World War II

An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a haunting novel of suspense by the best-selling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Paris Assignment.

Two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France

Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist....

The author of The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping WWII story of three code-breakers and the spy they must root out.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet librarian who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story....

Berlin, 1945: Ester Pasternak walked out of the gates of Auschwitz barely alive. She survived against devastating odds, but her heartbreaking journey is only just beginning. In the camp, Ester gave birth to a tiny fair-haired infant....

Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans....

From the New York Times bestselling author John Boyne, a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her own terrible past, and a present in which it is never too late for bravery....

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....

This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....

She must choose between loyalty to her country or a love that could be her destruction....

Lina Meisel, a retired librarian in Florida, is reading the newspaper one morning when she freezes. Her eyes lock on a photograph of a book she hasn’t seen in 65 years - a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names....

Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood’s latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous Golden Age movie star, Sienna sees her big break....

An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls....

Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family.

Her beauty saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee....

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the impact of his singular legacy on the dreams and nightmares of the twentieth century and the nascent age of AI....

From the author of the number one best seller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical novel inspired by one family’s incredible story of daring, survival, and triumph....

Just weeks before Christmas, severe wintry weather damages the church hall hosting the Christmas Boutique - an annual sale of handcrafted gifts and baked goods that supports the county food pantry....

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say and The Warsaw Orphan returns with a gripping novel inspired by the true story of Operation Paperclip.

Family secrets come to light as a young woman fights to save herself, and others, in a Nazi-run baby factory—a real-life Handmaid's Tale—during World War II.

From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival.

As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love....

A courageous wife, mother, and resister confronts the devastation of World War II in a heartbreaking and hopeful novel by the best-selling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Tuscan Child....

Yorkshire, 1943. Lily Baines, a bright young debutante increasingly ground down by an endless war, has traded in her white gloves for a set of headphones. It’s her job to intercept enemy naval communications and send them to Bletchley Park for decryption....

The Surviving Remnant What would you do if your past held the power to destroy your future—or give you a chance to reclaim it? Jakub survived the unthinkable horrors of the Dachau and Sobibor concentration camps, but the scars he carries are more than skin deep. **Two decades later, he’s not living—he’s merely existing**—haunted by memories that refuse to fade. When his cousin Arek, who was as close as a brother, and Alicja, the woman he fell in love with in the camps, re-enter his life, they bring an offer: the chance to track down Ludolf Reichenbach, the sadistic guard who ...

Se enfrentaron al horror y lucharon contra la injusticia. Pero nada reconcilia más que el amor. Recién terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en un Berlín arrasado y sin futuro aparente, Victoria sobrevive cantando cada noche en el club Kassandra. Pese a tener una mente prodigiosa, capaz de crear un poderoso sistema de cifrado de mensajes, su hija Hedy y su hermana Rebecca dependen de ese mísero sueldo para sobrevivir. Un chantaje sin escrúpulos por parte de los rusos obligará a Victoria a viajar sola a Estados Unidos, donde, sin embargo, disfrutará del amor incondicional del capitán Norton.

In Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, Jewish watchmaker Jakob is sent to Auschwitz, where he uses his skills to survive while witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust. As the camp strips away his humanity, Jakob risks everything to protect the weak, finding small acts of kindness in a world overcome by cruelty.

The Soviet plan to cut Finland in half failed spectacularly with the destruction of the 163rd and 44th Divisions at Suomassalmi and The Raate Road. Undeterred by the disaster, Soviet High Command crafted a new strategy to bisect Finland, targeting the crucial crossroads in the town of Kuhmo. Learning from their mistakes, they deployed the formidable 54th Mountain Division, seasoned in Arctic warfare, to achieve the objective. When ten thousand Red Army soldiers stormed across the border, the Finnish 9th Division, led by Colonel Siilasvuo, raced to intercept them. After days of fierce combat...

First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, and tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz, Czeslawa is then photographed. Three months later, she is dead. How did this happen to an ordinary Polish citizen? This is the question that Tuck grapples with in this haunting novel.

Charlotte, a commercial airline pilot, attends an auction with her boyfriend Henri at Hotel Drouot, now the oldest auction house in Paris. Successfully bidding on a box of wine saved from the German occupation during the Second World War, Henri gives Charlotte a seemingly inferior bottle he finds inside the box. Cleaning the label, Charlotte makes a shocking discovery that sends her on a quest to find the origins of this unusual—and very valuable—bottle of wine, a quest that will take her back fifty years into the past.

