検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦

In a different world, Evie Milton would have accepted her fate, married an aristocrat and become the doyenne of one of England’s finest estates, just like her mother. In a different world, Rose Wiley would have married her fiancé, David, established a modest homestead and brought up a brood of babies, just like her mother. But this isn’t a different world, and these women are not their mothers. Rose dreams of a life filled with more than family and duty to her husband—a life of purpose—and Evie dreams of a life far away from her rarefied existence.

As captain of a destroyer in the US Navy, Merrill Kendrick plays a crucial and dangerous role in protecting the convoys that are essential to Britain’s survival in the Second World War. Despite pressure from his father to join the family company, a supplier of military radios, Kendrick chose to fight on the front lines of the war, a decision he’s never regretted. But when technical issues with his family’s Gatekeeper radios lead to devastating consequences in combat in the Atlantic, Kendrick needs answers.

Autunno 1943. Secondo un'antica maledizione – inventata di sana pianta e venduta al comando tedesco come leggenda popolare – nelle viscere di una miniera di carbone sulla sponda del Rio Fogazza si nasconderebbe la Salamandra Ignifera Gigante Cinese, capace di folgorare a vista qualsiasi forestiero si avvicini. Per l'ebreo Mozenic Aràd, che giusto prima delle leggi razziali ha pensato bene di diventare Mestolari Aride, la scoperta casuale del giacimento è l'unica speranza di salvare se stesso e la sua famiglia.

By late 1939, three months after declaring war on Germany, and seven before the Battle of Britain, Britain's Air Ministry realized it was going to need more fighter aircraft than Britain alone could produce. In 1938, the Air Ministry had licensed the Canadian Car and Foundry Company to build the Hawker Hurricane, powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin 29 engine built by the Detroit automaker Packard Motor Company, under license and redesigned by them for mass production. But the Ministry knew that even with this added capacity, it was not going to be nearly enough.

The day after the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, Murphy joins the US 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One, and soon volunteers for the newly formed US Rangers. He takes part in the bloody attack on the French Channel port of Dieppe. The furious German defense results in hundreds of Allied deaths, yet Murphy makes it back to continue training for the invasion of France, codenamed Operation Overlord. Their orders are to land at Omaha Beach, scale the cliffs, and destroy the gun batteries at Pointe du Hoc.

A finales de marzo de 1944, a medida que las tropas soviéticas se adentran en Ucrania, Emil y Adeline Martel se ven obligados a tomar una agónica decisión: ¿deben esperarlas y arriesgarse a ser enviados a Siberia? ¿O seguir a regañadientes a los peligrosos oficiales nazis que han jurado protegerlos? Los Martel son una de las muchas familias de ascendencia alemana cuyos antepasados han trabajado la tierra en Ucrania durante más de un siglo. Pero tras vivir bajo el régimen de terror de Stalin, la joven pareja decide que su mejor opción es huir en retirada junto a los nazis.

March, 1945. The ravaged face of London will soon be painted with victory, but for Sylvie, the private battle for peace is just beginning. A Small Dark Quiet follows a mother as she struggles to find the courage to rebuild her life and care for an orphan whom she and her husband, Gerald, adopt two years later. Born in a concentration camp, the orphan’s early years appear punctuated with frail speculations, opening up a haunting space that draws Sylvie to bring him into parallel with the child she lost.

German immigrants Karl and Marta Meyer are loyal Americans, especially after a startling visit to see their family during Hitler’s prewar rise to power. When America enters the war, the FBI wrongly arrests the Meyers as spies. Deportation back to war-torn Germany seems their only hope of survival. Their son Hank enlists in the US Army Air Corps, hoping his pay can save the family’s home. After his B-17 is shot down, his ability to speak fluent German helps him evade capture. When the Gestapo is on his trail, his life depends on the daring plan of two unlikely collaborators.

Berlin 1933. The new dawn that Hitler promised has taken place. Propped up by business interests and a fragile political coalition, the Nazis and their stormtroopers start to run riot throughout the city. The ghosts of Lisa and Seamus’s recent past come back to haunt them when a figure emerges from the shadows of their lives to threaten their future. Seamus will have to protect his family, his workers and his own life from the threats against them, no matter what it takes.

When a beautiful English-speaking young woman named Anya is recruited to be a Russian spy working with the Nazi party, her first thought is that it means she can escape a terrifying situation at home. But when she finds herself sent to work as a land girl in a beautiful corner of England and begins to make friends—ones she knows she may have to betray—she fears she’s made a terrible mistake. The only person she can turn to is her fellow informer, Nikolai, and she finds herself impossibly drawn to his quiet intensity. But being together increases the risk to them both.

