît une vie douce, jusqu'à ce qu'un accident de chantier rende son père invalide, et que la guerre frappe à la porte. Réformé, son père ne part pas au front, contrairement aux autres hommes du village, mais l'arrivée de soldats nazis entraîne les adultes à prendre en 1944 une décision difficile.

A story of tragedy and triumph, love and war. The long-awaited sequel to Light and Shadows, begins in 1922 during the Asia Minor Genocide, when Maria, a twelve-year-old Greek Orthodox girl, witnesses what she believes is the total massacre of her family in Smyrna. Although haunted by the death of her family, Maria grows up to be a spirited, independent-minded archeologist. In 1941, as Germany invades Greece, Maria falls in love with Rob, an English spy. She is recruited by British intelligence, and Maria and Rob become entangled in the dangerous world of espionage.

The warm sea breeze ruffles the pages of my notebook as I meet the bright eyes of the elderly lady sat opposite me on the porch. Sofia has been keeping a devastating secret for over sixty years. Why did she fake her own death during the war? And why is she back now to finally tell her story?

As World War II sweeps over Europe, nine-year-old Danielle Loesseps escapes from Latvia under the protection of the Dutch consul. Her Jewish mother, the consul's secretary, is tragically left behind at the end of a momentous year which sees a heroic scheme to save refugees from the Nazis, the blossoming of a secret love, and an unhappy woman's revenge.

In the dark days after Pearl Harbor, a small, untested arm of the United States Navy was all that stood between the shattered American fleet and the ascendent Japanese Empire. Far off in Western Australia, US submarine officer Benjamin Holt finds himself on the frontlines of World War II with nothing but a decades-old sub and a rusty crew. The green 25-year-old is ordered to stop Imperial Japan’s bloody expansion across the Pacific any way he can.

Der große Roman zum 80. Jahrestag der Nürnberger Prozesse. Asta arbeitet als Dolmetscherin im Kurhotel "Palace" in Mondorf-les-Bains, wo die US-Armee gefangengenommene Nazi-Größen interniert. Am 20. Mai 1945 reist ein neuer Gast an. Er bringt 16 Koffer, eine rote Hutschachtel und seinen Kammerdiener mit. Es ist Hermann Göring, Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe und Hitlers designierter Nachfolger.

Una planta conectada con la psiquis humana se revela en distintos momentos cruciales de la humanidad: la colonización de América, el siglo XIX en Londres con Jack el Destripador, 1945 y la Segunda Guerra Mundial, con las bombas atómicas…Hay algo vivo e inclasificable que recorre el planeta Tierra desde su creación y parece capaz de sobrevivirlo. Se extiende bajo la superficie y emerge como una planta fantástica, en múltiples sentidos. De ella darán testimonio los distintos narradores de la novela.

Anna acaba de perder a una de las personas más importantes de su vida: su abuela Anita, su faro y su refugio, quien siempre la protegió y la amó incondicionalmente. Su ausencia le deja un profundo vacío, pero también un cometido que deberá asumir: desentrañar la historia oculta tras los silencios que se han apoderado de su familia a lo largo de varias generaciones.

La Toscana, 1943. Varada en una Italia devastada por la guerra, el sueño de Beatrice de pasar un año sabático en Italia dando clases de inglés se ha ido al traste. Por fortuna, le ofrecen refugio en la casa de Edoardo y Francesca, una preciosa villa con un jardín que guarda un laberinto en su interior. Sin embargo, ella no es la única que busca refugio en la villa, sino los propios hijos del matrimonio y otras personas. Y según la guerra se acerca… los residentes se verán obligados a ver y hacer lo impensable.

Der große Roman zum 80. Jahrestag der Nürnberger Prozesse. Asta arbeitet als Dolmetscherin im Kurhotel "Palace" in Mondorf-les-Bains, wo die US-Armee gefangengenommene Nazi-Größen interniert. Am 20. Mai 1945 reist ein neuer Gast an. Er bringt 16 Koffer, eine rote Hutschachtel und seinen Kammerdiener mit. Es ist Hermann Göring, Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe und Hitlers designierter Nachfolger.

Anna, Bernie en Elica sluiten een verbond om voor altijd vriendinnen te blijven. Maar zal hun vriendschap de verschrikkingen van de oorlog doorstaan? De belofte van mijn zus is deel 1 van de Oorlogszussen-serie. Anna komt uit een rijke Joodse familie, terwijl Bernie en Elica uit arme Oostenrijkse gezinnen komen die nauwelijks kunnen rondkomen. Voor hen voelt het alsof ze zussen zijn. Maar naarmate ze ouder worden, worden hun sociale verschillen steeds duidelijker.

Widowed and alone, Anna Pastorino has been surviving on her wits since the Germans invaded. The daughter of a prominent Jewish antifascist, Anna lives a hidden life in her small flat near the harbour ... until an RAF bomb destroys her only shelter. When a Jesuit priest approaches her offering help, she has no choice but to accept. She follows her new friend, Father Vittorio, to a safe house above a printers’ shop in a quiet street near via Assarotti.