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Inspiré d'un fait historique méconnu - la déportation des Juifs grecs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale -, un conte universel sur le mensonge et ses conséquences, par l'auteur aux 42 millions d'exemplaires vendus, à qui l'on doit le best-seller mondial Les Cinq Personnes que j'ai rencontrées là-haut. Jamais un mensonge n'avait franchi les lèvres de Nico Krispis, jeune Grec de 11 ans, jusqu'à ce qu'il croise le chemin d'Udo Graff. Chargé d'organiser la déportation des Juifs de Salonique vers les camps de la mort, cet officier allemand offre au petit garçon la possibilité d'épargner les siens.

Den svenske diplomaten Harald Edelstam, med täcknamn Svarta nejlikan, anländer till Oslo 1942, mitt i deporteringen av de norska judarna till förintelseläger. Edelstam blir snabbt involverad i det smutsiga kriget mellan Gestapo och en spretig motståndsrörelse. Snaran dras åt runt den...

In the sequel to Gunner, detective Joseph Gunner is plunged into a world where no one can be trusted and nothing is what it seems. New York, December, 1941. A city preparing for war. Troop ships and trains full of young conscripts arrive every day. All of them set on one last party before being...

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A celebrated bartender at the Ritz Hotel during the Nazi occupation of Paris harbors a dangerous secret in this “magnificent” (ELLE), “brilliant” (Le Parisien) international bestseller based on a true story. "The Barman of the...

London, 1941. Polly Hope is bravely working as an air raid warden during the Blitz when she saves the life of the charming Freddie Fairbank. Over a thank-you breakfast at the Ritz, he asks Polly to help requisition a sprawling English country house for the war effort. Petherbridge Hall has grand rooms, lovely views and will be a perfect nursing home for injured troops, if they can only persuade the family to give up their house. But then they find the lord of the manor dead behind the gardener’s shed.

In a world of burning books, one woman will risk everything to keep stories alive. Berlin, 1933. The vibrant cultural heart of Germany is darkening under the shadow of the Nazi regime. For Helene Nathan, one of the first female librarians at a prestigious German library, the books she cherishes...

In 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic, Nabiha “Bea” Nohra is traveling to America to find work, eager to earn the funds necessary to afford passage for the family she left in Lebanon. On the same ship, heiress Marguerite Ashby sails home to celebrate her engagement to a dull British lord, a...

I Ödesnatten -44 möter läsaren 16-årige Erik från den Augustnominerade Land i lågor, 1992. Han har blivit antagen som volontär vid I 19 i Boden när en konvoj dyker upp på den finska sidan och Erik dras in i de dramatiska händelserna hösten 1944 vid den svensk-finska gränsen. Finska...

Col. John Randal and Lady Jane arrive in London just before Christmas 1943. They find themselves caught up in the murky world of Military Deception. MI-5 had captured every German spy in England and given them the choice of a firing squad or becoming a double agent working for the Double Cross Committee XX.

Im Sommer 1935 folgt die fünfundzwanzigjährige Grete ihrem Mann und zieht mit den kleinen Zwillingen in den neu gegründeten Hermann-Göring-Koog auf der Halbinsel Eiderstedt. Die Weite der Nordseeküste ist atemberaubend - und lebensgefährlich. Grete kämpft gegen den schweren, salzigen Boden, gegen Sturmfluten und gegen die Einsamkeit, die sie an den Rand ihrer Kräfte bringt. Doch noch schwerer wiegt eine Entscheidung, die sie trifft, um ihre Tochter zu schützen...

Brought to you by Penguin. A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble...

C'est la lecture de ce roman vrai qui a inspiré Steven Spielberg pour réaliser son célèbre film La Liste de Schindler. Comme l'a écrit le Guardian, " c'est une chose de rassembler des documents historiques et des témoignages. C'en est une autre de les ramener à la vie comme l'a fait Thomas Keneally ". Et en effet, l'auteur reconstitue l'histoire d'Oskar Schindler – industriel allemand qui dirigeait une usine rattachée à un camp de concentration durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale...

As the end of the Second World War in Europe looms, a new conflict is in its early stages: who will control Europe when the war ends? Soviet double-agent 'Archie' is now a British diplomat in the United States, feeding information on the Special Relationship back to Moscow Centre. Meanwhile...

Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2025 The knock on the door changed everything. Until then, we were happy; we knew who we were. ‘You’ve got the wrong person,’ I told him. ‘My wife is gentle and kind. She wouldn’t hurt a fly.’ In 1939, when she was just nineteen years old...

A story inspired by real events. It is France 1939, and the world is on the edge of war. Two young adults from vastly different backgrounds find themselves drawn together at a vibrant summer fayre. The meeting feels inexplicably destined, and their passion explodes, even as the ominous clouds of World War II begin to gather overhead. As the Nazi occupation tightens its grip on France, the lovers and those around them are forced to endure unimaginable hardship.

France, 1941. Margot locks her bookshop door and slips into the cellar, where a circle of brave women gather by candlelight to read the books the Germans are burning. They are risking everything to share forbidden stories and fight back. But one seat is empty. . . Esther is missing, and as a Jewish woman, she is in terrible danger. Whatever happens, Margot has promised to take care of Esther’s baby, darling Isabelle. . .

As Presidential Agent 103, Lanny Budd witnesses the collapse of the Nazis, the bombing of Hiroshima, and the Nuremberg Trials, in this tenth novel in the Pulitzer Prize–winning saga. As a spy for President Franklin Roosevelt, Lanny Budd was able to infiltrate the inner circle of the Nazi high...

Brought to you by Penguin. Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the...

Mit einem Unfall am See beginnt die Freundschaft zwischen Ella und Harriet. Obgleich grundverschieden, sind die beiden Mädchen einander unmittelbar zugetan. Doch Harriet hat ein Geheimnis, das sie ihrer besten Freundin lange verschweigt. Als der Krieg die Idylle ihrer Kindheit erreicht und vertraute Gewissheiten aufbricht, werden Ella und Harriet mit tiefgreifenden Verlusten konfrontiert.

Paris, 1945. Alors que la guerre vient tout juste de se terminer, un cadavre est découvert dans un hôtel borgne de Pigalle. L’assassin, arrêté sur les lieux, est un vagabond, dont la dernière adresse était le camp d’Auschwitz. L’homme qu’il a tué d’une balle dans la tête était...