Showing results for "World War II" in Military

Lüneburg 1945: Die Hansestadt ist überfüllt mit Vertriebenen aus Ostpreußen, die Wohnungsnot und der Hunger machen den Menschen schwer zu schaffen. Auch die junge Netti hat auf der Flucht alles verloren. Immerhin ergattert sie für sich und ihre Familie ein ungeheiztes Zimmer auf einem Bauernhof, willkommen sind sie dort aber nicht.

1942. When Helda Dahlstrøm flees her abusive husband and Nazi-occupied Norway with her eight-year-old son she doesn't know if they'll make it out alive. In her desperate journey to safety she'll find safety on the rocky shores of the Shetland Islands, rescued by Canadian Flight Sergeant Bill Gauthier. As WWII's destruction rages at their doorsteps, can love find its way through the rubble?

1945 – krigen i Stillehavet er slut. Blandt de ruiner, den har efterladt sig, er en lille gruppe mænd på et militærhospital på en ø »et sted i Ostindien«. De er på en særlig afdeling. Afdeling X. Afdelingen for »trope-kuller«. Krigsneurose. Fem mand og en sygeplejerske, som de tilbeder, og som er klar til at slås for dem og deres ret til at blive betragtet som mennesker. En hårfin balance mellem vidt forskellige personligheder. Da brydes billedet.

Rachel, the mother of the aging professor Thomas Vanderlinden, shared her life with two men. Both went by the name of Rowland Vanderlinden. The first husband went abroad and never returned. The second, whom Rachel also unquestioningly accepted as her husband, was a mystery. In an attempt to understand his mother's adventurous decisions regarding love and marriage, Thomas sets out on a journey to the far reaches of the Pacific to find the first Rowland, and his real father. As the mystery of the two Rowlands unfolds throughout the novel, so too does a fascinating portrait.

As war tears her country apart, Franca Chessari’s sole focus is on supporting her family amid Nazi occupation. But when her parents, both high-ranking partisans, go missing, Franca is compelled to take action - even if it means crossing enemy lines to save those she loves. Peter Weimer is a German soldier forced into a war he abhors. When he can take no more of the Nazi atrocities he’s been forced to witness, he deserts the German army - a decision that brands him as an enemy. When their paths collide, they are swept into an epic journey of chilling danger....

Between 1941 and 1945, Wynne Brooks waited for her young soldier husband, Mickey, to return to her. In all the time he was away she wrote to him - first daily, then weekly, never knowing his whereabouts. In 1945, at the end of the war, her letters were returned, their messages of comfort and love unread, bearing the War Office stamp "No Trace".