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July, 1945. The war in Europe is finally over. But Auguste Duchene, who survived occupied Paris at great personal cost, cannot escape his past. He finds himself helping the Allies to pursue a Gestapo war criminal through the ravaged and dangerous streets of Berlin. Duchene soon learns, however, that, although one global conflict may have ended, another is beginning, and he is in a deadly race against the Russians as they hunt the same man. And, once again, at the heart of all he does, are his extraordinary wife Sabine and his beloved daughter Marienne.

The Concert is a historical fiction novel based on a true story of what happened during World War II when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union and subjected the city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) to a siege of 872 days in which the city’s three million residents were robbed of food, electricity, heat and dignity.

Nordfriesland 1945: Die deutsche Niederlage ist nur noch eine Frage von Tagen, die Besatzerarmeen rücken vorwärts. Erschöpft klopfen die neunzehnjährige Lena und ihre Schwester an die Tür des Pfarrhauses in Niebüll. Die beiden Pastorentöchter aus Pommern haben eine dramatische Flucht hinter sich und sind erleichtert, dass sie nun endlich aufgenommen werden. Vorbei die gefährlichen Nächte auf der Flucht, die ständige Angst… Die selbstbewusste Lena ist mehr als bereit, sich ein neues Leben aufzubauen, doch den Flüchtlingen steht man im Dorf skeptisch gegenüber.

Helga Patrizia, außereheliche Tochter des Prinzen Karl Eugen, ist inzwischen erwachsen geworden. Erfolgreich wurde ihre wahre Herkunft bis dahin vertuscht. Ein Erlebnis, das Helga zu tiefst erschüttert, bringt die unerwartete Wende. Kleine Splitter der Erinnerung dringen in ihr Bewusstsein und veranlassen sie, sich auf eine gefährliche Spurensuche zu begeben.

Eine nicht alltägliche Liebesgeschichte in den deutschen Nachkriegsjahren. Eine Frau, ein Mann, eine Beziehung mit Folgen. Doch alltäglich? Eher nicht! Die bürgerliche Kriegswitwe Helene mit vier Kindern und der Prinz Karl Eugen, der, wie sich erst zum Zeitpunkt der Schwangerschaft herausstellt, verheiratet ist. Dazwischen Hans Schlegel, Untermieter und eifersüchtiger Bewunderer der schönen Witwe, Kamerad und Widersacher. Wahre Liebe gegen gesellschaftliche Zwänge. Genährt durch Kompromisse.

Die Suche nach Heimat und Glück. Im Juni 1939. Die junge Hanna wird durch den Selbstmord ihrer Mutter aus der Bahn geworfen. Sie muss ihren Hof verlassen und in den Dienst fremder Leute treten. Der privaten Katastrophe folgt die politische: der Zweite Weltkrieg. Von einer Stelle wandert Hanna zur nächsten - auf der Suche nach Halt und Liebe. Heinrich Thies hat in eindringlichen Szenen das Leben seiner Mutter nachgezeichnet: ein ehrliches, entbehrungsreiches Leben zwischen Lüneburger Heide und Allermarsch.

It's 1948 and the freedom granted women by the Second World War is gone. Edith Sloan, earning her doctorate, is told by her law student husband to cancel her academic plans. His bright future requires a certain kind of wife, one in the kitchen making dinner for important guests. Frustrated and defiant, Edith leaves him but returns when his begging letters become too much. Trapped by marriage and her husband's ambition, Edith struggles to find her footing and the means to her own survival.

Die ergreifende Fortsetzung der fesselnden Sternberg-Saga über Hoffnung, Liebe und Mut. Eine mutige Frau, die die Hoffnung auch in den Wirren einer schweren Zeit nicht aufgibt. Berlin, 1931: Alles ist anders, als die junge Jüdin Lucie es aus ihrer Heimat Tübingen gewohnt war, nicht nur, weil das Elend der Wirtschaftskrise noch spürbarer ist. Während Hannah die Praxis des Großvaters übernimmt und ihr Mann Daniel das Familienunternehmen weiterführt, hat ihre Tochter Lucie große Schwierigkeiten, ihren neuen Platz zu finden.

