検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

In this exciting sequel to the award-winning "The Hunt for the Peggy C," Capt. Jake Rogers returns to the North Atlantic as commander of a U.S. Liberty ship with some of his crew from the sunken "Peggy C." But disaster strikes, and they end up shipwrecked in Ireland. There, Rogers learns from Dutch sailors that the Nazis have arrested the father of Miriam Maduro, the love of his life, and are about to deport him to a concentration camp. Rogers and crew sneak back into Holland aboard a gun-running ship from neutral Ireland and make contact with a resistance group to help them.

April 1945, Endkampf im 2. Weltkrieg: Erleben Sie einen packenden Roman über die Schlacht um Nürnberg aus der Sicht eines Unterscharführers der Waffen-SS KlappentextDie US-Streitkräfte rücken auf Nürnberg vor. Kampfkommandant Wolf kratzt die letzten verfügbaren Reserven zusammen, um die Verteidigung der Stadt zu organisieren.

"I'm waiting for my life to begin. Waiting for the train to come in," Ava Stilwell, a young woman eager for life, sings a popular song with the big band that reflects her heart. In the midst of a world at war, Ava finds love, a passion for her music, and new opportunities, but the war still looms over her, threatening to take it all away. It's 1943, and World War II has gripped the nation, including the Stilwell family in Jacksonville, Alabama. Rationing, bomb drills, patriotism, and a changing South barrage their way of life.

¿Dispuesto a unirte a la búsqueda de uno de los objetos más legendarios de la historia? Clarice ha decidido ayudar a John Campbell y a su amiga Sally...

Entdecken Sie jetzt den Auftakt zur nervenzerreißenden "Katja-Trilogie“ und lassen Sie sich diesen fesselnden, historischen Thriller auf keinen Fall entgehen! Klappentext:. Februar 1945: Ein überfüllter Transportzug mit ausgehungerten Kriegsgefangenen fährt in einen kleinen Bahnhof in der Nähe von Dresden ein. Darunter die gerade mal 13-jährige Katja, die wie die restlichen Gefangenen zum Schuften bis ans Ende ihrer hoffnungslosen Tage verurteilt worden ist. Dann aber kommt alles anders: Dem jungen Mädchen gelingt zusammen mit einigen Gefangenen die Flucht nach Dresden.

Entre amours perdues et secrets de famille, de la Seconde Guerre mondiale aux années 1990, Anne Jacobs nous entraîne dans sa nouvelle trilogie phénomène au cœur des tourmentes du XXe siècle, dans une nouvelle saga époustouflante digne de La Villa aux étoffes. Franziska von Dranitz ne peut le croire : elle est enfin de retour chez elle, au Manoir de Dranitz. Dans la tourmente de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle et sa mère ont été chassées du domaine familial situé à l'Est de l'Allemagne.

It is 1943 in occupied Belgium, where the clash between patriots of the Resistance and traitors collaborating with the Nazis set neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, and it was impossible to know who to trust. An American aviator shot down over Belgium is rescued by a young Belgian woman who is an operative of a clandestine escape organization. Their treacherous year-long journey is an odyssey of intrigue and deception, eventually uncovering a monstrous Nazi plot that could threaten civilization long after the end of the war.

The Marines called it Starvation Island. The Imperial Japanese Army called it the Island of Death. The battle for Guadalcanal, which began in August 1942 and took six months to complete, saw the 1st Marine Division effectively cut off and under constant siege with few supplies. Marked by hunger, disease, massed nighttime bayonet charges by the enemy, and constant shelling and bombing, the campaign proved a turning point in the war.

Isabelle Shelton has always found comfort in the predictable world of her mother’s dressmaking shop, Mrs. Shelton’s Fashions, while her sister Sylvia turned her back on the family years ago to marry a wealthy doctor whom Izzie detests. When their mother dies unexpectedly, the sisters are stunned to find they’ve jointly inherited the family business. Izzie is determined to buy Sylvia out, but when she’s conscripted into the WAAF, she’s forced to seek Sylvia’s help to keep the shop open.

