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The war stole Roza Meszaros’s dreams of becoming a ballerina and her aristocratic family’s fortune. But the penniless Hungarian countess’s fate takes a hopeful turn when she meets an American soldier named Joe, who promises to marry her and take her to the States. After two years of waiting to obtain the necessary money and paperwork to emigrate, Roza finally arrives in Minnesota—and discovers Joe has married someone else.

Graf Franz Xaver Borstin ist zu Zeiten der Donaumonarchie der unbestrittene, gütige Herrscher über den kleinen Ort in Galizien, in dem seine Untertanen, Bauern, Handwerker, Juden und Christen, im besten Einverständnis miteinander leben – gestützt von der Philanthropie Borstins, dessen Verehrung für den Kaiser Franz Joseph allseits bekannt ist. Als dieser in Borstins Haus während eines Militärmanövers übernachtet, ist der Graf selig. Doch eines Tages ist der erste Weltkrieg vorbei, das Kaiserreich Geschichte – und Polen eine Republik.

La vie d'une jeune fille italienne après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Graziella Ponti naît dans les années 1930 en Italie, au sein d'une famille aimante, dans un petit village de Lombardie, Pieve Santa Clara. Ses parents ne sont pas riches, mais la petite fille connaît une vie douce, jusqu'à ce qu'un accident de chantier rende son père invalide, et que la guerre frappe à la porte. Réformé, son père ne part pas au front, contrairement aux autres hommes du village, mais l'arrivée de soldats nazis entraîne les adultes à prendre en 1944 une décision difficile.

A story of tragedy and triumph, love and war. The long-awaited sequel to Light and Shadows, begins in 1922 during the Asia Minor Genocide, when Maria, a twelve-year-old Greek Orthodox girl, witnesses what she believes is the total massacre of her family in Smyrna. Although haunted by the death of her family, Maria grows up to be a spirited, independent-minded archeologist. In 1941, as Germany invades Greece, Maria falls in love with Rob, an English spy. She is recruited by British intelligence, and Maria and Rob become entangled in the dangerous world of espionage.

Lisbon, 1940. The plush carpet hides her quick steps as Sofia arrives at her suite. She finds the door ajar. Inside, the ornate wallpaper is torn, the mahogany furniture smashed to pieces and her beautiful dresses strewn across the marble floor. Whoever did this was clearly looking for something. Sofia prays they didn’t find it. But she is too late. The young girl she’d promised to protect is gone…

As World War II sweeps over Europe, nine-year-old Danielle Loesseps escapes from Latvia under the protection of the Dutch consul. Her Jewish mother, the consul's secretary, is tragically left behind at the end of a momentous year which sees a heroic scheme to save refugees from the Nazis, the blossoming of a secret love, and an unhappy woman's revenge.

Soline Roussel é bem experiente no ramo dos finais felizes. Por gerações, sua família manteve um requintado salão de noivas em Paris, onde a magia é feita com agulha e linha. Dizem que a noiva usa um vestido Roussel tem garantida uma vida de alegrias. Mas perdas arrasadoras durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial deixam o mundo e o coração de Soline em ruínas, e sua fé no amor, abalada. Ela encaixota as lembranças e as guarda, junto com os sonhos destruídos, determinada a esquecer.

In the dark days after Pearl Harbor, a small, untested arm of the United States Navy was all that stood between the shattered American fleet and the ascendent Japanese Empire. Far off in Western Australia, US submarine officer Benjamin Holt finds himself on the frontlines of World War II with nothing but a decades-old sub and a rusty crew. The green 25-year-old is ordered to stop Imperial Japan’s bloody expansion across the Pacific any way he can.

Der große Roman zum 80. Jahrestag der Nürnberger Prozesse. Asta arbeitet als Dolmetscherin im Kurhotel "Palace" in Mondorf-les-Bains, wo die US-Armee gefangengenommene Nazi-Größen interniert. Am 20. Mai 1945 reist ein neuer Gast an. Er bringt 16 Koffer, eine rote Hutschachtel und seinen Kammerdiener mit. Es ist Hermann Göring, Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe und Hitlers designierter Nachfolger.

Broken trust. Broken promises. Shame, confusion, and guilt. Unimaginable violence. Then the War came, and the cycle started anew. This is the story of Kurt, a Bavarian infantryman serving somewhere on the Western Front during the First World War. He is like many of his comrades and not a few of his enemies: he fights a war within a war, a singular combat against what he knows of love, hate, sex, addiction, and abuse. A combat against monsters both real and otherwise. Combat in the First World War was a dehumanizing experience. Gone was glory and individual heroics.

