Novedades

For twenty-one-year-old Grace Fitzgerald, life is finally looking bright. Orphaned as a child and later struck down by polio, she then endured years of cold indifference at the hands of her sister Agnes. Now, with Agnes finally gone, Grace has found love with her handsome young husband and peace surrounded by friends in her home village of Knocknashee and in her ongoing friendship with the American journalist Richard Lewis.

When Pascal kisses Noemi and presses his mother’s locket into her hands, it is a moment she has been longing for her whole life. But when war is declared, overnight their love becomes forbidden–Noemi is Jewish, while Pascal is being pressured to become a Hitler Youth officer by his father. When Noemi’s parents are captured and taken to Dachau, she knows her hometown is no longer safe.

A sweeping and suspenseful novel of love and war, set in Japan during the final days of World War II, with a shocking historical premise: three atomic bombs were actually delivered to the Pacific—not two—and when one of them falls into the hands of the Japanese, the fate of a couple that has been separated from one another becomes entangled with the fate of this strange new device.

Iron Cross – Himmler's Greatest Hour!The war escalates in Tom Zola’s explosive alternate history series! Summer 1944. Germany stands at the brink. As the Allies tighten their grip in the West, the Eastern Front teeters, and within the Reich, dark forces stir. Lieutenant Engelmann’s Tiger tanks rumble toward new battlefields—yet old ghosts haunt every mile. In Berlin, Chancellor von Witzleben faces betrayal from within. And deep behind enemy lines, a covert mission could turn the tide—or doom the Fatherland forever. Tom Zola, a former German Army sergeant, delivers a gritty and ...

In the quaint town of Buttonwood, Vermont, buttons are more than fashion—they’re secrets sewn into history. When Lydia Wren and her close-knit group of friends—the Button Belles—take a tour of the legendary Bramble & Stitch button factory, they expect nothing more than antique brooches and a bit of button trivia. But when they discover the body of the factory’s longest-serving employee in the dusty vault, their hobby turns deadly. As the Button Belles dig deeper, they uncover whispers of a long-buried World War II intelligence project, coded buttons, and a local scandal buried ...

Anna heeft troost en liefde gevonden in een woonwagenkamp, maar nadat nazipartijlid Ulf zijn zinnen op haar heeft gezet is ze ook hier niet veilig. In Ravensbrück nemen de overlevingskansen met de minuut af wanneer Moriah, de beste vriendin van Bernie, verstrikt raakt in Dagna's dodelijke plannen. Elica wordt door de maatschappij verstoten vanwege het veelzeggende litteken op haar gezicht en worstelt met de gevolgen van haar egoïstische keuzes. Anna, Bernie en Elica sluiten een verbond om voor altijd vriendinnen te blijven. Maar zal hun vriendschap de verschrikkingen van de oorlog doorstaan?

March 1945—the Nazis have tested their first atomic bomb, the West doesn’t want the world to know—and the Soviets are racing to claim it. Desperate to keep nuclear technology out of Stalin’s hands, the Office of Strategic Services sends Scott Arlington on a one-way mission behind enemy lines. His objective: intercept the Nazi scientists, prevent the Soviets from seizing the German atomic facility, and erase all traces of the program—by any means necessary.

London, July 1944. Editor Emmy Lake's career is soaring: Woman's Friend magazine is a huge success, and she is finally realizing her dream of becoming a Lady War Correspondent. On the personal front, Emmy's husband Charles has been posted closer to home, and her good friends Bunty and Harold are planning their summer wedding in the countryside. They all know how lucky they are. But after nearly five years of war, the nation is struggling.

When Mary meets a glamorous stranger named Elizabeth she realises their lives couldn’t be more different. Elizbeth is beautiful and charming, about to set off on a dazzling adventure to Ireland where she’s inherited a grand house. Mary, shy and meek, has nothing to look forward to but the dreary life of a maid in Hampstead.

París, 1939. Los nazis creen que Éliane no entiende alemán y que no sabe que están robando los tesoros del Louvre: están equivocados. No se imaginan que está decodificando sus notas e informando a la Resistencia, pero es un juego peligroso. ¿Se atreverá a confiar sus secretos al hombre que una vez amó? ¿La traicionará una vez más? No tiene forma de saberlo con certeza hasta que un viaje a una impresionante casa en la Riviera francesa trae consigo un nivel de peligro completamente nuevo.