Poland, 1944 When twelve-year-old Martha and her little sister Johanna are snatched while out shopping for food and pushed into an army truck with a swastika on the door, they are heartbroken. Terrified they will never see their mother again, the little girls cling to each other as the truck full of stolen children rumbles through the countryside.

Echoes of Valor A gripping historical military thriller inspired by true events. In the final months of World War II, the fate of the Italian campaign rests on an impossible mission: the daring assault on Riva Ridge. Captain James Tanner and the elite soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division face an unforgiving climb through icy terrain, brutal German defenses, and their own inner demons. Every decision Tanner makes carries the weight of his men’s lives—and the future of the war effort. With courage forged in the crucible of battle, Tanner’s team must overcome overwhelming odds to seize...

There's a tradition in the Sharp family that some possess the Second Sight. But is it superstition, or true psychic power? Kit Sharp is in Paris, where she is involved in a love affair with the stunning Evelyn Larsen, and working as an archivist, having inherited her historian father's fascination with the Bayeux Tapestry. He believes that parts of the tapestry were made before 1066, and that it was a tool for prediction, not a simple record of events.

Au cœur de l'enfer, une femme se bat pour l'espoir. "Rappelle-toi: notre seule arme, c'est de rester en vie, et pour rester en vie, nous devons aimer, nous devons donner, et, malheureusement, nous devons souffrir." Lorsqu'elle arrive à Auschwitz, sous un ciel bas et gris, Ana est persuadée qu'elle ne survivra pas à l'enfer du camp. Mais elle possède une compétence que les nazis recherchent : elle est sage-femme. Son travail sera de donner naissance aux enfants des autres prisonnières.

Spring 1939 - Dashing young William Burton and the beautiful Constance Han set sail from London on the same ocean liner to Hong Kong. Connie is intrigued by Will’s talent for writing poetry, and as romance blossoms she offers to give him Cantonese lessons to help him with his new job — a cadet in the colonial service. But once in Hong Kong, Connie is constrained by filial duty towards her Eurasian parents, and their wish for her to marry someone from her own background.

May 1940: In the months since the war in Europe began, nineteen-year-old Aafke Cruyssen and her family have tried to carry on as normal—running their modest grocery store in Eindhoven, hoping that Germany will leave Holland alone as it did during the Great War. But this time, Holland will not be spared. The invasion comes, swift and merciless, and Dutch forces are easily overpowered. Aafke's one glimpse of humanity comes from a young German corporal who intervenes when a gang of looters tries to rob her family's shop.

Es la madrugada del 1 de septiembre de 1939 cuando el continente europeo despierta enmudecido por la marcha de miles de soldados alemanes hacia Polonia, a la que acabarán conquistando y anexionando con una guerra relámpago. Italia se mantiene al margen mientras que Reino Unido y Francia declaran inmediatamente la guerra a Hitler. Sin embargo, testigo de la rapidez del ejército nazi y cada día más presionado por los altos cargos fascistas, Mussolini se convence de que todo terminará pronto y en abril de 1940 decide también involucrarse en el conflicto.

Jeep Show chronicles the astonishing journey of Jim Tanzer, a thirty-year-old dance instructor who enlists in the Army in 1943 to fight the Nazis. Jim’s showbiz background lands him in the Morale Corps as an Entertainment Specialist. Shipped to Europe and tasked with performing in Jeep shows - small variety acts put on for combat infantry just behind the front lines - Jim travels throughout the Combat Zone with squad leader Mickey Rooney, the Hollywood superstar, also in the Morale Corps (as he was in real life).

Twenty-year-old Kate is ready to leave behind her small London suburb and chase her dream of becoming a singer. But when Britain declares war on Germany, Kate’s future is suddenly uncertain. Her ambitions are put on hold as she faces the threats of bombing raids and the possibility of invasion. Living in a time of fear and uncertainty, Kate struggles to find balance in her life—particularly as a speech disability hinders her singing career and a failed romance adds to her emotional burden.

Heinrich Gerlachs großer Antikriegsroman: Direkt nach der Schlacht um Stalingrad im sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenenlager geschrieben, durch verschiedene Arbeitslager gerettet, aber letztendlich vom russischen Geheimdienst konfisziert - jetzt nach fast 70 Jahren erstmals im Original veröffentlicht. Dieses Buch ist ein Roman. Dennoch ist in diesem Buch nichts erfunden. Alles, was die Romanhandlung an Begebenheiten schildert, war irgendwann und irgendwo auf den Schneefeldern vor Stalingrad und in den Trümmern der Stadt einmal Wirklichkeit.

