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Celia Scott, matriarch of a farming family on Bute, expects her grandson Martin to take over Westervoe farm after the war. She dismisses her other son Angus, weakened by a crushed leg, and undervalues Jennet, her granddaughter, who returned home pregnant after leaving nursing. Though ashamed of Jennet’s son, Jamie, Celia lets them stay. Confident in Martin’s return, she sends away the McCabe evacuees who helped during the war.

Friedchen und Paula lernen sich 1932 kennen und »verfreunden« sich auf den ersten Blick. Zwei junge Frauen voller Lebenshunger, voller Hoffnungen und großer Träume. Ihre Freundschaft wird für immer halten. Und wie nebenbei verliebt sich Friedchen in Paulas charmanten Cousin Max. Doch dann kommt Hitler an die Macht – und Paula und Max sind Juden. Katharina Höftmann nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise durch ein Jahrhundert, über den Ozean und all die Erschütterungen hinweg, die bis heute nachwirken.

Zwei Schwestern. Ein Geheimnis. Und eine Zeit, die alles von ihnen fordert. Sylt, 1939. Der Krieg rückt näher, doch in der Strandperle versuchen Clara und Jella, den Alltag aufrechtzuerhalten. Während die Insel zur Festung wird, kämpfen die Schwestern um ihre Existenz und um die Menschen, die sie lieben. Clara bangt um ihre Tochter Fanny, die zur Zielscheibe der neuen Machtverhältnisse wird, und hofft auf ein Wiedersehen mit ihrer großen Liebe Magnus. Jella widersetzt sich mutig den Befehlen der Besatzer, bis ein Marineoffizier ihr Herz berührt und sie mehr riskiert, als sie je wollte.

Tinker, tailor, soldier, scholar, spy. Who could have imagined that the young man with modest beginnings who had grown up in a farming village in the Loire valley, was made destitute by the Great Depression, went on to serve in the Foreign Legion, was educated and taught at the Louvre, captured after Dunkirk by the Wehrmacht during the German invasion of France, escaped and found his way to Valençay where he was charged with safeguarding in his bedroom Leonardo’s immortal Mona Lisa from destruction by the Nazis.

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.

The enemy amongst us: Britain's darkest hour. October 1940: As German bombs rain down on London, Michael Fernsby's war is about to become personal. When coordinated attacks strike key military installations across Britain's south coast, Unit 317 realizes they're facing a deadly new threat. Codenamed Falken, a ruthless German operative has unleashed a network of sleeper agents and elite Brandenburger commandos with one goal: Destroy Britain's secret intelligence apparatus from within.

Copenhagen, 1940. For Kirsten Marie Pedersen, the German occupation is a cage of scarcity and silence. Growing up in a house fractured by her father's alcoholism and her mother's exhaustion, Kirsten and her two sisters learn early that survival requires endurance, and ambition is a dangerous luxury. But when the borders finally reopen, Kirsten refuses to return to the life she barely survived.

Hiding out at a monastery outside Hallein, Sarah and Monika wait for Viertel and two other agents to return to Austria to investigate the rumored redoubt in the Alps—a network of underground bunkers and factories where the Nazi hierarchy plans to retreat when the Allies invade Germany. After being denounced by an informant and surrounded in a mountain farmhouse, Viertel and his companions must decide whether to try to escape or die with the top-secret information they hold.

Hiding out in a cave in the Austrian Alps with three others, Monika runs into trouble. Pursued by vengeful forces of the Wehrmacht and the Gestapo, she and her three companions undergo an arduous journey over the mountains to safety in a Catholic monastery outside the town of Hallein, near the German border. Meanwhile, Sarah is in Berlin, arranging with some of the highest-ranking German generals to assassinate Hitler and end the war. After being denounced by the local block warden, she is pursued through the streets and over the rooftops of Berlin.

In this sequel to Economy of Force, Colonel John Randal returns in The Magnificent Mission. Col. Randal has been summoned to London to meet with Major the Lady Jane Seaborn's Godfather, Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Bevan, the Chief of Deception. Lt. Col. Bevan is in charge of the super-secret London Controlling Section. Major General Sam Houston Blackwell sends his personal aircraft to fly the party to the meeting — Lady Jane has a shopping safari on her calendar. Before they can depart, Raiding Forces is tasked with rescuing a photo reconnaissance pilot who has been shot down.

Als Liesel ihre Großmutter Emmi auf eine Reise in die ehemalige Provinz Ostpreußen begleitet, sucht sie mehr als nur einen Ort – sie sucht Antworten. Antworten auf die Fragen, die zwischen den Generationen stehen, auf die Geheimnisse, die sich in vergilbten Kalendern und in Emmis Schweigen verstecken. Zwischen Birkenalleen, alten Gutshäusern und dem Rauschen der Ostsee entfaltet sich eine Geschichte von Verlust und Hoffnung, von Schuld und Liebe.

Jest rok 1940. W Gdańsku zaczynają się czystki. Willa na Jaśkowej Dolinie nie należy już do Schwarzów, ale trafia w ręce gestapowca Mathiasa Angerera. Pewnego dnia na chodniku przed willą służąca znajduje zwłoki sekretarza właściciela domu. Śledztwo tym razem prowadzi gestapo. Czy zdoła odkryć, czym kierował się sprawca?

June, 1944. As news of D-Day reaches London, the residents of West India Dock Road dare to celebrate. But amid the bunting, shared food and children's laughter lie fear, grief and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Divya has built a life for herself and her son that she once thought impossible, in a community that has become family. Yet will an unexpected letter destroy the fragile peace she has fought so hard for? Meanwhile, there's an unexpected romance with an American GI for nurse Ruth.

Paisley, Scotland, 1941. The residents of Glen Street Tenement find their lives increasingly entwined as war reshapes their world. Julia and Frank McCosh juggle work, Home Guard duties and evening band rehearsals, while their daughter Chloe nurses an unreturned crush on neighbour Dennis Megson. Dennis, training as an engineer and serving with the fire brigade, lives with his mother Nan, a night-shift nurse. Ellen Borland works at the Anchor Thread Mill while caring for her injured husband, Donnie.

A thrilling, long-lost British novel—never before published in the U.S.—that warned of Hitler's rise through the story of an ordinary German family during six fateful months in 1933; it has been hailed as "a surprise breakout success" and "a word-of-mouth jaw-dropper" in the UK. The Klugers...

Frühling 1940: Nur wenige Tage nach seinem Amtsantritt steht der britische Premierminister Winston Churchill vor einer der schwersten Entscheidungen seines Lebens: Soll er sich Hitler-Deutschland um des Friedens willen annähern oder sein Land in den Krieg führen? Innerhalb von nur 25 Tagen muss er handeln und gleichzeitig den König und das britische Volk auf seine Seite bringen.

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G.W. Pabst, uno de los más grandes directores de cine, quizás el más grande de su época, está rodando en Francia cuando los nazis llegan al poder. Hollywood se presenta como la única salida para escapar de los horrores que anuncia la nueva Alemania, pero, bajo el sol cegador de California, el famoso director es un don nadie, y ni siquiera Greta Garbo, la actriz a la que catapultó, quiere ayudarle.

Two years into the conflict, Rose is adjusting to life as a Land Girl, working the Somerset fields alongside Jimmy, the farmer's son whose watchful, protective attention she can neither escape nor ignore. As the threat of invasion grows, the girls prove their courage to the commanding officer of a secret resistance unit and are drawn into a dangerous world of espionage, coded messages and hidden loyalties. But there is trouble close to home too. Daisy knows she is in love with her lifelong friend Mattie, but will she speak the truth before it's too late?

A sensational spin-off memoir based on the hit TV sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!, about a hapless café owner in occupied France Living under the tyranny of the Nazi jackboot, proud patriot René Artois (Gorden Kaye) is determined to do his bit for France – so when the Resistance commandeers his café to...