A haunted soldier. Missing men. Deadly secrets. 1919: The Great War may be over, but for Major Eric Grey, the battle is far from finished. Scarred in body and mind, he finds himself in a secluded convalescent home for soldiers with devastating facial injuries. Nightmares plague him, memories torment him, and the eerie hush of the estate offers little comfort. Men begin to vanish, their disappearances shrouded in silence. Determined to uncover the truth, Eric is thrust into a world of whispers, deception, and the hidden dangers of his own traumatized mind.

Una planta conectada con la psiquis humana se revela en distintos momentos cruciales de la humanidad: la colonización de América, el siglo XIX en Londres con Jack el Destripador, 1945 y la Segunda Guerra Mundial, con las bombas atómicas…Hay algo vivo e inclasificable que recorre el planeta Tierra desde su creación y parece capaz de sobrevivirlo. Se extiende bajo la superficie y emerge como una planta fantástica, en múltiples sentidos. De ella darán testimonio los distintos narradores de la novela.

Anna acaba de perder a una de las personas más importantes de su vida: su abuela Anita, su faro y su refugio, quien siempre la protegió y la amó incondicionalmente. Su ausencia le deja un profundo vacío, pero también un cometido que deberá asumir: desentrañar la historia oculta tras los silencios que se han apoderado de su familia a lo largo de varias generaciones.

La Toscana, 1943. Varada en una Italia devastada por la guerra, el sueño de Beatrice de pasar un año sabático en Italia dando clases de inglés se ha ido al traste. Por fortuna, le ofrecen refugio en la casa de Edoardo y Francesca, una preciosa villa con un jardín que guarda un laberinto en su interior. Sin embargo, ella no es la única que busca refugio en la villa, sino los propios hijos del matrimonio y otras personas. Y según la guerra se acerca… los residentes se verán obligados a ver y hacer lo impensable.

Asta arbeitet als Dolmetscherin im Kurhotel »Palace« in Mondorf-les-Bains, wo die US-Armee gefangengenommene Nazi-Größen interniert. Am 20. Mai 1945 reist ein neuer Gast an. Er bringt 16 Koffer, eine rote Hutschachtel und seinen Kammerdiener mit. Es ist Hermann Göring, Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe und Hitlers designierter Nachfolger.

Nino, giovane panettiere siciliano, viene catturato dopo l’8 settembre. Dell’armistizio non ha capito granché, credeva che i tedeschi lo rispedissero a casa dalla sua famiglia, nelle Madonie, invece quel treno lo ha portato in un campo di prigionia oltre le Alpi, a patire fame, freddo e paura. Nino è un IMI, un internato militare, senza nemmeno i diritti di un prigioniero. Qualche conforto gli viene dall’amicizia con Lorenzo, un giovane toscano spigliato, che con lui lavora nelle cucine governate dal Piemontese, un gigantesco macellaio.

Set against the backdrop of the Second World War, this is the heartbreaking story of a young girl in love, the secret she must never reveal and the family who betrayed her trust. It's 1942 and the world is at war. Yet the wealthy Belleville family appear untouched and secure in their grand Australian home Prior Park. That is until daughter Julia, on the cusp of womanhood, falls desperately in love with an American Army officer against her family's wishes. For Julia, it is life-changing.

Tuscany, 1943. Stranded in war-ravaged Italy, Beatrice’s dream of an escapist year teaching English is shattered. Granted shelter at the Villa delle Colombe, she seeks refuge in Francesca and Edoardo’s beautiful walled garden, hidden from the outside world, with an elaborate cypress maze at its heart. But Beatrice is not the only one seeking an escape here. Francesca has brought children to the safety of the house, as well as other adults, all of them seeking sanctuary on the estate with its mysterious maze.

Elsa Schiaparelli - die große Gegenspielerin Coco Chanels. Tief verletzt, weil ihr Mann sie mit Isadora Duncan betrogen hat, verlässt Elsa Schiaparelli New York. Nie wieder will sie von einem Mann abhängig sein. In Paris ob ihres Esprits und ihrer Kreativität gefeiert, gilt sie schon bald als originellste Couturière ihrer Zeit - und die Frau, die in der Mode bislang den Ton angegeben hat, wird zu ihrer größten Rivalin: Coco Chanel. Doch dann muss Elsa nicht nur um das Leben ihrer kleinen Tochter kämpfen, sie muss auch entscheiden, ob sie der Liebe noch eine Chance geben will.

Vienna, 1937. When beautiful American Kitty becomes engaged to Austrian diplomat Edgar, she finds herself thrown into a very different world in Europe, and soon longs for home. But when the woman designing her wedding dress, Judith, takes Kitty under her wing, she sees the city of Vienna in a new light–a city of culture and music that she can explore with her new friend.