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1923. Entre los antiguos muros de color miel de la diminuta isla de Malta, gente extraña se desliza entre las sombras y cualquiera puede comprar un nuevo nombre. Rosalie Delacroix huye de París para trabajar como bailarina en los clubes bohemios de sus sinuosas calles.

Hanna Majewski y su hermana menor, Stefa, no pueden ser más diferentes: mientras que Hanna deja Polonia para vivir libre de las ataduras que su religión le impone, Stefa es una adolescente modelo, obediente y comprometida con las tradiciones judías. Sin embargo, ambas están seguras de que el...

Londres, 1940. Los pertinaces bombardeos han vuelto aún más plomizo el horizonte y han teñido de desesperanza los corazones de sus habitantes, pero Selina y Angelina han descubierto que el remedio para los malos augurios es una humeante taza de té. Juntas administran una acogedora cafetería...

"Aquella vida que traté de ocultar hoy resuena como un murmullo en mi interior". Un relato que combina un secreto oculto, un amor imposible y un periplo trágico entre guerras. En el Palamós (Girona) de 1995, Marina se reencuentra sesenta años después con un amor de adolescencia, Hans, un nazi que luchó en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una devastadora revelación pone a prueba el valor de los protagonistas en el momento más decisivo de sus vidas. Esta es una historia que desafía el poder de la memoria y la fuerza de los sentimientos.

Verano de 1940. Mientras el paso de las tropas alemanas retumba en las calles de París, Winston Churchill llama al pueblo británico a la resistencia: lucharán en las ciudades, en los campos, en las costas. Ante las dificultades para invadir Gran Bretaña, Hitler decide cerrar el Mediterráneo a los convoyes británicos. Con precisión germánica, el general Alfred Jodl empieza a trabajar en la llamada «Operación Félix», cuyo objetivo es apoderarse de Gibraltar. Sin embargo, un suceso inesperado interfiere en su trabajo, y requiere la intervención de la Gestapo.

La increíble historia real de Mala Zimetbaum, la única mujer que escapó de Auschwitz. Esta poderosa novela narra la inspiradora historia real de Mala Zimetbaum, cuyo heroísmo nunca será olvidado, y cuyo destino alteró el curso de la historia.

"Era come se mi avessero posto un grosso macigno sul petto, sopra il cuore e sapevo benissimo che l'unica gru in grado di sollevarlo si chiamava Tempo." Una storia vera, che comincia nella Polonia occupata dai Nazisti, narrata dalla protagonista e trascritta dall'autore, spesso tragica, ma sempre con un certo humour, in cui, senza alcun falso pudore, la protagonista, una bellissima ragazza ebrea, si racconta, fino a lasciare un enigma irrisolto su quello che accadde dopo l'ultimo capitolo dettato...

Hay numerosos libros sobre el Holocausto, pero ninguno como este. Se basa en una increíble historia real detrás de uno de sus símbolos más potentes: los números azules tatuados en los brazos de los prisioneros de los campos de concentración. Cuando a Lale Sokolov le fue encomendada la...

Berlin, 1936. The Landau family are at the heart of their community, running a music shop in Berlin and just trying to survive. But their lives are unravelling as Hitler's power increases and the treatment of Jewish families deteriorates. Eldest daughter, Rachel, fears for her sisters' future and will do anything she can to keep them safe. Will she find hope in the darkness? Paris, 1936. As whispers of war travel over from Europe, American debutante Kay escapes her mother's grasp and travels as a reluctant spy from Paris to Berlin.

Nacha is living a normal life in Old Town, Warsaw, when the Nazis invade Poland. After months of heavy shelling, her family believes things can't possibly get any worse. Then the city falls, and she and her family find themselves faced with a level of antisemitism they've never experienced before. They're locked into a ghetto, and she fears they'll never see freedom again. When the Nazis begin rounding up Jews, Janek, a Polish Catholic teenager, doesn’t let the warnings of executions for those caught helping Jewish people stop him.

