検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦・ホロコースト

France, 1942 Once, Paulette Leblanc spent her days flirting, shopping and drawing elegant dresses in her sketch pad. Then German tanks rolled into France, and a reckless romance turned into deep betrayal. Blaming herself for her mother’s arrest by the Gestapo, Paulette is sent away to begin a new life in Paris, working as apprentice to fashion designer Sabine Ballard. But Maison de Ballard is no ordinary fashion house. While seamstresses create the perfect couture gowns, clandestine deals and secrets take place out of sight.

LONDON, 1944. In advance of Operation OVERLORD, the British Secret Service devises an audacious gambit: the false-flag recruitment of a German admiral who secretly is a communist. There isn’t much time. The admiral will be approachable only during the brief window when he travels to neutral Sweden at the head of a Nazi delegation. For the daring scheme to succeed, the British first must borrow from the Americans a brilliant young analyst, Linnea Thorsell.

In the summer of 1944 the work for the resistance movement takes all Helene's time and energy. There are indications that they have an informer in the group and Helene is under suspicion. At the same time, she is very much in love with a German soldier, but she is very afraid that he informed the authorities about a certain bomb attack. She decides to find the informer herself...

“La gente semplice non desidera fare cose straordinarie, ma lasciarsi cullare dai ritmi, dai profumi delle stagioni e vivere i propri sogni. Che cosa saremmo se non avessimo i nostri sogni? La vita si nutre di sogni!”. Ambientato negli anni Quaranta, il romanzo è una nenia di fiducia per chi, nonostante la guerra (e le tante guerre quotidiane), continua a fare progetti, attingendo a un serbatoio di energie che viene dal lavoro delle proprie mani, dalla creatività, dalla voglia di difendersi dalla crudeltà.

Nazi-occupied Prague, 1942: Amelia is hiding in her closet when flashlights blind her and she’s captured by the SS. Out on the cobblestone street, her heart shatters as her mother is shot before her eyes. She is shoved onto a freight train with hundreds of others—hours pass as they travel in darkness. Arriving in a concentration camp, Amelia fears for her life when she is led to a block by a soldier. He is her enemy, yet he secretly passes her a piece of bread; an act that saves her.

New York, 2006. Amy Sullivan’s life is a mess. Fired from her dream job at a prestigious newspaper, she gets a call from her 90-year-old grandmother in the South of France. Maureen Ritter flies to America, the land of her birth, ostensibly to visit her ailing sister, but soon she begins to share with Amy what she’s hidden for more than 60 years—the story of her war.

Shy Helene dreams of studying at university, finding love and getting married. A chance encounter leads her down a dangerous path with increasingly desperate choices to make in order to survive in this time of war and crisis.

Es la madrugada del 1 de septiembre de 1939 cuando el continente europeo despierta enmudecido por la marcha de miles de soldados alemanes hacia Polonia, a la que acabarán conquistando y anexionando con una guerra relámpago. Italia se mantiene al margen mientras que Reino Unido y Francia declaran inmediatamente la guerra a Hitler. Sin embargo, testigo de la rapidez del ejército nazi y cada día más presionado por los altos cargos fascistas, Mussolini se convence de que todo terminará pronto y en abril de 1940 decide también involucrarse en el conflicto.

WWII. The spring of 1944. War is hell, but Hitler's wolfpack of psychotic madmen are creating monsters. Searching for the invincible soldier, the Nazis are playing God with humanity. And hell, itself is about to crawl itself out of the bloody gates of perdition. Vampire soldiers, wolfmen commandos and the undead are walking through the dark and foreboding forests of Castle Ungeheuer. Death stalks the night searching for warm blood. Human blood.

لرواية التي حصل كاتبها على نوبل للآداب عام 2014. تضمّنت أربع حكايات متصلة، تناقش تلك الفترة العصيبة التي مرت بها فرنسا أثناء الاحتلال النازي. كيف عاش أبطال الرواية في هذه الظروف الصعبة؟كيف هربوا من اضطهاد النازيين؟

Sometimes, the deadliest enemy lies within. It is 1942, and war is raging in Europe. Monika Ritter is in New York with her husband, Michael. Haunted by memories of her childhood in Germany and her father’s death at the hands of the Nazis, she longs to do her bit against Hitler’s rampaging armies. When Michael joins the new Army Air Force as a bomber pilot, Monika takes advantage of an invitation she receives to join the OSS, a fledgling group of spies with the mission to turn the war by gathering the most vital asset of all—information.