Erleben Sie beinharte militärische Science-Fiction aus Deutschland! Tauchen Sie ein in eine packende Geschichte, die von einem alternativen Krieg erzählt. Autor Hermann Weinhauer, bekannt für seine nervenzerfetzenden Frontberichte, legt mit "Imperium Germanicum“ eine Alternativweltgeschichte der Extraklasse vor. Seine Serie vereint gekonnt die Genres Polit-Thriller und Kriegsroman, wenn Weinhauer die wohl spannendste aller Fragen beantwortet: Was wäre, wenn …?

Zwei Frauen, die das Schicksal zu Feindinnen bestimmt hat, kämpfen in den Wirren des Zweiten Weltkrieges Seite an Seite um ihre Kinder. Im kleinen Badeort ...

Freda knows the work she does on the home front is vital. Especially when bombs begin raining down on her beloved city of Bath and she and her friends find themselves feeling the effects of war like never before. Years of being told to be a ‘good girl’ by her mother, Freda has always done what’s been expected of her. But, even though she’s proud of her work nursing soldiers and victims of war, she can’t help but wonder if there’s more for her in life. And her secret desire to become a journalist feels increasingly like a calling she can’t resist.

Nach der Machtergreifung ist in Ginsterburg Alltag eingekehrt. Lothar träumt vom Fliegen. Seine Mutter Merle misstraut der neuen Ordnung, kann aber nur ohnmächtig zusehen, wie sein Traum ihren Sohn in die Arme der Hitlerjugend treibt. Manche Einwohner der kleinen Stadt leiden, andere profitieren – und die meisten versuchen, sich irgendwie zu arrangieren. Doch der Krieg, an fernen Fronten geschlagen, ist bald auch in Ginsterburg zu spüren, in den erschütterten Beziehungen und Seelen der Menschen.

Looking for a new start after her father’s death, Lara Hope arrives in Lisbon in search of a family she’s never met. As war storms across Europe, Lara finds solace and belonging in her landlady’s tranquil bookshop in one of the most beautiful corners of the city. But when she witnesses a customer secretly swapping a book, she realises the bookshop is not all it seems. Lara is plunged into a labyrinthine world of mystery and facades, encountering new friends, an unexpected romance, and even royalty…

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep, along with a note begging her to 'take care of little Rose'. Who is the mother? Victoria, Naomi and the Churchwood bookshop organising team set about trying to identify her, concerned for her welfare and hoping to give her a chance to reclaim her baby. As they piece together the heartbreaking story, all sorts of surprises emerge. But they can't keep the baby a secret for long: can they reunite the little family before the authorities take Rose away?

Annie Mayer arrives in France with dreams of becoming a ballerina. But when the war reaches Paris, she's forced to keep her Jewish heritage a secret. Then a fellow dancer offers her a lifeline: a ballroom partnership that gives her a new identity. Together, Annie and her partner captivate audiences across occupied Europe, using her newfound fame and alias to aid the Resistance.

After spending a blissful few weeks with her husband, Michael, in Bern, Switzerland, Monika is assigned to return to Berlin, the most dangerous city in the world. Her mission for the OSS is to meet and collect information from the asset she cultivated, a man with access to a treasure trove of confidential Nazi documents. Sarah volunteers to go with her, and despite Monika’s protests, the two cousins travel to the heart of the Reich together.

März 1945: Amerikanische Verbände haben Köln erreicht. Trotz der Durchhalteparolen aus Berlin ist der Widerstand gering, die Stadt wie ausgestorben. Kaum mehr 20.000 Menschen leben in den Trümmern. Doch die Amerikaner erobern nur einen Teil der zerstörten Metropole, denn der Rhein bildet wochenlang die Front. Unlängst wurde die Domstadt noch einmal schwer bombardiert. Ein abgeschossener Pilot stürzte dabei mit seinem Fallschirm mitten hinein ins Chaos – und wurde Opfer eines feigen Lynchmords.

In 1948, Louise Galle, a chemist and former Rosie-the-Riveter, is pursued by a wounded veteran who, with her deceased husband, was a prisoner in the Philippines during World War II. In New York City in 1964, Louise's daughter Charlotte falls for the butch next door and receives an undeniable call to make art. The Good War unfolds over the course of watershed summers in the lives of two very different women who share a desire to make it new even as they reckon with painful truths.

New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during WWII included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a kaiju? This collection takes real events from World War II and injects them with fantastical creatures that mirror the “unreality” of war itself. Each story—and two poems—feature mythical, mystical, and otherwise unexplainable beings that change the course of history.