World War Ii Women

Uncovering a diabolical Nazi plot, Marge Emerson is secretly reassigned to a medical post in France. There she meets a conscientious objector and finds his outspoken belief in God a challenge to her own fragile faith. When David shares his desire to return to Europe after the war and build an orphanage for Germany's homeless children, Marge is drawn to this selfless, compassionate man.

Fifteen-year-old Kate lives a rarefied life of wealth and privilege in the pre-war Hong Kong expatriate community, but when the Japanese invade she’s interned in squalid Stanley Camp with her parents. Enduring cramped conditions, humiliation, disease, and starvation, Kate befriends seventeen-year-old Charles, who is half Chinese, and they give their hearts to each other under the orchid tree. Meanwhile, forty miles away in Portuguese Macau, thirteen-year-old Sofia’s suspicions are aroused when her father invites a Japanese family to dinner.

Herta lives a contented life until Nazi Germany invades the Netherlands. As Jews, she and her family face persecution. Across town, Julia finds herself in the midst of upheaval when her husband becomes involved in Nazi activities. Then Herta and Julia’s husbands go missing—one to hide from the Nazis, and the other to collaborate with them. As the Jewish population faces rising tension, Herta feels compelled to find a hiding place for her daughters.

Woman of Valor is a remarkable and true story of bravery, compassion, and rescue during the Holocaust. Eta Chait, a young Jewish woman, lived with her parents and siblings in Lukow, Poland. Woman of Valor follows her journey, from the horrors of the ghetto into the hardships of survival in the woods under the most extreme conditions. And then through her eyes as a fighter, we witness the struggles and fears of those who were trapped by the Holocaust. This is the moving story of a young woman who refused to give up.

When battle-hardened Private Bernie Russell witnesses a fellow soldier shoot a young German boy with his hands up, he’s shaken to his very core. Then, as that same boy is dying, he presses a packet of photographs and letters into Bernie’s hand and utters three words in English. "It must end."

Die Historikerin und Autorin Miriam Gebhardt beschreibt das Lebensgefühl deutscher Frauen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg eindringlich, persönlich und mit viel Empathie. Dazu hat sie in bis dahin unerreichter Dichte die Selbstzeugnisse von Frauen ausgewertet und stellt konsequent deren Erleben in den Mittelpunkt.

From postwar Paris to Australia to find love, fashion and freedom One woman's quest to follow her head, and her heart. Twenty-six-year-old Frenchwoman Avril Montdidier sails from Paris to Australia with a suitcase and a dream: to start her own fashion business. 1950s Melbourne is very different...

Christian Lamb is one of the last surviving Wren officers to have served throughout the Second World War, from Blitz ravaged London, to the important radar and operations rooms and undertaking a vital role in D Day. Escaping both the Spanish Flu pandemic when she was born and the pandemic we are emerging from today, she has reached the impressive age of 101. Now she leads us through the story of her extraordinary life and the wartime experiences of her fellow Wrens.

Londres, noviembre de 1941. Tras la salida de la formidable Henrietta Bird de la revista Woman's Friend, las cosas están mejorando para Emmeline Lake mientras asume el desafío de convertirse en una joven columnista de consejos en tiempos de guerra. Su relación con su novio Charles va viento en popa, mientras que Bunty, su mejor amiga, todavía se recupera de las secuelas de los bombardeos alemanes en territorio inglés, procurando mirar valientemente hacia el futuro.

Weaving wartime intrigue, rural village life, and little-known historical facts about the role of carrier pigeons in WWII, Stephanie Graves continues the adventures of Olive Bright, a young pigeoneer who, along with her racing birds, has been conscripted to aid the fight against the Nazis.

It’s 1942. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington, DC, to work as a clerk for the legendary OSS, the precursor to the CIA. When, while filing, she discovers a document concerning the husband of a college friend, Rachel Bloch—a young French Jewish woman she is desperately worried about—Louise realizes she may be able to help get Rachel out of Vichy France. But then a colleague whose help Louise has enlisted is murdered, and she realizes she is on her own, unable to trust anyone.

England, 1939: In letzter Minute ist Ruth die Flucht geglückt. Als Hausangestellte kommt sie bei einer Familie in der Nähe von London unter. Ihre Gedanken und Sorgen sind jedoch in der alten Heimat - bei ihrer Mutter und vor allem bei ihrem Vater, der von den Nazis inhaftiert wurde. Ruths muss hart arbeiten, und es bleibt ihr wenig Zeit, sich in London um Ausreisepapiere für ihre Eltern und ihre Schwester zu bemühen. Dann erreicht sie die Nachricht, dass ihr Vater aus der Haft entlassen werden kann - allerdings nur, wenn er innerhalb von vierundzwanzig Stunden die Papiere aus England vorlegt.

In this moving and compelling memoir about parent and child, father and daughter, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lucinda Franks discovers that the remote, nearly impassive man she grew up with had in fact been a daring spy behind enemy lines in World War II. Sworn to secrecy, he began revealing details of his wartime activities only in the last years of his life, as he became afflicted with Alzheimer's. His exploits revealed a man of remarkable bravado.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR It is 1943—the height of the Second World War. With the men away at the front, Berlin has become a city of women. On the surface, Sigrid Schröder is the model German soldier’s wife: She goes to work every day...

1950 - Seven year old Carol Martin lies encased in an iron lung, struck down by the killer disease, polio. Distraught at her side, her mother, Violet, wonders if this is her punishment - for Carol is the love child who should not have been born . . . Family of Women is the story of three...

1941, Lithuania. Young Pola Wawer is the daughter of a successful engineer and on the cusp of a promising ophthalmology career, when her home city of Vilnius is invaded by Nazi forces. With her husband taken by the Gestapo and her home no longer her own, Pola flees the city with her parents in pursuit of safety. Almost everywhere they turn, they are met with persecution and hate, until they finally find salvation in the most unexpected of places—among the countryside villages, home of the windmills of her father's design.

DECEMBER 1942. As the war rages on, the accidental death of a young man is almost unremarkable. Except this young man was patrolling the grounds of Hursley Park House, where teams are designing crucial modifications to the Spitfire. JANUARY 1943. Josephine Fox is given a code name and a mission as she is seconded to Hursley: uncover the network responsible for information leaks to the enemy. And when the dead man's father visits Bram Nash convinced that his son was innocent of espionage and the victim of murder, her friend is also drawn into the investigation.

Es gibt zwei Arten von Krieg: Den Krieg an der Front und den Krieg in dir. Und beide werden Opfer fordern. Eine schreckliche Tragödie hat die Familie Caldwell auseinandergerissen und die Caldwell Girls in alle Richtungen zerstreut: Imogen hat sich dem Kriegsdienst angeschlossen. Elsie scheint ihr Glück in der Ehe zu finden. Und Daisy? Daisy fühlt sich verloren... Mittlerweile lebt sie weit weg von zu Hause und vermisst ihre Familie. Sie findet zwar neue Freunde, geht aus und flirtet, aber überall breiten sich die Schrecken des Krieges weiter aus. Tod. Krankheiten. Verwundete. Schmerzen.

En 1940, le Maroc, sous protectorat français, est administré par le régime de Vichy. Le débarquement des Alliés en 1942 va bouleverser la vie des Casablancais. Les soldats américains et l'Armée d'Afrique se mobiliseront pour libérer l'Europe. La jeunesse et l'amour triompheront de cette période troublée.

The remarkable autobiography of a pioneering female aviator who left a privileged life to serve in World War II.