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A skilled mechanic, Fliss Makepeace chafes under the suffocating expectations of her family and society. Ordered to abandon her beloved engines for a 'woman's job' and pressured into a brutal marriage with the menacing Jake, Fliss feels trapped. But as the drums of war beat louder, she vows to serve King and Country rather than surrender to a life of quiet torment. Joining the ATS offers Fliss not just a uniform, but freedom. Yet, a chance encounter with the formidable Major Stapleton propels her into an even deeper secret...

As World War II looms ahead, Velma and Jack Gooding's joy of welcoming a healthy son into the world is soon overshadowed when Jack falls gravely ill with Tubercular Pneumonia. To aid his recovery, the family moves to a small farm, where Jack slowly recovers and eventually takes on part-time work. The attack on Pearl Harbor, a turning point for all Americans, propels the Goodings to California. There Jack builds B-17s, while Velma manages their home life with now two young sons.

1944: Leo Stern arrives at the Nazi camp at Borek with his wife, Irena, and his two daughters. The Sterns are spared from the gas chamber when they witness a murder. But in a place that humanity has deserted, Leo is forced to make unimaginable choices to try to keep his family alive. 1961: For 17 years, Hanna has been unable to remember her identity and how she was separated from her family at the end of the war, until the discovery of a letter among her late uncle's possessions reveals her real name—Hanna Stern—and leads her to Berlin in search of her lost past.

1913.Captain Scott and his four companions reach the South Pole to find their Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen has won the race. Defeated, they set out on the 850-mile journey to their ship. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the explorer sent out to meet them at One Ton depot, peering South through thick spectacles, sees only an infinity of white, and turns back. A year later Scott's pitched tent is found, just ten miles from the depot, and the bodies within speak of hunger, the unbearable strain of hauling the sledge, and the brutal winter cold. They lie in a tomb of ice.

Questo romanzo scritto nel 1917, narra della crisi spirituale di un vescovo anglicano, proprio durante la guerra, in cui visioni soprannaturali, indotte casualmente da una droga somministratagli inconsapevolmente, lo portano a superare i particolarismi delle varie confessioni per arrivare ad una fede più pura. "E' più facile che un vescovo smetta di credere in Dio che smetta di credere alla Chiesa", dice l'autore.

After the horrors of World War One, disillusioned army chaplain John Elliot arrives at Hern Hall, an isolated estate in the mist-shrouded English countryside. The mystery of the estate's tragic past seems to linger in the shadows when John catches a glimpse of a drowned child's face beneath the dark waters of the lake.

Elizabeth has always suspected her mother harbours a secret from her time as a young woman in Nazi Germany. But her mother, suffering from dementia, is lost to her now. When Elizabeth stumbles across a Nazi certificate amongst her parent's paperwork, it forces her to question the very foundations of her 1950s childhood and her first love. . . Elizabeth's quest to find the truth leads her to Germany where she's met with a wall of silence.

Zahlreiche Deutsche Wissenschaftler werden von den Alliierten, überwiegend den Amerikanern, außer Landes geschafft. In der neuen Heimat können sie, teilweise völlig unabhängig von ihrer Verwicklung im Nazi-Regime, ungestört ihre Arbeit fortsetzen. 75 Jahre später, wird ein amerikanischer Neuro-Wissenschaftler - Dr. Nathan Sanders - mit Krankheitsbildern konfrontiert, die er bisher in seinem Leben noch nie gesehen hat und stellt Nachforschungen an. Dabei stellt er fest, dass die historischen Ereignisse, so wie sie bisher dargestellt wurden, nicht stimmen können.

In den ersten drei Teilen der Fliegergeschichten, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg spielen, wird uns das Kriegsjahr 1940 aus verschiedenen Perspektiven geschildert. Der deutsche Pilot Christoph Löhr traut der Ruhe vor dem Sturm nicht. John F. Fitzgerald ist ein junger amerikanischer Pilot und muss in der Luftschlacht um England mitkämpfen, während sich seine Freundin aus der Ferne um ihren Geliebten sorgt.

Als Harald Rüster in Pleskow den Bahnhof verlässt, wird er Augenzeuge, wie das SS-Sonderkommando Ahrends jüdische Frauen und Kinder zusammentreibt, wobei der Hauptsturmführer Ahrends mutwillig von der Pistole Gebrauch macht und eine Frau und ihr Kind niederschießt. Sein Glaube an die Lehren des NS-­Regimes gerät ins Wanken.