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Can the bonds of motherhood give them the strength they’ll need to get through the war?
St Ives, Spring 1943.
After having given up her baby at seventeen, Sonya is inspired by her work at an orphanage to discover what happened to her daughter twenty-five years ago. Reunited, they struggle to bond whilst braving the war together.
Nurse Lily has returned to St Ives to finish training as a midwife. But when old flame Tristan is brought in wounded,...
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Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies.
Java Island, 1941
Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java-living with other Dutch families-had always been peaceful, but when Holland declares war...
3) My Red Cross
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A Red Cross agent in France during German occupation faces intimidation, fear, love, hate and pleas for help. He is trying to be Father Christmas, Jesus Christ and everybody's parent, yet has little to give but hope.Beresford Branson, a Red Cross agent in France during German occupation, faces intimidation, fear, love, hate and pleas for help. He is trying to be Father Christmas, Jesus Christ and everybody's parent, yet has little to give but hope.My...
4) Aura of War
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The story of Arthur DeVendt, born in 1927, proves that even though war, political and economic turmoil adversely impacted his future, by maintaining his honor, dogged persistence, and ability to adjust to changing conditions he manages to succeed. Seventeen-year-old Arthur, the son of a Hungarian army officer, of French extraction finds himself orphaned in a refugee camp of postwar Germany.
5) Destitution
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Destitution by Jim Jackal The war is over and Hitler is dead, leaving behind a country that has been totally devastated. There is no organisation in place to provide the basic necessities of food and shelter and the Allies are struggling to cope with the chaotic circumstances.Dieter Barth, a young German officer, is captured by the British and survives the detention camp but is accused of being ex-Gestapo and is taken to Bad Nenndorf, the British...
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TWO NOVELLAS BY TALENTED AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR BERNARD MARIN ON THE LONG SHADOW CAST BY WAR...
BREAKFAST WITH PAUL: WE BEG TO DIFFER.
Two old friends meet every Saturday for breakfast. Outwardly, their lives have followed similar paths-both are Jewish, both migrated from Europe after the war-but their childhoods are very different and shaped them in ways they are struggling to understand. Will their differences ultimately divide them, or bring them closer...
7) Addiction
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Addiction is a pilot's story that proves that flying is an addiction; worse than tobacco, alcohol, and drugs rolled into one.
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El círculo clandestino que combatió a Hitler desde el corazón del Berlín nazi.
Mildred Fish, una joven recién graduada, se casa con el brillante economista alemán Arvid Harnack, al que acompaña a su país natal, donde un prometedor futuro los está aguardando. Los recién casados se crean una nueva y enriquecedora vida llena de amor, amigos y trabajo dentro del floreciente ambiente cultural e intelectual del Berlín de 1930. Pero el imparable...
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A Baronet's son, naïve and irresponsible, must fend for himself in the South Pacific. He survives hardship, kidnap and mugging before getting tangled up in the Japanese invasion of Guadalcanal. A nobleman's errant son is despatched to the South seas to be blooded.A tale of stumbling through intrigue, hunger, pangs of love-lust, deceit, loneliness, kidnap and hunger on his path to discovering common sense.Coast-watching on Guadalcanal when the Japanese...
10) The Architect
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Ex-New York Police Detective Eugene Kennedy has a new job. Joining forces with former Detective and survivor of Auschwitz Emil Janowitz and his colleague Findlay Quinn, they work on 'The Sikora Files'. Their role is to locate, capture, denounce and put to trial Nazi war criminals of the Second World War.When a long-forgotten file of papers, stolen from Belsen concentration camp at war's end, is discovered in the attic of a female former camp guard,...
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Between the two World Wars, as Great Britain seeks to recover, a Great War veteran finds solace in the adoption of an abandoned baby boy. While storm clouds gather once again over Europe, Sir Arnold Chepstow must see his ward sign up to fight.
In the dark, sombre fear of war, Sir Arnold's redoubtable nurse is his constant companion and ever present source of joy. Will they know the happiness of seeing Rupert Chepstow return alive and well? And is...
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The Man Booker Prize finalist Far to Go by acclaimed author Alison Pick is historical fiction at its very best.
When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich's advancing army. A fiercely patriotic secular Jew, Pavel Bauer is helpless to prevent his world from unraveling as first his government, then his business partners,...
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At the end of World War II, the Americans and their allies divided Berlin, the capital of Germany, into four sectors, with the Russians taking one of the sectors. The problem was that the Western (American) sector of Berlin was surrounded by the Russian sector of Germany, which was also divided.
In June of 1948, Joseph Stalin stopped all road and rail traffic coming into and out of the Allied Sector of Berlin. He simultaneously cut off all electricity...
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" USS Houston -The Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast"In the shadow of World War II's swelling storm, "The Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast" by Sidney St. James plunges into the heart of naval warfare. This gripping historical novel recounts the harrowing tale of the USS Houston and her gallant crew in the face of insurmountable odds.February 1942: As the tides of war draw ever closer, the USS Houston, alongside her ally, the Australian light cruiser...
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.On the eve of WWII, three former freedom fighters arrive in Germany to do the unthinkable: kill an SS officer. American idealists Billy Lachance and Lum Del Luca join forces with German socialist Josef Weiss and plunge deep into the greater Reich. With single-minded determination, they search for Rolf von Huber to repay him for violating the laws of war during the Spanish Civil War. Escaping the killing fields of Spain, the three make their way across...
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From the picturesque streets of pre-war Vienna to Britain's atmospheric cities in the grip of war, Esther's Children is the perfect read for fans of Kate Quinn's The Alice Network, and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan.
Inspired by the extraordinary life of Esther Simpson, Esther's Children is a powerful novel of love and courage.
Austria, 1936: Esther 'Tess' Simpson works for a British organisation that rescues academics from the cruel Fascist and...
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Deprivation in occupied Germany immediately after WW2 seems greater than that in most occupied countries under the Nazis. Are the Allied victors guilty as charged, of major malpractices? For a long period, the peace proved more deadly than the fiercest battle. German deaths from malnutrition and starvation exceeded the sum of its soldiers, sailors and airmen killed in action. After the war, the victorious Allies are rightfully accused of as much graft,...
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Gentle Resistance is a story of nonviolence in the face of tragedy. Two photographers, one English and one German, meet on the field of battle, early in WWII. They become fast friends, later, partners, and we ride with them through the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. Their children marry.
But life is not a fairy tale. As the story passes to the children, there is tragedy, loss, and the need to transcend sheer horror. It's a tall tale that feels like...
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Novela de ficción ambientada en un periodo histórico de infausto recuerdo: la Segunda Guerra Mundial con sus diversos campos de concentración.
Su protagonista, Pilar, es española por parte de madre y alemana por parte de padre, un militar destinado a la escolta del cónsul germano en Sevilla. Por razones de seguridad, cuando estalla la guerra civil española, la familia decide trasladarse a Alemania. Si Pilar ya apuntaba maneras despóticas y...
20) A Song of Sorrow
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The Nazis were her Nemesis; Revenge was her obsession.
Juliette's world is turned upside down when her half-Jewish lover, Peter, takes her to a Nazi rally where she is shocked by the terrifying power of Hitler's charisma. Nothing in Juliette's life as a privileged opera diva has prepared her to deal with the approaching horror. On Kristallnacht, when her innocence is violated, revenge against the Nazis becomes an obsession. Juliette joins the Belgian...