Luego de separarse de su esposa, un periodista peruano regresa a España dispuesto a rehacer su vida. Varias décadas antes, otro peruano, Matías Giurato Roeder, se encuentra en una situación similar: abandona su país para irse a Estados Unidos y experimenta los rigores de la migración y el horror de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La experiencia civil y la aventura épica se complementan así en esta vibrante novela en cuya trama restallan los perturbadores efectos del amor, la locura, la política y la guerra.

This gripping thriller takes listeners on an adrenaline-filled journey through the shadowy world of sabotage in 1942 America. Ric Dymond is an inexperienced young FBI agent on a mission to bring a covert and deadly sabotage plot hatched by the German Abwehr to justice. Ric is forced to go undercover and rely on his wits and intuition to uncover the unknown saboteurs, aware that another uncover agent was brutally murdered. But the mission is further complicated when Ric meets an old flame, throwing his resolve and focus into question.

Malcolm has held on to a secret for more than fifty years: a letter his sister Sophy gave him just before she died. He had promised to give it to the young doctor she met one night during the Liverpool Blitz: a night that altered the course of her life. But the letter was never delivered. Now, after so many years of uncertainty, Malcolm has decided to share Sophy's secret with her daughter Agnes.

København, januar 1943. Harriet er nedbrudt efter sin mands død på Østfronten og sin rejse ind i Nazityskland. Nu skal hun forsøge at stable et liv på benene for sig selv og sine to små drenge. Takket være sin enkepension fra Tyskland er hun sikret økonomisk, men hun vil gerne gøre nytte, hvor hun kan. Da Helga von Schalburg, den celebre enke efter lederen af Frikorps Danmark, tilbyder hende et frivilligt arbejde i sin velgørenhedsfond, siger hun ja. Harriets indsats i fonden er drevet af hendes egen situation som østfrontenke og loyaliteten mod hendes afdøde mand og store kærlighed.

Der Krieg ist vorüber. Die Deutschen träumen von einer besseren Zukunft, als Berlin plötzlich durch Kontrollstellen geteilt wird. Nicht alle finden sich damit ab. Der Wunsch, gegen die Maßnahmen aufzubegehren, spaltet auch Augustas Familie. Gleichzeitig entfacht ein erbitterter Kampf der Geheimdienste. Es geht um einen Bunker, in dem geheime Pläne der Nazis für eine nukleare Superbombe lagern sollen. Offensichtlich war Oberst Wartenberg einer der Wenigen, die den Standort kannten. Doch Wartenberg ist tot.

The Daughters of Marburg follows the story of two young women and their father who, shortly after the tyrannical November Pogroms, inhabit a home once owned by a Jewish family. While investigating their surroundings, Lilly, the main character, discovers a journal left by the Jewish girl who had fled the house with nothing but the clothes on her back. Through reading her entries, Lilly's eyes are opened to the brutality of the Nazi ideology.

An elderly woman recounts her Dutch family’s survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations. Eighty-year-old Mieke Geborn’s life is one of quiet routine. Widowed for many years, she enjoys the view from her...

For nine months in Auschwitz, eighteen-year-old Eva Fleiss clung to sanity by playing piano on imaginary keyboards. After liberation, Eva and the five remaining Jews of Laszlo, Hungary, journey home, seeking to restart their lives. Yet the town that deported them is not ready to embrace their return. Their former neighbors and friends resist relinquishing their newfound status and property, and they struggle with their roles as perpetrators, enablers, and bystanders during the Holocaust.

Aufwühlender historischer Roman auf zwei Zeitebenen – Beruhend auf wahren Ereignissen, erzählt SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin Laura Baldini von einem berühmten Kinderarzt, seinen kleinen Patienten und einer mutigen Krankenschwester, die alles für die Kinder riskiert. Als die junge Psychologin Sarah 1986 zu Forschungszwecken nach Wien zieht, kommt sie der erschütternden Geschichte einer Klinik während der Nazi-Zeit auf die Spur: Wien, 1926: Erich ist acht Jahre alt, als er in die Uniklinik zu Dr. Hans Asperger kommt. Erich sieht die Welt nicht wie andere Kinder.

