Titoli in Seconda guerra mondiale e Olocausto

The Navy has its new submarines and must discover what to do with them. They cannot fall back upon Nelson as a precedent, and Their Lordships of the Admiralty are at a loss to create a strategy. Gilbert Maltravers is given a new E Class boat and sent off to the Mediterranean, in the hope that...

May 1942. Thousands of American GIs are stationed across eastern England building airfields to bomb Germany. Cambridge is a 'liberty town' - a hot spot for 'Yanks' on leave. DI Eden Brooke is called to the aerodrome five miles east of the city when the remains of an airman, identified by his dog...

Manchester, 1936 Fascism looms in Europe, and Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts are on the rise. Meanwhile, aspiring artist Rose is drawn to an unlikely stranger, unaware her future is about to be caught up in the growing storm. Facing straitened circumstances, following the death of their clergyman...

The incredible true story of the French Resistance plot to destroy the Atlantic Wall in Normandy, dramatised in six parts for BBC Radio Adapted from Richard Collier’s 1958 novel Ten Thousand Eyes, this riveting vintage drama by Robert Barr tells the story of the heroes and heroines of the...

Beautifully read by Indira Varma and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles, set during the onset of World War II. 'Compelling, moving, unputdownable . . . Maybe my favourite books ever' - Marian Keyes...

Bloomsbury presents A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende, read by Edoardo Ballerini. _______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _______________ 'A powerful love story spanning generations… Full of ambition and humanity' – Sunday Times 'One of the strongest...

Bloomsbury presents The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, read by Charlie Norfolk. The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide – now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica...

Esta novela demuestra una vez más que a Martin Amis no le tiembla el pulso a la hora de abordar temas controvertidos. Después de la demoledora Lionel Asbo. El estado de Inglaterra, que levantó ampollas por su crudo retrato de lo peor de la sociedad británica, el autor regresa al nazismo y al Holocausto, que ya había tratado en La flecha del tiempo. Y lo hace desde un ángulo cuando menos sorprendente, cediendo la palabra a los verdugos, y sin renunciar a incomodar al lector con ciertos toques de comedia negra.

Nachkriegsdeutschland, 1947: Der Krieg ist vorbei, doch die Täter leben unbehelligt weiter. Roxi hat sich an der Seite ihres Mannes mühsam ein neues Leben aufgebaut, als ein verloren geglaubter Talisman auftaucht und alles ins Wanken bringt. Denn er kann nur eines bedeuten: Der Mann, der ihre Familie zerstört hat, ist nicht tot. Er hat sich neu erfunden. Unter falschem Namen lebt er in Essen. Während Behörden wegsehen und die Besatzungsmächte Beweise verlangen, beginnt für Roxi ein gefährliches Katz-und-Maus-Spiel.

Zwei Schwestern. Ein Geheimnis. Und eine Zeit, die alles von ihnen fordert. Sylt, 1939. Der Krieg rückt näher, doch in der Strandperle versuchen Clara und Jella, den Alltag aufrechtzuerhalten. Während die Insel zur Festung wird, kämpfen die Schwestern um ihre Existenz und um die Menschen, die sie lieben. Clara bangt um ihre Tochter Fanny, die zur Zielscheibe der neuen Machtverhältnisse wird, und hofft auf ein Wiedersehen mit ihrer großen Liebe Magnus. Jella widersetzt sich mutig den Befehlen der Besatzer, bis ein Marineoffizier ihr Herz berührt und sie mehr riskiert, als sie je wollte.

Jest rok 1940. W Gdańsku zaczynają się czystki. Willa na Jaśkowej Dolinie nie należy już do Schwarzów, ale trafia w ręce gestapowca Mathiasa Angerera. Pewnego dnia na chodniku przed willą służąca znajduje zwłoki sekretarza właściciela domu. Śledztwo tym razem prowadzi gestapo. Czy zdoła odkryć, czym kierował się sprawca?

Historia Olga Ławrow, Bohdana Wynnyczenki i ich bliskich to zapis dramatu, jaki przeżywała większość mieszkańców kresowej ziemi. To nie tylko wyjątkowej wartości saga rodzinna, lecz także panoramiczny obraz życia ludzi, którzy musieli zmagać się z dwoma totalitaryzmami – nacjonalistycznym i komunistycznym.

Search and Deception Brian O’Sullivan, an art history professor, discovers letters written by his mother, Katrina, sixty years earlier — letters that ignite a desperate search for the truth about her disappearance. Before he can begin, Interpol summons him to Amsterdam to help unravel a Nazi...

For Detective Constable Faye Smith, London is not as safe as it seems. The criminal underworld is gaining strength, enjoying a lively existence below the surface. Then two bodies are found in the war-time shelters, a man and a woman. Faye, keen to unravel the mystery of the double murder, finds herself tangled up in crimes that stretch far beyond a simple killing. Faye and Ellie must face their toughest case yet as their lives change, irrevocably, for the future.

Orkney 1942. Forbidden lovers, divided by war, united by a secret act of creation. Amid the turmoil of the Second World War, a group of Italian prisoners is sent to the remote Orkney island of Lamb Holm. In the freezing conditions, hunger and untold hardships of Camp 60, this ragtag band must...

1939. Norma knows what the world does to women in her position. Pregnant, unmarried… abandoned. And when the man who promised to marry her is arrested for murder, she has only one option left: run. A borrowed wedding ring. A fake name. A one-way ticket to Wales. Mrs Finch never existed before that train journey, but now she’s Norma’s only chance at survival.

Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter Hanna entdeckt Anne ein handgeschriebenes Buch in deren Nachttischschublade. Während ihr Bruder abwinkt, taucht Anne mit klopfendem Herzen ein in die Vergangenheit der Mutter, die bis in das dunkelste Kapitel deutscher Geschichte zurückreicht. Sie liest von Hannas...

For fans of Ariel Lawhon and Rhys Bowen, an Oppenheimer–meets–The Rose Code World War II novel of a young mother’s self-discovery as she is drawn into a love triangle with an atomic spy in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. When nineteen-year-old Doris Friedman marries Rob in 1941 and...

World War II, Berlin. Freyja Bremer, a patriotic museum assistant, marries Kaspar Voigt, an ambitious SS scholar, to protect her father. As she strives to safeguard the priceless Priam's Treasure from air raids, Freyja falls in love with Darien Lessing, an archaeologist who exposes the moral decay beneath the regime's myths. Her awakening drives her into perilous resistance – aiding a Jewish doctor and his wife, Darien's sister – while uncovering Kaspar's role in the SS's darkest programs, which subvert history to justify invasion, abduction and murder.

Her mother was taken by the Nazis. Would she ever find her way home? Inspired by the true story of how Jewish people escaped fascist Germany, helped by two extraordinary sisters. 'I adored it. A truly heartrending, stirring, important novel, perfect for anyone who enjoys a cracking good tale'...