Résultats pour "Laura" dans Guerre et militaires

Harper Lee Wilcox has been marking time in her hometown of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina since her husband, Noah Wilcox’s death, nearly five years earlier. With her son Ben turning five and living at home with her mother, Harper fights a growing restlessness, worried that moving on means leaving the memory of her husband behind. Her best friend, Allison Teague, is dealing with struggles of her own. Her husband, a former SEAL that served with Noah, was injured while deployed and has come home physically healed but fighting PTSD.

The land girl and the US officer July 1942 Dear diary, despite the war raging around me, I find I can’t stop thinking about the American officer, Sergeant Dale Johnson. I’ve never known anyone as brave, kind and handsome! But I promised myself I wouldn’t care this much about a man again...

Amidst the glittering heat of Abu Dhabi, Hollyn Reinhardt’s world shatters in one tragic night. Once a child prodigy, now a leading AI scientist, she’s left reeling from her parents’ sudden death—and the haunting suspicion that it was no accident. Vulnerable yet defiant, Hollyn must protect her life’s work from unseen enemies. Enter Davis Ledger: former Green Beret, owner of a keen-nosed military working dog named Fury, and the slightly older man whose rugged charm once captured Hollyn’s young heart.

Sarajevo, 1992. Ogni notte bande di ultranazionalisti con la faccia coperta da calze nere trascinano in strada i mobili presi dalle case abbandonate ed erigono barricate che tagliano la città in enclave etniche. Ogni mattina, gli abitanti – musulmani, croati, serbi – rimuovono quelle barriere e affrontano la giornata fingendo di non vedere ciò che si addensa all’orizzonte. Tuttavia, inevitabilmente, arriva il giorno in cui la tragedia che incombe sulla città non può più essere ignorata, e Zora Kočović, pittrice e insegnante, decide che è giunto il momento di mandare suo marito e l’anziana madre fuori dal paese, al sicuro.

Riecheggiando Fabrizio De Andrè e "La guerra di Piero" Laura Pariani racconta le storie di tre conflitti: la Grande Guerra sul fronte del Carso, la seconda guerra mondiale nella ritirata italiana di Russia e il conflitto tra Argentina e Inghilterra nel 1982 per le isole Malvinas: protagonisti sono tre Pieri, tre giovani che partono per combattere una guerra che non hanno deciso né voluto, lasciando a casa tre Ninette ad aspettare inutilmente il loro ritorno.

Sobre estos tres escenarios se han librado batallas: la isla gallega de San Simón albergó un campo de concentración durante la guerra civil española, Vietnam fue la gran herida de la Norteamérica de los sesenta, la costa de Normandía fue testigo del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Como las estrellas, que nos alumbran aunque estén extinguidas, los caídos de estas contiendas están unidos a los protagonistas de esta historia que, desde los mismos lugares pero hoy, entrelazan sus destinos mediante conexiones sorprendentes.

WINNER OF THE ‘FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR’ AT CRT 2021 Includes an audiobook-exclusive interview with the author discussing his inspiration for Ashes and his family’s history during World War II. A deeply touching novel about two young women whose differences, which once united them, will...