New York City, 1968: The customers at Café Marie don’t come just for the excellent coffee and pastries. They come for the sophisticated ambiance, and the illusion of being somewhere other than a bustling, exhausting city. Headwaiter Charles Ward helps create that illusion through impeccable service—unobtrusive, nearly invisible, yet always watchful.

Belgium, 1942. Young schoolteacher Andrée Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium, who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star of David. Andrée is not Jewish, but she feels a maternal connection to her students, who are living in constant fear, and decides to take action. No child should have to suffer under such persecution. But what can one woman do against an entire army? Ida Sterno is a Jewish woman who works with the Committee for the Defense of Jews in Belgium, a clandestine resistance group tasked with hiding children from the Gestapo. She wants to recruit Andrée.

After an unwanted southern migration, an upside-down world in 1943 offers military wife and mother, Maggie Slone, a job at Charlotte's largest wartime employer-the massive and dangerous Shell Assembly Plant. Meanwhile, military wife and Alabama native, Kora Bell's steadfast determination enables her to navigate the challenges she faces as a Black woman seeking employment under Jim Crow.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dramatic novel, based on the woman glamorized in The Sound of Music, brings Maria to life as never before. “As immersive, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive as the...

Pologne, printemps 1942. Emilia, 13 ans, vit avec ses parents adoptifs à Varsovie. Forcée de changer d'identité après avoir vu son père mourir sous les balles allemandes, elle doit rester cachée et passe ses journées à espionner les habitants de l'immeuble. C'est ainsi qu'elle devine que leur voisine Sara, infirmière, évacue des enfants juifs du ghetto en secret. Malgré le danger, Emilia insiste pour l'accompagner et découvre derrière les murs du ghetto un tout nouveau visage de la guerre.

For fans of The Book of Lost Names and The Way We Hide! In August 1942, French parents were faced with a horrible choice: watch their children die, or abandon them forever. Fifty years later, it becomes one woman's mission to match the abandoned names with the people they belong to. Five years...

Growing up without the care of a loving family made Anna Golding fiercely independent. So when war breaks out, determined to do her duty, she joins the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Her fellow trainees are like the sisters she never had. However, as they all talk of fond memories of home, Anna's heart breaks. Her past is too painful to share. Then she meets her friend's brother, Royal Air Force navigator Jimmy Armstrong, whose gentle care makes her feel safe for the first time in her life. Anna and Jimmy must snatch moments together as their duties pull them to opposite ends of the country.

Based on true events, this gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the two are unexpectedly caught up in the German invasion of Norway. Cleo Jaffray was an American. A war in Europe had nothing to...

Berry Chambers and her co-workers have joined the Women's Timber Corps - known as the Lumberjills - to do their bit for Britain. On their first day felling trees, they rescue an RAF pilot and become entangled in the loveless marriage of her new landlords. Danger is never far away, be it an ill-timed axe swing or the occasional activity of the Luftwaffe overhead. Add a psychotic farm cat, a couple of young runaway evacuees, a spate of malicious packages, and the jealousy of the Land Girls next door, and life for Berry and her friends is never boring.

Carrie's life is turned upside down when the London Chest Hospital is bombed in the Blitz and it threatens to tear her from the slowly flowering love she has found in Michael's arms. After this horrific incident, her bravery is brought to the attention of the authorities. They contact her with a proposal, which drags her into the center of the conflict in Europe and out of the security of her home and family.

Thunder in the Sun is the fourth in the continuing Llewellyn family saga. Carrie, in her new role as district nurse, finds that she has far more to deal with than patients recovering from minor ailments. She takes charge of organizing a troop of evacuated children escaping the Blitz in London and finding them safe houses in which to stay. Some are lucky, but some are not, and Carrie’s life is flooded with incidents of cruelty, rape, and heart-wrenching drama.

