Showing results for "The Baby" in World War II & Holocaust

Londres 1942 : profitant du couvre-feu, un tueur hante les rues de la ville. En quelques jours, il assassine et mutile quatre femmes. Son modus operandi interpelle Scotland Yard et la presse, qui le surnomme aussitôt le Blackout Ripper. Les messages qu'il laisse sur les scènes de crime, conçus comme des indices codés, imposent bientôt aux enquêteurs une piste inquiétante : le criminel semble s'inspirer des leçons du mage noir Aleister Crowley et de son manuscrit démoniaque, "Le Livre de la Loi".

July 1941. As the war grinds on, Lady Joanna Harcourt knows that her time at Goodwill House is drawing to close. A new chapter awaits, one that she never expected to happen to her – she is going to be a wife and mother again! Excited with their new arrival and with her beloved Flying Officer John Sergeant back in her life, Joanna hopes that even though war clouds gather, love will prevail, and the future will look brighter than ever for the Harcourt family. John has just one last mission to complete, before they can be together.

The war has had a devastating effect on the Sweet family, with young Charlie Sweet, lost at sea, presumed dead and bombs falling on nearby Bristol. Still there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon in the form of Mary Sweet’s upcoming wedding to her Canadian beau. But even that has failed to rouse their father from his grief. But in London a baby has been found in a bombed out house, sheltered in the arms of his dead mother. A child to make life worth living again...

Uplifting and heartwarming: drama, courage and romance at Marlow’s department store this Christmas For Lily Collins and her fellow shop girls at Marlow’s Department store, another Christmas with ration books, shortages of goods and staff – not to mention a store coping with war damage –...