Títulos em Século XX

When Morrie moved in next door to Hilde in 1936 they became best friends. They are just five years old. But this is Nazi Germany and the law decrees they cannot remain friends because he is Jewish and she is the daughter of a Nazi policeman. For a short time music and culture opens up a new world for Hilde. But it cannot last. Her loving grandparents take in the children and gift them a pet budgerigar.

In the summer of 1914, sixteen-year-old Evan Sinclair leaves home to join the Great War for Civilization. Little does he know that, despite the war raging in Europe, the true source of conflict will emerge in Ottoman Palestine, since it's from Jerusalem where the German Kaiser dreams to rule as Holy Roman Emperor.

Born to a secure, middle-class Polish Jewish family, seventeen-year-old Reuven works alongside his father, an artisan businessman whose shop creates the finest handmade umbrellas in Poland. But the family’s peaceful life shatters when the Nazis invade their homeland, igniting World War II. With terrifying brutality, the Nazis confiscate their business, evict them from their home, and strip away their rights, threatening the lives of the city’s Jewish population, including Reuven and Zelda, the girl he loves.

Josiah Chang arrives in the bustling city ready to make a new life for himself. The Second World War is in full swing, and Josiah wants to prove his loyalty by serving his country. But Chinese Canadians are barred from joining the army out of fear they might expect citizenship in return. So, Josiah heads to the shipyard where he finds work as a riveter, fastening together the ribs and steel plates of Victory ships. One night, Josiah spots Poppy singing at a navy club. They fall for each other instantly, and soon Josiah is spending his nights at Poppy’s small wartime house.

Weit weg vom Lärm der Welt. Altenburg, 1945: Nicht nur im kleinen Eifeldorf hat der Krieg seine Spuren hinterlassen, auch in der Familie Fuchs. Nun heißt es, nach vorne zu blicken. Johannas Töchter Klara und Mia sind zu jungen Frauen herangewachsen. Die Schwestern sind unzertrennlich und doch unterschiedlich wie Tag und Nacht: Während die jüngere Mia mit ihren dunkelbraunen Haaren alle Blicke auf sich zieht und die Menschen mit ihrer ungezwungenen Art für sich einnimmt, hat Klara das rotblonde Haar ihrer Mutter geerbt, ist nachdenklich und in sich gekehrt.

Alice Katz is a young Jewish physicist, one of the only female doctoral students at her university, studying with the famed Dr. Oppenheimer. Her well-to-do family wants her to marry a man of her class and settle down. Instead, Alice answers her country’s call to come to an unnamed city in the desert to work on a government project shrouded in secrecy. At Los Alamos, Alice meets Caleb Blum, a poor Orthodox Jew who has been assigned to the explosives division. Around them are other young scientists and engineers who have quietly left their university posts to come live in the desert.

At the dark heart of the Holocaust, there was a wooden hut whose walls were painted with cartoons; a place where children sang, staged plays and wrote poetry. Safely inside, but still in the shadow of the chimneys, they were given better food, kept free of vermin, and were even taught meditation to imagine full stomachs and a day without fear. The man who became their guiding light was a young Jewish prisoner named Fredy Hirsch. Historian and biographer Wendy Holden tells the inspirational and uplifting true story of Fredy Hirsch: The Teacher of Auschwitz.

Con le letture esclusive dell'autore Vincenzo Consolo. In un piccolo albergo di Parigi, dove aspetta di incontrare il figlio esule per terrorismo, lo scrittore Gioacchino Martinez ricorda la sua infanzia in Sicilia, negli anni della guerra, la tragedia che ha segnato la sua vita, e un altro trauma, più piccolo ma non meno ossessionante: un film, Judex, visto all'oratorio, dove le avventure di un giustiziere in mantello nero venivano improvvisamente interrotte dalle incursioni belliche.

Mitreißend, fesselnd und schonungslos authentisch... "Dieser Moment gehört uns. Uns alleine... für immer..." Deutschland Mai 1944 - Seit dem Einfall der Wehrmacht in Frankreich und der damit verbundenen Einsetzung der Vichy-Regierung wird Charles, ein junger Soldat aus dem Süden Frankreichs, unter verheerenden Bedingungen im Grenz-Stalag Malschbach gefangen gehalten. Als Gerüchte über eine baldige Verlegung der Lagerinsassen ins Innere des Landes aufkommen, entschließt er sich Hals über Kopf, seine Fluchtpläne in die Tat umzusetzen.

