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Austria, 1938. After years of hardship, Ella is full of hope for a better future for Austrians, and when Hitler marches into Linz, she can’t help but become swept up in the euphoria of her boyfriend, Max. But she soon realises her mistake. When she witnesses a woman being shot in the street and a childhood friend’s Jewish department store is closed down, she knows she must do something. It’s a dangerous time to be a resistor, especially when her fascist boyfriend proposes to her.

A stolen child. A terrible wartime secret. Norway, 1940. Seduced by Nazi propaganda, Liv offers herself to the German High Command as war reaches rural Norway. She has something very special that they want in Berlin - but the personal cost will be terrible. Can she survive what she did as a...

A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations… Windsor, 1940. Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the princesses reside. But when she learns that Windsor is compromised, Sophie must...

Neunzehn Treppenstufen, die alles verändern können. Die den Unterschied bedeuten zwischen Freiheit und Verlust, Leben und Tod, Liebe und Leid. London, 1942: Trotz des um sie herum tobenden Kriegs gibt die 18-jährige Nellie Morris alles dafür, um Ruhe und Ordnung in den Alltag ihrer Familie zu bringen. Ihrer Sehnsucht nach einer unbeschwerten Jugend und einem Leben in Freiheit hat sie längst abgeschworen – bis sie den amerikanischen Piloten Ray kennenlernt. Er zeigt ihr, dass es gerade in diesen Zeiten wichtig ist zu träumen und für diese Träume einzustehen.

Die elsässische Winzertochter Colette ist mittlerweile im Frauen-Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück angekommen. Dort muss sie im Rüstungsbetrieb von Siemens & Halske schuften. Die Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen sind so schlecht, dass sie nicht zögert, als sich ihr ein vermeintlicher Ausweg aus dem Leid bietet: Sie nimmt das Angebot an, als Prostituierte in das Häftlings-Bordell im KZ Buchenwald zu gehen. Zusammen mit ihren Kameradinnen versucht sie dort, im »Dirnenblock« trotz aller Demütigungen, ihre Würde nicht zu verlieren und das Kriegsende zu erleben.

Read by the author, Eliza Morton. Full of nostalgia and set against a backdrop of the Festival of Britain and the aftermath of the Second World War, The Children Left Behind is a gritty, emotional, heartwarming and uplifting saga. 1940, Liverpool When Alice Lacey was seven, she and her two best...

Everything changes when Lilou is given her most important task: to keep a frightened little boy, Eliot, hidden safe in her farmhouse. All alone in the world, Eliot refuses to speak as he clutches his treasured children’s book close to his chest. Inside is a beautiful story of stars, planets and the night sky. But why is this innocent child the one, among thousands, who Lilou must save?

История не терпит сослагательного наклонения, но что было бы, если... Британия в 1940-м, после Дюнкерка, капитулировала перед гитлеровской Германией? К. Дж. Сэнсом отвечает на этот вопрос в своем захватывающем альтернативно-историческом эпике Доминион, не переосмысливая, а заново создавая прошлое. 1952 год. На востоке продолжается война между Германией и Россией, обескровливая мировую экономику. Принудительные наборы на работу вынуждают молодых людей во Франции, Италии и Испании в буквальном смысле прятаться по норам.

Lyon, 1941. As Nazi forces march steadily through France and Jewish families seek refuge from persecution, seventeen-year-old Juta wakes one morning to find her sister, Sara, gone. And when Juta discovers that Sara has been wrongfully accused of espionage and arrested by German soldiers, she traces it all back to one man. A cruel, obsessive man who believes himself scorned by her family and who will stop at nothing to see them suffer. Arno.

Una deliciosa novela sobre el significado de la familia y los lugares a los que llamamos hogar, sobre la amistad y la búsqueda del verdadero camino en la vida. Esme Cahill cree haber fracasado estrepitosamente. Despedida de su trabajo como editora en Nueva York, divorciada y con poco más que un destartalado coche y una pila de manuscritos inacabados, regresa a casa, a Asheville, con el fin de cumplir el deseo de su difunta abuela Adele, quien, justo antes de morir, le había rogado que volviera al lugar donde se crio.

