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1940. With the Germans about to enter Paris, Claire Bouchard flees France for England. Two years later she is recruited by the Special Operations Executive and sent back into occupied France to work alongside the Resistance. Working undercover as a teacher in Brittany, Claire accidentally befriends the wife of the German Commandant of Rennes, and the blossoming friendship is about to become a dangerous mission. Claire begins a double life as a Gestapo Commandant’s mistress to retrieve information, but ghosts from her past make the deception more painful than she could have imagined.

It's 1943, and the Second World War is raging. Ruby Mottram works for her local newspaper, the Bartonford Herald, typing up adverts and obituaries, whilst dreaming of a more exciting life. Between her shifts as an ARP warden and caring for her ailing father, the chance for escape doesn't come often to Devon. Meanwhile, in America's Deep South, Sam Archer is hatching a plan to raise enough money to get his mother and sister away from his abusive stepfather.

D'après l'histoire vraie de trois sœurs qui ont survécu à l'enfer des camps. "Je veux que vous me promettiez et que vous promettiez chacune à vos deux soœurs de toujours veiller les unes sur les autres. Que vous ne laisserez rien vous séparer. Compris ?" Slovaquie, 1942. Les années ont passé depuis que Livia, Cibi et Magda Meller ont fait cette promesse à leur père à l'ombre du laurier-rose du jardin. Mais les après-midi insouciants de l'enfance sont bien loin désormais.

1932. Dunfermline, Scotland. Marion Crawford, a bright, ambitious young teacher, is ready to make her mark on the world. Until a twist of fate changes the course of her life forever… 1936. Windsor Castle. At first this ordinary woman is in a new world, working as the governess to two young princesses, in a household she calls home but where everyone is at a distance. As the course of history changes, she finds herself companion to the future Queen, and indispensable to the Crown. And slowly their needs become her needs. Their lives become hers.

It is the summer of 1934 when MI6 receives intelligence that two German scientists have made a breakthrough in germ warfare. British agent Elena Standish must return to Berlin to prevent unimaginable horror and, with the help of her trusted friend, Jacob Ritter, embark upon a mission fraught with fear and uncertainty.

In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German-Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, Immanuel escapes to Sweden with his wife and two young sons.

Большинство их осталось на границе - убитых, но не сломленных! 22 июня 1941 года под Брестом первый удар вермахта приняли на себя пограничники и гарнизоны ещё недостроенных дотов. Не имея приказа отступать и ожидая помощи армейских частей, они бились до последнего патрона, не сдавая и пяди советской земли.

Este realto provocó la prohibición de las obras de Wolfe en la Alemania hitleriana. En él, el autor nos muestra crudamente el drama de los perseguidos e inadaptados en una sociedad controlada por la burocracia oficial. Thomas Clayton Wolfe fue un novelista americano prolífico en la década de los años 20. Escribió cuatro novelas largas además de muchísimos relatos cortos. Sus obras se caracterizan por mezclar poesía con prosa, por ser ficción histórica e incluso en ocasión ficción biográfica.

New Orleans, 1944. Sabotage—that's the word on factory worker Justine Byrne's mind as she is repeatedly called to weld machine parts that keep failing with no clear cause. Could someone inside the secretive Carbon Division be deliberately undermining the factory's war efforts? Raised by her late parents to think logically, she also can't help wondering just what the oddly shaped carbon gadgets she assembles day after day have to do with the boats the factory builds....

In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, Lanny Budd’s financial acumen and his marriage into great wealth enable him to continue the lifestyle he has always enjoyed. But the devastation the collapse has wrought on ordinary citizens has only strengthened Lanny’s socialist ideals. In Germany to visit relatives, Lanny encounters a disturbing atmosphere of hatred and jingoism. But Lanny’s gravest fear is the threat a national socialist government poses to the German Jewish family of Hansi, the musician husband of Lanny’s sister, Bess.

In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, 'Whom would you like to meet?' He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. Herzog and Onoda developed an instant rapport and would meet many times, talking for hours and together unravelling the story of Onoda's long war.

