World War II

Woven through with Chinese folklore and a tantalizing mystery, this novel is a pause-resister of the highest order....

Two sisters. One must be brave. One should be afraid. Bravery, courage, fear, and love in a time of war....

It’s 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer’s block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - a total stranger living halfway across the Channel - she enters into a correspondence with him....

From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freedom and danger....

Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, given away....

Sometimes, the difficult thing is not to flee but to return. A love letter to Chile that soars from the Spanish Civil War to the rise and fall of Pinochet, and a stunning return to great storytelling heights....

Her beauty saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee....  

Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives, Edie begins to suspect that her mother’s emotional distance masks an old secret....

In the early morning hours of 6th November 1943, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler, receives the coded message he has been waiting for....

In 1942, Eva is forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children escaping to neutral Switzerland....

From the author of the number one best seller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical novel inspired by one family’s incredible story of daring, survival, and triumph....

Great British Sewing Bee meets World War Two in Jennifer Ryan's warm, charming and nostalgic novel The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle....

In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the world....

Peter and Paul, the two sons of German businessman Harald Winter, are bonded together by a childhood trauma....

The war is over; Hitler is dead - and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband, Gerhard, only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power.... 

1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event that tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past....

1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers....

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for 29 years after the end of World War II....

Hetty Heinrich is a young girl growing up under Nazi rule. With an SS Officer father, a brother in the Luftwaffe and a member of the BDM, Hetty is the epitome of a perfect German child. But Walter changes everything....

A young woman is caught up in a dangerous double life on behalf of her country during World War II in Danielle Steel's thrilling new novel....

Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only two survivors and one tiny child....

An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls....

London, 2017: When Aurelia Leclaire inherits an opulent Paris apartment, she is shocked to discover her grandmother’s hidden secrets - including a treasure trove of famous art and couture gowns....

The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction....

In the riveting new thriller in the Rook Files series, a new recruit to the most powerful supernatural intelligence agency on Earth is accused of going rogue and must go on the run to clear her name....

1942: With the war's outcome hanging in the balance, every sliver of intelligence can be critical. Though far from the battlefields, cities like Lisbon, Portugal's neutral capital, become lynchpins in a different kind of warfare, as President Roosevelt sends an unlikely new taskforce on a unique mission. They are librarians and microfilm specialists trained in espionage, working with a special branch of the Office of Strategic Services. 

As the weather turns bitterly cold in the dark days of November 1941, fewer pigeons are being conscripted for missions into occupied Europe and Olive fears her covert program may be dropped altogether. In fact, the new CO of the Baker Street intelligence operation at Brickendonbury Manor, Major Blighty, has expressed his doubts regarding her birds—not to mention Olive herself—and assigned her to a far more insignificant role: escort to a visiting officer of the Royal Navy Intelligence Special Branch.

Natan Borkowski has it all. In line to take over the successful family business, his future is set. Julia Horowitz lives in poverty. The daughter of a shoemaker, she dreams of a different life—a different world. Everything changes when Hitler’s armies invade Poland. Natan’s future is ripped away by the flick of a switch of a Luftwaffe pilot. When the smoke clears, Julia and her family find themselves locked within the walls of the newly-formed Jewish ghetto.

Em agosto de 1939, a jovem Grace Bennett abandona sua vida no interior da Inglaterra e chega a Londres com o sonho de esquecer seu passado conturbado e ter um novo começo. Só que o clima sombrio que encontra não tem nada do charme cosmopolita que tanto havia idealizado. Nos meses que se seguem, as forças de Hitler começam a varrer a Europa e o ataque alemão à cidade se torna cada vez mais iminente.

Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow with her mother and little sister, Jessie, isn't easy - not least because her mother spends most days in a drunken stupor. But life gets harder still when their mother dies suddenly, leaving Jessie and Elsie broken-hearted. The future looks bleak, until their mother's estranged family deigns to take them in. But their relief is short-lived as it becomes clear the Mearns family have taken in the orphan sisters only for appearances, treating them cruelly behind closed doors.

