World War Ii Romance

1953, South Carolina: On the night of her 13th birthday, the air as sticky as honey, Alice is woken up by the ear-splitting sound of sirens. The body of a teenage girl, Nancy, has been found in the lake. Suspicion falls on Jozef, a German refugee who now lives in the small town. When one of Alice’s friends breaks a window in his house, Alice is wracked with guilt. She writes a note apologizing - a note that changes everything. As Alice and Jozef form a friendship, Jozef opens ups about his painful past: He is an Auschwitz survivor.

Der drohende Krieg überschattet London, doch die Frauen aus der Mulberry Lane kämpfen mit ihren ganz eigenen Sorgen... 1938, Mulberry Lane, London. Maureen Jackson fühlt sich wie eine Gefangene. Drei Jahre zuvor war ihre Welt noch in Ordnung. Sie wollte Rory, den Mann ihrer Träume, heiraten und mit ihm eine eigene Familie gründen. Aber seit dem Tod Ihrer Mutter muss sie sich um ihren Vater kümmern, der ihr das Leben zur Hölle macht. Nun schuftet sie Tag und Nacht in seinem Lebensmittelgeschäft. Als dann Rory nach London zurückkehrt und mit ihm seine schwangere Frau, erinnert das Maureen an das Leben, das ihres hätte sein sollen.

Als Mitglied der Résistance organisiert Nancy unzählige Waffentransporte, verhilft Juden und abgeschossenen Piloten zur Flucht, schmuggelt Funkgeräte und anderes Material, bis sie als "weiße Maus" zur meistgesuchten Person der Gestapo wird, auf die ein Kopfgeld von 5-MillionenFranc ausgesetzt ist. Doch dann verhaften die Deutschen ihren Mann, und Nancy muss fliehen. Im verzweifelten Versuch, ihren geliebten Henri zu befreien, lässt sie sich in England zur Geheimagentin ausbilden.

On a cold winter day in 1955, Kate Arden got on a train to go home for Christmas. This is the story of what happened when she got off that train. In 1943. In 1943 Kate Arden was engaged to the man she loved, Jeffrey Rushbrooke. She was devastated and heartbroken when he was called up for wartime duty and later killed on a secret mission in France. But what if Kate could change that? What if she could warn him and save his life? Or will fate have a bigger surprise in store for her?

Chloe kunde aldrig ha föreställt sig att hennes liv skulle bli så otroligt komplicerat. Hon lever nu i ett äktenskap med Oliver, som ständigt bedrar henne med deras hushållerska Françoise. Deras familj består av fem barn, men endast två av dem är hennes biologiska. Hennes äldsta son, Inigo, är den ende som är Olivers. För att göra saken ännu mer komplex, har resten av barnen, inklusive Chloes dotter Imogen, en annan pappa – Patrick Bates.

As WWII draws to a close, war widow Vera Larsen Trumbell knows all too well the sacrifices of those left on the home front. Working on her family’s farm has sustained Vera and her young children, but she now yearns for a sense of normalcy. The end of the war has been bittersweet for the Larsen clan, as they and the members of their small Wyoming town continue to pick up the pieces of their former lives.

Lichterfelde, 1943. Vera erlebt den Zweiten Weltkrieg in Berlin in der Villa am Karlsplatz. Ihr Mann Wilhelm, ein überzeugter Nationalsozialist, ist bei der Luftwaffe. Immer öfter kommen Vera Zweifel, auf welcher Seite sie steht. Da findet sie in der Gartenlaube einen fremden Mann auf der Flucht. Es ist der jüdische Künstler David, der in die Illegalität abtauchen musste und sich seitdem versteckt hält. Vera trifft eine weitreichende Entscheidung, von der sie weiß, dass sie ihre Familie zerreißen und alles in Frage stellen wird, was sie bisher für richtig gehalten hat.

Tra "La vita è bella" e "Schindler's list", un audiolibro indimenticabile. Una storia d'amore e coraggio che va oltre qualsiasi convenzione. Niente può dividere Christopher e Rebecca: non i genitori violenti di lei e neanche il fidanzato che lei stessa ha portato a casa dopo essere fuggita in Inghilterra. Poi scoppia la seconda guerra mondiale e i nazisti invadono l'isola di Jersey: Rebecca viene deportata in Europa verso l'orribile destino prospettato dalla “soluzione finale” di Hitler. Christopher però non si rassegna e decide di arruolarsi nelle SS.

Londra, 1937. Alessandra Durante sta cercando di superare il dolore per la perdita dell'adorato marito inglese, quando riceve una notizia inaspettata: è diventata l'erede della villa tra le colline toscane posseduta dai suoi avi italiani. Decisa a voltare pagina, Alessandra parte insieme a sua figlia Diana, con la speranza di ricominciare una nuova vita in mezzo alla natura. Ma gli effetti dell'imminente conflitto mondiale si fanno sentire anche in mezzo alle vigne e ai cipressi: infatti la villa diventa un ricovero per tutti coloro in cerca di un rifugio.

