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Peter Lamb and his men are halted in their retreat to England and forced to join British forces holding the pass at Thermopylae. But their tough experiences in France have not prepared The Jackals for the savage hand-to-hand fighting in the mountains. Lamb’s limited knowledge of command leaves him unsure about how to organise the New Zealand and Greek partisan soldiers who are added to his troop. When they land in Crete, Lamb becomes suspicious of some of the civilians who, on fleeing Greece, have taken cover with the Jackals.

The #1 Bestseller. Ben Hope lives on the edge. A former élite member of the SAS, Ben is tortured by a tragedy from his past and now devotes his life to finding kidnapped children. When Ben is recruited to locate an ancient manuscript which could save a dying child, he embarks on the deadliest quest of his life. The document is alleged to contain the formula for the elixir of life, discovered by the brilliant alchemist Fulcanelli decades before.

June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary mathematician, is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow, dispatched by a poisoned apple. Taking the case, Detective Constable Leonard Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident it's a suicide, he is nonetheless confounded by...

Only one man can foil a plot set to change the course of history.... Ex-SAS soldier Ben Hope is enjoying life at Le Val, the facility in Northern France where he trains others in the dangerous art of hostage rescue, until a chance incident forces him to take on the role of bodyguard to the Swiss billionaire Maximilian Steiner. The victim of a recent abduction attempt, Steiner believes that a neo-Nazi terror group are bent on seizing a prized document from his personal collection.

When nine-year-old Liesel arrives outside the boxlike house of her new foster parents at 33 Himmel Street, she refuses to get out of the car. Liesel has been separated from her parents, "Kommunists", forever, and at the burial of her little brother, she steals a gravedigger's instruction manual, which she can't read. It is the beginning of her illustrious career.

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if...

Kate Atkinson’s dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula’s beloved younger...

Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is...

September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War, but in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious...

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past.

In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess’s new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she’s trapped in a strange and loveless marriage with no way out.

En los años sombríos del nazismo, desaparecen de un rincón secreto de la prisión de Spandau unas valiosísimas monedas de oro. Casi cincuenta años después, caído el Muro de Berlín, dos personajes oscuros pero poderosos, con un pasado político turbio, contratan cada uno por su lado a dos "antiguos combatientes", Juan Belmonte -el que tiene nombre de torero- y Frank Galinsky. En "paro" laboral e ideológico, ambos deben partir en busca de un botín robado que nadie se atreve en realidad a reclamar oficialmente.

Atrincherados en la llamada muralla del Atlántico, las tropas nazis esperan la inminente invasión aliada. En Inglaterra se prepara la mayor armada que ha conocido el mundo, hombres y máquinas se reúnen en una cantidad nunca vista. En ese inicio del verano de 1944, un...

The banned books club was only the beginning; a place for the women of Prague to come together and share the tales the Germans wanted to silence. For bookshop owner, Jana, doing the right thing was never a question. So when opportunity comes to help the resistance, she offers herself – and her bookshop. Using her window displays as covert signals and hiding secret codes in book marks, she’ll do all in her power to help.

PIĘKNA OPOWIEŚĆ O ŻYCIU W CIENIU WOJNY, O ZNISZCZONYCH MARZENIACH I O MIŁOŚCI, KTÓRA ZWYCIĘŻA WSZYSTKO. W 1937 roku Iza i Janek zakochują się w sobie. Niestety niedługo potem wybucha wojna, która sprawia, że ich plany obracają się w gruzy. Janek angażuje się w walki powietrzne i traci kontakt z ukochaną. Tymczasem los nie oszczędza Izy. Kobieta wraz z małą córeczką zostaje zmuszona do podjęcia decyzji, która na zawsze zaważy na jej przyszłości. Próbuje przy tym żyć nadzieją, że gdy skończy się wojna, Janek wróci i uratuje ją z rąk oprawcy. Nie wie jednak, że stawką jest nie tylko ich miłość, ale i życie.

Jest rok 1941. Alicja Sambor – lekarka chirurg – ucieka wraz z córką z Warszawy, gdzie dzień wcześniej jej mąż został rozstrzelany przez Gestapo. W trakcie podróży kobiety są świadkami wypadku, w którym ranny zostaje niemiecki żołnierz. Alicja, kierując się poczuciem obowiązku, ratuje mu życie i tym samym nieodwracalnie krzyżuje swoje drogi z komendantem Franzem Hizelem. W konsekwencji staje się wrogiem okolicznych mieszkańców i ukrywających się w pobliskich lasach partyzantów. Jej jedynym sprzymierzeńcem zostanie polski porucznik o pseudonimie „Zając”.

Set in a luxurious grand hotel just outside Lisbon, at the height of the Second World War, Estoril is a delightful and poignant novel about exile, divided loyalties, fear and survival. The hotel's guests include spies, fallen kings, refugees from the Balkans, Nazis, American diplomats and stateless Jews. The Portuguese secret police broodingly observe the visitors, terrified that their country's neutrality will be compromised. The novel seamlessly fuses the stories of its invented characters with appearances by historical figures.

For 13-year-old Sarah Waldman, life in the small Polish town of Olkusz is idyllic, grounded in her loving, close-knit family and the traditions of their Jewish faith. But in 1939, as the Nazis come to power, a storm is gathering—a relentless, unforgiving storm that will sweep Sarah and her family into years of misery in the ghetto and concentration camps, tearing them apart. Will Sarah's strong will and determination be enough for her to survive when everything she loves is taken from her?

Londres, mai 1941. Pierre de Vomécourt, alias « Lucas », est l'un des premiers agents « action » du SOE parachutés sur le sol français sur ordre de Churchill. Avec René Piercy et sa femme Thérèse, ils vont créer à Lyon le noyau dur du SOE dans le Rhône. Sous le pseudonyme de Lucas, Pierre de Vomécourt est l'un des premiers Français parachutés. Il recrute René Piercy et Thérèse Leblond, un couple lyonnais décidé à tout risquer pour la liberté.

After running from her mother's seaside cottage ten years ago following a devastating loss, Sarah returns to the village of Dovecote to fulfil her father's dying wish. As she opens the gate of her childhood home, long-buried emotions rise to the surface. Having drifted from the close-knit community, she can't bear to face those she hurt when she left.