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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.

In diesem erschütternden und unvergesslichen Roman über Familienbande, Mut und Überleben müssen zwei Schwestern unmögliche Hindernisse überwinden, um wieder vereint zu sein. Nachdem sie sich jahrelang vor den Nazis versteckt haben, werden Rachel Epstein und ihre kleine Schwester Mindel von der Gestapo gefangen genommen und in das Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen gebracht. Doch bei ihrer Ankunft werden sie getrennt. Rachel weiß, dass ihre Schwester ganz auf sich allein gestellt keine Überlebenschance haben wird – es sei denn, sie findet jemanden, der sich um sie kümmert.

Litany of Sorrows is a story of passion, betrayal, and the devastating cost of complicity. It begins when Karl von Richter, a handsome young German with a sinister future, is injured skiing in the Italian Alps. Nursed to health by a beautiful woman, Katrina Amorino, the two fall in love. Unaware that Germany is preparing for war, she naively leaves northern Italy and moves to his home in southern Germany. But days before she arrives, Karl is drafted into the Nazi SS officer training school, where he is radicalized.

Manchester, 1943. Kitty's new venture, hosting wedding receptions at Dunbar's Hotel, has got off to a flying start, and she's looking to the future. With the tide of the war turning and victory on the distant horizon, Kitty is keen to keep her independence once the men come home. Beatrice's work in welfare is hugely rewarding, and she loves the children's clubs she runs at Dunbar's. But when a spate of thefts breaks out locally, the police become involved. Former hotel maid Lily knows she still loves her estranged husband, Daniel.

An unforgettable, heart-wrenching story tying together past and present, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris Provence, 1940. Thrown out of occupied Paris by the Nazis, brave, beautiful Mathilde finds refuge with her cousin in Provence, where she’s soon drawn into the...

They whisper your fortunes, but what can they tell of their past? A fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust—and even more importantly, learn to trust herself—in the searing new gothic novel from the author of The Haunting of Moscow House...

Berlin, in den 1940er-Jahren: Martha E. ist fleißig und äußerst sparsam. Gute Eigenschaften für die Stelle als Hausbesorgerin, die sie im Schöneberger Mietshaus der Brüder Berkowitz innehat. Liane Berkowitz kommt aus gutem Hause, ein neugieriges und lebenslustiges Mädchen, das mitten im Krieg die Liebe kennenlernt – und den Widerstand gegen die Nationalsozialisten. Jahrzehnte später wandert Martha die Straßen Schönebergs entlang, zerlumpt und abgerissen. Jeder kennt sie, doch keiner weiß, wer sie wirklich ist: eine Millionärin und Zeugin von Lianes schicksalhaftem Leben.

'Miraculous, mischievous and quietly devastating' Rachel Joyce 'A tender, delicately devastating novel' Sarah Waters ' An engulfing, deeply humane novel about the triumphs and failures of human connection' Marina Kemp A journey. A reunion. A longing for a place called home... When veteran...

If he had died, I would know it in my heart. In 1939, Anton, a captain in the Polish army, says goodbye to his wife, Elisabeth. He is leaving to defend their homeland against the invasion by Nazi Germany and Russia. They make a vow that - whatever happens, however much time passes - they'll meet...

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.

Viktor Nekrassow kämpfte als Offizier auf sowjetischer Seite, er schildert die Schlacht um Stalingrad aus der Sicht des unmittelbar Beteiligten. Sein Roman, den er im Lazarett zu schreiben begann und der bereits 1946 erschien, gilt bis heute als einer der authentischsten zu diesem Thema. Die Schlacht um Stalingrad 1942/43 war eine der größten und entscheidendsten Schlachten des Zweiten Weltkriegs.

Malta, 1880. A quarantine island. A killer among them. When British civil servant Laurence Buchanan is found floating in Quarantine Harbor, Malta, it is first thought to be an accident. But new evidence quickly reveals a much darker story and Detective Inspector McQueen, an Edinburgh policeman...

As the Great War rolls on, Lessie Carswell's grocery shop is thriving, even while the community of Greenock experiences tragic losses. Lessie's son Ian reaches fighting age and is sent to Ypres. Her daughter Jess, headstrong and self-centred, goes to work for an upmarket dress shop and Lessie's nephew Peter is in prison due to his refusal to fight. Meanwhile Dorothea, the daughter of Lessie's late friend Anna, is working in a cotton mill, still unaware of the identity of her father.

Based on a true story The Nazi regime's bloody wake in Europe persists as they brutally send "undesirables" to their deaths in concentration camps. As a young Jew, Hannah leaves behind her mother and sister as she flees certain death, arriving in Le Chambon in search of refuge. Driven by their...

December 1941: As bombs fall on Pearl Harbor, singer Hattie James faces a personal nightmare when her sister Olivia vanishes. The kidnappers demand an impossible price—her father's classified list of undercover American and Nazi spies. Wartime paranoia and family loyalty take Hattie to Washington, D.C., with Maya and Commander Leo Bell to hunt an elusive, high-ranking mole in the War Department who is after those lists. Leo, a military intelligence officer with access to classified operations, becomes their crucial inside man, navigating the treacherous corridors of power.

Brought to you by Penguin. Frank and Chrissy meet a few days into ’70. Frank has been travelling around California for a while with friends, when someone tells him about a house in the desert two hours east of LA where the walls are steel and the glass shimmers. Frank tells himself: I have to...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE The intimate, sweeping tale of one Palestinian man’s restless search for home the world over, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope "Generations are...

The Royal Navy is larger than it has ever been—nearly eight hundred ships and one hundred and twenty thousand men—and it is too small for the tasks demanded of it if the war is to be won. British hardwood forests have been destroyed, with the exception of the untouchable New Forest. It is...

Baseado em fatos reais, A parteira de Auschwitz é um romance comovente e inspirador sobre coragem e amizade feminina durante o Holocausto. Em 1943, ao chegar a Auschwitz, Ana Kaminski se identifica como parteira e, com isso, salva a própria vida e a de sua amiga Ester Pasternak. Designadas para trabalhar no galpão que serve como maternidade, elas se deparam com a terrível realidade do campo de concentração, mas também com uma missão: proteger os recém-nascidos.

Lt. Delani has been there and back and private Fisher is young and green, but yet he is fearless in rattling Delani.