Der sechsjährige Gottfried verliert im Sommer 1932 seinen Vater durch eine Explosion im Eisenwerk. Gottfried, seine Mutter und die vier Geschwister kämpfen sich gemeinsam durch die schwere Zeit. Dann drängt sich der Nationalsozialismus immer mehr in den Alltag der Menschen... "Der Himmel und die Luft zum Atmen" erzählt die wahre Geschichte des Gottfried aus Maxhütte, der den Leser als Sohn, Hitlerjunge, Lehrbub, Soldat, Gefangener und Verliebter auf mitreißende und persönliche Art durch die Zeit unserer Großväter in Deutschland und der Oberpfalz führt.

Readers will be captivated by this story of love, sacrifice, and destiny, where the past and present collide to rewrite the future. “The Lost Memories gathered me up and swept me away. A beautiful, uplifting tale of life’s many types of love, and how the truest are never forgotten.” Amanda...

When word spreads that three bodies have been found mutilated, Donald offers to help authorities seek the killer. He coaxes Harold into assisting and winds up leading the naive young man and the dutiful Alice into a labyrinth of deceit, madness, and murder. Lingering in the periphery is the shadowy figure of a local legend commonly known as the Slingerman, who some believe is behind the heinous crimes. Harold, who has heard stories of the creature since his cradle days, has his doubts — until the ominous figure begins manifesting itself to him.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A sweeping, dazzling dual-timeline novel centering on two unforgettable women—and their inextricable link to each other decades apart. Ukraine, 1944 As the world around her is ripped apart by war and infiltrated by Nazi soldiers, Savka Ivanets works as a medic...

Tras su precipitado matrimonio con Octave de Fonneuve, Aldara, refugiada de la Guerra Civil, llega al Domaine de Clair de Lune, una imponente bodega de Borgoña. Cuando estalla la guerra en Francia, su marido cae prisionero y la deja sola frente a los recelos de su suegro, el acoso de su cuñado y la ocupación alemana.

After landing at Normandy, the Allies pushed the Nazis back across France. A total Allied victory and complete Nazi defeat seemed tantalizingly close. Those in power thought it was all but over. Planning for a postwar world was in progress. In the safest and most secure military bases in the US mainland, the feeling was that the war was won, the Nazis defeated.

When her husband doesn’t come home one day, Ariella realises that the only way she can ensure her Jewish children’s safety is to avail of the Kindertransport, but can she bear to let them go? A thousand miles away, Elizabeth Klein has closed herself off from the world. Losing her husband on the last day of the Great War, and her child months later, she cannot, will not, love again. It hurts too much. But she is all Liesl and Erich Bannon have.

Liesl and Erich have found a home in Ireland away from the chaos of war-ravaged Europe. As the dark news of what has happened to the Jews filters through, they are torn—love for their mother and their home on one hand, and the profound sense of peace and belonging they have in Ballycreggan on the other. Like all of the other children who escaped Nazi territory on the Kindertransport, they must wait to hear the fate of their loved ones.

Drei junge Frauen. Ein Schwur. Wie stark ist eine Freundschaft? Sie glaubten, die Welt stünde ihnen offen: Die drei Freundinnen Elli, Margot und Käthe werden mit Beginn der NS-Zeit mit der Schule fertig. Im malerischen Tal der Eifel, in dem sie zu Hause sind, muss die Jüdin Margot bald um ihr Leben und das ihrer Familie fürchten. Käthe wird zur überzeugten Nationalsozialistin. Die Halbwaise Elli muss sich entscheiden.

Vibrant and scrappy Maggie McCleod tried not to get fired from her wartime orchestra, but her sharp tongue landed her in trouble, so an overseas adventure with the USO’s camp show promises a chance at a fresh start. Wealthy and elegant Catherine Duquette signs with the USO to leave behind her restrictive life of privilege and to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of the handsome pilot whose letters mysteriously stopped arriving. The two women are joined by an eclectic group of performers.