Churchill, die Résistance und eine geheime Sabotagegruppe − der erste Roman des Bestsellerautors endlich auf Deutsch. 1940 verlässt der junge Paul-Emile überstürzt seine Heimatstadt Paris. Nicht einmal sein Vater weiß, wohin er geht. Denn Paul schließt sich einer geheimen Spionageeinheit an, die Winston Churchill ins Leben gerufen hat. Mit einer Handvoll französischer Freiwilliger, Stan, Gros, Flaron, Cucu und Laura, lehrt man ihn die Kunst des geheimen Krieges. Die Aufträge sind gefährlich, und die Missionen scheinen nie zu enden.

Heart on Her Sleeve is the story of a patriotic American college girl who steps up to run her father’s war plant when he is hospitalized by saboteurs. Not long after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and US entry into the Second World War, the government realized the draft would seriously deplete the country’s entire workforce, including entry-level labor, skilled trades, office staff, and management. The only possible replacement was to be found in the ranks of the nation’s women. But for women to join the workforce, major changes would have to occur.

The hidden village was meant to keep them safe, but the Nazis have found it.... There’s no time to lose. Laura gathers the children and whispers to them to be brave. The smallest cowers in her arms as they hear the crack of gunshots outside. Laura knows they’ll have to run if they are to survive....

1944, England. Calum Auger can see 10 seconds into the future. Desperate not to die in the air over Germany, the Lancaster bombardier uses his unique gift to drop his payload more accurately and help the pilot avoid enemy fire. But when he can’t find a way through the flak and the damaged plane crash-lands in England, he’s stunned to discover two government agents waiting to recruit him. Drafted into a top-secret team of psychics, Calum and his new unit are tasked with tracking down spies who stole sensitive documents—papers containing information on how to build an atom bomb.

May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers, pitchforks and kitchen knives. During the bloody 11-day battle, Alenka, a young Greek woman, saves the lives of two Australian soldiers. Jack and Teddy are childhood friends who joined up together to see the world. Both men fall in love with Alenka.

Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry an SS officer and adopt a young girl, she begins to see behind the Nazi facade. A prayer labyrinth becomes a storehouse for her secrets, but as she comes to love Lilly as her own daughter, she fears that what she’s hiding—and what she begins to uncover—could put them both in mortal danger.

There are new residents at Goodwill House—WAAF drivers Camilla ‘Millie’ Cunningham and Diane Forsyth, both eager to do their bit for the war effort and excited to help the brave boys who fly. And when Millie meets dashing and heroic Spitfire pilot Ted Thorrington, they strike up an instant connection. But with Hitler gaining more ground in Europe, there is danger brewing across the Channel in Dunkirk and Ted is required to fly more and more dangerous sorties, risking his life every time. With their hearts and lives on the line, the courage of the girls in blue will be tested.

Drei ungleiche Schwestern gegen alle Widerstände. Wiesbaden, 1945: Henni steht vor den Trümmern ihres Lebens. Der Krieg hat die Sektkellerei der Familie schwer beschädigt, und Hennis Mann wird in Russland vermisst. Zudem wartet sie verzweifelt auf ein Lebenszeichen ihrer jüngsten Schwester Bille, die als Krankenschwester an die Front gegangen ist. Hennis Schwester Lisbeth reist aus Berlin an, das Verhältnis der beiden ist allerdings zerrüttet. Als Bille unverhofft zurückkehrt, tief verstört und hochschwanger, fasst Henni neuen Mut: Sie wird die Sektkellerei retten.

Eine meisterhaft poetische Erzählung über Kriegskinder, die viel zu schnell erwachsen werden mussten. Berlin, 1945. Fanny Holzbein, die eigentlich Fanny Salbei heißt, und Charlotte sind unzertrennlich. Ihre Freundin ist alles, was Fanny noch geblieben ist. Und dann gibt es da noch die vier Nachbarsjungen, mit denen sie einst spielten, die nun Kindersoldaten sind und zwischen Verteidigungswahn und Vaterlandstreue alles hinter sich lassen mussten, was mit unbeschwertem Kindsein zu tun hat.

As the people of Annecy in the French Alps meet the Gestapo’s brutality with surprising resistance, a teen-aged girl cannot rest until she solves the mystery of a death in her family. Aurelie watches as her father places a shrouded body on the north side of the roof of the family home. It’s winter, under a Nazi-declared state of siege, and they must wait until the spring thaw for the burial. But who died? And why is no one speaking to her anymore? Aurelie cannot rest until she discovers the truth and fights to prevent the same terrible fate from happening to her best friend.