World War Ii Romance

Frankreich 1940: Seit die Nazis an der Macht sind, ist Lisa im Widerstand. Als feindliche Ausländerin wird sie in Südfrankreich interniert. Um den vorrückenden Deutschen nicht in die Hände zu fallen, flieht sie in letzter Minute. In Marseille versucht Lisa mit ihrem Mann Hans verzweifelt, an Ausreise-Visa zu kommen. Dabei trifft sie den Amerikaner Louis. Sie verlieben sich Hals über Kopf. Louis steht für alles, wonach sie sich sehnt: Sicherheit, Verlässlichkeit, Zärtlichkeit.

"Danke." Er drückte ihre Hand. "Ich werde deine Hilfe nie vergessen." Er würde sie nie vergessen. Ukraine 1930: Fassungslos muss der elfjährige Noah zusehen, wie sein Vater als Volksverräter verleumdet und verurteilt wird. Die Familie verliert alles, was sie je besaß. Von nun an versucht Noah alles, um seine Mutter und seine Geschwister vor dem Verhungern zu bewahren. Als er auf einem seiner Streifzüge Jakobine kennenlernt, wird sie sein Lichtblick in der harten Zeit. Auch wenn die Not groß ist, gibt er nie auf.

Cornwall, England, 1941. Gazing at the coiled barbed wire and danger signs on this once-beautiful beach, Maddie suddenly hears a frightened little cry. Her heart pounding, she races down the dunes, but knows she will never reach the child in time. Maddie Brady is overwhelmed with relief to see a brave soul ahead of her rescue a little boy trapped among the landmines on the beach. But thanking the man, Maddie is shocked to hear a German accent. Why would an escaped German prisoner of war rescue an English boy?

Portofino, Italia, 1943. Elodie, una joven violonchelista, desembarca en una hermosa villa italiana tratando de pasar inadvertida para los oficiales nazis que custodian el lugar. Cuando su familia es asesinada por el régimen de Mussolini, se ve obligada a abandonar una prometedora carrera como concertista en Verona y llevar una vida en la clandestinidad tras conocer a Luca, el joven librero líder de la resistencia, que desaparece violentamente, víctima de los soldados del régimen.

1948: Clara lebt mit ihrer Schwiegermutter und ihrer Schwägerin im Hamburger Gängeviertel, das von Krieg und Armut geprägt ist. Obwohl ihr geliebter Mann Valentin seit Jahren als verschollen gilt, hat sie ihren Lebensmut nicht verloren. Unerschütterlich glaubt sie an seine Rückkehr und den Aufschwung des langsam erblühenden Hamburgs. Bei ihrer Arbeit als Straßenbahnschaffnerin trifft sie schließlich auf den jungen Gastarbeiter Matteo. Es dauert nicht lang und ihre Begegnungen häufen sich. Clara ist von seinem italienischen Charme und seiner fröhlichen Art verzaubert.

London, 1936: At twenty-one, Kate Grifferty is a press photographer in a Fleet Street agency, an unusual job for a young woman. But Kate is both talented and daring, recklessly going wherever the story might be—including, one October day, to an anti-fascism protest in East London. There, she meets David Rabatkin, a brilliant Jewish medical student. While his idealistic brother is eager to go to Spain and join the fight for the Republic, David knows where his path lies: at home, fulfilling the expectations of his profession and his family.

Growing up without the care of a loving family made Anna Golding fiercely independent. So when war breaks out, determined to do her duty, she joins the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Her fellow trainees are like the sisters she never had. However, as they all talk of fond memories of home, Anna's heart breaks. Her past is too painful to share. Then she meets her friend's brother, Royal Air Force navigator Jimmy Armstrong, whose gentle care makes her feel safe for the first time in her life. Anna and Jimmy must snatch moments together as their duties pull them to opposite ends of the country.

Berry Chambers and her co-workers have joined the Women's Timber Corps - known as the Lumberjills - to do their bit for Britain. On their first day felling trees, they rescue an RAF pilot and become entangled in the loveless marriage of her new landlords. Danger is never far away, be it an ill-timed axe swing or the occasional activity of the Luftwaffe overhead. Add a psychotic farm cat, a couple of young runaway evacuees, a spate of malicious packages, and the jealousy of the Land Girls next door, and life for Berry and her friends is never boring.

Carrie's life is turned upside down when the London Chest Hospital is bombed in the Blitz and it threatens to tear her from the slowly flowering love she has found in Michael's arms. After this horrific incident, her bravery is brought to the attention of the authorities. They contact her with a proposal, which drags her into the center of the conflict in Europe and out of the security of her home and family.

Thunder in the Sun is the fourth in the continuing Llewellyn family saga. Carrie, in her new role as district nurse, finds that she has far more to deal with than patients recovering from minor ailments. She takes charge of organizing a troop of evacuated children escaping the Blitz in London and finding them safe houses in which to stay. Some are lucky, but some are not, and Carrie’s life is flooded with incidents of cruelty, rape, and heart-wrenching drama.

