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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.

Es una épica historia de amor que se desarrolla durante un episodio casi desconocido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Aiyi Shao es una joven heredera, propietaria de un club nocturno en Shanghái, internacional y lleno de glamour. Ernest Reismann es un refugiado judío expulsado de Alemania. Ha perdido casi toda esperanza hasta que se cruza con Aiyi, quien lo contrata para tocar el piano en su club, en un escandaloso desafío a las costumbres. Ernest logra un éxito inmediato que hace revivir el club de Aiyi.

Brought to you by Penguin. 1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far...

Odile Souchet is obsessed with books, and working at The American Library in Paris for the formidable Director Dorothy Reeder is all she has ever dreamed of. The Library and its thriving community of students, writers, diplomats and book lovers provide her with a safe haven. When war is declared, the Library is determined to remain open. But then the Nazis invade Paris, and everything changes. The Nazi 'Library Protector' changes the rules overnight, declaring a war on words and making the librarians risk their lives to do their jobs.

Three very different women are recruited to the mysterious Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla has the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses - but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, working to translate decoded enemy secrets. Self-made Mab masters the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and the poverty of her East-End London upbringing. And shy local girl Beth is the outsider who trains as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts.

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....

Een dochter van een Holocaust-overlevende en een Amsterdamse vrouw groeit op in een verscheurd gezin en zoekt wereldwijd naar haar eigen identiteit en bestemming. Een op waarheid gebaseerd familieverhaal.

Berlin, 1938. It’s no longer safe here. When the Jewish families of Berlin start disappearing in nightly raids, 21-year-old Jacob Kagan knows it’s only a matter of time before the trucks come for him. Along with his family and best friend, he flees the country he’s always called home to find shelter in a Dutch refugee camp. Before long, the Netherlands falls to the Nazi war machine — Jacob’s new home is transformed into a transit camp with weekly trains bound for the horrors of the Eastern concentration camps.

Isabel ist Mutter zweier Teenager, Ehefrau und Unternehmerin - und fühlt sich in ihrem Leben angekommen. Das ändert sich schlagartig, als sie bei einer Entrümpelung im Haus ihrer verstorbenen Tante auf handschriftliche Aufzeichnungen ihrer Mutter Anne stößt, in denen diese von ihrer Kindheit während des Zweiten Weltkriegs erzählt. Isabel realisiert mit Schrecken, welch tiefe Not und traumatische Verluste ihre Mutter als kleines Mädchen durchleben musste, und beginnt ihre Familiengeschichte mit neuen Augen zu betrachten.

Una ciudad mítica, París. Un lugar mítico, el Grand Hotel Ritz. Un barman mítico, Frank Meier, el barman del Ritz. Todos habían degustado sus célebres cócteles: Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel, Mistinguett, Sacha Guitry, Jean Cocteau, Arletty. Pero en julio de 1940, las tropas alemanas ocupan París y sus responsables deciden hospedarse en el Ritz, como lo harán los jerarcas nazis como Göring y Goebbels cuando visiten la capital francesa.

War made him a sniper. Heritage made him a hunter. Cade Parker is the grandson of the last Comanche war chief. Raised on hard land and harder lessons, he’s spent his life protecting what’s his until one brutal night at home forces him into the U.S. Army and into a war he never asked for. In Operation Torch, Cade lands on hostile shores and learns that WWII isn’t heroic, it’s mechanical, filthy, and hungry. With his spotter Ortega at his side, Cade becomes the weapon commanders rely on when an advance stalls and men start dying for inches of rock.

London, 1941. The Blitz. When a Royal Navy memo arrives at head office, requesting female recruits to sign up as motorcycle dispatch riders, delivering highly classified orders across the country, three women jump at the chance to sign up for the most dangerous jobs in London.

England, 1959: Laurel Nicolson is 16 years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.

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...

A world on the brink of war. One woman whose courage could change everything. Paris, 1938. As Europe teeters on the edge of war, Lady Pamela More knows her latest assignment is her most dangerous yet. Her days as a London society columnist are merely a cover. She must infiltrate the decadent...

A heart-pounding military adventure in the air! For fans of Derek Robinson, James Holland, Frank Barnard and Jack Higgins. Can the female pilots stop an attack on London…? Autumn, 1943Sisters Anna and Jennifer Nightingale have been flying in top missions with the Secret Sirens all-female RAF unit for nearly a year. Their squadron of twelve Mosquitos stages a raid on Rouen to divert the enemy’s attention from the Lancasters that are coming in to bomb the marshalling yards and port.

The story takes place in two timelines. The first begins in the city of Darmstadt, Germany, on November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht, and follows the plight of the young girl Sarah Frank and her escape from the SS officer, Hauptsturmführer Hubert Zimmer. She finds refuge in the marvelous circus of Adolf Frey. Adolf, the circus owner and famous lion trainer, is married to Louis, a French woman and elephant trainer, who hides her Jewish identity.

An all new edition from the best-selling author of ME BEFORE YOU and THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER. A moving novel based on a true story. Australia, 1946. 650 brides are departing for England to meet the men they married in wartime. But instead of the luxury liner they were expecting, they...

Lancaster, 1943. As the war rages on, the Red Cross girls will do whatever it takes to bring their boys home. But can they find happiness in such troubling times? When Livvy receives her orders for war work, she’s desperate for a new beginning. Most of her friends have been sent to munitions factories, so she is delighted to be working for the Red Cross, who are making secret packages that can help prisoners of war escape.

En 1940 Winston Churchill tiene una idea que cambiará el curso de la guerra: crear una nueva sección de los servicios secretos, el Special Operations Executive (SOE), para llevar a cabo acciones de sabotaje desde el interior de las líneas enemigas. Unos meses más tarde, el joven Paul-Émile deja París rumbo a Londres con la esperanza de unirse a la Resistencia. El SOE no tarda en llamarlo a sus filas, junto a un grupo de jóvenes compañeros.