Quando Pëtr Vavilov, un giorno del 1942, vede la giovane postina attraversare la strada con un foglio in mano, puntando dritto verso casa sua, sente una stretta al cuore. Sa che l’esercito sta richiamando i riservisti. È il fiume della Storia, che sta per esondare e che travolgerà tutto e tutti: lui, Vavilov, la sua famiglia, e la famiglia degli Šapošnikov – raccolta in un appartamento a Stalingrado per quella che potrebbe essere la loro "ultima riunione" –, e gli altri indimenticabili personaggi di questo romanzo sconfinato, dove si respira l’aria delle grandi epopee.

France, 1943. Having left Christophe, her lover, and fellow freedom fighter, behind in Marseilles, Maureen travels to England to undergo a grueling training course to join the Special Operations Executive and become a secret soldier to counter the Nazis in her beloved France. Her first mission is to take control of a ragtag band of outlaws in the forest and mold them into a fighting force worthy of taking on the German invaders

Brought up in Cornwall by her grandparents, Aster thinks often of her parents, who were taken from her at a tragically early age. The only thing she has to remember her mother by is her Flower Book, a journal of pressed flowers that charts Violet’s life and dreams – and keeps all her secrets...On her 21st birthday, Aster receives devastating news that turns everything she knew about herself upside down. Will she finally discover what really happened to her parents?

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.

Berlin 1943. Nachdem es den vielen mutigen Frauen in der Rosenstraße gelungen ist, ihre jüdischen Verwandten, vor der Deportation in die Lager zu bewahren, trifft David eine mutige Entscheidung: Nach seiner Freilassung will er nicht länger tatenlos zusehen, wie die Nazis seine Freunde ermorden. An der Seite seiner Freundin Roxi, beschließt er, in den Widerstand zu gehen. Unter Lebensgefahr helfen sie anderen Verfolgten und schließen sich einem geheimen Untergrundnetzwerk an.

Wie ist es, wenn man sich am Ende seines Lebens fragen muss, ob man wirklich so objektiv über das Weltgeschehen berichtet hat, wie man bisher glaubte? Kann eine Kamera lügen? Gibt es eine Sicht der Sieger, die so anders ist, als die der Besiegten? Die amerikanische Kriegsreporterin Maggie ist mit ihren Kameras überall dort, wo gerade Geschichte geschrieben wird. Sie fotografiert die fallenden Bomben der Deutschen auf Moskau, die Leichenberge im KZ Buchenwald, die Familien der Selbstmörder im Rathaus in Leipzig. Maggie überfliegt die zerstörten deutschen Städte im Auftrag der U.S.

Am 9. Mai 1941 kaperte die Royal Navy im Nordatlantik das deutsche U-Boot U-110 und sicherte sich dabei eine Enigma-Maschine, deren Chiffrierschlüssel und Codebücher. Die Briten konnten somit den gesamten Funkverkehr zwischen Dönitz und seinen U-Booten mitlesen. Der einzige Vorteil der Deutschen Kriegsmarine war jedoch, dass die Briten im Anfangsstadium noch sehr viele Stunden für die Entschlüsselung nur eines einzigen Funkspruches brauchten.

Um die Verbindung zu der in Stalingrad eingekesselten 6. Armee sichern, startete General von Manstein am 21. November 1942 das Unternehmen „Wintergewitter“. Doch etwa 50 Kilometer vor der Stalingrader Front gab es Hindernisse. Um das Unternehmen weiterführen zu können, sollten Einzelkämpfer die Bedingungen für den weiteren Vormarsch erkunden! Sie wurden im Hinterland des Feindes nachts über der Wolganiederung abgesetzt. Der Inhalt des Romanes beruht auf Informationen die ein inzwischen 90-jähriger Fallschirmjäger geben konnte. Der Mut dieser Männer ist somit keine Legende!

Im eisigen Winter 1945, als das Deutsche Reich kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch steht, flieht Emma mit ihren beiden Kindern vor der Roten Armee in den Westen. Doch der kleine Jakob wird auf der Flucht krank und seine einzige Rettung ist ein Krankenhaus. Kaum hat Emma ihren geliebten Sohn einer Krankenschwester anvertraut, werden sie von den sowjetischen Truppen eingeholt und die dramatische Schlacht um Posen beginnt. Emma muss eine herzzerreißende Entscheidung treffen: Soll sie weiter nach Ihrem verschwundenen Sohn suchen oder ihre Tochter in Sicherheit bringen.