World War Ii Mystery Thriller

England, 1952. Lawyer Toby Whitby’s poor eyesight stole his chance to serve his country. When the lawyer’s boss is murdered, Toby inherits the case of a lifetime. But his opportunity to reunite an Earl’s daughter with her kidnapped child is anything but ordinary. After his search for the child reaches America, the people connected with the case start turning up dead. As the body count rises, Toby realizes there’s far more to his client’s story than she’s willing to share. Can Toby reunite a family, or will his pursuit of the truth get him killed?

Setembro, 1939. Poucos dias após o Reino Unido declarar guerra à Alemanha, um enorme hidroavião está prestes a partir da costa sul da Inglaterra. A aeronave mais luxuosa do mundo tem como destino Nova York, no que deve ser o último voo civil a sair da Europa antes do conflito. A bordo dela encontram-se tanto a nata da sociedade quanto a escória da humanidade. Confinados por trinta horas em meio a todo o conforto, eles veem a travessia do Atlântico se tornar uma viagem de crescente angústia, com perigos inesperados que os conduzem a uma tempestade de violência.

The last summer before the end of World War II, Walter Proska is posted to a small unit tasked with ensuring the safety of a railway line deep in the forest on the border with Ukraine and Belarus. In this swampy region, a handful of men - stunned by the heat, attacked by mosquitoes, and abandoned by their own troops in the face of the Resistance - must also submit to the increasingly absurd and inhuman orders of their superior.

In the dying days of World War II, Adolf Hitler ordered the creation of U-boat 420, a super-submarine and its elite crew, to be placed in hyper-sleep and buried near their U-boat bunkers in Norway. His plan: The resurfacing of the submarine in the future and reignite a new wave of terror, potentially establishing a Fourth Reich.

Abril de 1915. La Primera Guerra Mundial sigue su implacable marcha. Entre las tropas británicas enviadas al frente, se hallan los hermanos Reavley. Joseph, el mayot de los tres, ejerce de capellán en las trincheras, mientras que Judith es conductora y traductora del general que está al mando del ejército británico.

Carcassonne, 1942. Terwijl talloze Franse soldaten aan het front hun leven geven om de Duitsers het hoofd te bieden, besluit de dappere jonge Sandrine haar eigen strijd te voeren. Onder de codenaam Citadel brengt ze een groep vrouwelijke verzetsstrijders bijeen. Samen met hen riskeert ze alles wat haar lief is om een einde te maken aan de angst die de Duitse bezetting met zich meebrengt. De vrouwen van de Citadel-verzetsgroep weten nog niet dat ze zich mengen in een strijd die veel ouder en duisterder is dan ze ooit hadden voorzien.

In 1938, as the Third Reich is just beginning its reign of terror, hundreds of Jewish orphans are hidden away in Austria, in the midst of their underground escape to Palestine. The only man who knows their location is killed, leaving the children with precious little time to survive. The dead man leaves a single set of instructions: Find US Department of War agent Neil Reuter - he will save the children.

November, 1938. It began in Vienna, after a night of fire and fear. Stella Bled Lawrence made a promise and she kept it. But the job isn't done. Abel Hershmann's cousins, unaware of the danger, are heading to Venice in search of him and the family secret he carried. Stella and her husband, Nicky, follow, intent on warning them. But things don't go to plan.

January 1944—a senior member of the French Resistance betrays his comrades to the Abwehr and Gestapo, but who? Within hours, the Germans arrest hundreds of suspected resistance fighters and incarcerate them in the infamous Amiens prison. When a Resistance spy inside the prison informs his leaders, Dominique Ponchardier and Boniface Monier, of German plans to conduct mass executions within weeks, they are helpless to respond. In a last-ditch effort to free their Résistants awaiting death or deportation to labor camps, they turn to the British for help.

1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk builds from the facts of Operation Paperclip, the US government’s secret recruitment of 1,600 top Nazi scientists, to pose a dark what-if scenario.

The island of Tarawa, a tiny spit of sand out in the middle of the Pacific, teemed with five hundred pillboxes filled with artillery pieces and highly motivated Japanese soldiers. Their commanding officer encouraged his troops, saying, “It would take one million men one hundred years” to conquer Tarawa. They were convinced that the Americans would be slaughtered before they ever got ashore.

