This masterpiece of military history recounts the fateful hours that preceded and followed the invasion of Normandy, retelling the story of an epic battle that turned the tide against world fascism and freed Europe from the grip of Nazi...
World War (1939-1945)
- Auteur:Ryan, CorneliusSommaire:
- Auteur:Nablo, James Benson, Busby, BrianSommaire:
It descends with a challenge upon the censors, and yet this powerful story had to be told, for it is so much a part of a struggling, impetuous generation of youth in Canada. It is sometimes brazen, sometimes explosive, always face to...
- Auteur:Riley, LucindaSommaire:
In 1944 Paris, British office clerk Constance stumles into a prominent family that entertain the German elite, while in 1998 France, Emilie inherits a chateau. Can the chateau help Emilie discover what really happened to her family...
- Auteur:Hornfischer, James D.Sommaire:
One of the finest WWII naval action narratives in recent years, this book follows in the footsteps of Flags of Our Fathers, creating a microcosm of the war's American Navy destroyers. Hornfischer, a writer and literary agent in...
- Auteur:Rajchman, ChilSommaire:
Originally written in Yiddish in 1945, Rajchman provides the only survivors' record of Treblinka.
- Auteur:Wright, EricSommaire:
The story of a thirteen-year-old boy in London growing up during the second world war.
- Auteur:Tregebov, RheaSommaire:
Annette Gershon's odyssey from depression-era Winnipeg to Stalinist Russia and back to Canada in the 1950s is both the seldom-told story of those who actually made that hopeful, doomed, journey, and a testament to the tenacity of the...
- Auteur:Savage, AlanSommaire:
Spring 1943 and the Nazis determine to make an all-out effort to exterminate General Tito's partisans. Arch enemy of Tito's lieutenant, Tony Davis, Wassermann is determined to avenge past defeats and captures Tony's...
- Auteur:Allende, IsabelSommaire:
From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second...
- Auteur:Timm, UweSommaire:
- Auteur:BINGHAM, CharlotteSommaire:
It is 1941, and England is at its lowest ebb, undernourished, under-informed and terrified of imminent invasion. Even at Eden Park, the lovely country estate where Poppy, Kate, Lily, Marjorie and her adopted brother Billy have all...
- Auteur:Klages, EllenSommaire:
In 1943, eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan lives with her scientist father in Los Alamos, New Mexico, as he works on a top secret government program, and befriends an aspiring artist who is a misfit just like her.
- Auteur:Hazzard, ShirleySommaire:
In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will...
- Auteur:Mawer, SimonSommaire:
Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in...
- Auteur:Brenner-Wonschick, HanneloreSommaire:
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In the mid-1990s, German journalist Hannelore Brenner met ten of these...
- Auteur:Sherman, GiselaSommaire:
Six girls just out of high school live together during the summer of 1943 on a farm as part of the Farm Services - doing the work of the men who are off fighting the war in Europe. We follow the stories of Helene, who sends her wages...
- Auteur:Sem-Sandberg, Steve, Death, SarahSommaire:
Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year...
- Auteur:Doig, IvanSommaire:
Ivan Doig crafts an epic tale of 11 college football teammates confronting World War II. Eager to serve, TSU's champion athletes are stationed across the globe in various theaters. But one of them, Ben Reinking, is recruited by the...
- Auteur:Ibbotson, Eva.Sommaire:
Tally, a twelve-year-old English girl, and her classmates at Delderton, a progressive boarding school, help Karil, the young prince of Bergania, escape into England after the Nazis invade Bergania and kill the king.
- Auteur:Griffin, W. E. B.Sommaire:
The Office of Strategic Services has now been tasked with convincing the Axis powers that the Allied forces will not be invading Europe via France's beaches. Layers of secrecy shroud the operation--anyone could be a double agent.