Literary Fiction War

Russia, 1945: For Petka, a rambunctious 12-year-old boy with dreams too big for his tiny village, the prospect of invasion is dangerously thrilling. He watches the Red Army troops march off to engage the enemy, and wages his own war - against boredom, bullies, and his lot in life as a bastard in a backwoods world. Secretly raising a wolf in his grandmother’s goat barn, happily raising hell with the local troops, stowing away in a shipment of bootleg booze destined for the combat zone, and defying death by the noose, Petka eagerly takes all he can from life.

À travers le destin de deux sœurs, Émélie et Muguette, de leurs maris, Joffre et Louis, et de leurs enfants, Jean, Lucie, Joseph et Marline, "Par amour" raconte le martyre de la ville du Havre depuis l'Exode et son occupation par les Allemands, à sa libération en 1944, sous le déluge des bombes alliées qui la détruiront presque entièrement. Donnant la parole à chacun des personnages, la singularité de ce roman est de livrer à l'auditeur ce que fut la traversée de cette guerre, jour après jour, pour les gens ordinaires.

L'ultimo dei Mohicani è un romanzo d'avventura scritto da James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) e pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1826. Fu il romanzo più letto al suo tempo ed è oggi considerato il suo romanzo migliore.La storia è ambientata nel 1757, nella “guerra dei sette anni” che vide i Francesi strumentalizzare, nella loro guerra contro gli Inglesi per il predominio in alcune colonie, alcune tribù dei nativi americani.

Zu Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges schickt der Orientkenner Freiherr Max von Oppenheim eine deutsch-türkische Geheimexpedition auf den Weg von Konstantinopel nach Afghanistan. Ihr Auftrag lautet, den Emir von Afghanistan und die Stämme der Paschtunen im Namen Allahs zum Angriff auf British-Indien zu bewegen. Über 60 Mann sollen mit der Bagdadbahn, zu Pferd und auf Kamelen durch Wüsten und Gebirge ziehen. Der junge Marinefunker Sebastian Stichnote verlässt sein Schiff und schließt sich ihnen an.

Pour devenir celui qu'il a toujours rêvé d'être et sortir de sa condition modeste, Paul Vertune est prêt à tout. Le jour où il rencontre un soldat nazi dans la clairière d'une forêt bretonne, sa vie bascule. Paul part à la découverte du vaste monde, réalisant ainsi son rêve d'enfant. Sans jamais se départir de sa joie de vivre et animé par une confiance infinie en l'Homme, Paul affronte les obstacles pour suivre son destin. Osera-t-il alors avouer ses sentiments à la belle Mathilde qu'il aime secrètement depuis toujours ? Respectera-t-il la promesse faite à cet officier allemand qui a changé sa vie ?

Im Mai 1940 rollen deutsche Panzer westwärts. Während in Paris die Angst um sich greift, bricht der legendäre Simplon Orient Express ein letztes Mal nach Istanbul auf. An Bord befinden sich Reisende, für die alles auf dem Spiel steht: Ein Balkanfürst will die Herrschaft über sein Land zurückerobern. Seine jüdische Geliebte fürchtet um ihre Liebe - und um ihr Leben. Ein deutscher Spion soll einen äußerst riskanten Auftrag ausführen. Was niemand von ihnen ahnt: Der Express birgt etwas, nach dem Hitler seine Truppen in ganz Europa suchen lässt.

1939. L'orage qui gronde au loin sonne la fin des années d'insouciance. À Toulouse comme ailleurs, les hommes qui refusent de voir grandir leurs enfants dans une Europe soumise aux nazis s'engagent et partent pour le front. Beaucoup n'en reviendront pas. D'autres, comme Étienne, prisonniers en terre ennemie se retrouvent ballotés de camps en camps, toujours plus rudes à chaque tentative d'évasion. Au pays, les femmes ne baissent pas les bras.

1948 kehrt der jüdische Richter Richard Kornitzer mit den besten Absichten in seine ehemalige Heimat Deutschland zurück - um zu überleben war der Jurist einst vor den Nazis nach Kuba geflohen. Kornitzer will beim Wiederaufbau des zerstörten Landes helfen. Voller Hoffnung und Tatendrang wagt er einen Neubeginn im Nachkriegsdeutschland... doch bald schon gerät er in Schwierigkeiten: Seine Wiedergutmachungsforderungen an den Staat werden ignoriert, anstelle von Verständnis für seine Situation erfährt er Misstrauen.

