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Two soldiers from opposite sides of the war. One Christmas meal that will change their lives forever. An action-packed historical thriller where survival is the only thing that matters, Sergei and Hans is a story of war, loss, and redemption. Set on the Eastern Front of WWI, on a cruel and unforgiving mountain, and later in a terrifying German prison camp, this fascinating story encapsulates real men and their struggles to survive a war unlike the world has ever seen. Both soldiers have their own stories to tell. They are Sergei and Hans.

Nicholas Dixon lives with his mother and brother in London, England between the world wars. His father, Wilfrid, once with the First Battalion, First Canadian Regiment in the trenches of the Great War, now works in the coalmines of South Leeds and rarely returns to his family. Armed with his father’s wartime journal, a spirited imagination, and a taste for insurgency, Nicholas embarks on a quest to reunite the family. A journey that will forever alter his perception of his father, leading Nicholas to confront his own cowardice.

Wiesbaden, 1950: Zusammen mit ihren Schwestern Bille und Lisbeth konnte Henni die Sektkellerei der Familie durch die schweren Jahre nach dem Krieg bringen, die Marke Herzberg ist in aller Munde. Henni ist glücklich mit Georg verheiratet, der die Sektkellerei leitet, und erwartet ihr erstes Kind. Ihre Erfindung des Piccolo bringt dem Unternehmen weiteren Aufschwung. Die Schwestern sind einander wieder näher gekommen. Lisbeth hat sich neu verliebt, und Bille wagt die Suche nach dem Vater ihres Kindes, der in Russland vermisst wird.

Vier Jahrzehnte nach ihrem Tod findet Gregor Höppner im Tagebuch seiner Mutter den Namen eines französischen Kriegsgefangenen. Er stößt auf die Geschichte der großen, geheimen Liebe einer selbstbewussten, jungen Frau während des Zweiten Weltkriegs voller ungestillter Sehnsüchte und unerfüllten Hoffnungen. Mit einem Freund begibt er sich auf die Suche nach dem verlorenen Namen und der Geschichte seiner Mutter aus einem früheren Leben.

Ukraine, 1940. When war rips their country apart, Julia is sent away by her tearful parents in the dead of night, clutching her mother’s necklace and longing for one last embrace. But soon she is captured by Nazi soldiers and forced into a German labor camp, where behind a tall fence topped with cruel barbed wire, she has never felt more alone. Just as she begins to give up on all hope, Julia meets Henry, a young man from her village who shares her heart full of dreams.

In enemy-occupied Paris, as the locals go to bed starving and defeated by the war, music and laughter spills through the door of a little restaurant, crowded with German soldiers. The owner, Marianne, moves on weary feet between its packed tables, carrying plates of steaming, wholesome food for the enemy officers. Her smile is bright and sparkling, her welcome cordial. Nobody would guess the hatred she hides in her heart. That night, the restaurant closes its doors for the final time.

Un commando spécial du régiment disciplinaire revêtu d'uniformes russes s'empare de 4 chars de combat T-34. Éclaircie au loin, derrière les lignes russes, dans le Caucase. Année 1942. Heure après heure, les chars se dirigent vers l'est. Les sections russes les invoquent à maintes reprises. Nous suivons les soldats dans leur lutte désespérée pour revenir sur les lignes allemandes. Les distances sont grandes, les amis rares et la mort toujours sur les talons.

Winter 1945: Verwundet liegt die sechzehnjährige Elisabeth in einem Bunker und wird von einem russischen Deserteur gepflegt. Und plötzlich denkt sie, dass es gut so ist und dass sie für immer unter dem Schnee bleiben möchte. Aber sie muss ihr Leben zu Ende leben. In einem atemberaubenden Panorama der frühen Nachkriegsjahre zeichnet Ralf Rothmann das Porträt einer Frau, der das Durchlittene jedes Gefühl dafür nimmt, welches Leid sie anderen zufügt; einer hart arbeitenden Frau und Mutter, die von einem Rummel zum anderen tanzt, um nicht mehr zur Besinnung zu kommen.

