An intimate and moving collection of personal stories following an extraordinary group of women - starting with a heartfelt letter from a young woman in 1935, struggling to find her place in the world.
War Stories
- Auteur:BAILEY, JennaSommaire:
- Auteur:CORRIS, PeterSommaire:
All Browning expects is to go through the motions of making a propaganda film. Instead, he is forced to slog through the Queensland jungle, dodge bullets and bombs and endure the discomforts of a military prison. His enemies question...
- Auteur:TER HAAR, JaapSommaire:
The story of a few days in the life of a young Russian boy during the siege of Leningrad in World War II.
- Auteur:Chevalier, G. N.Sommaire:
In 1918, Michael McCready returned from the war with one goal: to lose himself in the pursuit of pleasure. Once a promising young medical student, Michael buried his dreams alongside the broken bodies of the men he could not save. After...
- Auteur:Reintgen, ScottSommaire:
Three cultures clash in all out war--against each other and against the gods--in the second book of this fantasy duology that's sure to capture fans of The Hunger Games and An Ember in the Ashes.
The Races are over. War has begun...
- Auteur:Faulks, SebastianSommaire:
A tale of love and war early this century. The protagonists are Stephen Wraysford, a British businessman, and Isabelle Azaire, a married Frenchwoman. They meet in 1910, she elopes with him, gives birth to his child, then remorse sends...
- Auteur:Flannery, Peter A.Sommaire:
The world is falling to the burning shadow of the Possessed and only the power of a battle mage can save it. But the ancient bond with dragonkind is failing. Of those that answer a summoning too many are black. Black dragons are the...
- Auteur:Ward, DavidSommaire:
«Le pillard tenait son flambeau élevé et allait le lancer sur le toit. Je visai sa poitrine et laissai voler la flèche.» Depuis près d’un an, les fugueurs sont à la recherche de leur terre natale. Mais même alors, les dangers de...
- Auteur:Vonnegut, KurtSommaire:
Published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, this is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace, imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor.
- Auteur:Pejvack, NasreenSommaire:
Amity provides a window to the wreckage caused by war and conflict that leave behind destruction, displacement, pain and struggle resulting in life-long and irreparable psychological disorders. It is a story about the lives of...
- Auteur:Lingard, JoanSommaire:
In Belfast Sadie and Kevin fall in love but their relationship is a dangerous one because they are from opposing religious sides in Northern Ireland's troubles.
- Auteur:MORROW, ChristineSommaire:
An account of a journey across France in 1940-41.
- Auteur:SHUTE, NevilSommaire:
An English girl and an Australian soldier meet when they are POW's of the Japanese. The events which take place then and after the war make an interesting and heartwarming story.
- Auteur:FRENCH, JackieSommaire:
As three teenaged girls seek to make a difference in the ongoing struggles of World War I, they find that the war will impact them in ways they could never have imagined.
- Auteur:Mantel, HilarySommaire:
An extraordinary, epic novel set during the French Revolution, winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. A spellbinding, epic novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror,...
- Auteur:BISHOP, PatrickSommaire:
A novel of wartime Britain, as the lives of two men are intertwined like good luck and bad, love and loss, life and death, from the ruins of Poland to the rolling English countryside.
- Auteur:GRAHAM, JamesSommaire:
World War Two is nearing its end but on one of the Channel Islands off the French coast, a fanatical SS unit hides out. It is Morgan's job to find out what they are planning.
- Auteur:METHERELL, AllenSommaire:
This true story recounts the events which led to the outbreak of the Pacific War and tells of one British family's amazing escape from Singapore before the Japanese invasion to seek refuge in Perth, Western Australia.
- Auteur:SILVER, Lynette RamsaySommaire:
Story of WWII Sandakan Prisoner of war camp from which only 6 Australians survived. Also details a bungled rescue attempt, where almost all the men died because of mistakes made within the senior ranks.