Showing titles in World War II & Holocaust

Deutschland Ende der 1940er Jahre: Der Krieg ist endlich vorbei - doch in dem kleinen Ort Unnenmoor haben die Menschen kaum in ihr Leben zurückgefunden, wie auch im Rest des Landes nicht. Wanderprediger verkünden den nahenden Weltuntergang und versprechen zugleich Heilung und Erlösung. Die elfjährige Betty Abels und ihre Mutter Edith kommen gerade so über die Runden. Als Betty eines Nachts verschwindet und ihr Freund Willi grün und blau geschlagen im Ort auftaucht, gibt es nur eine Erklärung: Da sind Hexen am Werk.

Bei Abrissarbeiten in einer stillgelegten Brauerei wird eine Leiche entdeckt. Sie zeigt kaum Spuren der Verwesung aufgrund der Konservierungsmittel in den Kühlanlagen. Und doch lag die Tote über 50 Jahre hermetisch abgeschlossen in ihrem kühlen Grab. Allerdings entpuppt sich die Tote als ein verkleideter Mann. Er wurde erschossen. Welche Geschichte verbirgt sich hinter diesem Mordfall und dem anscheinenden Täuschungsversuch aus längst vergangenen Kriegstagen? Die Spuren führen die ermittelnden Beamten auf die tragische Liebesgeschichte zweier junger Deutscher in den letzten Tagen des zweiten Weltkriegs.

Best known for her posthumously published novel Suite française, Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903. Her family fled the Russian Revolution for Paris, where she found fame as a novelist. But when the Nazis occupied France, she was arrested as a Jew and sent to Auschwitz, where she died aged just 39. This collection includes four of her best works, dramatised for radio with a full cast.

A compelling WW2 romance novel from an exciting new voice in historical fiction. When everything you hold dear is torn apart by war, can love put you back together again? It's 1943, and the Second World War is raging. Ruby Mottram works for her local newspaper, the Bartonford Herald, typing up...

Brought to you by Penguin. Imagine everything you thought you knew about human progress was wrong. What would you do? Mia is not sure what she is, but she isn't human. Smarter, stronger than her peers, all she knows are the rules: there can never be three for too long; always run, never fight...

In this historical fantasy, a new recruit to the most powerful supernatural intelligence agency on Earth is accused of going rogue—and must go on the run to clear her name.September, 1940. Three women of the Checquy, the secret organization tasked with protecting Britain from supernatural...

This heart-wrenching novel about family and war unearths generations of secrets and sacrifices—perfect for fans of The Paris Orphan and The Lost Girls of Paris. 2017, London: When Aurelia Leclaire inherits an opulent Paris apartment, she is shocked to discover her grandmother’s hidden...

The war is over; Hitler is dead - and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband, Gerhard, only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat and mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe....

Jack and Maggie Harris are adrift on ravaged streets during the London Blitz. Their home is gone. They have nowhere to go and nothing left to lose. With only the memories of their greatest loss - the death of their child during a Christmas years before - Jack and Maggie settle in a seemingly deserted mansion for the night.

Kate Atkinson’s dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula’s beloved younger...

In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal. Nearly 30 years later, Hugo's estranged daughter, Joanna, has returned home to the English countryside to arrange her father's funeral. Among his personal effects is an unopened letter addressed to Sofia. In it is a startling revelation.

For fans of best-selling WWII fiction comes a powerful novel from Lynn Austin about three women whose lives are instantly changed when the Nazis invade the neutral Netherlands, forcing each into a complicated dance of choice and consequence.  

Based on the harrowing life of Eleonore Hodys, The Mistress of Auschwitz follows the true story of a political prisoner detained in the notorious concentration camp. While experiencing all the horrors of the holocaust, Eleonore turns to friendship for survival. Through companionship with another female prisoner, Eleonore must decide if she has the courage to join the resistance movement which is planning the overthrow of their wicked oppressors.

يقدّم محمد عبد الحليم عبد الله في «الجنة العذراء» رواية اجتماعية تاريخية ترصد حياة المصريين بين الريف والقاهرة في زمن مضطرب تحكمه الفوارق الطبقية وضغط الفقر وسط...

Singapur, Anfang 1945: Das japanische Kriegsgefangenenlager Changi ist die Hölle auf Erden. Unter extremen Bedingungen – geplagt von Hunger, Tropenkrankheiten und der Willkür der Wachen – kämpfen tausende alliierte Soldaten ums bloße Überleben – und doch bestehen die alten Hierarchien und Rivalitäten fort. Nur dem »King«, einem amerikanischen Korporal, ist es gelungen, einen florierenden Schwarzhandel aufzubauen, womit er die hierarchische Ordnung auf den Kopf stellt und was ihn zum gefürchteten und meistgehassten Mittelpunkt des Lagers macht.

The brand new absolutely gripping and heartbreaking World War II historical novel from master storyteller Marius Gabriel. Tatra Mountains, Poland, 1942. Tamar Varga joins the Polish Resistance Movement to take whatever revenge she can against the Nazis - having watched in horror as her Roma...

En La última hermana María, una mujer de origen chileno sofisticada, alegre y superficial, asiste atónita a la ocupación alemana de París, que trunca para siempre su vida hasta entonces despreocupada e intranscendente. El azar la lleva a conocer la persecución a la que someten los nazis al...

Yorkshire, 1943. Lily Baines, a bright young debutante increasingly ground down by an endless war, has traded in her white gloves for a set of headphones. It’s her job to intercept enemy naval communications and send them to Bletchley Park for decryption. One night, she picks up a transmission that isn’t code at all—it’s a cry for help.

The 'Master of the wartime spy thriller' (FINANCIAL TIMES) returns with the gripping follow up to the bestselling A Prince and a Spy, as Tom Wilde is sent to Germany to investigate the truth behind Hitler's death . . . Germany, late summer 1945. The war is over but the country is in ruins...

Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Fuhrer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands.