検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦

Caffè in der Wüste: Giulia Caminito erzählt vom italienischen Leben in Eritrea, von einer starken, übergroßen Mutter – und von einer jungen Frau, die sich ihre Freiheit erst nach und nach erkämpft. Ein historischer Roman von herber Schönheit. Die Lombardei im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Die Menschen suchen Zuflucht vor ständigen Bombenangriffen, deutsche Besatzer jagen Partisanen, das Essen wird rationiert. Die 13-jährige Giada wohnt bei ihrer Tante, einer gläubigen Faschistin, Gewalt und Entbehrung prägen den Alltag.

Inside the beleaguered city of Rome in 1944, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann. During a ferocious morning air raid a mysterious parachutist lands in Rome and disappears into the backstreets. Is he an ally or an imposter? His fate will come to put the whole Escape Line at risk.

Mitte der Vierzigerjahre rückt die Front immer näher an Deutschland heran. Klara ist inzwischen Mutter von vier kleinen Kindern, während ihr Mann Gustav in Schlesien ums Überleben kämpft. Zwischen Bombennächten, Hunger, Terror und Angst versucht Klara ihren Kindern eine schöne Kindheit zu bereiten – doch die Schuldgefühle, das jüdische Mädchen Tolla weggegeben zu haben, wüten in ihr. Als der Krieg vorbei ist und Europa in Trümmern liegt, muss Klara sich fragen, was sie retten konnte von ihren Träumen und Hoffnungen.

G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming in France, to escape the horrors of the new Germany he flees to Hollywood. But under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, who he made famous, can help him. And thus, almost through no fault of his own, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark.

"Whispers of Rebellion" continues the gripping saga from "A Noble Destiny," plunging listeners into the turmoil of 1937 Europe. Led by Austrian aristocrat Alexsander Jakob "James" Wallner von Rieser, the clandestine group employs the Mark 2 suitcase radio to thwart Hitler's impending threat. Amid family seeking refuge and Alexsander's mysterious headaches, love faces trials while Evangeline's journey intertwines with the group's mission. As Wilhelm infiltrates the Nazis, the Mayrhofen estate becomes the stage where the prototype radios hum with the "Whispers of Rebellion."

At the imposing iron gates of Auschwitz, twenty-one-year-old Hodaya clings to her mama and papa, her little sister Bayla’s arms around her waist. But when Hodaya is sent one way and her parents the other, a plea to keep her sister safe is the last thing in her mother’s eyes. Hodaya makes a silent promise in return. But Auschwitz is no place for a little girl, and keeping Bayla safe takes every ounce of Hodaya’s strength.

Alice Heppenheimer, born into a prosperous German Jewish family around the turn of the twentieth century, comes of age at a time of growing opportunities for women. So, when she turns 21 years old, she convinces her strict family to allow her to attend art school, and then pursues a career in women's fashion. Alice prospers in her career and settles into married life, but she could not anticipate a Nazi Germany, where simply being Jewish has become an existential threat.

Мир, в котором Вторая мировая война имела иной — шокирующий — исход. Мир, в котором человечество внезапно открыло, что уже довольно давно делит Землю с двумя более развитыми расами. Мир, в котором ты — функция системы. Ты можешь объединиться с кем-то другим, чтобы составить дубль-функцию. Можешь отдать свою жизнь в пользу другого — твоей контрфункции. Но навсегда останешься лишь скромной строчкой в массиве данных, которые скрупулезно соберет и проанализирует некто способный просчитать и взвесить вероятности наступления всех возможных вариантов будущего.

Northern England, 2010. After a tragic accident upends her life, Kate Mercer leaves London to work at an old guest house near the Scottish border, where she hopes to find a fresh start and heal from her loss. When she arrives, she begins to unravel the truth about her past, but discovers that the mysterious elderly proprietor is harboring secrets of her own.

May, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright spring days, anything seems possible for them - it is only many years later, after her death, that Kaspar discovers the price his wife paid to get to him in West Berlin. Shattered by grief, Kaspar sets off to uncover Birgit's secrets in the East. His search leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, and to a young girl who accepts him as her grandfather. Their worlds could not be more different - but he is determined to fight for her.

