Showing results for "Flora" in 20th Century

As the fragile negotiations of the international Peace Conference get underway, typist Stella Rutherford throws herself into her work and the mixture of glamour and devastation the City of Light reveals. Anything to escape the grief coming in waves for her beloved brother Jack. Her sister Corran is about to put her academic career to use among the troops in France, a chance to see what the experience was like for countless men, including her fiancé Rob.

December 1941. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture - or worse. Desperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila.

D’après l’histoire vraie d’une femme incroyablement courageuse qui a sauvé la vie de centaines de mères et de leurs enfants pendant la Guerre civile espagnole et la Seconde guerre mondiale. La maternité d’Elna est un roman fascinant, basé sur ce qui s'est réellement produit en ces lieux. Depuis la naissance du premier bébé en 1939, une vingtaine d’accouchements étaient réalisés chaque mois par des infirmières volontaires dépêchées par l’école d’infirmières suisse.