Historical War Saga

Ce roman relate l'histoire vraie de deux Allemandes exceptionnelles : Hanna Reitsch et Melitta von Stauffenberg. Atteintes du virus de l'Aviation depuis leur plus jeune âge, elles ont dû se battre avec leurs propres armes pour assouvir leur rêve dans un milieu aussi machiste qu'élitiste. Le début de la seconde guerre mondiale va les obliger à participer à l'effort national. Pour ces deux intrépides, ce sera la mise au point de bombardiers modernes et ultraperformants.

Blackpool, 1922. Martha and Trisha may have escaped poverty, but their fortunes have yet to turn. Happy on her wedding day, Trisha's new fairy-tale romance soon darkens as her husband, Walter, keeps her at arms length. Between his secrecy, and her mother-in-law's coldness, Trisha feels a stranger in her own home, and lonelier than ever. Meanwhile a spectre from Martha's past threatens the happiness she has found with Joshua and Bonnie. When she is called to help in her past love's hour of need, she must decide whether to risk exposing a secret that could cost her the trust of her daughter.

Den irländsk-amerikanske tjuvjägaren Flynn Patrick O'Flynns jakt på elfenben har fört honom till djungeln i Tyska Östafrika. Kring Rufijiflodens delta har han även stött på sin ärkefiende. Det tyska befälet Herman Fleischer gör sitt bästa för att komma åt honom, men än så länge har O'Flynn lyckats hålla sig undan. Hans tur kan dock vara på väg att vända. Inte långt efter att O'Flynn tagit sig an den unge Sebastian Oldsmith som lärling, börjar världen att förändras.

In a city scarred by war, can love and loyalty survive? In war-torn Poland, 1944, Julia searches for her missing father - a high-ranking officer - and risks everything to join the resistance in Warsaw. But her mission takes a terrifying turn when she's corralled into the ghetto by Nazis. Just when it seems she'll share her best friend's tragic fate, Nikolaj, her childhood sweetheart, resurfaces in a German uniform.

Emerging triumphant from the firing line of war is no easy feat... In war-torn Warsaw, Anna joins the Polish resistance, risking everything for freedom with memories of her fanatical Nazi husband fueling her determination. As she grows close to the resistance, a kind doctor named Mateusz ignites dreams of a different life. But her happiness is shattered when her husband resurfaces. Now, Anna must masquerade as his wife once more to gather vital information.

Mutig und unbeirrbar – eine Frau und ihr Lebenstraum. Am Bodensee, es ist 1913. Anna muss als älteste Tochter die Familie verlassen, da ist sie noch keine vierzehn. Doch sie ist zielstrebig und selbstbewusst genug, um ihr Schicksal in beide Hände zu nehmen. Und als sie August kennenlernt, der sich auf der Stelle in ihren Humor verliebt, scheint ihr Glück perfekt. Bald stürzen die beiden sich in ein großes Abenteuer und kaufen sich einen alten Gasthof am See: ein Abenteuer, von dem sie nicht ahnen, wie groß es werden wird. Denn die Familie wächst – und es kommen Inflation und Krieg.

Eliza Jones and her husband Bryn had a whirlwind romance and married shortly after meeting, but he was soon sent off to fight. In the midst of a Blitz attack on Liverpool, which leaves Eliza with amnesia, she gives birth to their baby son, Alfie. Still struggling with the aftermath of the birth, Eliza is distraught when Alfie is kidnapped from the nursery. As the search for Alfie progresses and the community bands together around Eliza, she is left with more questions than answers. Who would take her baby, and why? A

A Mother's Sorrow is a heart-rending family drama set around WW1 from bestselling author and Queen of the Saga, Margaret Dickinson. Three young women. Two families united. A bond that can’t be broken . . . Sheffield, 1892. Patrick Halliday rules his family with a rod of iron. He’s hard on...

When Stefan Jochum returns from England to Berlin in August 1945, it is to find a city counting the cost of the Second World War. The Hotel Quadriga is in ruins, his father is dead and his sister, Monika, is living in the Soviet-occupied zone. Determined to survive despite unconquerable odds, his mother Viktoria ekes out an existence from the cellar of the Cafe Jochum.

I foråret 1943 sidder den unge franske filosof Simone Weil på et kontor i London og arbejder på en rapport for De Gaulles franske eksilregering. Sammen med sine forældre er hun året forinden flygtet til New York på grund af nazisternes jødeforfølgelser, men der kunne hun umuligt blive. Hun er – mener hun selv – nødt til at tage del i al den lidelse som Anden Verdenskrig afstedkommer i Europa. Hun vil fysisk ind i kampen mod nazismen.

