検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

When war changes the world, her courage stands strong Rosie Gallagher has always dreamed of being a conductress on Edinburgh’s trams, and when WW2 calls the men away, she finally gets her chance. Rosie finds friendship among her fellow clippies as they settle into their new jobs, even as they...

Georgina St John-Smythe–George to her friends–is usually the life and soul of any party. But as the East End of London prepares wearily for another wartime Christmas amid nightly bombings, she is finding it hard to muster her festive spirit, still hurting from a recent romantic betrayal. But everything changes when she meets handsome Captain Reverend Guy Moncrieff…

Wilhelm Jaeger, a World War II veteran, long refused to speak of his past —the memories were too traumatic and painful. But on her deathbed, his wife urged him to share his story with their descendants. “It is their heritage to know. Your story will bless their lives.” Wilhelm grew up on a farm in Fallersleben, Germany, shaped by conflicting voices: a father who condemned Hitler, a grandfather who praised him, and a mother who sought peace. At ten, he was forced to join the Hitler Youth. At seventeen, he was sent to war in his father’s place.

In war-torn Italy of 1944, Nina Caruso embarks on a desperate mission to rescue her husband, Paulo, from a Nazi labor camp. Forced into an uneasy alliance with a Carthusian monk, Vincenzo Spinelli, she navigates a treacherous landscape where the lines between allies and enemies blur. Who can they trust—the crumbling Fascist regime or the unpredictable Partisan leadership? As their mission unfolds, Nina and Vincenzo's growing admiration for one another challenges their faith, their convictions, and the life-and-death choices they must make.

They blocked the roads. They blew the bridges. They built the lorry piers. France and Belgium, May 1940. The German advance has broken through the Allied line. The British Expeditionary Force is falling back towards Dunkirk. Donald ‘Donnie’ MacIver is a Sapper with the 59th Field Company, Royal Engineers. A Glasgow-born shipyard riveter from the Partick tenements, he joins the Army as war begins. As the retreat gathers pace, Donnie and the men of Two Section are sent wherever work is needed.

Il nonno Konrad è sempre stato un punto di riferimento per Juni. Cresciuta insieme a lui e alla nonna Tekla su un'isola, ricorda bene le ore trascorse a guardare le onde del mare con il nonno ascoltando i racconti dei suoi viaggi. Ex marinaio, è stato proprio lui a insegnarle a respirare al ritmo delle onde. Per Juni è finalmente giunto il momento di scoprire dove il suo amato nonno ha imparato a respirare con il mare.

July, 1941. When Evie Harris vanishes after visiting her late fiancé's parents, the Homefront Sleuths of Crofter's Green vow to find her. But their investigation takes a bizarre turn when Nigel's police superiors send him to nearby Clarion Castle. There, the first under-butler has just taken his final bow in the castle's wine cellar. Could there be a connection with Evie's disappearance? Or with a hush-hush VIP visit to the castle?

London, 1945. The capital is the backdrop for many struggling with demons unleashed by the recent World War. Maisie Dobbs is drawn into the story of a group of squatters, including an ill demobbed soldier, who have set up camp in the Belgravia mansion of her former in-laws Lord and Lady Julian...

Paris, 1940: As the German soldiers march down the Champs-Élysées, the Bélanger twins know there is no escape – their lives are about to change forever. But while Sophie, a third-year medical student, works long days and nights saving casualties of war at the American hospital, and waits anxiously for news of her fiancé from the front line, her recently widowed twin, Adèle, is determined to enjoy her freedom. Nothing – not the bombs, the curfews or the Nazi officers sidling up to her in nightclubs – can stop her from indulging in the temptations of Parisian society.

La increíble historia real de Mala Zimetbaum, la única mujer que escapó de Auschwitz. Esta poderosa novela narra la inspiradora historia real de Mala Zimetbaum, cuyo heroísmo nunca será olvidado, y cuyo destino alteró el curso de la historia.

Hay numerosos libros sobre el Holocausto, pero ninguno como este. Se basa en una increíble historia real detrás de uno de sus símbolos más potentes: los números azules tatuados en los brazos de los prisioneros de los campos de concentración. Cuando a Lale Sokolov le fue encomendada la...

Es 1943 y la neutralidad de Suecia en la Segunda Guerra Mundial está bajo presión. Laura Dahlgren, la brillante y joven mano derecha del negociador jefe del gobierno está al tanto de estas tensiones. Sin embargo, cuando la mejor amiga de Laura de la época universitaria, Britta, es descubierta asesinada a sangre fría, Laura está decidida a encontrar al asesino.

Cuando Yuri Santacruz asistió al nombramiento como canciller de Adolf Hitler, no podía imaginar lo mucho que cambiaría su vida en Berlín. Había llegado allí unos meses atrás, después de haber huido, junto con parte de su familia, de San Petersburgo, asfixiados por una revolución que los...

Two young daredevil flyers confront ugly truths and family secrets during the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, from the author of The Other Typist and Three-Martini Lunch. Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada--Eagle and Crane--are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's...

Now a major motion picture! From beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay come's her celebrated novel Sarah's Key. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup...

Born into privilege to one of the last Ottoman pashas, beautiful, spirited Selva is the brightest jewel in her father’s household - until she falls in love with Rafael Alfandari. Though Turkey has long been a safe haven for Jews, marriage between a high-ranking Muslim girl and a Jewish boy is strictly forbidden. Yet young love will not be denied, and Selva and Rafael defy their parents and marry, fleeing to Paris in hopes of a better life - only to find themselves trapped in the path of the invading Nazis.

As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love. But the church calls to Angelo and, despite his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the priesthood. Now, more than a decade later, Angelo is a Catholic priest and Eva is a woman with nowhere to turn. With the Gestapo closing in, Angelo hides Eva within the walls of a convent.

Francia, 1939. En el tranquilo pueblo de Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac se despide de su marido, Antoine, que debe marchar al frente. Ella no cree que los nazis vayan a invadir Francia, pero lo hacen, con batallones de soldados marchando por las calles, con caravanas de camiones y tanques, con aviones que llenan los cielos y lanzan bombas sobre los inocentes. Cuando un capitán alemán requisa la casa de Vianne, ella y su hija deben convivir con el enemigo o arriesgarse a perderlo todo.

1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His instant fame makes Aiyi’s club once again the hottest spot in Shanghai. Soon they realize they share more than a passion for jazz - but their differences seem insurmountable....

Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant French teacher at an all-girls school in Washington, DC. Everything changes when she’s recruited into the Office of Strategic Services by family friend and legendary WWI hero Major General William Donovan. Donovan has faith in her - and in all his “glorious amateurs” who are becoming Anna’s fast friends: Maggie, Anna’s down-to-earth mentor; Irene, who’s struggling to find support from her husband for her clandestine life; and Julia, a cheerful OSS liaison.