Deckard O'Shea has come to terms with his family's birthright, even if it is one he would've never chosen. His world as he knows it is in shambles as King Arthur's true nemesis, Jakobus, has orchestrated mayhem and panic. Along with the newly formed Keepers Division of the military, Deckard dons the legendary sword Excalibur in a war torn England and struggles to survive against ruthless axis powers and special forces known as Harvesters led by the devil himself.

בירושלים של סוף שנות החמישים נחלץ מומיק בן התשע, בנם היחיד של זוג ניצולי שואה, לשחרר את הוריו מסיוטיהם. באומץ של מי שאין לו ברירה הוא נאבק לשחרר את ארץ שם מתוך שתיקותיהם, מרסיסי הזיכרונות שלהם, מסיפורי ילדים שהוא מכיר, ומן המיתוסים הישראליים של השנים ההן. הוא נלחם למען הוריו, ועיקר מאבקו הוא בחיה הנאצית, זו שטרפה את חייהם, זו שיכולה לצאת מכל חיה "אם רק יתנו לה את הטיפול המתאים ואת האוכל המתאים"

In the third chapter of the Fernsby's War Series, Ludsecke, listeners are catapulted into the darkening storm over Europe at the end of 1939, where the drum beats of World War II are getting louder. Amidst the chaos and destruction, we meet Michael Fernsby, a decorated British Army officer haunted by the scars of battle and personal loss. His latest mission takes him deep into Nazi Germany, where the echoes of his past shape his every move.

Weresnake Lash journeys to Europe on the eve of war, desperately searching for not only his nephew, but also his former lover Nancy. Leveraged into service to Germany by the malicious German werecougar Theodor von Kessel, Lash befriends fellow soldier and weresnake Dieter, even as he secures safety for Nancy. When Theodor divulges the German Final Solution and the part they are destined to play in it, Dieter and Nancy attempt escape to England while Lash orchestrates a distraction.

July 1943: Navy Captain Tony Romella is deployed to Sweden with several Morse and voice radio intercept operators. The mission is to collect signals from the Peenemunde Army Research Center on the northeast tip of Germany. There is a sharp focus on a version of Hitler's harrowing V1 vengeance weapon being developed and tested as an aircraft-launched anti-ship flying bomb. Hitler wants the V1 operational in time to thwart an Allied landing through a massive rocket bombing of ports in southeast England and London

À 85 ans, Clara s'éteint dans sa propriété provençale. Chef de clan et gardienne de la tribu Morvan-Meyer, elle a toujours surmonté les deuils, les mensonges, les trahisons ; elle a maintenu l'honneur et l'unité de la famille en dépit de tout. Elle a surtout fermé les yeux sur la tragédie qui déchira le destin de ses deux fils trente ans plus tôt. Pour elle, ses cinq petits-enfants ont respecté la loi du silence. Les voici désormais seuls, face à eux-mêmes et à leurs propres démons...

Berlin 1943. Nachdem es den vielen mutigen Frauen in der Rosenstraße gelungen ist, ihre jüdischen Verwandten, vor der Deportation in die Lager zu bewahren, trifft David eine mutige Entscheidung: Nach seiner Freilassung will er nicht länger tatenlos zusehen, wie die Nazis seine Freunde ermorden. An der Seite seiner Freundin Roxi, beschließt er, in den Widerstand zu gehen. Unter Lebensgefahr helfen sie anderen Verfolgten und schließen sich einem geheimen Untergrundnetzwerk an.

Heinrich Gerlachs großer Antikriegsroman: Direkt nach der Schlacht um Stalingrad im sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenenlager geschrieben, durch verschiedene Arbeitslager gerettet, aber letztendlich vom russischen Geheimdienst konfisziert - jetzt nach fast 70 Jahren erstmals im Original veröffentlicht. Dieses Buch ist ein Roman. Dennoch ist in diesem Buch nichts erfunden. Alles, was die Romanhandlung an Begebenheiten schildert, war irgendwann und irgendwo auf den Schneefeldern vor Stalingrad und in den Trümmern der Stadt einmal Wirklichkeit.

Spring 1939 - Dashing young William Burton and the beautiful Constance Han set sail from London on the same ocean liner to Hong Kong. Connie is intrigued by Will’s talent for writing poetry, and as romance blossoms she offers to give him Cantonese lessons to help him with his new job — a cadet in the colonial service. But once in Hong Kong, Connie is constrained by filial duty towards her Eurasian parents, and their wish for her to marry someone from her own background.