1916. At the onset of war, Nurse Pru le Cuirot left her home in Jersey to care for injured soldiers at Ashbury Manor, Dorset. She wanted to do her bit but she never expected to meet Canadian pilot, Jack Garland, so unlike any man she has ever met. When Jack is sent on a dangerous mission and vanishes, Pru is forced to make an agonising decision…one that will haunt them both forever.

Alors que les Alliés et les nazis se livrent une lutte incessante, une pluie de missiles supersoniques V2 s'abat sur Londres, où s'accumulent les corps sans vie d'innocents. Pourtant, en plein territoire allemand, un projet destiné à mettre brutalement fin à la guerre, et à renverser la défaite certaine des nazis en une victoire totale, inquiète d'avantage Madeleine Toche, la terreur absolue des nazis, et Berthold Hartmann, l'assassin allemand qui lui a appris à tuer. Ce projet n'est autre que la bombe atomique.

1997. Amy Novak has lost the two great loves in her life: her husband, Michael, and her first love, music. With the first anniversary of Michael's death approaching, Amy buries herself in her job as an archivist. And when a newly declassified file lands on her desk, she is astonished to uncover proof that Agent 'Colette' existed—a name spoken only in whispers; an identity so secret that it has never been verified.

Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father's arrest. Fifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart.

Betty is about to celebrate her 100th birthday. With her carer Tali at her side, she receives an invite from the Century Society to reminisce on the past. Remembering a life shrouded in secrecy and danger, Betty remains tight-lipped. But when Tali finds a box filled with maps, letters and a gun hidden in Betty's cellar, it becomes clear that Betty's secrets are about to be uncovered.

Elise Chevalier knows what it is to love…and to hate. Her fiancé, a young French soldier, was killed by the German army at the Maginot Line. Living amongst the enemy, Elise must keep her rage buried deep within. Sebastian Kleinhaus no longer recognizes himself. Forced to join the Third Reich and wear a uniform he despises, he longs for a way out. For someone, anyone, to be his salvation.

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I—the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory.

It is 1940, and, as the Battle of Britain takes to the air, Hope Stapleford is recruited to join the Special Operations Executive. On her way to Scotland, she is pulled from a train and driven to spymaster Fitzroy's stately home. She is his intelligence operative, and he wants to send her to a Scottish airfield where Harvey is already stationed undercover as a mechanic. At the airbase, Hope and Harvey find a community in turmoil. Pilots talk of strange sightings in the air, and local mechanics report mysterious scratches appearing on the wings and fuselage of the aircraft.

As World War II nears its end, the last elements of the German Army struggle to survive. Sergeant Peter Dietrick of the Third Platoon knows the war is lost, but he must fulfill his duty to his country despite dwindling supplies and support from Germany. Trapped between advancing American troops and Nazi SS units instructed to arrest or execute retreating troops, Dietrick and his soldiers engage in a hardened battle of survival against the freezing, desolate landscape and the will to live.

1916. Young artist Sam Burke is spared death by firing squad on the battlefields of France and brought to a remote castle by the Irish Sea. At the ‘Tin Nose Shop’, he is tasked with creating intricate masks to hide the mutilated faces of his fellow soldiers from the Front. While he tries to come to terms with the death of his best friend and the promise he failed to keep, Sam and the disfigured soldiers struggle to return to their former lives and their loved ones.

1938: Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters kehrt Alice nach Deutschland zurück, um die Erbschaft zu regeln. Doch sie erkennt ihr geliebtes Berlin nicht wieder. Die Stimmung ist umgeschlagen, viele Freunde sind in Gefahr. Verzweifelt nutzt die Familie alle Möglichkeiten, um die Galerie zu halten und geliebte Kunstwerke zu retten. Aber Alice erkennt schnell, welch unheilvolle Macht die Nazis bereits auf dem Kunstmarkt haben. Bald schon geht es nicht mehr nur um Gemälde von unschätzbarem Wert, sondern um Leben und Tod.

January 1945. Wherever you look on the map, the Thousand Year Reich is shrinking. Even Goebbels has run out of lies to sweeten the reckoning to come. An Allied victory is inevitable, but who will reap the spoils of war? With the Red Army about to fall on Berlin, Stalin fears his sometime allies are conspiring to deny him his prize. He needs to speak to Goebbels—and who better to broker the contact than Nehmann, Goebbels' one-time confidant?