World War II

Korsu, jossa makoilee kaksikymmentä miestä lavereillaan, on oiva paikka alkaa tarinoimaan. Tarinat saattavat olla tosia tai sitten eivät...

Lina Manninen, kuuluisan natsipyöveli Reinhard Heydrichin leski, on päättänyt viimein oikaista miehestään kerrotut valheet antamalla valitsemalleen toimittajalle...

Lappi vuonna 1941. Saksalaiset joukot haluavat hyökätä kohti Neuvostoliittoa. Mukaan tarvitaan kuitenkin myös suomalaisia, joten vänrikki...

An extraordinary novel about one of history's most reviled figures, written as an action-packed historical biography....

Noah and Allie fell in love as teenagers, with the purest sort of love, only to be kept apart by Allie's mother. Their feelings survived in spite of everything....

Katya never wanted to look after Gretchen. Now she’s the young girl’s only hope of survival....

Born into privilege to one of the last Ottoman pashas, beautiful, spirited Selva is the brightest jewel in her father’s household - until she falls in love with Rafael Alfandari....

"Huomio! Tähdätkää! Tulta!" Laukausten ääni lyö piiskana takaisin kiviseinästä. Teloitettava lysähtää maahan. On vuosi 1944, ja...

Eletään jatkosodan aikoja vuonna 1942. Pakkasta on yli kolmekymmentä astetta, kun majuri haluaa lähettää sissijoukon Äänisen...

Führerin käsky on yksiselitteinen: valloittakaa Moskova! Suunnitelma olisi onnistuessaan Saksan sotilaallisen voiman voitonjuhla, mutta marssi...

Toinen maailmansota rangaistusjoukoissa. Korpraali Sven Hassel tuomitaan sotilaskarkuruudesta. Elämä rangaistuskeskitysleirillä on täynnä sadistista...

Out of the chaos and uncertainty of war, a shy young bookseller comes into her own in a short story of unexpected love, daring, and empowering courage by New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff.

Valte Ojala palkkaa talonsa rakennukselle kolme miestä, jotka yhdessä hänen kanssaan lähtivät kesällä 1941 Suur-Suomea luomaan...

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....

Neuvostoliiton joukot ovat hyökänneet saksalaiseen varuskuntaan itärintamalla ja teurastaneet erittelemättä kaikki varuskunnan sotilaat. Sven Hassel...

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....

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....  

December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever....

Between 1947 and 1957, Ealing Studios produced a series of immensely popular, darkly funny film comedies that made the West London borough famous throughout the world. Now four of these timeless films were recreated for BBC Radio 4, and are now collected together for the first time....

Proslulý román se odehrává ve vzdálené budoucnosti, ale jako temná předloha mu posloužilo nacistické Německo. Kallocain je droga pravdy, po jejímž...

История не терпит сослагательного наклонения, но что было бы, если... Британия в 1940-м, после Дюнкерка, капитулировала перед гитлеровской Германией? К. Дж...

22 июня 1941 года, когда радиоэфир взорвала весть о начале войны, Татьяна Метанова поступила скорее как легкомысленная француженка...

England, 1959: Laurel Nicolson is 16 years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm....

A two-part radio dramatisation of Vasily Grossman's dark, honest account of the Battle of Stalingrad; a prequel to Life and Fate - plus Stalingrad: Destiny of a Novel....

Anden verdenskrig raser. I "Det skal vi huske dem" følger vi to arbejderfamilier i henholdsvis Tyskland og Danmark, der på hver sin måde forsøger at...

È il 1931, Graziano Biagioni ha compiuto dieci anni, l’Italia è sempre più fascista e la squadra della Fiorentina, nata da poco, è appena approdata in serie A. Graziano vive a Brozzi, borgo alle porte di Firenze, e con gli amici Barnaba, Gigli e Montini condivide un’estrema passione per la maglia viola. “Viola! Viola! Duce! Duce!” è il loro motto. Nessuno dei quattro ha idea delle vicende che stanno per investirli. Ognuno, a suo modo, dovrà fare i conti con la crescita, le donne, la storia, le ragioni e le conseguenze della dittatura.

Der fulminante Abschluss der Bestseller-Trilogie endlich im Taschenbuch. Henny Unger feiert Geburtstag, siebzig Jahre ist sie geworden. So alt wie das Jahrhundert. Beim Gartenfest an ihrer Seite: die Freundinnen Käthe, Lina und Ida. Doch längst hat sich der Kreis der Gratulanten erweitert. Aus den vier Freundinnen sind Mütter und Großmütter geworden. Hennys Enkelin Katja träumt davon, als Fotoreporterin um die Welt zu reisen, Idas Tochter Florentine kehrt mit einer Überraschung nach Hamburg zurück. Und auch Ruth, die Adoptivtochter von Käthe, ist fester Teil des Freundschaftsbunds.

War strikes close to home for chief librarian Cordelia when her flat is bombed, and her beloved Robert is called up and sent abroad. Fortunately, her colleagues Mavis and Jane can help see her through hard times. The three friends find purpose in making the Silvertown library a friendly sanctuary for their deprived and devastated community. But sinister forces, from callous bureaucrats to crafty criminals, still lurk among the stacks.

1948: Die Frau im Bonner Johannes-Hospital weiß, dass sie nur noch wenige Tage zu leben hat. Auf dem Sterbebett ziehen Szenen ihres Lebens an ihr vorbei. Gussie ist 24, als sie den 19 Jahre älteren Witwer Konrad Adenauer heiratet. Aufgewachsen in einem liberalen und protestantischen rheinischen Elternhaus, wird sie die Ehefrau eines preußischen Katholiken und damit Stiefmutter seiner drei Kinder. Sie schenkt fünf Kindern das Leben.

Eros, passione, misteri e segreti di famiglia fiammeggiano nella personalità di Beatrice Tasca Filangeri di Cutò, principessa di Lampedusa, che nel maggio del 1943 attraversa una Palermo deserta, tra le rovine provocate dai bombardamenti alleati. Beatrice riprende possesso del palazzo di famiglia: tra soffitti sfondati e librerie crollate, si riaccende il ricordo dei giorni in cui la città era meta di viaggiatori stranieri, un passato di grazia e splendore, sogni, fantasie e amori forse ancora possibili.

When three little girls—Anna, Bernie, and Elica—make a pact to be blood sisters for life, they believe nothing can come between them. Anna is from an affluent Jewish family, while Bernie and Elica are from poor Austrian families who barely make ends meet. As they get older, their social differences become all too real. With infectious Jew-hate-laden rhetoric from Nazi Germany spreading into Austria, it is only a matter of time before their bond of friendship gets severely tested.

When World War II breaks out, Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the hope of providing a sense of escapism for travellers, troops and evacuees. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and armed with a colourful array of Penguin paperbacks, Carrie’s business soon booms. And when she gifts a book to a dashing officer, an act of kindness becomes the beginning of Carrie’s very own love story. But as war rages on, and Mike is posted abroad, Carrie’s world is turned upside-down.

As the Great War rages across Europe, twenty-one-year-old Ruby Archer decides to ‘do her bit’ at an East End munitions factory. The work is relentless and deafening, but the camaraderie of the other girls carries her through. As the threat of another Zeppelin attack grows by the day, Ruby cannot ignore the abandoned animals scavenging the local streets. She rescues a stray kitten, Tess, and takes in an injured terrier Mac, but when all the local cats mysteriously disappear, she knows she needs to do more, and with the help of her friends plans to open a weekly animal clinic.

Stefano e Nando, i due amici "immortali" di questo romanzo, vengono da lontano. Attraversano sessant'anni della nostra storia e come eroi omerici si muovono sotto le mura di Troia che sono di volta in volta la drammatica ritirata di Russia del 1943, le lotte operaie alla Fiat, la battaglia per un nuovo benessere, la rivolta delle generazioni più giovani. Stefano e Nando si battono, nel bene e nel male, per un'idea di mondo che cresce insieme a loro, ai loro amori, alle loro famiglie, e che non dimentica mai l'amicizia che li lega.

June 1941. Hitler's armies race toward vulnerable Leningrad. In a matter of weeks, the Nazis surround the city, cut off the food supply, and launch a vicious bombardment. Widowed violinist Sofya Karavayeva and her teenage granddaughter, Yelena, are cornered in the crumbling city.

March 1942: Adolf Hitler is dead at the hands of the Royal Air Force. A vengeful Luftwaffe has exacted the Third Reich’s revenge on Great Britain, and London lies in flames. With the Royal Family fleeing to Canada and Great Britain’s Pacific colonies being ceded to Imperial Japan, the United States faces a stark, dangerous future alone. With a broad cast of characters underpinned by historical research, Acts of War examines the terrifying “What if…” of a German victory in Europe followed by upheaval in the Court of St. James.

Iceland 1940. Britain invades Iceland. Lieutenant Tom Marks is a British officer tasked with defending Whale Fjord. He meets Kristín, a young widow from a nearby farm, who has a small son. Tom is smitten. Iceland 2023. Inspector Magnus Ragnarsson is called to the shores of Whale Fjord where the skeletons of a man and a woman have been discovered, both shot with British wartime bullets. Magnus uncovers a web of anger and revenge that stretches back 80 years and forward to a shocking murder in Reykjavík.

It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert’s birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war. Returning to London seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military Cross, and lost his best friend on the battlefields of Italy. The carefree youth that he and his friends were promised has been blown apart, just like the rest of the world – and Sidney, carrying a terrible, secret guilt, must decide what to do with the rest of his life.

Die Fortsetzung der bewegenden Reihe um drei starke Frauen, die Wirren der Nachkriegszeit und die Kraft der Liebe. "Was bringt einen jungen Deutschen dazu ins Feindesland zu reisen, zu einem Volk, das ihn hasst?" Ein kleines Dorf in Süddeutschland 1951. Der Krieg ist vorbei, aber in den Herzen der Menschen ist der Frieden noch lange nicht angekommen. Während eine Gruppe treuer Nazi-Anhänger nach wie vor an der alten Gesinnung festhält und im Hinterzimmer der Dorfkneipe Pläne schmiedet, wartet die schöne Helene auf die Kriegsheimkehr ihres Mannes.

Ein Café im Piemont. Ein großer Traum. Ein geniales Rezept. Alba im Piemont, 1946. Mit klopfendem Herzen erreicht die 16-jährige Francesca die Stadt. Die Winzertochter soll als Hausmädchen für die Familie Milani arbeiten, die dort das berühmte Café Alba betreibt. Schon bald fühlt Francesca sich magisch angezogen von der Backstube mit ihren süßen Wohlgerüchen. Ein unerwartetes Ereignis bringt sie Matteo näher, dem Sohn des Hauses. Als dieser ihr eines Tages anvertraut, dass das Café wegen enorm gestiegener Kosten für Kakao vor dem Ruin steht, erinnert Francesca sich an die Haselnusshaine in ihrer Heimat.