A World War II sailor works in a New York City brothel - for his country. After being arrested in a gay brothel in New York during a raid, Seaman Second Class Hank Fayette doesn't understand why his homosexual activities are grounds for imprisonment. The brothel is rumored to be a hangout for Nazi spies and the Navy forces Hank to go undercover as a prostitute. They hope to use clandestine sexuality to retrieve clandestine intelligence. However, after Hank becomes friendly with a black teenager named Juke, nothing seems to go as planned.

Operating Base Cornucopia: A 300-year-old fortress in the remote Iraqi desert where a few dozen soldiers wait for their next assignment - among them Private Toby Durrant, a self-described broke nobody. Then, a deadly ambush touches off events that put Durrant in the middle of a far-reaching conspiracy.

Que contient l'armoire allemande qui trône en bonne place au cœur de la demeure corrézienne des Delalande ? C'est la question qui hante Alexandrine depuis son enfance. Jusqu'à ce jour de l'été 1979 où elle hérite de la fameuse armoire et surtout des secrets qu'elle recèle. Les carnets d'Hélène, sa mère, projettent Alexandrine aux heures fiévreuses de la Libération, après que cette femme singulière, volage et insouciante, s'est trouvée emportée par une passion scandaleuse. La découverte de cette part d'ombre, soudain révélée, va à jamais bouleverser son existence.

The common wisdom is that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, was a failed actor and a madman. But the truth is that he was the matinee idol of his time, and the attack on Lincoln was not the act of a maniac, but part of a plan developed at the highest levels of the Confederacy. In Consider the Elephant, the story of John Wilkes Booth's life and death is told by his brother, Edwin Booth, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his age.

Ein Mann hat alles verloren: seine Freundin, seine Geliebte, seinen Beruf, seine Wohnung. Nun lebt er ganz allein auf einer Insel in der Elbmündung, versieht den Dienst als Vogelwart. Ein geradezu eremitisches Dasein, das durch einen Anruf durcheinandergewirbelt wird. Anna kündigt ihren Besuch an - eben jene Anna, die sechs Jahre zuvor sein Leben komplett aus den Angeln gehoben hatte.

In this evocative and thrilling epic novel, fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi, child of Japan’s New Empire, daughter of an ardent expansionist and a mother with a haunting past, is on her way home on a March night when American bombers shower her city with napalm - an attack that leaves one hundred thousand dead within hours and half the city in ashen ruins.

“The greatest writer to have appeared in Latin America since the so-called ‘boom’ . . . I’m tempted to call Bolaño the love child of David Lynch and Jorge Luis Borges—he’s that visceral and erudite—but this wouldn’t do justice to his ambition.” —John Powers, NPR’s Fresh...

Wingwalkers is one-part epic adventure, one-part love story, and, as is the signature for critically acclaimed author Taylor Brown, one large part American history. The novel braids the adventures of Della and Zeno Marigold, a vagabond couple that funds their journey to the West Coast in the middle of the Great Depression by performing death-defying aerial stunts from town to town, together with the life of the author (and thwarted fighter pilot) William Faulkner, whom the couple ultimately inspires during a dramatic air show—with unexpected consequences for all.

In a house on the east coast, Jane faces motherhood alone. With her husband away at war, there is no one to protect her from small town suspicions and she must learn to keep her secrets to herself. Three decades later her daughter Felicity leaves their life behind for Montreal, glad to flee the unknowns that have plagued her so far. But her personal battles are nothing compared to the unrest here, where a commune in rural Quebec and a child of her own might be her saviours.

Anna Hall was a beautiful and skilled Second World War air force operative, guiding RAF pilots during the Battle of Britain - before a bomb killed her sister and left her disfigured. In the aftermath, haunted by her failure to keep her sister safe, Anna retreats to a posting in the countryside - until a chance encounter spins her life in a new direction.

When her favourite beech tree is felled in a storm, Ann feels as if someone has died. But when long-hidden seed packets are found inside the trunk, Ann realizes there are more memories than her own lurking within the ancient tree. A century earlier, head gardener William Hatherwick and Hester Mordaunt, mistress of Beechgrave, share a love for the mighty estate - and an undeclared love for each other. But when war breaks out, William is sent to the battlefields of France, and as the conflict rages on, Hester grieves beneath the tree.

It's 1917 and America is on the brink of World War I. After Hensley Dench's father is forced to resign from the New York Times for his antiwar writings, she finds herself expelled from the life she loves and the future she thought she would have. Instead, Hensley is transplanted to New Mexico, where her father has taken a job overseeing a gold mine. Driven by loneliness, Hensley hijacks her father's correspondence with Charles Reid, a young American medic with whom her father plays chess via post.