Títulos em Século XX

Blackshirts march through the East End in 1930s London and the Jewish community is under threat of violence. In the midst of this, Jessie Warner discovers a family secret and turns to her mother for answers – but she is met with silence. Over in Bethnal Green, Hannah Blake reluctantly joins the Blackshirts, forced by her cold-hearted mother to do so. Next-door neighbour Emmie Smith looks on, wishing she could tell Hannah the truth about her family and provide her with hope for a brighter future.

È il 1945, la guerra volge al termine. Ma in un piccolo villaggio greco la vita continua come niente fosse, in una convivenza con gli occupanti tedeschi ormai diventata abitudine. Un giorno, però, cominciano a cadere, inaspettate, le bombe inglesi. Anche sulla scuola. Gli studenti si rifugiano in una grotta, guidati dalla loro insegnante, l’incantevole Signorina, "sottile come una lama di luce". E qui lei, per far passare il tempo, racconta loro di un’altra guerra, quella combattuta dagli Achei sotto le mura di Troia per le grazie della bellissima Elena, rapita da Paride al suo sposo Menelao.

Poland, 1943. Samuel is only sixteen when he arrives at the somber metal gates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. He is forced deep inside the camp with the few remaining survivors from his village. They march past the smoking crematoriums, toward their future, toward their fate. Toward Block 19. Even at such a young age, the horrors of war are something Samuel knows all too well. Having lived through the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto, he faced the brutality and cruelty of the Germans, fighting for his survival day by day. But Block 19 would test his bravery and endurance.

Frühling 1945: Es kann nicht mehr lange dauern, bis der Frieden endlich da ist und Johann heim kann zu seiner Braut Emmy und dem Neugeborenen. Nur wenige Wochen – die aber über Leben und Tod entscheiden. Als Johann und seine Kameraden nahe der Heimat stationiert sind, ergreifen sie die Chance und desertieren. Johann versteckt sich in der Scheune seiner Tante, die ihn versorgt, beide stets in der Angst, entdeckt zu werden. Nach einigen Tagen taucht plötzlich Frieda auf, das sechzehnjährige Nachbarsmädchen.

D’après l’histoire vraie d’une femme incroyablement courageuse qui a sauvé la vie de centaines de mères et de leurs enfants pendant la Guerre civile espagnole et la Seconde guerre mondiale. La maternité d’Elna est un roman fascinant, basé sur ce qui s'est réellement produit en ces lieux. Depuis la naissance du premier bébé en 1939, une vingtaine d’accouchements étaient réalisés chaque mois par des infirmières volontaires dépêchées par l’école d’infirmières suisse.

June 1940. As World War Two rages, Daphne Devine remains in London, performing each night as assistant to stage magician Jonty Trevelyan, aka the Grand Mystique. Then the secret service call.

At the turn of the 20th century, Maria-Luisa Moresco was not like most Italian women of her time. She was driven to achieve her professional aspirations when others looked for a happy and healthy family and a peaceful environment to call home. But when multiple tragedies struck – earthquakes and storms, unexpected deaths, World War II, broken relationships, even murders – she, and later her daughter Chiara, were forced to find a way forward despite their irreplaceable losses.

Flying Officer Angus Mackennelly and the rest of "Maverick" Squadron 696 are engaged in tactics to lure the Luftwaffe into battle. But Angus has grave misgivings about the orders he has been given, which are justified when he loses a brand-new pilot on their first incursion.

Haunted by the Past, Pursued by the Reich.In the thrilling second instalment of the Fernsby’s War Series, Alderauge catapults listeners into the tumultuous summer of 1939. Michael Fernsby, burdened by the ghosts of his past, plunges back into Nazi Germany with dual objectives: aiding a high-ranking Nazi defector for the British government, and rescuing his family's legacy. Treading a treacherous path from Munich's ominous facilities to England's peaceful countryside, Michael navigates dangerous alliances, chilling Nazi secrets, and seeks vengeance against those who wronged him.

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.

1922. Twenty-year-old Eleanor Mackridge is horrified by the future mapped out for her – to serve the upper classes or find a man to marry (preferably kind). She ‘proved useful’ working in a munitions factory during the war – handling explosives – but now, society is returning to normal and women are being put back in their place.

Lucinda McFarlane is engaged to be married to dashing Sir David Melcome, but their society wedding has to be scaled right down when war is declared. Will David even live to see their baby born? Mabel Oakley, once a maid for the McFarlanes, has inherited Thomas Clarke’s printing works, but an unexpected turn of events leaves her at the mercy of her father’s old enemy, solicitor John Sheridan, just as she is beginning to fall for his son. What can she do?

London, 1944: As bombs start raining from the sky, two women rush out of a restaurant, leaving their possessions behind. Their chance meeting amid the chaos and destruction will have long-lasting consequences. Both beset by desperate problems, they take advantage of the wartime chaos to escape their humdrum lives and start again.

New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during WWII included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a kaiju? This collection takes real events from World War II and injects them with fantastical creatures that mirror the “unreality” of war itself. Each story—and two poems—feature mythical, mystical, and otherwise unexplainable beings that change the course of history.

When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross, determined to do what she can for the city that holds a part of her heart, and to reconnect with Billy - despite what London society thinks of her.

Hitler is marching across Europe. When the book begins, war is only a rumor. Mary Rosie enjoys the excitement the influx of young servicemen bring to the area, especially one charismatic RAF pilot, to the dismay of Johnny, the boy who expects to marry her. When the first bomb strikes her home town, Mary is catapulted into the grim realities of war. A grim discovery on the beach changes her life forever.

Long considered one of the best American novels of our time, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable tale of an American ambulance driver and his passionate affair with a beautiful English nurse. Set against the backdrop of World War I, this gripping semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war as only Hemingway can. A story of love and pain, loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms paints an intimate portrait of the pain and intensity of a love overshadowed by the inexorable creep of global war.

A Man Could Stand Up—is the third of four installments in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, which follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy British landowner and the last British Tory; his unfaithful wife, Sylvia; and his mistress, Valentine Wannop. Opening on Armistice Day (November 11, 1918), A Man Could Stand Up—serves as the climax of the series. Highlighting the tension between traditional values and a rapidly changing social order, the novel details Christopher and Valentine's trials as the post-war world takes shape around them.

Deutschland 1940, ein Volk im Kriegstaumel. Die 25-jährige Elisabeth scheint für ihre Umgebung etwas merkwürdig, da sie lieber zeichnet und Klavier spielt, als den Eltern bei der Bewirtschaftung des Hofes zu helfen. Durch ein dramatisches Ereignis fällt sie in eine tiefe Depression und soll in der Landesheilanstalt Stadtroda genesen. Wovon die Eltern jedoch nichts wissen, ist das Vorhaben von Hitler und seinen willigen Vollstreckern in weißen Kitteln, "lebensunwertes Leben" in der Aktion Gnadentod zu beenden.

Ein bewegender Roman über die Suche nach Heimat und Glück: das Finale der Fremde-Heimat-Reihe von Bestsellerautorin Sibel Daniel 1951: Die willensstarke Alma hat mit ihrer Familie die Umsiedlung nach Polen und die furchtbare Flucht vor der Roten Armee überlebt. Dass Janos und sie sich wiedergefunden haben, ist ihr großes Glück. Doch Alma spürt, dass Deutschland ihr keine neue Heimat werden kann. Es ist die Liebe, die ihr die Kraft gibt, weiter von einem Leben als Winzerin zu träumen. Sie weist ihr den Weg nach Amerika: Mit Janos, der kleinen Maria sowie den Brüdern Alwin und August besteigt Alma ein Schiff nach New York.