World War Ii Romance

Liverpool, 1935. Monica Savage is delighted when new neighbours move in next door and she and Joan Copperfield quickly become firm friends. While Monica's father has a good job as a guard on the railway, Joan's family are harder up, with her sailor dad Billy mostly off at sea and restless when he's home - Mersey View is no substitute for the exotic places he sails to.

July 1941. As the war grinds on, Lady Joanna Harcourt knows that her time at Goodwill House is drawing to close. A new chapter awaits, one that she never expected to happen to her – she is going to be a wife and mother again! Excited with their new arrival and with her beloved Flying Officer John Sergeant back in her life, Joanna hopes that even though war clouds gather, love will prevail, and the future will look brighter than ever for the Harcourt family. John has just one last mission to complete, before they can be together.

Eine mutige junge Frau auf der Suche nach einem Stück Heimat. Eine Liebe, die nicht sein kann. Eine Hoffnung, die niemals stirbt. 1939: Die junge Mercedes muss mit ihrer Familie vor den Kämpfen des Spanischen Bürgerkriegs aus Barcelona fliehen, doch nur sie kommt im Internierungslager an. Dort lernt sie den charismatischen Agustí kennen und lieben, aber nach viel zu kurzer Zeit verlieren sie sich unter tragischen Umständen aus den Augen. Entschlossen kämpft sich Mercedes allein durch die harten Jahre der Nachkriegszeit, immer auf der Suche nach einem Stück Heimat, ihrer Familie und Agustí.

Düren / Rheinland 1939: Mina ist auf der Flucht. Sie kommt mit falschem Namen bei ihren bis dahin unbekannten Verwandten - der Schmiedefamilie Hansen - unter. Im Verborgenen sucht sie nach ihrem Vater und stößt dabei auf ein Familiengeheimnis, dessen Geschichte bis ins Jahr 1889 zurückgeht. Währenddessen bricht der Zweite Weltkrieg aus und droht die Familie auseinanderzureißen. Ostpreußen 1944: Der Krieg ist nun auch in dem masurischen Dorf Steintal spürbar. Wehrmachtssoldaten werden in den Häusern einquartiert, darunter ein Sohn der Familie Hansen.

In 1930s Birmingham, in the impoverished district of Nechells, a young girl bravely endeavours to hold her family together in trying times. A Hopscotch Summer is an emotional journey of determination and resilience from Annie Murray. Read by Penelope Freeman (My Daughter, My Mother) Emma Brown...

Werther in Westfalen, 1933: Josephine, die jüngste Tochter von Anton und Anna Leyen, hat die Liebe zu Süßigkeiten geerbt und arbeitet in der Zuckerwarenfabrik ihrer Familie. Als sie den jungen Manfred kennen lernt, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf. Durch eine Idee von Manfred kreiert Josephine ein neues Bonbon, das einzeln verpackt und immer gleich groß ist – die ersten Markenbonbons sind erfunden. Die beiden heiraten, aber ihre Liebe wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt, als die Nationalsozialisten an die Macht kommen und Manfred, der jüdischer Herkunft ist, Repressalien ausgesetzt ist.

1942. Evie Sinclair has enlisted in the ATS to serve her country. Her mother disapproves, wanting her to stay and help run the household, but her father supports her bid for independence. Though conditions are austere and the training is intense, Evie is proud to become a qualified gunner girl, part of the team operating the anti-aircraft batteries. When she meets RAF bomber pilot Matt Goodwin at a dance, it's not long before they fall in love. But then tragedy strikes. Matt is killed on a mission, leaving Evie bereft - and expecting a child.

As war rages, Barbara Sinclair is desperate to escape her unhappy home life. And with the threat of German bombs ever present, Barbara reluctantly agrees to marry John, her childhood friend, who is leaving to join the RAF. But an encounter with Alex Everton, a dashing Spitfire pilot, complicates matters for Barbara. With emotions running high, she begins to question whether she has made a terrible mistake. With the constant threat of death all around her, Barbara must try to find a way to deal with the complexities of her difficult home life and her emotional relationships, too.

Rejected, frustrated, and no longer confident about God's plan for his life, John Sweet takes a year-long assignment in Atlanta, Georgia. The city is bustling with preparations for the Cotton States and International Exposition to be held in the autumn of 1895. Sarah Fuller is also new to the city but is trying desperately to make a home for her lonely father and motherless little sister. When a special assignment for the Exposition puts John and Sarah in close contact, they discover that while their pasts are completely different, their future dreams are much the same.

Summer 1939 - When war breaks out, Sylvie is marooned with her cousin Nell's family in the Chiltern hills and cannot return to her Normandy home. During the early days of rationing, blackouts, and the threat of bombers in the skies, Sylvie and Nell have to grow up quickly. Yet as the war rages around them, it's the competition and jealousy between the two that dominates their lives. When the girls fall in love with the same man, their relationship is truly tested. But the war pulls them all apart and changes the course of their lives – until their secrets are revealed.

