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Germany, 1939: When Rachel Blau’s husband Franz is released from Dachau, she barely recognizes the man she married. But she knows in order to keep him safe they must leave the country they call home and pray a life far from the Nazis will heal him. Until he is better, she must be brave for both of them…

Germany, 1943. Jordanna cries out desperately to her mother, tears spilling down her cheeks. She is being torn one way, her parents another. And in Jordanna’s terrified, wide brown eyes, there is only one question: Will I ever see you again?

'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.

Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white—for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of eighteen hundred starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful.

Florence, South Carolina 1944: Lieutenant Raymond Sellers bids farewell to his brother Jimmie, the weight of what lies ahead hanging heavy in the air. The brothers have always been inseparable—Raymond, the steady protector, Jimmie, the wild-hearted dreamer. But as Raymond embraces his pregnant wife Evelyn one last time, war is about to test the bonds of family in ways they never imagined. As a summer storm shakes the windows, Evelyn brings her baby into a world at war.

Hannah longs for the days when she used to be free, but now, she is a Jewish prisoner at Theresienstadt, a model ghetto where the Nazis plan to make a propaganda film to convince the world that the Jewish people are living well in the camps. But Hannah will do anything to show the world the truth. Along with other young resistance members, they vow to disrupt the filming and derail the increasingly frequent deportations to death camps in the east.

Escaping a concentration camp in Nazi occupied Germany, Isaac and Sophie Goldstein suffer the elements, guard dogs, and collaborators in order to cross the border to Switzerland. The ultimate goal is the United States, where relatives and a job are waiting for Isaac. Isaac has no idea he is about to become a hunter; a hunter of Nazi war criminals.

Una conmovedora historia de superación en la Segunda Guerra Mundial contada con la maestría de la autora de El tatuador de Auschwitz. Cuando lo perdieron todo, el destino las unió. El 14 de febrero de 1942, el Vyner Brooke, un barco mercante que transportaba a un grupo desesperado de expatriados que huían de Singapur fue hundido por bombarderos japoneses. Aunque muchos de los pasajeros se ahogaron de inmediato, Nesta, enfermera australiana y Norah sobrevivieron milagrosamente pero fueron tomadas como prisioneras de guerra y trasladadas a campos.

سافر في بداية القرن العشرين من مصر إلى ألمانيا ليجدَ نفسه في الحزب النازي.

تدور أحداث هذه الرواية في القرن العشرين وتحديداً في العام 1941 إبان الحرب العالمية الثانية واشتداد القصف الألماني على القاهرة التي كانت ترزح آنذاك تحت الاحتلال الإنجليزي في الوقت الذي سادت فيه أجواء انقسام بين المصريين بين متفائل حذر بهتلر الزعيم النازي الذي بلغت أنباء انتصاراته عنان السماء، وبين معارضين بشدة له وللاحتلال البريطاني في نفس الوقت.

Drei Generationen, eine Geschichte voller Geheimnisse und Liebe. Anna hat in ihrer Kindheit bereits mehr durchstehen müssen als andere Menschen in ihrem ganzen Leben. Mit sechzehn Jahren erfährt sie zum ersten Mal von ihrer Großmutter Belle, bei der sie von nun an leben soll. Doch auch wenn Belle sich alle Mühe gibt, ihr ein liebevolles Zuhause zu schenken, hat Anna ihre Schwierigkeiten, sich dem neu gewonnenen Familienglück zu öffnen. Zu oft wurde sie bereits enttäuscht, zu oft verletzt. Und schon bald muss Anna feststellen, dass Belle tatsächlich etwas vor ihr verbirgt.

Una prima ballerina. Due soldati della sanità americani. Una bambina ebrea di cui non si conosce il nome... In questo romanzo ambientato nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale e basato su eventi reali, un'improbabile banda di eroi raduna le forze per salvare numerosi ebrei italiani nei giorni più cruenti dell'occupazione nazista di Roma.

England is deep in the coldest winter anyone can remember. It snows every day, temperatures do not rise above freezing for seven weeks, coal cannot get from the pitheads to the power stations, food and fuel are in desperately short supply. More than that, the country's secret services have been penetrated, which means Britain is more vulnerable than ever. And Stalin knows it. He decides it is time to send his master of 'Special Tasks' to create a little extra chaos.

Inside the beleaguered city of Rome in 1944, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann. During a ferocious morning air raid a mysterious parachutist lands in Rome and disappears into the backstreets. Is he an ally or an imposter? His fate will come to put the whole Escape Line at risk.

After a difficult few years with her husband Victor, Prue's life is about to change in a dramatic and unexpected way. Will she have the strength to carry on into a more positive future? Rookery House is bursting at the seams after Thea welcomes two WAAFs to stay while their accommodation is being built on the new aerodrome.

Als Édiths Vater Simon Mercier 2016 in Paris stirbt, erfährt die 53-Jährige völlig überraschend von ihren deutsch-polnischen Wurzeln. Anscheinend war Simon ein angenommenes Kind, dessen jüdischer Vater Opfer der großen Razzia im Juli 1942 wurde. Doch wie ist Simon in die Familie Mercier gekommen und was geschah mit Simons Mutter Helene? Als Édith ihre Großcousine Tatjana in der Nähe von Stuttgart ausfindig macht, suchen die Frauen gemeinsam nach Antworten und beginnen, ein jahrzehntelanges Schweigen zu durchbrechen.

As Spring blossoms, it seems love is in the air. 21 year-old, John Talbot dreams of a world not at war, where he can be a father to his young son Jonny and have a wife by his side. But is nurse Lucy Ross the woman for him? When brothers Tom and John are recalled to active service, Artie is left to look after the farm. But tragedy strikes at the very heart of the family, when Arthur peacefully passes and John is reported missing in action. Pam, is left grief-stricken and fearing the worst with John lost at sea – has John’s luck finally run out?

This is the story of a Marathi family of five—Mr. and Mrs. Chaukar and their three boys—from Ahmednagar, India. They moved to Paris, France, in 1937 and opened an Indian vegetarian restaurant, "L'Inde A Paris—Restaurant Indouston," in the Latin Quarter. They had a flourishing business till 1939 when war struck and Paris was occupied by the Germans.

A 20 anni dalla nascita del progetto Il treno della memoria e a 80 anni dall'apertura dei cancelli di Auschwitz, un libro a due voci che racconta l'Olocausto e riflette sull'importanza di tramandarne la storia ai ragazzi Lorenzo Tosa e Paolo Paticchio ripercorrono il viaggio di milioni di ebrei deportati, in capitoli che seguono le tappe del treno della memoria: Cracovia, Il Ghetto Ebraico, la Fabbrica Schindler, l'arrivo ad Auschwitz- Birkenau, la vita nel campo di concentramento, la Fuga e la Marcia della Morte.

Roisin O'Byrne, a young lawyer with a passion for protecting the Darling River where her family has lived for almost two hundred years, finds herself embroiled in a battle. Her commitment to environmental justice pits her against formidable adversaries within the corporate landscape, working with her enigmatic boss Seth Brodie. As her family continue their quest to uncover the history of the settlement of Ceann Mara and the hidden life of one of its first settlers, Samuel O'Byrne, Roisin plunges deeper into the murky waters of corporate interests and corruption.