検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦

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.

Während der Zweite Weltkrieg London beherrscht, halten die Frauen aus der Mulberry Lane fest zusammen... Maureen Jackson wusste, dass das Leben als angehende Krankenschwester nicht einfach sein würde. Aber sie hatte nicht damit gerechnet, dass ihr Krankenhaus gleich in ihrer ersten Schicht schwer bombardiert wird. Zudem halten sie Familie und Freunde in der Mulberry Lane Maureen auf Trab, denn dort wird sie genauso gebraucht wie bei ihren Patienten. Und als wäre das nicht genug, tritt auch Rory wieder in ihr Leben.

Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father's arrest. Fifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart.

After a bomb destroys Esme's London home and kills her son, she moves to Woodicombe, her old house in Devon, to begin the impossible task of recuperating. Soon she is drawn back into the world of espionage and as her marriage to Richard starts to crumble, a local airman pulls her closer. Meanwhile, Lou awaits confirmation that she can relocate to Canada to be with her husband. Biding her time back home, she notices her father behaving strangely and disappearing at odd hours to wander the nearby cliffs. With rumours of spies afoot, she needs to learn the truth before anyone else does.

Holding onto tin helmets, obscured vision through suffocating gas masks, tumultuous clouds of debris tumbling through a convoluted, mid-night sky from above, the girls scampered from installation to installation, from shelter to shelter in an attempt to, time the speed and distance of descending shells with a futile delusion of child like imagination.

1938, as the world spirals towards war, Klara Koch is employed as Hitler's personal cook. While Germany reveres the image of the Fuhrer, Klara and the household staff are privy to the real Hitler—his secrets, his ailments and his addictions. As Klara observes those circling the Fuhrer, she realises that not all of them are his admirers. Hitler is right to be paranoid. This thoroughly researched and compelling story takes listeners right up close and personal with Hitler as he spirals increasingly out of control in pursuit of his drug-fuelled quest for world domination.

Ein Klassiker der Anti-Kriegsliteratur Dieter Noll, als "Remarque des 2. Weltkriegs" gefeiert, schildert den Weg junger Männer seiner Generation. Hungrig nach Abenteuern, ziehen sie begeistert in den Krieg. Nach erniedrigendem Drill, endlosen Nächten der Erschöpfung und Angst am Flakgeschütz erleben sie im Inferno der Rückzugsschlachten ihre völlige Desillusionierung und den moralischen Zusammenbruch. Frühjahr 1943.

Nach dem Bestseller "Ein neuer Himmel" folgt nun die bewegende Fortsetzung aus der Feder von Margit Steinborn. Die Geschichte der Jüdin Hannah Rosenberg und ihrer Tochter Melina geht weiter. Nach den Schrecken des Krieges schauen die Menschen in Deutschland nach vorn. Auch auf dem Sandnerhof ist man froh, dass endlich Frieden ist. Doch die Wunden der Vergangenheit sind allgegenwärtig. Während der älteste Sohn der Sandners noch immer in Gefangenschaft ist, verzweifelt Tristan fast an den Taten seiner Familie im Dritten Reich. Aber es gibt auch Momente großen Glücks.

Vienna 1938: Austria’s leading couturier, Christina Lehmann, sits at the pinnacle of Viennese society. Her lover, the renowned painter Max Hauser, is at the height of his career. But Max harbors a secret, and it is only a matter of time before the Gestapo finds out. The situation takes a dramatic turn on Kristallnacht, when the pogrom against the Austrian Jews escalates and one of Christina’s Jewish seamstresses is brutally murdered.

Midnight, June 13, 1942: Peter Burger stands on a foggy beach, ears primed as a submarine hull scrapes the sandy sea bottom. He has endured seventeen months in a Gestapo prison and seventeen days on a Nazi U-boat only to have landed on American shores with six boxes of explosives and no escape. After slipping into New York City, Peter finds himself at a massive military parade where he meets Grete Baum, a German-Jewish refugee grappling with loneliness and loss. Grete is drawn to Peter’s brooding vulnerability, and the pair instantly bond.

1943. SOE agent Larry Hadley leaves Cairo for German- and Italian-occupied Greece. His mission is to liaise with the Poseidon network under the leadership of the White Rose. It’s not long before he finds himself involved with a beautiful and intriguing woman whose past is shrouded in mystery. In a country where hardship, destruction, and political instability threaten to split the Resistance, and terror and moral ambiguity live side by side, Larry’s instincts tell him something is wrong.

The year is 1939 and Europe is hurtling toward war. Paul Muller is an intelligence agent trying to fend off threats from Germany, but also from Britain and France. Secret agreements reveal unexpected danger and new menacing entanglements as Switzerland becomes a target in the impending conflict. Muller uncovers plots and schemes to gain advantage by ruse and ploy—and violence.

1931: Für die lebenslustige Martha aus London ist Berlin eine faszinierende Stadt. Die häusliche Annegret lernt die Engländerin am Alexanderplatz kennen, mit ihr soll sie eine Gruppe junger Pfadfinderinnen im Grunewald leiten. Obwohl die beiden Frauen kaum unterschiedlicher sein könnten, entsteht eine tiefe Freundschaft, die durch den Krieg und Annegrets Mann auf eine harte Probe gestellt wird. Während Annegret Kinder vor der Deportation zu retten versucht, unternimmt Martha in London alles, um ihrer Freundin zu helfen.

January 1944—a senior member of the French Resistance betrays his comrades to the Abwehr and Gestapo, but who? Within hours, the Germans arrest hundreds of suspected resistance fighters and incarcerate them in the infamous Amiens prison. When a Resistance spy inside the prison informs his leaders, Dominique Ponchardier and Boniface Monier, of German plans to conduct mass executions within weeks, they are helpless to respond. In a last-ditch effort to free their Résistants awaiting death or deportation to labor camps, they turn to the British for help.

Hacia el año 1937, Shanghai está considerada el París del continente asiático. En la sofisticada y opulenta ciudad, donde conviven mendigos, millonarios, gángsters, jugadores y artistas, la vida sonríe a las hermanas Pearl y May Chin, hijas de un acaudalado hombre de negocios.

Ava and Joseph Simon reluctantly put their nine-year-old son, Henry, and four-year-old daughter, Catherine, in the care of their son’s teacher, who will escort them on a boat to mainland England. Just as the ferry is about to leave, the teacher’s sister Lily appears. The two trade places: Helen doesn’t want to leave Guernsey, and Lily is desperate for a fresh start.

1940. With the Germans about to enter Paris, Claire Bouchard flees France for England. Two years later she is recruited by the Special Operations Executive and sent back into occupied France to work alongside the Resistance. Working undercover as a teacher in Brittany, Claire accidentally befriends the wife of the German Commandant of Rennes, and the blossoming friendship is about to become a dangerous mission. Claire begins a double life as a Gestapo Commandant’s mistress to retrieve information, but ghosts from her past make the deception more painful than she could have imagined.

It's 1943, and the Second World War is raging. Ruby Mottram works for her local newspaper, the Bartonford Herald, typing up adverts and obituaries, whilst dreaming of a more exciting life. Between her shifts as an ARP warden and caring for her ailing father, the chance for escape doesn't come often to Devon. Meanwhile, in America's Deep South, Sam Archer is hatching a plan to raise enough money to get his mother and sister away from his abusive stepfather.