March, 1942: new mother Alice Milward is itching to return to her job as a shop assistant at Liberty’s. Despite her husband still being missing in action, Alice is determined to give baby Arthur the best possible start. She soon settles back into the rhythm of life on the shop floor, and the Liberty Girls rally to help keep everything on an even keel. But when the American GIs start swarming into London, there are more complications to come. And each of the Liberty Girls has their own impossible storm to weather.

August 1939. At peaceful Summerhill, orphaned Maddy hides from the world and the rumours of war. Then her adored sister Georgina returns from a long trip with a new friend, the handsome Victor. Maddy fears that Victor is not all he seems, but she has no idea just what kind of danger has come into their lives....

Grace and Dougie have been courting for years, so when Dougie decides to emigrate to Australia he expects Grace to follow once she turns 21. Grace used to be besotted with Dougie, but she is increasingly worried by his bullying behaviour and gambling. On her way home from seeing Dougie off, Grace is nearly run down by a truck driven by widower Ben, who is on his way to the hospital to see his young son. Soon, Grace has agreed to look after Ben's child while he recovers from his accident. As they spend time together Ben struggles to ignore his growing feelings for Grace.

After having given up her baby at seventeen, Sonya is inspired by her work at an orphanage to discover what happened to her daughter twenty-five years ago. Reunited, they struggle to bond whilst braving the war together. Nurse Lily has returned to St Ives to finish training as a midwife. But when old flame Tristan is brought in wounded, she must put the past firmly to bed in order to care for him. And working at Tristan’s convalescent home, Mary longs for the romance she reads of in her novels. But her overprotective mother is making that more difficult at every turn.

From the top-ten bestselling author of One Snowy Night, Rita Bradshaw, comes The Storm Child, a sweeping family saga set during the run up to WW2 in the north-east of England. It’s mid-winter, and in the throes of a fierce blizzard Elsie Redfern and her husband discover an unknown girl in...

For two decades, Elizabeth Herlong has been a devoted Hollywood wife, supporting her husband as he built an empire in the budding motion picture industry. But far from the bright glamour of her current life, World War II rages in Europe, forcing Elizabeth to remember her past, awakening feelings and longings she thought she would never experience again. Most of all, she fears for her eldest son, who turns 18 in less than a year and will have to enlist in the army. Then one night, Elizabeth's husband introduces her to a German screenwriter he's been working with.

When journalist Ella Franks is unmasked as a woman writing under a male pseudonym, she loses her job. But having risked everything to write, she refuses to be silenced and leaps at the chance to become a correspondent in war-torn France. Already entrenched in the thoroughly male arena of war reporting is feisty American photojournalist Danni Bradford. Together with her best friend and partner, Andy, she is determined to cover the events unfolding in Normandy. And to discover the whereabouts of Andy’s sister, who has followed a lover into the French Resistance.

Christmas with the Teashop Girls is a heartwarming and moving story of wartime love, bravery and hope, by the bestselling author of the Woolworths series, Elaine Everest. It is late 1940 and the war feels closer to home than ever for Rose Neville and her staff at the Lyon’s Teashop in Margate...

"Warum, glaubst du, blinken all die Sterne nachts am Himmel?", fragt Augusta ihre Schwester. "Damit wir danach greifen, Grete. Verstehst du das nicht?" Kurz darauf schleicht sie sich vom elterlichen Hof und begibt sich auf einen gefährlichen Weg in die Reichshauptstadt. Ihre Tochter, die sie unfreiwillig zur Welt gebracht hat, lässt sie zurück. Stattdessen träumt sie von einer Karriere in Berlin, die sich schon bald darauf erfüllt. Augusta steigt zu den fähigsten Stenografinnen der Stadt auf und nimmt sogar an Konferenzen mit dem Führer teil.

Germany, 1938: A young interfaith couple discover true love, but they must keep this love a secret—from family, from friends, and especially from the Nazis. She lives in the Jewish Quarter, and he lives in the city proper. Charlotte, a young girl of 15, wanders into Georg’s cobbler shop to have some shoes repaired. Georg, enamored by Charlotte’s charm and grace, decides right then and there that he is going to marry her.

Eine Chocolaterie als Zuflucht in dunklen Zeiten. Berlin, 5. August 1936: Die Schwermut ist Elfies steter Begleiter, Zuversicht findet sie in ihrer Arbeit in der Chocolaterie Sawade, einem Hort zarter Zaubereien aus Nougat und Schokolade, feinstem Marzipan und edlen Aromen. Hier gelingt es Elfie und ihren Nachbarn, sich ihre Menschlichkeit in unmenschlichen Zeiten zu erhalten. Dann kommt Elfie dem Geheimnis einer besonderen Praline und der Geschichte einer verbotenen Liebe auf die Spur. Doch wird sie es wagen, auch ihrer eigenen Sehnsucht zu folgen.