Showing titles in World War I

Manchester, 1920. As a mannequin in an exclusive fashion salon, Kate Hunter lives for the moments she can step into a beautiful gown and leave her worries behind. But when Kate is cheated out of her home and then suffers a terrible accident, she suddenly loses everything: her job, her...

From Sunday Times bestseller Katherine Webb. A long-buried crime. A marriage built on lies. Could the truth be a second chance? England, 1902. More than a decade has passed since a wrongful accusation sent a young man to the gallows, an injustice that shattered the lives of those left...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize A Heather's Pick One of the Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2023 Named a Best Book of 2024 by Kirkus Reviews One of CBC's Best Books of 2024 A breathtaking and mysterious...

'I know,' he says, 'too much. You'll learn to be too much, too.' Then, gently, 'I think it might help.' When Julia flees her unhappy marriage for the handsome tailor Eve Perret, she expects her life from now on will be a challenge, not least because the year is 1911. They leave everything behind...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Paul Bäumer is nineteen when his schoolmaster talks his whole class into enlisting. Within weeks the boys learn what their teachers never told them: that a generation can be destroyed by the war even when it escapes the shells. At the front Paul and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Frederic Henry is an American serving as a lieutenant in the Italian ambulance corps, drinking his way through a war that has not yet touched him personally. Catherine Barkley is an English nurse at the hospital in Gorizia whose fiancé was blown to...

Deutschland 1945, der Krieg hat viele Träume zerstört. Auch die von drei Freundinnen in Tübingen: Helene will Ärztin werden, Charlotte hatte von einer Karriere als Schauspielerin geträumt, und Eleonore will einfach an der Seite eines geliebten Mannes ein gutes Leben führen. Als Charlotte merkt, dass sie von dem marokkanischen Besatzungssoldaten Amir schwanger ist, steht sie vor einer schwierigen Entscheidung. Ihre Freundin Eleonore hat dasselbe Problem. Der Roman erzählt kenntnisreich eine Geschichte von Aufbruch, Verleugnung und Enttäuschung. Aber auch von Hoffnung und Zuversicht.

Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis (1916) ha sido el primer best-seller de la historia y el libro más leído en los EE.UU. después de la Biblia, según The Illustrated London News. La novela cuenta la historia de dos familias provenientes de un tronco común, los Desnoyers y los Von Hartrott, que se enfrentan con el estallido de la contienda en Europa. En una metáfora del absurdo de la guerra, ambas familias terminan combatiendo en bandos opuestos en la Primera Guerra Mundial.

When George Hardy, surgeon and photographer, sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers: Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.

Été 1912. Dans un champ de blé, une charrette bascule, une femme meurt. Mais les larmes n'ont pas leur place dans ce monde paysan, où la vie tient au travail incessant des bras et des saisons : à dix-sept ans, Marie Guillou doit taire sa peine et assurer la suite de sa mère, apprendre à son tour le labeur des champs, conduire la demeure familiale. Au sein de ce modeste hameau où vit sa famille, les jeunes filles n'ont pas la possibilité de se plaindre, encore moins d'aimer ou de rêver.

'A superior historical thriller, which is both a murder mystery and espionage novel...for fans of Alan Furst and Philip Kerr.' - Thomas Waugh Manchester, 1919. To Detective Chief Inspector Frank Tinsley, it initially appears to be a straightforward crime. A drunkard has been stabbed to death and...

Inspired by true events, Christy Hall of Fame author Cathy Gohlke delivers a powerful new historical novel weaving together the discovery of insulin―a breakthrough that revolutionized modern medicine―and one woman’s brave fight to cling to her family and hope against unspeakable odds. New...

From the author of Teddy, a dazzling historical novel about an American librarian in 1920s Switzerland who must face the truth of decisions she made to survive during the First World War. In the wake of the Great War, American Helen Fox lives a solitary life in Switzerland as a librarian...

In a world full of darkness, can love prevail? An emotionally gripping and heartbreaking WWI novel. May, 1915. Nineteen-year-old Isle Marie Stahl experiences tragedy travelling on board the RMS Lusitania with her parents from New York to a new life in England, when the ship is sunk by a German...

Inspired by real events, a touching novel about a new class of courageous women who worked at London’s historic Kew Gardens during World War II. In the face of war, gardening is their duty…When Daisy Cooper’s new husband joins the RAF to fight the Battle of Britain, she’s terrified...

Novo romance do vencedor do prêmio Camões de 2013, A cegueira do rio nos leva ao norte de Moçambique nos dias que antecedem a guerra para contar uma história extraordinária de subversão do domínio colonial, em que a palavra escrita e a leitura são os únicos meios de fuga e salvação...

Na ziemi białskiej trwa rewolucyjna burza. Ścierają się poglądy i ludzie. Dochodzi do brutalnych aresztowań i carskich represji, w wyniku których Anastazja musi uciekać. Poznaje tam Eugenię, która odsłania przed nią rodzinne sekrety, i Ignacego, który ofiaruje jej ciepło i czułość. W drugim tomie dylogii „Burza na Podlasiu. Krzysztof" poznajemy dalsze losy Anastazji i Krzysztofa.

Bradford, 1916 With her husband on the Western Front, Hattie Braithwaite throws herself into work at the local mill. When Maggie Flemming, an avid football fan, joins the production line the pair soon bond over their shared love of the game, encouraging others to join them in a lunchtime...

A stunning adaptation of a First World War masterpiece showing man's inhumanity to man German playwright Karl Kraus's early twentieth-century satirical play about the First World War was originally 15 hours long, but his classic satire The Last Days of Mankind, has been deftly distilled into a...

An exquisite Arabian mare. A small boy leaving home in colonial North Africa. A young woman in France fighting to survive World War I. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Ride of Her Life braids a sweeping novel of love, war, empire, and the power of kindness in a world descending...