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Twice torpedoed during the Battle of the Atlantic, LT. Tony Colombo USNR, a former merchant marine officer, is appointed to command a new Navy ship, PC-450. After a period of escorting convoys up and down the Atlantic coast, Tony finds himself escorting ships loaded with Marine Corps equipment to New Zealand and Australia. Once arrived, he is ordered to begin escorting convoys up and down the Australian coast. Some weeks later, Tony and PC-450 engage in battle with a Japanese submarine attempting to penetrate Brisbane Harbor.

Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. Now read by acclaimed narrator, Scott Brick. The doctors who worked in...

September 1940. As Nazi forces sweep across Europe, the wealth of nations vanishes into the desert. The gold reserves of France, Belgium, and Poland—a treasure so vast it could determine the outcome of World War II—have been hidden in the badlands of French West Africa.

The brand-new prequel to the Cornish Girls series from bestselling historical saga author and Romantic Saga of the year nominee Betty Walker Meet the Cornish Girls before the war! War looms on the horizon. Their lives are about to change forever… Dagenham, 1939. Sheila Hopkins has always put...

Pam Talbot dedicates her life to keeping those who live and work at Blackberry Farm fed, safe and sound as Artie holds the fort whilst brothers Tom and John are away on national service. Still reeling from the death of her beloved husband Arthur, Pam makes a rash decision in Arties’s favour which backfires causing him to neglect his duty on the Farm. Now Artie is struggling to run two farms and to add to his woes a new land girl sets her sights on him and won’t take no for an answer.

“‘But who are we, if we forget everything that came before?’ Roza wonders in The Jilted Countess. This moving story of one woman finding a new life and new love in the aftermath of WWII answers this question, in the process taking on themes of PTSD, communism, and the plight of being an...

W wyniku nieudanej akcji wymierzonej w niemieckich konspiratorów Teofil Kłosek, trzydziestotrzyletni weteran walk o powrót Górnego Śląska do Polski, trafia za kratki. Upokorzony, dręczony poczuciem winy i skazany na samotność przez najbliższych, z okruchów wspomnień odtwarza mozaikę dawnego życia. Tymczasem Niemcy stawiają jego żonę przed dramatycznym wyborem.

The liberation of occupied France is long overdue, but the operation requires the combined efforts of the resistance groups across Europe. Jeremy returns to France to prepare for the Allied invasion. An occupied country is a dangerous terrain to navigate, and as Jeremy works to set the plan in motion, even the smallest mistake can come at a fatal price. At Bletchley Park, Claire decodes a troubling message from German high command. Hitler is moving his secret weapons development resource from Norway to Bavaria.

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.

История не терпит сослагательного наклонения, но что было бы, если... Британия в 1940-м, после Дюнкерка, капитулировала перед гитлеровской Германией? К. Дж. Сэнсом отвечает на этот вопрос в своем захватывающем альтернативно-историческом эпике Доминион, не переосмысливая, а заново создавая прошлое. 1952 год. На востоке продолжается война между Германией и Россией, обескровливая мировую экономику. Принудительные наборы на работу вынуждают молодых людей во Франции, Италии и Испании в буквальном смысле прятаться по норам.

Der sechsjährige Gottfried verliert im Sommer 1932 seinen Vater durch eine Explosion im Eisenwerk. Gottfried, seine Mutter und die vier Geschwister kämpfen sich gemeinsam durch die schwere Zeit. Dann drängt sich der Nationalsozialismus immer mehr in den Alltag der Menschen... "Der Himmel und die Luft zum Atmen" erzählt die wahre Geschichte des Gottfried aus Maxhütte, der den Leser als Sohn, Hitlerjunge, Lehrbub, Soldat, Gefangener und Verliebter auf mitreißende und persönliche Art durch die Zeit unserer Großväter in Deutschland und der Oberpfalz führt.

