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Eine Forscherin - und der Kampf um die Atombombe. Juni 1943: In der Hitze New Mexicos setzen Wissenschaftler wie Robert Oppenheimer alles daran, eine Atombombe zu entwickeln, um die Deutschen und Japaner zu besiegen. Margarete von Brühl, eine junge deutsche Forscherin, wird, ohne dass sie es durchschaut, in das Projekt in Los Alamos eingeschleust. Sie soll Informationen über den Bau der Bombe sammeln - und dann an die Nazis weitergeben. Als sie sich weigert, geraten sie und ihr Kind in größte Gefahr. Packend erzählt und auf wahren Begebenheiten beruhend.

Definito "la prima memoria scritta della shoah italiana", 16 ottobre 1943 è la testimonianza letteraria della retata nazista nel Ghetto di Roma. In poche ore di una mattina d'autunno, le SS agli ordini del maggiore Kappler rastrellarono oltre mille ebrei italiani per indirizzarli verso i campi di sterminio. Queste pagine, scritte a pochi mesi dai fatti, rappresentano una delle rare avventure narrative di Giacomo Debenedetti, critico prolifico, studioso di Proust e Joyce e del romanzo novecentesco, editore e Saggista.

Ein packender Erlebnisbericht über die harten Kämpfe an der Ostfront 1942/1943. Unteroffizier Paul Oberländer, Kampfpilot der Luftwaffe, gerät eines Abends im März 1942 in eine Kneipenschlägerei in Frankreich. Er wird verhaftet und degradiert. Fortan fristet er ein trostloses Dasein beim Bodenpersonal der Luftwaffe, wohl wissend, dass die Wehrmacht ihn nie wieder fliegen lassen wird. Oberländer will sich mit seiner Lage aber nicht abfinden. Um seine Soldatenehre zurückzuerlangen, meldet er sich daher freiwillig zur 8. Luftwaffen-Felddivision.

This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with a prematurely aged Chips descending into poor health but still socially active and able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and the good with whom he mingles.

En cet automne 1942, le domaine de Montillac a bien changé. La vie est dure. Le bonheur a fait place aux deuils, l'insouciance aux privations. Au plus noir de l'Occupation, Léa Delmas va découvrir la délation, la lâcheté, la collaboration. Ses proches vont subir les tortures, d'autres trahir. Elle va choisir farouchement le camp de la liberté : la Résistance. Au mépris de tout danger, dans le Paris des faux plaisir et des vraies horreurs, elle va s'opposer à l'occupant et tenter de sauver ceux qu'elle aime.

Author NCR Davis (For the Boys -- The War Story of a Combat Nurse in Patton's Third Army) reads letters and service diary entries from Lt. Mary E. Balster, a nurse who will eventually find herself caring for the wounded and dying just behind the front lines of Patton's Third Army.

First published in 1893, this novel came to question many subjects which were considered taboo. Through a few interconnected plots and sub plots, the story examines the role of women and the different opportunities women and men had. Through the twins of the title, a girl and a boy, and through two other ladies we discover the Victorian world in a different light. What does a woman have to do if, after marriage, she discovers very unsettling things about her husband's past? Yes, society expects her to stay with him and honor the marriage. But what if she is not willing? What are women expected...

This 1913 story is far more than a Christmas tale. It is a story about spiritual wisdom; the seeking of wisdom, the getting of wisdom, even when the seeking and the getting is obscure. Henry Collinton is an 81 year old, widowed, Episcopal Church bishop. The story opens on the morning of the Bishop’s last Christmas and ends with his death that night. We see him encounter four to him important people throughout the day, three friends and the Nazarene, the Christ, he has followed all his life. “Yet these things the Bishop did not know, for God was showing him more beautiful things, even as ...

Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Life of Oscar Wilde was the second of his four biographies of the Irish playwright and wit. - Summary by Rob Board

The Real Oscar Wilde is the third book about the Irish poet and playwright by his earliest and most prolific biographer. Since writing his earlier The Life of Oscar Wilde (1906), Sherard had read Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas's Oscar Wilde and Myself (1914) and the unexpurgated manuscript of Wilde's De Profundis. - Summary by Rob Marland

Forced into marriage to a man who is older and wealthier, young Theodora Fitzgerald contemplates her fate in love, until she meets and falls in love with another. - Summary by Amy Deuchler

What can we say about the delightful Beatrix Potter stories? Starting with the naughty Peter Rabbit and his misadventures, progressing through The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle whose funny name is just the start of the interesting things about her, then expounding on the Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, and many many more, these stories are all gems of the art of story telling. This is your chance to enjoy reading them aloud and recording them for children to enjoy listening to in the years and decades to come. Aren't you curious to learn more about the Fierce Bad Rabbit? Or the Tale of the Two Bad ...

Abbott and Costello talk about football, Uncle Mike and Aunt May, and Thanksgiving dinner. They say Thanksgiving day is almost over. Lou talks to Veola Vonn about dating and marriage. Lou writes a play for Thanksgiving, and they perform it.

Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Peter Rabbit and moving through the rest of these delightful tales, the Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter will warm the hearts both of those who remember her fondly from their childhoods and those who discover for the first time the magic of these timeless stories. (Summary by Chip)

Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Story of an Unhappy Friendship was the first of his four biographies of the Irish playwright and wit. - Summary by Rob Board

Beatrix Potter's delightful stories come to life in this LibriVox recording of some of her most famous tales. This collection is extra special because it was read by children for children. Come along as we experience the well-loved stories of Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, Tom Kitten, and many others! Summary by Adele de Pignerolles.The Tale of Peter RabbitNarrator: Adele de PignerollesMrs. Rabbit: RosalynnPeter Rabbit: Johnny Smith Mr. McGregor: Eddy ShermanThe Tale of Benjamin BunnyNarrator: Adele de PignerollesMrs. Rabbit: RosalynnBenjamin Bunny: Eddy ShermanPeter Rabbit: Johnny SmithThe...