Francia, 1940. La vida en un pequeño pueblo del valle del Loira cambia drásticamente tras la ocupación alemana. Las hermanas Aubier se enfrentan a la guerra cada una a su manera, entre peligros, mentiras, pasiones prohibidas y secretos que han jurado no revelar a nadie. A medida que la contienda avanza, una decisión inimaginable las obligará a replantearse de qué lado están sus lealtades.

A bloodcurdling drama unravels in the shadow of Mengele's dark, twisted obsession. Ernst must face his nemesis as he battles to save Shoshana, Bluma, Perle, and ultimately, his heart. Marcel Petoit has weaponized Gisele's dark secrets. Will she escape his evil grip? Will Herschel and Naomi ever see their girls again?

Paris, 1942. As the Germans occupy the city she calls home, Adele Basset is determined to keep her pupils' spirits up. Their dance class offers a moment of solace in the dark days of occupation. But when the Germans demand the names of her Jewish students, Adele is spurred into action. She can't stand silent while they're taken from her. Hiding her Jewish pupils in the school attic, Adele puts her life on the line in search of an escape.

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.

Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces. Former spy Professor Tom Wilde is enjoying peacetime in Cambridge, settling back into teaching and family life. Until a call from senior MI5 boss Lord Templeman brings him out of retirement.  A nearby village has been locked down by the military, its residents blighted by a deadly illness. No one is allowed in or out. There are rumours the Nazi machine is still operational, with links to Unit 731, a notorious Japanese biological warfare research laboratory.

In der Gegenwart kommen die Verfolger Doktor Nathan Sanders immer dichter und werden gefährlicher. Zur gleichen Zeit droht in Berlin ein Haus einzustürzen. Die Vorkommnisse 1945 auf dem flüchtenden U-Boot spitzen sich zu. Die Lage der Mannschaft scheint aussichtslos. Ein geheimnisvolles Gerät taucht auf.

Segunda Guerra Mundial. Verano de 1943. Todos los países de Europa han ido cayendo bajo el dominio nazi. El viejo continente, reducido a escombros, se ha convertido en un animal herido que agoniza víctima de los bombardeos y el fuego de artillería.

Paris, 1921. Lorsque Valentine se marie avec l'héritier de la prestigieuse maison de fourreurs, la Maison Fontenoy, elle est loin de se douter de la vie qui l'attend. Malgré l’amour que lui porte son mari André et la naissance de ses deux enfants - Camille et Maxence -, Valentine s'enfonce dans un profond ennui et la frustration la gagne peu à peu. Lassée par ce quotidien et ce rôle d'épouse et de mère qui ne la comble pas, elle décide de partir pour assouvir ses aspirations.

Elise wächst in den 1930er Jahren in einem kleinen Dorf in der Normandie auf. Als sie William kennenlernt, einen Freund ihres Bruders, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf in den charmanten, gutaussehenden Amerikaner. Aber dann bricht der Krieg aus, und als William als Soldat nach Frankreich zurückkehrt, geschieht das Unfassbare, er kommt am Omaha Beach ums Leben. Hank, sein bester Freund, verspricht, sich um die junge Frau zu kümmern, und nimmt sie mit nach Amerika. Elise jedoch kann ihre große Liebe nicht vergessen.

Als sich Anne nach dem Tod ihrer Großmutter Charlotte dem Nachlass widmet, macht sie eine unerwartete Entdeckung. Charlotte befand sich in der Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs in der Nervenheilanstalt Schattwald und schrieb in ihren Tagebüchern ihre schrecklichen Erlebnisse nieder. Was das Leben ihrer Großmutter in der Vergangenheit für immer veränderte, hat schließlich auch Auswirkungen auf die Gegenwart und plötzlich ist Anne in großer Gefahr...