Born to a French mother and an English father, Charlotte Bray has always felt like an outsider in her Cornish fishing village. She spends her days on her father's fishing boat, helping to feed a nation at war. But the war brings devastation, and her world is forever changed by tragedy. With nothing left to lose, she accepts a mysterious invitation to work for the War Office as a spy. She soon finds herself in Nazi-occupied Paris with a new identity. Charlotte begins working under the sombre but handsome Frenchman Pierre Lesieur. But do his allegiances lie elsewhere?

Als Jersey im Sommer 1940 von den Deutschen besetzt wird, hat der Krieg das Leben der Schwestern Robinson bereits eingeholt. Nachdem Jenny ihren Traum von einem Studium in Cambridge auf Eis legen muss, schließt sie sich mit ihrem Freund Pip dem Widerstand auf der Insel an. Und auch Alice begibt sich in große Gefahr, als sie den jungen deutschen Arzt Stefan kennenlernt und sich immer mehr zu ihm hingezogen fühlt. Als das Schicksal sie entzweit, müssen beide Schwestern ungeahnte Opfer bringen, um zu überleben.

1944 - When an air raid strikes the hospital she’s been working in, Carrie’s life irrevocably changes. But as a nurse in the middle of wartime, she has no time to grieve, as she has too many people relying on her. For resistance fighter Vito, nothing is more important than seeking vengeance for the atrocities his fellow comrades have suffered. But when he liberates a convent, finding a group of Jewish children in hiding, he suddenly has even more to fight for. Little Mimi is injured, scared and alone. Together Carrie and Vito vow to find her parents, a loving home.

After a failed honey-trap mission for British Intelligence leads to the breakdown of her marriage, French journalist Iris escapes to Dijon, seeking refuge in the cottage of her beloved aunt, Eva. But Eva is gone, the streets are full of distrust, and Iris is soon followed by the very last man she wants to see – the British civil servant and traitor she was tasked with catching, now keen to rekindle their affair. Eva’s home used to be a comforting place, where the locals sought out Eva’s homemade tinctures and cures and gifted jars of fresh honey from the garden. Now it is a place of danger.

Die junge Berlinerin Nelly verschlägt es in den Wirren des Zweiten Weltkriegs in einen holländischen Küstenort. Dort soll sie die Pflichten des alten Leuchtturmwärters übernehmen, der in einer stürmischen Nacht verschwand. Keine leichte Aufgabe für ein Großstadtkind wie Nelly, die keine Ahnung von den Gezeiten oder Schiffsverkehr hat. Von den Dorfbewohnern erfährt sie keine Unterstützung, diese begegnen der jungen Deutschen mit Feindseligkeit. Als Nelly einen abgestürzten britischen Piloten im Turm versteckt und sich in ihn verliebt, gerät sie zwischen die Fronten des Widerstands und einer brutalen Besatzungsmacht.

Auschwitz, January 1945. Forced on a terrifying death march from the notorious concentration camp, midwife and former secret agent Maggie must find the strength to protect the tiny baby girl her dying friend left in her care. Only weeks old, little Leah is in terrible danger—from the Nazis, from the freezing weather, from starvation. So when a company of soldiers led by brave Captain Jamie Maclean rescues the marching women, Maggie’s relief knows no bounds.

Anna Winter, a young woman unwittingly caught up inside a ring of sophisticated Nazi spies, chooses to flee Germany in 1933, taking her precious doll collection with her as she sets sail for Australia. Soon after her arrival she finds herself in a remote outback town, working as a nanny for the family of Tom O'Hara, owner of the Birdum Hotel. Doubling up as the local bartender and cook, Anna hides her past from the world, until a chance encounter with an eccentric stranger, Alter Mayseh, changes everything.

France, 1944: The clever and dashing Phineas Fulham is deeply involved in the resistance movement. Entrenched in the Black Market, he determines dealers and buyers sympathetic to working against the growing spread of Nazi hatred. While in Paris, fate reintroduces him to a beautiful opera singer from his past, Marlena Sartin. Their romance blossoms as the occupied city becomes more tightly held by the vise grip of Germany.

Medrivende episk fortælling om den godmodige Anne Kyllingstads kamp med kærligheden. Anne driver sammen med sin mor et lille pensionat i Narvik, da krigen bryder ud. Hun forelsker sig i den dansk-tyske soldat Christian, som gør hende gravid. Men de bliver adskilt mod krigens afslutning, da Christian havner i russisk krigsfangenskab. Fortvivlet over at have mistet sin udkårne, og i den tro, at Christian er død, rykker Anne teltpælene op og drager med sin lille søn til Danmark i håb om at starte på en frisk.

Polen, 1939. Allerede fra barnsben vidste Alina Dziak, at hun en dag ville gifte sig med sin bedste ven, Tomasz. Nu er de unge og forelskede, og trods rygter om nazister ved den polske grænse nærer Alina stadig håb om en lykkelig fremtid sammen. Men den nazistiske besættelse kaster skygger over hverdagen, og snart er landsbyen splittet af frygt og had. Og så en dag forsvinder Tomasz... Florida, 2019. Alices mormor ligger på sit dødsleje. Hun har mistet talens brug, men forsøger desperat at give familien en sidste besked. Hun ønsker, at Alice tager tilbage til Polen for at finde hendes morfar.