Inmitten des schrecklichsten Krieges aller Zeiten erbringt ein deutscher Soldat das ultimative Opfer. Feldwebel Franz Mayer gehört zu den 200.000 deutschen Soldaten, die Ende 1942 in Stalingrad eingekesselt werden. Ihnen droht der Tod durch Verhungern, Erfrieren und sowjetische Kugeln. Franz Mayer aber will sich mit seinem Schicksal nicht abfinden – er will sich und seine Kameraden retten. Also trifft er eine folgenschwere Entscheidung.

Bristol 1938. A shadowy presence overshadows Coronation Close, watching and waiting. Jenny Crawford is the first to notice the stranger and wonders why his attention is fixed on Thelma Dawson’s house. When challenged he makes a hasty retreat. Meanwhile Thelma is having trouble with her precocious daughter Mary who is about to leave school and start work. Mary considers herself an adult but to Thelma she’s still a little girl; an attitude resented by her daughter.

London, 1936: At twenty-one, Kate Grifferty is a press photographer in a Fleet Street agency, an unusual job for a young woman. But Kate is both talented and daring, recklessly going wherever the story might be—including, one October day, to an anti-fascism protest in East London. There, she meets David Rabatkin, a brilliant Jewish medical student. While his idealistic brother is eager to go to Spain and join the fight for the Republic, David knows where his path lies: at home, fulfilling the expectations of his profession and his family.

Penny is hell-bent on revenge on the man who caused her to flee France as a fourteen-year-old with little more than the clothes on her back. She lost everything, her friends, her home and her family. Stifled by the restrictions of her father's family, she aches to contribute more to the war effort. A brush with death puts her face all over the newspapers and almost breaks her heart in the process. 

Cambridge, 1944. Bill Anderson is a restless young fighter pilot who finds himself grounded for a week. He can't wait to get back in the sky where he belongs. But fate has other plans. He strays into a stuffy college library and happens on Mary Rice, a spirited bluestocking who takes his breath away. Before long, the spark between them deepens into true love. But their time together can't last forever. All too soon, Bill is torn from Mary's side and sent back to the battlefield. Then the unthinkable happens.

21-year-old Alix is studying in Paris, far away from Sasha, her Serbian father and Leonora, her English mother, as World War Two breaks out. Finding hope even in troubled times, romance sparks with fellow student Raoul; but she soon learns young love can be tumultuous. So, when Steve, a handsome American pilot with Serbian ancestors, enters her life, she can't ignore her feelings toward him. And making a decision will be even harder as both men leave for war.

It’s 1936. The seaside-resort village of Split on the Adriatic coast bustles. The tourist spots are booming, passenger steamers dot the harbor, and Jewish émigrés have found tenuous refuge from persecution. But as war in Europe looms, Split is also a nest of spies, fascists, and smugglers—and now, a locale suspiciously scouted by a German Reich film crew. Then one summer morning it becomes the scene of a murder investigation when a corpse is found entangled in fishing nets in the port.

Tři roky a osm měsíců žije devítiletý Felix Salinger v odlehlém katolickém sirotčinci v horách, ačkoli není katolického vyznání. Jeho rodiče nejsou mrtví. Přivedli ho k matce Mince, představené jeptišek, aby se měl dobře. A určitě si pro něj brzy přijdou, jak Felix věří, jen co vyřeší potíže, které mají se svým knihkupectvím. Protože židovští knihkupci to mají v Polsku roku 1942 těžké. Jak moc těžké, to Felix pochopí, až když se v sirotčinci objeví muži s podivnými páskami na rukávech a začnou vyhazovat a pálit židovské knihy z místní knihovny.

June, 1943. In Lyon, the capital of the French resistance, a secret meeting is held under orders from General de Gaulle. The objective is to unite all resistance factions. The future of France is on the line. But when the meeting is raided by the Gestapo under Klaus Barbie, the 'Butcher of Lyon', the plan disintegrates and the leaders are captured. The movement has been betrayed. There is a traitor in Lyon.