検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

London, East End, 1941: When everything is lost, can love rebuild a family? With the Blitz blazing through London and sirens wailing through the night, district nurse Sarah Rhodes tends the injured and comforts the frightened, determined to endure this terrible war. But when her own home is destroyed, she is forced to leave London and seek refuge at Harbour House. There, more devastating bad news awaits. Her beloved husband Stan, a brave RAF pilot flying dangerous bombing raids, is reported missing in action when his plane fails to return. Sarah's world shatters.

Singer Jessie Delaney is back home after narrowly escaping the London Blitz with her life. With husband Johnny Randolph serving overseas, Frances Randolph is busy juggling the business, motherhood and keeping West End star Ruby Randolph out of trouble. Young, talented amateur entertainer, Peggy Marshall has been left in the care of her feckless stepmother while her father serves on the dangerous Atlantic convoys. With everyone doing their bit, the Seaside Girls pool their talents to support the community and also their men at war.

Brought to you by Penguin. Sent to a remote village to live with their grandmother, twins Claus and Lucas devise physical and mental exercises to render themselves invulnerable to the ongoing horrors of war and living under a totalitarian regime. When their bond is tested, their collective...

To save her sister, she’ll rewrite history… ––––––––––––––––––––––––- What would we risk to save the people we love? Sandbags line London’s streets in 1940, but for Beatrice Bone the Second World War feels distant and dull. It doesn’t help...

What do we really know about the lives of others? The villagers of rural Ippenbury in 1913 puzzle over their new schoolmistress, as Adele reveals very little about herself and almost nothing of her past. Telling her story, using her letters and journals, she recounts the enormous changes in the village during the Great War, including her responses to wounded soldiers recovering in the old mill hospital.

Londres, 1940. Edith Reeves, âgée de 16 ans, son petit frère Edward et leur jeune voisine Eleonore se préparent pour un voyage déterminant : grâce au programme Pied Piper, une initiative du gouvernement britannique de Winston Churchill, ils partiront pour Montréal, où une famille du quartier Notre-Dame-de-Grâce les accueillera.

Montréal, janvier 1941. Edith et Edward Reeves sont à Montréal depuis cinq mois. Après une période d'adaptation assombrie par la mort soudaine d'Eleonore, une douloureuse vérité fait son chemin : comme ils ne pourront retourner en Angleterre qu'une fois la guerre terminée, il est impossible de prédire la durée de leur séjour au Canada...

Featuring a special introduction read by the author, David Baldacci, and read by a full cast, including Stewart Crank, Alexandra Boulton, John Lee, Nicola Delgado, Matthew Lloyd Davies, and Joe Pitts. 'A beautiful read that will linger long in the memory' – Kate Quinn During one of the...

Una historia de amor y coraje en tiempos de guerra. La última vez que Valerie estuvo en París, tenía tan solo tres años. Desde entonces ha vivido siempre alejada de la capital francesa y nunca ha conocido al abuelo Vincent, el único de sus familiares que sigue con vida y la única persona que conoce la verdad sobre lo que les ocurrió a sus padres y por qué tuvo que abandonar su propio hogar. Sin embargo, Vincent Dupont no es un hombre fácil: es antipático, exigente y poco flexible. Lo único que realmente parece importarle es su librería.

In un piccolo paese sulle colline dell’Emilia, al confine con la Lombardia, due sorelle imparano presto cosa significa crescere in tempo di guerra: scegliere ogni giorno da che parte stare, e lavorare assieme–nei campi o in casa, aiutando la madre sarta–per sostenersi a vicenda.

When World War II pulls the Alcott sisters in different directions, Joan is restless for a new start after turning down a proposal from her best friend Lawrence Whitman and watching her writing dreams crumble under constant rejection. Determined to serve her country, she joins Philadelphia's...

Emma è una donna bella, coraggiosa, “schietta come il freddo del mattino”. Di origini povere e contadine, sposa un uomo ricco (monarchico e moderatamente filofascista) che ama. È felice, con una bella famiglia, un figlio che adora. D’improvviso, la seconda guerra mondiale. Tutto crolla. Un dolore totale che toglie il respiro.

Don’t miss this thrilling war-time naval thriller! For fans of Dewey Lambdin, Patrick O’Brian, Nicholas Monsarrat, C.S. Forester and Max Hennessy. Two brothers are keen to start their naval careers. But could it all be over before they’ve barely begun…? Liverpool, 1939 - Twin brothers Romulus and Remus Hutchinson grew up in a proud seafaring Liverpool family. So when war breaks out in Europe, they are both keen to sign up and do their part.

Walther est un fantassin prussien. Vétéran de nombreuses campagnes, il est usé par les blessures. Erika est une fière Allemande qui refuse de plier. Tous deux s’apprêtent à subir de plein fouet l’invasion soviétique. Le premier fourbit ses armes, prêt au combat, prêt à défendre son foyer et sa famille. La seconde est communiste. Elle croit que l’Armée rouge libérera l’Allemagne du fascisme. Elle ne sait pas qu’une terrible fureur l’anime le bras de l’ennemi.

A world away from the wealth and comfort of her family home, lord’s daughter Betony Styles has come to love her new life at a London lodging house with Grace and Jess. Selling her beautiful gowns to pay for her rent and rations for the other girls, Betony is determined to do her bit. By day she works in the factory sewing much-needed uniforms for the Women’s Air Force. At night, air raid sirens blaze–but Betony and the other girls do all they can to help in the hardest hit neighbourhoods, rescuing a precious newborn from the rubble.

From the bestselling author of The Codebreaker's Daughter comes a powerful and inspiring story of one ordinary woman's astonishing bravery as she is faced with the ultimate choice, and the sacrifices she must make in the name of love and hope. The Secret Nurse of Paris is the second standalone...

May 1945. The world celebrates the fall of Nazi Germany and the reported death of Adolf Hitler—yet, one young Jewish survivor sees the impossible: Hitler alive and slipping into the shadows. Second Lieutenant Cy Jacobson, fresh from West Point and untested in real combat, is thrust into his first assignment—investigate a vast Nazi tunnel complex hidden beneath the rolling Austrian hills.

Spanning from the battles in the sky of WWI, to the dark days before World War II, the story follows TJ’s evolution from a wounded recruit to a battle-forged veteran. Haunted by the love he lost and the men he buried, he struggles to survive not just the war around him but the war within his own heart. Along the way, an old man guides him toward a truth he never expected — a truth tied to family, sacrifice, and destiny.

From the Treaty of Versailles to the first bombs falling on Warsaw—the countdown to catastrophe, told through the forms that filed it into existence."This is not peace. This is an armistice for twenty years."A German diplomat spoke those words in 1919. He was wrong by only thirty-seven days. THE DOOMSDAY TIMETABLE is a sweeping work of historical fiction that traces the path from the humiliations of Versailles to the morning Neville Chamberlain told Britain it was at war. But this is not a story of great men making great decisions.

In einem Schweizer Dorf an der Grenze zu Deutschland betreibt vor 100 Jahren der junge Wirt Arnold einen Gasthof. Arnold heiratet sie und bekommt mit ihr acht Kinder. Das Leben nimmt seinen Lauf, bis sich die älteste Tochter Clara 1933 in einen Schmuggler namens Hermann verliebt. Der bringt die Uniformierten auf beiden Seiten der Grenze gegen sich auf. Es geschieht ein Drama – und das Dorf erhebt sich gegen eine Großmacht.