Titoli in Seconda guerra mondiale e Olocausto

This program features multicast narration. Family secrets come to light as a young woman fights to save herself, and others, in a Nazi-run baby factory—a real-life Handmaid's Tale—during World War II. In a sleepy German village, Allina Strauss’s life seems idyllic: she works at her...

Krakau, 1942: Als die Nazis im jüdischen Ghetto eine Razzia durchführen, bleibt Sadie und ihrer Familie nur die Flucht in die Kanalisation. In der Finsternis unterhalb der Stadt sehnt sich Sadie nach Licht und den glücklichen Tagen ihrer Kindheit. Auf einem ihrer Streifzüge in den Tunneln schaut sie durch ein Gitter hinauf nach draußen und entdeckt ein Mädchen, das auf dem Markt Blumen kauft. Eine Freundschaft scheint nahezu unmöglich, doch allen Gefahren zum Trotz beschließt die 18-jährige Ella, Sadie zu helfen.

Adapted from the major television series created by Mark Gatiss - out now! 'A delicious read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW London, 1946. Gabriel Book is an erudite and unconventional London bookseller married to Trottie, the owner of the wallpaper shop next door. He is also a sleuth who uses...

1940: When twenty-one-year-old Nita Bineham is offered the chance of independence, away from the high walls of her family’s Surrey estate, she grasps it with both hands. But her new role at a local newspaper coincides with the emergence of a sinister rumour in their quiet village: that there is a traitor in their midst. Nita is determined to prove herself by uncovering the truth, but is she prepared for revelations that could change her life forever?

“Simply astounding. . . . The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer.” — Time A literary prize-winner that has been an explosive bestseller all over the world, Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones has been called “a brilliant Holocaust novel. . . a world-class...

The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean’s masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone. The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, Keith Mallory...

En los años 1942 y 1943, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, buzos de combate italianos hundieron o dañaron catorce barcos aliados en Gibraltar y la bahía de Algeciras. En esta novela, inspirada en hechos reales, sólo algunos personajes y situaciones son imaginarios. Elena Arbués, una librera de veintisiete años, encuentra una madrugada mientras pasea por la playa a uno de esos buzos, desvanecido entre la arena y el agua. Al socorrerlo, la joven ignora que esa determinación cambiará su vida y que el amor será sólo parte de una peligrosa aventura.

Sweeping between Prague during World War II and modern-day Los Angeles, “The Trick is a lyrical, uplifting, and funny story that will tug at all of your heartstrings” (Armando Lucas Correa, bestselling author of The German Girl) that follows a young boy seeking out a cynical, old magician in...

In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns...

Set in the northern Italian town of Ferrara before, during, and after the Second World War, these interlocking stories present a fully rounded world of unforgettable characters. The Novel of Ferrara memorializes not only the Ferrarese people, but the city itself, which assumes a character and a voice deeply inflected by the Jewish community to which the narrator belongs.

In a factory hidden deep in the Brazilian jungle, the Germans are developing a long-range bomber capable of reaching the United States—a weapon that could tip the scales of World War II in their favor. With the clock ticking down to a sneak attack on American soil, singer-spy Hattie James’s mission becomes clear: she must gather intelligence and stop the Nazis before it’s too late.

"Kindsein in Zeiten des Krieges" Krieg und NS-Zeit aus der Sicht eines Kindes. Ein Roman über die Südtiroler Auswanderung und die NS-Verbrechen an Menschen mit Behinderung Eine Familie aus Südtirol entscheidet sich 1942 im Zuge der »Option» für die Auswanderung ins Deutsche Reich. Der 11-jährige Ludi erzählt von den letzten Tagen im Dorf und der ersten Station im Deutschen Reich: Innsbruck. Auf Anweisung der Ärzte muss sein behinderter Bruder Hanno in eine Anstalt bei Hall gebracht werden. Die restliche Familie zieht weiter nach Oberösterreich.

Wie viele Geheimnisse erträgt eine Familie? Krakau, im Frühjahr 1939. Alle Zeichen stehen auf Krieg, denn das Deutsche Reich treibt seine Angriffspläne auf Polen unbarmherzig voran. Die junge Marie aber beschäftigen ganz anderen Fragen: Wer ist ihre Mutter? Warum verschwand sie, als Marie ein Kleinkind war? Und warum verweigert ihr Vater, ein renommierter Arzt, jedes Gespräch über sie? Als sie die Ungewissheit nicht mehr aushält, entschließt Marie sich zu einem drastischen Schritt. Marie zog eine Haarnadel aus ihrem blonden Haar.

“Kirsty Manning weaves together little-known threads of World War II history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turning, beautiful novel.""— Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz A gripping historical novel that tells the...

On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be listened to one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence. The first story in Crossings is a never-before-seen ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl.

Ha poco più di vent'anni Rodolfo Siviero, poeta e critico d'arte, quando viene avvicinato da un funzionario del Partito Fascista. La richiesta che gli arriva è del tutto inattesa. Dovrà andare a Erfurt, nel cuore della Germania nazista, per raccogliere informazioni sul nuovo alleato. Dovrà diventare una spia. In Germania troverà molte cose. Una nazione ottenebrata dai deliri di potenza di un dittatore. Una donna, Emma, bellissima e misteriosa, con cui intreccerà una grande e difficile storia d'amore. L'orrore del campo di prigionia di Buchenwald.

""This powerful, heart-wrenching novel follows a young Polish Jew through his incredible journey to escape the Nazis. Reuven’s story typifies that of millions of others experiencing the horrors and deprivations suffered by Jews in WWII and those who tried to help them. And yet, it is also an...

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.

La Toscana, 1943. Varada en una Italia devastada por la guerra, el sueño de Beatrice de pasar un año sabático en Italia dando clases de inglés se ha ido al traste. Por fortuna, le ofrecen refugio en la casa de Edoardo y Francesca, una preciosa villa con un jardín que guarda un laberinto en su interior. Sin embargo, ella no es la única que busca refugio en la villa, sino los propios hijos del matrimonio y otras personas. Y según la guerra se acerca… los residentes se verán obligados a ver y hacer lo impensable.

Published in Harper's Magazine in 1946, "Beware of the Dog," by Roald Dahl, is a short story that recounts the experiences of Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot Peter Williamson after he is shot down during a World War II bombing mission.