Pianist(e): Zelfstandig naamwoord. Iemand die een radiozender bedient of bestuurt – vaak in code. Londen, 1940. Het leven van Marnie Fern staat op zijn kop als haar grootvader omkomt bij een luchtaanval. Als ze ontdekt dat hij voor het Nederlandse verzet heeft gewerkt als radioagent, weet Marnie dat ze zijn missie moet volbrengen. Koste wat het kost. Aan de andere kant van de radio is collega-pianiste Corrie Bakker verstrikt in een gevaarlijk kat-en-muisspel in het door de nazi's bezette Amsterdam.

Military leaders and historians have told the story of the atomic bomb. But the official accounts never focus on the thousands of ordinary Americans who helped make it happen. Rain of Ruin tells the story from their point of view for the first time.

Having grown up surrounded by nature, Bella Gardner loves nothing more than getting her hands dirty. When war breaks out, she immediately signs up for the Air Transport Auxiliary, frustrated she can’t play a more active role, yet keen to do something for the war effort. But when her brother is involved in a tragic accident, Bella must make a decision that changes the course of her life forever.

When Edgar dies in a Far East prisoner-of-war camp, it breaks the heart of fellow prisoner Starling, the man who loved him. When he visits Edgar’s family after the war, Edgar's mother, Clementine, mistakes him for another man, and he fails to correct the mistake. Playing the role of someone else and being in Edgar’s home with those who loved him stirs powerful and disorientating emotions in Starling. Edgar’s loss has driven his sister, Aida, to seek solace in the arms of a series of men–but the meeting with Starling sparks a powerful and complex connection.

Agosto 1939. Grace Bennett ha sempre sognato di trasferirsi a Londra. E ora le mille luci della città, i negozi eleganti, la frenetica vita mondana, che nella piccola cittadina del Norfolk poteva solo immaginare, stanno per diventare realtà. Quando il treno ferma a Farringdon Station, Grace si rende conto che il momento non è davvero dei migliori: gli abitanti stanno costruendo bunker e le porte sono sbarrate. La Germania di Hitler è alle porte e sicuramente la prima città presa di mira dai nazisti sarà Londra.

When war is declared in September 1939, Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of Hillsbridge to be with her widowed mother. She had fled to the city some years earlier to escape the heartache and shame of a disastrous end to her relationship with the man she has always loved, and still does. Now she will once more be brought face to face with him, and with her rival and childhood friend, Anne Hastings.

London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is marked with the name of a department store in Paris, and she is certain she has seen the necklace before worked with the Red Cross in Nazi-occupied Europe —and that it holds the key to the mysterious death of her friend Franny during the war.

It is yet another night of air raids, and instead of heading to the basement of her London workplace – risking being in the same vicinity as him, the man who hurt her in the worst way possible – nineteen-year-old Clare runs to the first place she can think of… and makes a decision that will haunt her for the rest of her life.

As war rages and brave soldiers returning home from the frontline need nurses more than ever, fiercely proud redhead Sylvia Roberts is determined to help in any way she can. In spite of her mother’s belief she isn’t good enough, Sylvia believes that becoming a home front nurse is her calling. Together with the two friends she makes on her first day in the job – Freda and Veronica – she knows she can help save lives. And, as the devastation of war shows no signs of ceasing, their work becomes ever more vital.

With the echoes of war reverberating around London, Cordelia, Mavis, and Jane are delighted to be blessed with some good news: the King and his Queen will be making a visit to the East End. As excitement builds, so does their apprehension. With each passing day, the threat of destruction from air raids increasingly plagues their worried minds. But with Christmas on the horizon, their morale is at an all-time high, and the girls are determined to display to their esteemed guests all they have done with the library – and with so little.

L’histoire d’Hélène Hannemann qui, grâce à son héroïsme, a rendu sa dignité à tout son village. Ce roman est inspiré de la véritable histoire d’une courageuse infirmière allemande chargée de prendre soin des prisonniers les plus jeunes d’Auschwitz. Berceuse d’Auschwitz rend hommage à Hélène Hannemann, une femme qui a tout sacrifié pour sa famille et farouchement lutté pour les enfants qu’elle espérait sauver. Par une matinée ordinaire de 1943, Hélène Hannemann prépare ses cinq enfants pour le jour où la police allemande débarquera chez elle.