Elizabeth has always suspected her mother harbours a secret from her time as a young woman in Nazi Germany. But her mother, suffering from dementia, is lost to her now. When Elizabeth stumbles across a Nazi certificate amongst her parent's paperwork, it forces her to question the very foundations of her 1950s childhood and her first love. . . Elizabeth's quest to find the truth leads her to Germany where she's met with a wall of silence.

In the ghetto, the last 50,000 Jews await their fate, but, unlike those who preceded them to the death camps, these Jews are prepared to fight. Jan Kalisz, Kripo investigator and Resistance double-agent, has promised to supply them with weapons. But how will he fulfil his vow? The murder of a German officer appears to provide an opportunity.

Hana’s home has gone up in flames; the little bakery at the heart of the city is no more. Smoke curls into the sky and the buildings around her burn. But Hana has already lost far more – her blue-eyed fiancé was wrenched from her arms at the start of the war and her brave father was murdered by the Nazis. She’s determined to protect her younger sisters but every day more people are being killed… Hana realises that one person alone won’t win the war and she has to accept her sisters are playing their own part in the resistance.

Il dottore Giustino Salonia, medico condotto negli anni del fascismo, vive e lavora in un piccolo centro dell’entroterra siciliano. Ha un animo irrequieto, contraddittorio, un matrimonio infelice e il suo lavoro è frustrante – la gente muore costantemente di polmoniti e malaria. Presto il suo studio medico diventa il cuore del paese, attorno a cui si muove un universo di personaggi: una ragazza che rischia di morire per un aborto illegale, per la quale il dottore finisce per nutrire un amore sentimentale e platonico.

È il 1945, la guerra volge al termine. Ma in un piccolo villaggio greco la vita continua come niente fosse, in una convivenza con gli occupanti tedeschi ormai diventata abitudine. Un giorno, però, cominciano a cadere, inaspettate, le bombe inglesi. Anche sulla scuola. Gli studenti si rifugiano in una grotta, guidati dalla loro insegnante, l’incantevole Signorina, "sottile come una lama di luce". E qui lei, per far passare il tempo, racconta loro di un’altra guerra, quella combattuta dagli Achei sotto le mura di Troia per le grazie della bellissima Elena, rapita da Paride al suo sposo Menelao.

From bestselling author Kirsty Manning comes a stunning novel based on a true story of clandestine courage in World War II as prisoners of war risk their lives to secure evidence of Nazi atrocities—and how one man concealed it for decades before passing it on to his family who struggle to understand their inherited legacy of trauma.

But while Sophie, a third-year medical student, works long days and nights saving casualties of war at the American hospital, and waits anxiously for news of her fiancé from the front line, her recently widowed twin, Adèle, is determined to enjoy her freedom. Nothing – not the bombs, the curfews or the Nazi officers sidling up to her in nightclubs – can stop her from indulging in the temptations of Parisian society as she accompanies their father to glamorous parties.

Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is safe. After a devastating twist of fate resulting in the loss of her son, Madeleine accepts a request from the ministry to aid in the war effort.

At the height of World War II, Yaakov-Jacques Kalderon is a Jewish soldier in the Yugoslavian army, fighting against the German forces. When he falls captive at the hands of the enemy Yaakov knows that in order to survive, he will have no choice but to hide his identity from everyone – even the closest of allies.

Der Kampf einer Familie um Liebe, Loyalität und Überleben in einer Zeit des Umbruchs. Die mitreißende Fortsetzung der Lemberg-Saga von Bestsellerautorin Karin Lindberg Böhmen, 1938: Die Unternehmerfamilie Lemberg gehört zur gesellschaftlichen Elite. Doch der Patriarch Carl Lemberg muss um den Fortbestand seines Unternehmens kämpfen. Auch dass er sich die Distanz zu seiner Ehefrau Emilie seit Jahren mit einer Affäre versüßt, wird allmählich zum Problem für ihn.