Titoli in XX secolo

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.

Alex Ehren es poeta y maestro en el bloque número 31 de Auschwitz-Birkenau, el bloque de los niños. Pasó sus días intentando sobrevivir mientras de manera ilegal daba clases a los niños, tratando de blindarlos lo mejor que podía de la horrible realidad que se vivía en el campo. Pero intentar dar lecciones a los niños no fue la única actividad ilícita en la que Alex estuvo involucrado. Alex guardaba un diario.

Sicily, 1943. Three American women, all nurses in the Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron, are determined to do all they can for their country. Vita is fun-loving, Dot shy and sweet-natured, and Evelyn practical and determined, but for all their differences, a life of military service pulls the three together as firm friends. When they’re selected for a daring mission, the women are proud to play their part. But disaster strikes when their plane crash-lands behind enemy lines in occupied Albania. finally find their way home?

En 1944, alors que l'Europe est à feu et à sang, le médecin d'origine bordelaise Pierre Castel est chargé par les services secrets britanniques d'une mission cruciale auprès d'Hitler, à Berchtesgaden. Mais tout ne se passe pas comme prévu... et il retourne en Allemagne sous une fausse identité, en avril 1945. Il doit, dans le bunker du Führer, rejoindre un complice au moment où la ville est encerclée par l'Armée rouge.

De la fin tragique des tsars aux archives secrètes du Vatican, une intrigue au cœur de la guerre 1914-1918. En juin 1914, le lieutenant russe Dimitri Malkine est chargé de se rendre à Paris pour une mission diplomatique. La tsarine mère en profite pour lui demander secrètement de remettre à Londres un superbe bijou à sa sœur, la reine Alexandra.

“The hidden history of Bletchley Park has been waiting for a master storyteller like Kate Quinn to bring it to life. THE ROSE CODE effortlessly evokes the frantic, nervy, exuberant world of the Enigma codebreakers through the eyes of three extraordinary women who work in tireless secrecy to...

Corre el año 1943 y el ejército japonés, que controla la ciudad de Shanghai en su totalidad, establece el único gueto judío del mundo que no está en manos de los nazis. Leon y Norah Blumenthal, un matrimonio de judíos llegados a Shanghai en 1939, cuando la ciudad era puerto franco y aún conservaba intacta toda su fascinación, son recluidos en esta «área determinada para apátridas».

From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival. The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism. What war destroys, only love can heal...

Pubblicato nel 1917 questo romanzo ebbe un grande successo di critica e di pubblico, proprio perché ambientato nel Belgio invaso dalla Germania. Le atrocità della guerra di tutte le epoche, ben ricordate dal titolo, vengono qui viste e toccate dagli occhi e dalla pelle delle protagoniste.

When intelligence officer Kabir is sent to Rajgir to recover from a personal tragedy, he doesn’t expect to be thrust into a conspiracy that could rewrite the global power structure. A sniper’s bullet, a cryptic inscription, and a murdered archaeologist catapult him into a perilous chase across India’s ancient sites. Teaming up with fiery historian Reeya Ghosh, Kabir uncovers secrets buried for millennia: the legendary wootz steel and its lost connection to the clean and abundant thorium energy.

Thirteen-year-old Lisa has escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. She arrives in London unable to speak a word of English, her few belongings crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind. Lonely and homesick, Lisa is adopted by a childless couple. But when the Blitz blows her new home apart, she wakes up in hospital with no memory of who she is or where she came from. The authorities give her a new name and dispatch her to a children's home. With the war raging around her, what will become of Lisa now?

Nach der Hölle des Zweiten Weltkriegs will der engagierte junge Jurist Henry Mahler als Privatermittler für Gerechtigkeit sorgen. Dabei stößt er auf das Schicksal der jüdischen Familie Lassally: Eduard Lassally, das Oberhaupt der Hamburger Handelsdynastie, wurde in der Nazizeit eingeschüchtert und enteignet–und soll schließlich Selbstmord begangen haben. Sein Sohn Oswald glaubt diese Geschichte nicht. Gemeinsam suchen Henry und Oswald nach den Schuldigen, die die Lassallys ins Unglück stürzten. Und geraten damit in höchste Gefahr.

Resistance operative Charlotte Denneau has critical targeting information for the Allies, and the Gestapo knows it. On the run across occupied France, she must prioritize her mission over the lives of the agents and civilians she needs to aid her escape. Germans are taking down Resistance networks with disastrous results. Agents are being arrested, tortured, questioned, and turned. Charlotte communicates in coded radio calls to London, well aware the enemy is always listening. More than anything, she must find a flight out—before the Nazis drag her to an interrogation chamber.

Brothers James and Innes Lowrie return home to their wives and families after the war, Innes working for a shipbuilder and James returning to sea and the family's fishing business. Sister Bethany Pate and Innes have sons and heirs to go into the family business, but James does not. Innes takes in orphaned Etta Mulholland, adding to his already large family. In 1931, as the new generation take the helm and pursue various careers in Buckie’s fishing industry, some are content to take on the roles their parents have chosen for them, while others rail against these strictures.

Germany, 1945. In the waning days of World War II, the Nazis have been all but defeated. Uwe Fuchs, never a fighter, feels fortunate to have avoided the front lines as he cared for his widowed mother. But Uwe’s fortune changes when Hans Sauer, the village bully, recruits him to join a guerilla resistance unit preparing for the arrival of Allied soldiers. At first, Uwe is wary. The war is lost, and rumor has it that Hans is a deserter. But Hans entices him with talk of power, brutality, and their village’s ancestral lore: werewolves.

Las modistas de Auschwitz cuenta la historia de las veinticinco mujeres y adolescentes, la mayoría judías, que en medio del horror absoluto del campo de exterminio de Auschwitz-Birkenau fueron seleccionadas para confeccionar ropa a medida para las damas de la alta sociedad nazi. Sus habilidades se convirtieron en su única esperanza de salvarse de una muerte segura en las cámaras de gas.

1941 - Amid the bombs falling over London’s East End, the residents of West India Dock Road endure wartime with courage, defiance and a good dose of humour. From nights spent sheltering together in the Underground station to sharing gossip, pastimes and meals, they lean on each other as their world is turned upside down.

Una novela inolvidable que removerá tu corazón Madrid, principios del siglo XX. Paola es apenas una muchacha cuando, cansada de ser una carga para su familia, decide mudarse a la capital con una maleta repleta de sueños anhelando experimentar la vida lejos de su pequeño pueblo. Allí espera encontrar lujos, romance y sofisticación, pero pronto comprenderá que la realidad es mucho más cruda de lo que había imaginado.

Nuremberg, 1945 : un procès fait l'Histoire, eux la vivent. Un roman vrai, qui saisit les sursauts de l'Histoire en marche. Chacun connaît les images du procès de Nuremberg, où Göring et vingt autres nazis sont jugés à partir de novembre 1945. Mais que se passe-t-il hors de la salle d'audience ? Ils sont là : Joseph Kessel, Elsa Triolet, Martha Gellhorn ou encore John Dos Passos, venus assister à ces dix mois où doit oeuvrer la justice.