21-year-old Alix is studying in Paris, far away from Sasha, her Serbian father and Leonora, her English mother, as World War Two breaks out. Finding hope even in troubled times, romance sparks with fellow student Raoul; but she soon learns young love can be tumultuous. So, when Steve, a handsome American pilot with Serbian ancestors, enters her life, she can't ignore her feelings toward him. And making a decision will be even harder as both men leave for war.

After their dreams of starting a family are crushed, Philippa and her husband Marco need a fresh start. Focusing on repairing the crumbling walls and leaking roof of the Cotswolds house they impulsively bought seems easier work than repairing their relationship. When Philippa finds a hidden memorial hidden deep in the garden, the discovery only pushes them further apart. But as Philippa determines to uncover the truth behind the memorial, could the secrets it reveals be the key to finally putting their heartbreak to rest?

Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party at their tea plantation in West Java. One of their guests, Mattijs, a Dutch pilot, hopes to forge a future in the Dutch East Indies, possibly with the family's daughter Anna, but she is torn between her dreams of Holland and her desire to belong. Meanwhile the housekeeper, Diah, keenly observes the goings-on around the plantation, wondering how much to tell her freedom-fighter brother.

Die Schuld einer Liebenden. "Adele ist verschwunden." Mehr mag die Fremde nicht sagen, die sich in einem Café einfach so an den Tisch der Anwältin Cara setzt – und kurz darauf ebenfalls spurlos verschwindet. Die Frau lässt lediglich ihre Handtasche zurück und die kryptische Bitte, Cara möge sich um den Inhalt kümmern. Neben anrührenden Feldpostbriefen aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg finden sich in der Tasche Unterlagen über den Verkauf einer Villa in Kassel zu einem symbolischen Preis.

Nacha is living a normal life in Old Town, Warsaw, when the Nazis invade Poland. After months of heavy shelling, her family believes things can't possibly get any worse. Then the city falls, and she and her family find themselves faced with a level of antisemitism they've never experienced before. They're locked into a ghetto, and she fears they'll never see freedom again. When the Nazis begin rounding up Jews, Janek, a Polish Catholic teenager, doesn’t let the warnings of executions for those caught helping Jewish people stop him.

LA SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE AU COEUR DES INSTITUTIONS RELIGIEUSES ITALIENNES. Florence, 1933. Alors qu'Angelo Bianco arrive tout juste d'Amérique après le décès de sa mère, ce sont la gentillesse et les plaisanteries de son amie Eva Rosselli qui lui redonnent le sourire. Bien que d'origines et de confessions différentes, les deux enfants grandissent comme frère et sœur, avant que leurs sentiments ne se transforment en amour. Pourtant, devenu adulte, Angelo choisit la prêtrise : une décision qui met un terme à une complicité de plus de dix ans.

Terrore e speranza, amore e sacrificio: un romanzo ispirato a una storia vera. 1943. Per gli ebrei italiani la situazione si fa di giorno in giorno più difficile e pericolosa. I nazisti hanno occupato gran parte del paese, e il rischio di essere imprigionati e deportati è sempre più concreto. Per Antonia Mazin, ormai, l'unica speranza di sopravvivere è lasciare la città e i genitori, cambiare nome e rifugiarsi in campagna insieme a un uomo che conosce appena, Niccolò Gerardi.

Hotel Edén, La Falda, Córdoba. Verano de 1940. En tiempos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el amor se abre camino de modos inimaginables. Desconociendo sus orígenes, Amalia Peres Kiev, una joven judía de familia de alcurnia, extrovertida y apasionada por la escritura, y Marthin Müller, miembro del partido nazi con una misión que cumplir en Argentina, se enamoran de un modo irrefrenable, pero ambos tendrán que sufrir varias batallas personales, esperar años y guardar peligrosos secretos para darle forma a la pasión que sienten desde que cruzaron miradas en el famoso Hotel.

'Return to Me' is a historical fiction work which is written to be used as an impactful educational resource for students who are studying World War II. The book covers all 5 fronts of the war, with a clear explanation of the role the key players: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Empire of Japan) played in the escalation and eventual resolution of the war. The story is intertwined with characters living in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains during the Depression and World War II.

The novel explores the healing of deep scars left by physical and emotional abuse, intertwining themes of revenge, redemption, and the complexities of human choices set against the backdrop of World War II. Central to the story are characters grappling with their dark past, including SS Colonel Wilhelm Geisler, a man haunted by severe childhood trauma and the evil of malignant retribution growing inside him, and Father Sigmund Klemper, a priest who risked everything to save Jews during the Holocaust, but chooses now to befriend the most evil Nazi he’s ever met.