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Set in the height of the Second World War, The Cazalet Chronicles continues with the third in the series, Confusion, where chaos has become a way of life for the Cazalet family. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic) Includes a new introduction, written and...

Amsterdam, 1940: Schoolteacher Aletta knows the war will soon reach her and the Jewish children in her class. When her family hide an injured Allied airman in their home, they must decide: how much will they risk when resistance could prove deadly? Paris, 1940: Since her mother’s death, Chloe has dedicated herself to protecting her brothers. So when the SS accuses Claude of being in the Resistance, she sacrifices herself to save him.

A mysterious murder in present-day Milan intertwines with a cold case from the 1940s in this thrilling novel about film, freedom, censorship, and the persistent threat of fascism. An acclaimed director, Manlio Parrini, decides to return behind the camera. Having abandoned cinema at the height of...

The incredible true story of the French Resistance plot to destroy the Atlantic Wall in Normandy, dramatised in six parts for BBC Radio Adapted from Richard Collier’s 1958 novel Ten Thousand Eyes, this riveting vintage drama by Robert Barr tells the story of the heroes and heroines of the...

Brought to you by Penguin. A heartwarming new WWII saga of friendship, bravery and scandal that sees a young woman swap a Welsh mining town for Buckingham Palace As bombs rain down on London, the Palace gates open for a young royal maid . . . The year is 1944, and in South Wales...

Brought to you by Penguin. An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer ‘Which is the most seductive, truth or fiction?’ This is the story of Albert Speer: The protégé. The ‘good Nazi’. The star. The mythmaker. In 1969 Speer, Hitler’s favourite architect...

Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It’s said that the bride who wears a Roussel gown is guaranteed a lifetime of joy. But devastating losses during World War II leave Soline’s world and heart in ruins and her faith in love shaken. She boxes up her memories, stowing them away, along with her broken dreams, determined to forget.

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the sweeping Sunday Times bestselling and prize-winning novel, made into a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, and Rachel Weisz. After experiencing the horrors of The Western Front, Tom moves to Janus Island to work as a...

The unforgettable, heartbreaking love story from a New York Times bestselling author about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart—now an iconic motion picture starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War...

Quand une idylle met en péril la sécurité nationale... Maître du thriller historique, Robert Harris nous plonge au cœur de l'une des affaires les plus confidentielles de la Première Guerre mondiale, qui a bouleversé le cours de l'Histoire. Londres, été 1914. Venetia Stanley, jeune...

In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr...

Truth and justice have long memories, and Eugene Kennedy is about to uncover a truth possibly better left buried.The discovery of a hidden file in the attic of a former Nazi camp guard uncovers a chilling reference to an unsigned ‘Final Order’ and a command that could ignite the flames of a...

Första delen i feelgoodserien Livet runt Klocksjön! När andra världskriget pågick mobiliserades många unga kvinnor till Luftbevakningen. Deras uppdrag var att iaktta allt som skedde i Sveriges luftrum och rapportera varje avvikelse, dag som natt. En av dem var Vibeke Holm, som tjänstgjorde i trakten kring Klocksjön. Drygt åttio år senare söker hennes dotter Mary-Lou upp platsen där mamman varit krigsplacerad.

A generation fed to the machine.Thomas Elsdon trades the quiet predictability of a shipping clerk’s life for the chaos of the Western Front. But as the patriotic fervour of the wars beginning fades into the mud of the Salient, he realizes the war is not a crusade, but a vast, unfeeling factory...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. She built something that could not be stopped. They found a way to stop it. Hollywood, 1940. George Antheil is an avant-garde composer better known for scandal than success when he meets Hedy Lamarr at a dinner party — and discovers that the most...

France, August 1944. In this alternate history WW2 adventure, American and British forces struggle to trap and destroy the still-potent German armies defending Normandy. But the Allies face another formidable obstacle of their own making: a seething rivalry between generals leads to a high-level...

Un romanzo sui sentimenti taciuti che portiamo nel cuore, sulla bellezza capace di resistere allo scorrere del tempo, sulla possibilità di volare in alto anche quando tutti ci pensano condannati a rimanere a terra. Palermo, 1914. Nella cornice di una città piena di profumi, in cui il fervore del Liberty sta spazzando via la polvere del tempo e negli alberghi approdano viaggiatori da tutto il mondo, si incrociano le ambizioni di Giulio Jacona e Irene Scordato.

Kresy w przededniu i w czasie II wojny światowej. Joanna, młoda Ukrainka ucząca polskie, ukraińskie i żydowskie dzieci, ginie, lecz jej opowieść trwa dalej. Jako duch powraca do kluczowych momentów swego życia: rodzinnej wsi, niespełnionej miłości, pracy nauczycielki, wojennej przemocy, aranżowanego małżeństwa oraz narastającej nienawiści między sąsiadami – Polakami i Ukraińcami. Jej narracja łączy historię z poetycką wyobraźnią, a fantazja staje się formą obrony przed okrucieństwem świata i próbą ocalenia pamięci oraz dziecięcej niewinności.

With Special Guest Star ANJELICA HUSTON playing Thessaly Edwards. A socialite living in late-1930s New York City disappears without a trace in Unseasonably Cold, Amy Ephron’s elegant, melancholy noir of secrets, misapprehensions, and deceptions. Replete with beautifully observed period detail...

Nel 1942 a Lisbona, un rifugiato disperato ottiene due biglietti per l'America da uno sconosciuto, Josef Schwarz, in cambio di ascoltare la sua storia per un'intera notte. Attraverso i caffè e i bordelli, Schwarz racconta la sua drammatica fuga dalla Germania nazista e la ricerca disperata della moglie Helen. Il racconto rivela un'odissea di amore, persecuzione e morte, culminando all'alba con il passaggio dei documenti al protagonista.