Italy, 1937. In a tiny village in rural Lombardy, Graziella Ponti is born into a loving family. Though they are not rich and life is full of challenges, Graziella and her family are content and safe, surrounded by the tightly knit community of Pieve Santa Clara. But when the shadow of World War Two falls across the village with the arrival of Nazi soldiers, nothing in young Graziella’s life will ever be the same again.

Already two German battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, had slipped through the English Channel under the bows of the British Fleet. Now, the Third Reich's largest and most deadly warship, the Tirpitz, had only one possible destination on Europe's Atlantic coast: the formidable dry dock of St Nazaire. HMS Rose, an aged and jinxed destroyer, was detailed to join the daring mission to destroy the entire dry dock of St Nazaire. She found herself not, as planned, backing up Operation Chariot as a troop ship, but fighting alone in the icy, fogbound seas.

June 6, 1944. Allied forces hit the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Among the countless lives shattered are those of five spirited women with starkly different lives. As the war reaches its tipping point, each of the women fight for the survival of themselves, their countries, and their way of life during one of the most pivotal days in history. Now, during the most perilous hours of their lives, all five women must summon courage they never knew they had as they confront the dangers of war alongside treacherous family secrets, heartbreak, and the ability to trust themselves.

1953, South Carolina: On the night of her 13th birthday, the air as sticky as honey, Alice is woken up by the ear-splitting sound of sirens. The body of a teenage girl, Nancy, has been found in the lake. Suspicion falls on Jozef, a German refugee who now lives in the small town. When one of Alice’s friends breaks a window in his house, Alice is wracked with guilt. She writes a note apologizing - a note that changes everything. As Alice and Jozef form a friendship, Jozef opens ups about his painful past: He is an Auschwitz survivor.

1943 tobt in Tscherkassy eine Kesselschlacht. Unter den Soldaten der deutschen Wehrmacht befindet sich Feldwebel Martin Hajek. Was er bis zum Kriegsende in Russland erlebt, die Gefechte am Bug und der schier aussichtslose Kampf mit dem unerbittlichen, grausamen Winter, wird in diesem aufwühlenden und zugleich packenden Roman erzählt. Tod und Verwundung sind ständig präsent, doch die Hoffnung auf eine Rückkehr nach Hause und die Menschlichkeit in einer unmenschlichen Zeit lassen die Soldaten durchhalten.

Iris Walker, daughter of a British Political Agent in the princely state of Ranipur, is a volunteer nurse, caring for soldiers wounded fighting the Japanese on the border with Burma. One evening, the maharajah invites Iris and her parents to a dinner at the Lake Palace, where she meets the enigmatic Edward Stark, a friend of the prince. Edward is dashing, kind, and considerate, and the attraction is instantly mutual. But Edward is en route to a special mission in the Naga Hills, meaning they have only days together before Iris is once again left alone.

Marzo, 1942. Kurt Nordstrum, un joven ingeniero noruego que decidió sumarse a la resistencia después de que soldados alemanes asesinaran a su prometida, debe llegar a Reino Unido para transmitir una preocupante noticia: a partir de un compuesto conocido como "agua pesada", los nazis están muy cerca de desarrollar una bomba atómica en una remota planta química empotrada en la meseta escandinava.

1940, London. A man learns a shocking truth about his past. Warsaw. A mother writes a diary as the ghetto walls go up. From the bombed streets of London, to occupied Warsaw, to the Polish forests bristling with partisans, will their paths cross? Will their pasts be reconciled? And will they survive the deadly assaults on their freedom and their lives?

Die 60-jährige Paula findet das Tagebuch ihrer verstorbenen Mutter. Pommern, Weihnachten 1944: Als die Russen kommen, versteckt sich die schwangere Anna in einem Bunker und später mit ihrem kranken Baby auf einem Dachboden. 1945 beginnt ihre dramatische Flucht. Als Paula von der Begegnung mit einer jungen Ärztin im Hafen von Stettin liest, gefriert ihr das Blut in den Adern. Sie macht sich auf den Weg in die Vergangenheit.