A young Marine finds high adventure and higher peril in the jungles of Borneo during World War II. Sent to disrupt Japanese operations on the island, Lieutenant Rob Parker must contend with the hostility of the deep jungle while building an uneasy alliance with a band of vigilant natives. Together, Parker and his multinational platoon of soldiers, tribesmen, and mercenaries wage a guerrilla campaign against the occupying forces and ultimately, wrestle with the chaos and tragedy of war.

Einen Tag nach Pearl Harbor versammeln sich die schockierten Amerikaner vor ihren Radios und müssen mit anhören, wie Franklin D. Roosevelt den Kriegseintritt der USA erklärt. In Los Angeles plant unterdessen der deutsche Spion Martin Browning einen Anschlag auf den amerikanischen Präsidenten. Er will Roosevelt am Weihnachtsabend töten, wenn dieser vor dem Weißen Haus den Weihnachtsbaum erleuchtet. Wer wird ihn aufhalten?

Conrad de Lancey has seen enough of evil: the shadow of fear on the faces of innocents; the sudden lull before the slaughter begins. Franco's bloody insurrection taught this Englishman all about hell. Arriving in his mother's country, the now Nazi Germany, Conrad is sick at heart. Even Berlin—infamous haven of decadence—salutes fascism. Himmler's black-shirted troops rule the city, and every German arm bears a Swastika. But does every German heart belong to Hitler?

Global Hawk reconnaissance aircraft from the American Territory of Guam detect suspicious Chinese naval activity near an abandoned island airbase. Intercepted radio traffic suggests the Chinese are hunting for an Army Air Corps plane that disappeared in 1945. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations sends Agent Jack Quintana to find out why. Quintana teams up with tipsy British diplomat Thurgood Throckmorton (that’s “Sir Thurgood” to you rabble) on Guam’s seedy “Tumon Strip”.

Helen Fairfax is a ferry pilot and the mother of Peter, aged six. From Monday to Friday, she flies from factories to airfields, then returns to the family farmhouse where her parents look after the boy. She feels torn being away from her son so much, but after her husband died in the Battle of Britain she vowed to live up to his example of courage and strike back at the enemy. Now the Germans are about to launch the V-2 against London, and MI6 is desperate to get its hands on an undamaged prototype of the rocket to discover how it might be defeated.

1944. Paul Brandt, a soldier in the German army, returns wounded and ashamed from the bloody chaos of the Eastern Front to find his village changed and in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut—a luxurious retreat for officers recuperating from their injuries and for those who manage the nearby concentration camps of Auschwitz. The hut is run with the help of a small group of female prisoners from the camps who, against all odds, have survived the war so far. When, by chance, Brandt glimpses one of these prisoners, he realizes he must find a way to access the hut.

Berlino, dicembre 1939. Mentre la Germania entra in guerra, i nazisti stringono la loro morsa sulla popolazione. La paranoia nella capitale è intensificata da un rigido blackout che ogni notte, al tramonto del cupo sole invernale, fa sprofondare la città in un'oscurità opprimente. Quando una giovane donna viene trovata brutalmente assassinata, l'ispettore Horst Schenke riceve subito pressioni per risolvere il caso. Trattato con sospetto dai suoi stessi superiori per la mancata adesione al partito nazista, Schenke cammina su una lastra di ghiaccio molto sottile.

May 1940. With Nazi forces sweeping across France, invasion seems imminent. The English Channel has never felt so narrow. In rural Sussex, war veteran John Cook has been tasked with preparing the resistance effort, should the worst happen. But even as the foreign threat looms, it's rumours of a missing child that are troubling Cook. A 12-year-old girl was evacuated from London and never seen again, and she's just the tip of the iceberg - countless evacuees haven't made it to their host families. As Cook investigates, he uncovers a dark conspiracy that reaches to the highest ranks of society.

Ein mysteriöser Sonderbefehl der deutschen Heeresleitung schickt eine Gebirgsjägereinheit auf ein Himmelfahrtskommando. Die Soldaten Konrad Hartmann und Daniel Kemper werden nach Finnland abkommandiert. Dort beteiligen sie sich an der deutschen Großoffensive gegen die Sowjetunion. Rasch jedoch wird den beiden Freunden klar, dass ihr eigentlicher Auftrag ein ganz anderer ist. Ihre Eliteeinheit setzt sich ab, angeführt von SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Krieger und einer seltsamen Frau, die über noch seltsamere Fähigkeiten verfügt.