Paris, 1963. Behind Severine Kassel's carefully crafted image as the Louvre's most respected jewellery curator lies a woman haunted by unspeakable trauma. When she's invited to London to authenticate a collection of rare Byzantine pearls, her composed facade finally cracks. These are not just any pearls – they belong to her family, stolen in an act of unimaginable cruelty two decades earlier. Her shocking revelation sets off a frenzied hunt for former Nazi officer Ruda Mayek.

1941, Pittsburg, California. Sixteen-year-old Annalisa Aiello huddles around the radio with her family when a special announcement shatters her world: Pearl Harbor has been bombed–where her brother is stationed on the USS Arizona. After the United States declares war, Annalisa watches in horror as her father, a Sicilian fisherman, is arrested as an "enemy alien". Grappling with grief and harsh wartime restrictions, Annalisa is forced to undertake an unexpected journey across the country to find her father and uncover the sacrifices of the past.

With her family’s perfumery in dire straits, Stella Penhallam needs a miracle. So, when her great-aunt’s journal from 1940s Paris lands on her desk, Stella realises that the missing pages could hold the answers she seeks. In 1939, as war breaks out across Europe, Iris Penhallam is forced into an impossible situation, one that will cause her world to come crashing down.

Arthur Stannard was just 17 years old when he was transported more than 11,000 miles from his home in rural England to the rugged open landscapes of North Island, New Zealand. The son of a naval officer, Arthur was one of hundreds of boys and girls who were taken from their families and shipped to locations around the Dominions. Arthur’s destination was Flock House, a residential home and farm training school, set up and run by New Zealand farmers as a debt of gratitude to The Royal Navy for protecting their merchant ships during the First World War.

July 1944, Normandy, France. Karl Hamann knows two truths. One, he is sick of the brutality of war, and two, he desperately wants to get home. Home to Heidelberg, where his wife and baby daughter, an infant he has never held, await him. A reluctant soldier of the Wehrmacht, Hamann was drafted late in the war as an auto mechanic. When the Allies land on D-Day, he is handed a rifle and told to fight. His focus is to survive. His war ends when a compassionate American GI, one Worthy McGuire, captures him on the eve of another bloody battle in the struggle for control of Normandy. Now a ...

A beautiful story of wartime survival, this is the romantic love story about a young Austrian Jewish girl who survives WWII by hiding from the Nazis whilst living amongst them in Hitler’s Munich. There was a knock on the door of the apartment. She looked through the spyglass to see two Gestapo officers standing there. What did they want, had they come for her? Had she been discovered after all this time? Was she about to lose everything, including her life? Rebecca was a beautiful teenager with many friends who loved her. However, for her, life as a young Austrian woman would change ...

Marsica, 1927. Dopo il devastante terremoto che ha ridotto in macerie Avezzano, la città si prepara a una nuova era. Francesca, ragazza piena di speranze, vede nel fascismo una promessa di cambiamento, una via di fuga dalla miseria e dai sacrifici della vita contadina. Influenzata da Elisabetta, professoressa che mescola l'insegnamento scolastico con la propaganda politica, e dai discorsi degli uomini in camicia nera, la giovane è pronta a sfidare l'autorità del nonno, uomo conservatore e monarchico, pur di ottenere l'agognata iscrizione al partito.

Георгий Венус, – потомок переселившихся в Россию в XVIII веке немцев-литейщиков встретил Первую мировую войну в чине прапорщика. Был дважды ранен, награжден Георгиевским крестом. Уже тогда армейская действительность заставила его на многое посмотреть другими глазами. Романтический пьедестал, на котором строились юношеские идеалы, пошатнулся. Позже Георгий Венус вступил в ряды Добровольческой армии и был направлен в Дроздовский добровольческий офицерский полк. При Деникине, а позже при Врангеле «дроздовцы» воевали на самых ответственных участках фронта и прославились своей жестокостью.

Décembre 1942. La France est désormais totalement occupée. Pour Albane, Noël s’annonce sous le signe des restrictions, sans la présence rassurante de Raphaël, membre actif d’un réseau de résistance. Si elle cède à une joie timide lorsqu’il lui annonce son retour, des incidents troublants se succèdent au château, faisant peser une mystérieuse menace sur la jeune femme, sa famille et ses amis. Révoltée par les exactions commises par des soldats allemands, Albane se consacre à son métier d’enseignante sans pour autant renoncer au combat.