Les nazis viennent de franchir la forêt d'Ardenne et menacent d'envahir la France. À l'aube de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la jeune française Madeleine Toche se précipite au front et découvre son frère jumeau grièvement blessé lors d'une bataille. Alors qu'il meurt dans ses bras, elle retourne son corps auprès de leur famille, et essaye tant bien que mal de vivre sous l'occupation d'une Allemagne victorieuse. Mais Madeleine ne peut s'y résoudre : elle rejoint la Résistance et se dévoue à la cause ; jusqu'à ce qu'un officier nazi découvre ses intentions et abuse d'elle.

Den 14 juni 1941, Lettland. Gryningen färgar himlen röd och soldaternas taktfasta marscherande får marken att vibrera. I ett hallonsnår ligger Anna och hennes pappa gömda - de måste vara tysta så att ingen upptäcker dem. Sovjet har beordrat sina soldater att deportera tiotusentals balter till läger i öst och det är bara genom ren tur som Anna och hennes familj kommer undan.

Trieste, 1941. Giorgio e Mattia Gherdovich sono i figli di un importante esponente del Partito fascista. Partiti per Lubiana convinti di poter fare la differenza nella fondazione della nuova provincia da poco annessa, scoprono presto quanto la guerra può essere cruda e straziante sia con i vinti che con i vincitori. Così nel 1943, pochi giorni dopo l'armistizio dell'8 settembre, i due fratelli decidono di prendere due strade diverse.

Cleethorpes – 1940. As the new year dawns, the show at the Empire comes to an end and it’s time for the girls to move on. All the seaside girls have their own battles to fight. And while they figure things out it’s time for them to do their bit for the war and keep Britain smiling.

This is the story of a young Liverpool woman widowed in the Second World War before she can know the happiness of having a family. With the blessing of her mother, with whom she runs a B&B, she goes to Normandy to see where her husband was killed in the D-Day landings. Once she is there, she meets an impoverished French poultry farmer, now reduced to driving a beaten up (and still rare) taxi and looking after his old mother and dying brother. Will these two find happiness together?

Tiny aterrissa sobre a parte traseira do tanque—isso é suicídio—e esvazia a metralhadora dentro do veículo. Rápido, ele pula para o chão e joga uma granada de mão, com força, pela torreta aberta. O tanque pesado roda sem controle, esmaga alguns britânicos sob suas esteiras e bate na lateral da montanha, explodindo em um inferno de chamas. Os soldados alemães da divisão Panzer atacam com lança-chamas e granadas de fósforo. Não fazem prisioneiros, os sobreviventes são eliminados impiedosamente.

London, 1944. With bombs raining over London, keeping the Battersea Tavern open is no easy feat for owner Winnie Berry - but the community need the warmth and familiarity of the pub more than ever. After marriage, Maureen Fanning had moved out to Wandsworth with her bad-tempered husband Brancher. But when he loses both his job and their lodgings, the only people who will take them in are her kindly grandparents, Len and Renee. Getting a cleaning job at the Battersea Tavern is the least she can do to pay them back. It would all be fine...if it weren't for Brancher.

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland, newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When they arrive, they are shocked to find the place dilapidated and neglected and the taciturn and secretive Noah MacKay not at all happy to be meeting them. It quickly becomes apparent that MacKay was expecting men from the forestry commission to take charge, rather than four young women. Trixie, Jo, Hen and Vi decide he needs to be proven wrong - after all, don't they have stamina, skill and strength?

Die elsässische Winzertochter Colette ist mittlerweile im Frauen-Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück angekommen. Dort muss sie im Rüstungsbetrieb von Siemens & Halske schuften. Die Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen sind so schlecht, dass sie nicht zögert, als sich ihr ein vermeintlicher Ausweg aus dem Leid bietet: Sie nimmt das Angebot an, als Prostituierte in das Häftlings-Bordell im KZ Buchenwald zu gehen. Zusammen mit ihren Kameradinnen versucht sie dort, im »Dirnenblock« trotz aller Demütigungen, ihre Würde nicht zu verlieren und das Kriegsende zu erleben.

'A heart-warming and affecting tale' – Woman's Weekly Homecoming for the Chocolate Girls is the heartfelt and dramatic conclusion to this gritty family saga about love, war and chocolate. 1946: The war might be over, but for the Gilby family there are still battles to be fought at home...