During World War Two British Bomber Command crews suffered terrifying casualty rates. There was a forty-four percent fatality rate. My grandfather, Donald Stemp, flew amongst all those brave young men that gave their lives so we could live the life we now have. This short story is a small segment of my imagination of what he might have experienced.

‘A superbly plotted historical drama… highly recommended!’ The Wishing Shelf One woman must sacrifice everything to uncover the truth in this enthralling historical novel, inspired by the true World War Two campaign Radio Aspidistra… England, 1942: Having fled Germany after her father...

Pauline réside désormais à Berlin avec Hans. Et la vie est douce, malgré les zones d'ombre autour du passé de son époux. Mais les rumeurs de la guerre s'amplifient, le régime nazi trouve ses alliés. À la fin du mois d'août 1939, les ressortissants français sont tenus de quitter l'Allemagne.

Rejected, frustrated, and no longer confident about God's plan for his life, John Sweet takes a year-long assignment in Atlanta, Georgia. The city is bustling with preparations for the Cotton States and International Exposition to be held in the autumn of 1895. Sarah Fuller is also new to the city but is trying desperately to make a home for her lonely father and motherless little sister. When a special assignment for the Exposition puts John and Sarah in close contact, they discover that while their pasts are completely different, their future dreams are much the same.

In the foment of Weimar-era Berlin, the Oppermann brothers represent tradition and stability. One brother oversees the furniture chain founded by their grandfather, one is an eminent surgeon, and one a respected critic. They are rich, cultured, liberal, and public-spirited, proud inheritors of the German Enlightenment. They don't see Hitler as a threat. Then, to their horror, the Nazis come to power, and the Oppermanns and their children are faced with the terrible decision of whether to adapt—if they can—flee or try to fight.

Igea non ha ancora diciotto anni quando nel 1945, fra gli sconvolgimenti che segnano la fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, la Storia la trascina lontano dalla sua terra, portandola in un campo di concentramento in Italia. Lei, figlia di un italiano e una greca, e sposata contro la sua volontà a un italiano, nella drammatica nuova situazione vive nel ricordo di un tempo più bello e sereno; quello trascorso nella sua isola, Kos, con Miliò, la nonna, nata su una barca in una notte di tempesta.

She'll light the fire of resistance—but she may get burned … 1942. Though she survived the bomb that destroyed her home, Yvonne Rudellat’s life is over. She’s estranged from her husband, her daughter is busy with war work, and Yvonne—older, diminutive, overlooked—has lost all purpose. Until she’s offered a chance to remake herself entirely …

A moving story of love, loss and survival against the odds by bestselling author of The Last of the Bonegilla Girls, Victoria Purman. It was never just a man's war... Melbourne,1942 War has engulfed Europe and now the Pacific, and Australia is fighting for its future. For spinster Flora Atkins...

Comment vivre en étant la fille d’un bourreau nazi ? Comment construire une vie d’adulte fondée sur le mensonge ? John Boyne dresse un portrait de femme inoubliable, au crépuscule de sa vie, rongée par ses démons.

New York, 1898. The only thing more shocking than Arthur Stanhope III’s unexpected death is the revelation that his will bestows his company—and most of the vast fortune that goes with it—to the nearest male heir, leaving his mother, wife, and daughter nearly impoverished. His widow, Sylvia, quickly realizes she must set aside her grief to ensure their daughter, Adelaide, is launched into society as soon as the appropriate mourning period passes.

Read by Fenella Woolgar, known for her role as Sister Hilda in BBC series Call the Midwife. Three women united by their love of books. One library that has the power to change lives, even in wartime . . . When Juliet begins work ats Bethnal Green Library, she discovers it is far from the...

From Mary Wood, bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, comes the second heartfelt installment in The Guernsey Girls trilogy. War separates them, but it cannot dampen their spirits . . . Spring, 1940. Annie’s new husband Ricky leaves to fight, but she soon discovers battles brewing closer...

A brutal murder. A wartime promise. A quest for the truth. Heather Morris meets Jane Harper in a gripping, page-turning mystery. No matter how far you run, the past will always find you. Juliet's elderly grandparents are killed in their Adelaide home. Who would commit such a heinous crime - and...