On the eve of the return of the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong to China in 1997, young Ophelia asks her peculiar great-aunt Violet about the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II, the disappearance of her uncle Raymond, and whether her grandmother, Emily, was a murderer. Emily’s marriage—three times—to her father’s mortal enemy causes a stir among three very different Hong Kong Chinese families. But the bickering around the scandal of Emily’s marriage is violently disrupted by the Japanese Imperial Army’s invasion of Hong Kong on Christmas Day, 1941.

Tras una muerte inesperada, Luciana se ve obligada a cumplir con la última voluntad de su abuela: localizar a tres mujeres y devolverles objetos personales de gran valor sentimental; una alianza matrimonial, un relicario y un anillo de compromiso. Para lograrlo, deberá revolver un pasado que no es el suyo y, al hacerlo, moldeará su presente y transformará su futuro. Ayudada por el diario de su abuela y las pericias de un investigador local, Luciana descubrirá a las voluntarias: cuatro mujeres que se atrevieron a desafiar al destino.

Peggy Serrano couldn’t wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who left, changed so drastically by his experience as a medic in Europe that he can barely function. When he attempts the unthinkable, his parents check him into the VA hospital. Peggy determines to help the Barnetts unravel what might have happened to send their son over the edge. She starts by contacting Jimmy’s war buddies, trying to identify the mysterious woman in the photo they find in Jimmy’s belongings.

Sixteen-year-old Olive Alexander has lived on a ranch in the Jornada del Muerto region of southern New Mexico her entire life. But when World War II begins, the government seizes her family’s land for the construction of a new, top secret Army post. While her mother remains behind, Olive is forced to live in nearby Alamogordo with her grandmother and find a place in a new school. When Jo Hawthorne crosses her path, Olive sees a chance for friendship—until she learns that Jo’s father is the Army sergeant who now occupies her beloved ranch.

During the disastrous Allied retreat north following the fall of Warsaw, a small group of American infantry from the 10th Mountain Division are cut off from the rest of their company while fighting a desperate rear-guard action. Abandoned and surrounded by Russians, Lieutenant Simon McLane and a...

Alexsi Smirnoff, a Russian orphan, is trained as an agent by the Russian Secret Service and inserted into Nazi Germany, where he rises to a position in German intelligence services. As the war grinds on, trapped between two brutal dictatorships, Alexsi betrays both sides in a desperate ploy that succeeds...and fails. His false identities burned, his life at risk, Alexsi attempts to disappear in the hills—but is caught by the British. Sequel to A Single Spy, The Double Agent is a fast-paced, compelling novel of espionage set in the most momentous and dangerous of times.

As World War II rages in Europe and in the Pacific, the small town of Progress is doing its part for the soldiers in the field with a war bond drive at the annual county fair. Town gossip Ava Dempsey starts a rumor that Clark Gable will be among the participating stars. Instead of Gable, though, the headliner is Freddie Harrison, a B-movie star. When Freddie turns up dead in the dunk tank, Irene Ingram, editor-in-chief of The Progress Herald, starts chasing the real headline. As she draws on her reporter’s instincts to find the killer, nothing is what it seems in Progress.

Three Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, trauma, and identity, while raising the curtain on the unforgiving discipline of ballet. In post-WWII New York, John Curtin suffers lasting damage from having been forced to sing for the concentration camp kommandant who murdered his family. John trains to be a psychiatrist, struggling to wrest his life from his terror of music and his past.

London, 1941. The Blitz. When a Royal Navy memo arrives at head office, requesting female recruits to sign up as motorcycle dispatch riders, delivering highly classified orders across the country, three women jump at the chance to sign up for the most dangerous jobs in London.

In the tumultuous year before war breaks out, a plane crashes on a country lane, and four people are brought together in the aftermath. Miriam is recovering from another miscarriage and learns to fly as an escape from the disappointments in her life. Audrey is a middle-aged upper-class activist who has shunned her society, travels the UK lecturing on reproductive rights, and lives in a gypsy caravan—and whose daily ritual includes a swim in a nearby river. As Little as Nothing beautifully explores resilience, the strength of new bonds, and the ways we reinvent ourselves.