Résultats pour "Survivors" dans Fiction historique

Lolly has always known her mum was different. Sometimes Angela Bruce was ill in a quiet sort of way, but other times she roamed the Mansfield estate shouting about whatever had wormed its way into her head that day. Either way, Lolly was on her own, so she learned how to look after herself pretty quickly. Mal Fury has never got over the disappearance of his daughter all those years ago, but there's still hope because the police never found Kay's body.

Germany, 1945. Klara Janowska and her daughter, Alicja, have walked for weeks to get to Graufeld Displaced Persons camp. In the cramped, dirty, dangerous conditions they, along with 3,200 others, are the lucky ones. They have survived and will do anything to find a way back home. But when Klara recognises a man in the camp from her past, a deadly game of cat and mouse begins. He knows exactly what she did during the war to save her daughter. She knows his real identity. What will be the price of silence? And will either make it out of the camp alive?

In the autumn of 1861, the three Wade brothers - a farmer, a teacher, and a student - find themselves swept up in the horrific turmoil between the North and South. Beginning with their baptism under fire at the at the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern in Arkansas to the bloody and brutal Battle of Corinth in Mississippi, the Wade brothers have morphed from brothers by blood to brothers in arms. As the nation tragically tears itself asunder, Henry Wade and his brothers find themselves battling a foreign - yet familiar - foe.

After surviving the Napoleonic Wars, Sir Benedict Harper is struggling to move on, his body and spirit in need of a healing touch. Never does Ben imagine that hope will come in the form of a beautiful woman who has seen her own share of suffering. After the lingering death of her husband, Samantha McKay is at the mercy of her oppressive in-laws - until she plots an escape to distant Wales to claim a house she has inherited. Being a gentleman, Ben insists that he escort her on the fateful journey.

In 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic, Nabiha “Bea” Nohra is traveling to America to find work, eager to earn the funds necessary to afford passage for the family she left in Lebanon. On the same ship, heiress Marguerite Ashby sails home to celebrate her engagement to a dull British lord, a...

Cash Coulter settled into a life far removed from his days of fighting for the South and crossing the country as a bounty hunter. Now a deputy sheriff, Cash wants nothing more than to buy some land, raise cattle, and build a simple life in the frontier town of Splendor, Montana. But his whole world shifts when his gaze lands on the most captivating woman he’s ever seen. And the feeling appears to be mutual.

Poland, 1943. Samuel is only sixteen when he arrives at the somber metal gates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. He is forced deep inside the camp with the few remaining survivors from his village. They march past the smoking crematoriums, toward their future, toward their fate. Toward Block 19. Even at such a young age, the horrors of war are something Samuel knows all too well. Having lived through the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto, he faced the brutality and cruelty of the Germans, fighting for his survival day by day. But Block 19 would test his bravery and endurance.

Anne of Survivor follows the journey of a defiant young woman who refuses to compromise her identity, forging an unconventional path filled with unexpected allies, profound adventures, and a destiny intertwined with the fate of a kingdom. Anne may not know exactly what she wants in life, but she knows who she is and is not willing to change that for anyone. Anne resides in post-war Ryland, where everything’s civilized. A lesser noble, she should be grateful to have garnered Duke Saben’s interest; it’s everything her family desired for her… and themselves.

Ravin should be dead. No one forsakes the assassin profession and lives. Attempting to evade capture and certain death, Ravin hides on a ship as part of the crew. Then, his name is announced on Selection Day for the annual Scaera Dumeda, despite him never taking the entry test, declaring to the entire world—and the assassins hunting him for revenge—that he is alive.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of The Perfume Thief, a remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books and second chances, following the Titanic librarian who opens a bookshop in Paris where he meets a secret society of survivors. "Deeply moving and rich with vivid detail...

The worldwide disappearance of all living creatures, after the catastrophic storm, brings Kyara to the brink of despair as she and her siblings go on a miraculous journey through time. Everything changes the day of the storm. Time is lost. People are taken. And an unnatural silence settles over the land. Kyara and her three siblings seem to wake up to a normal life, but what is normal can never be normal again after that night’s storm. Not when everyone in the world disappears, except Kyara and her three siblings;the only ones left in the sacred world. As they try to find out why everyone disappeared, they come across a time machine disguised in a cell phone.

Poland 1938. Eve of the World War II. Rivka sends her husband and three beloved children to the United States, where they will find safe shelter from the war. She tells everyone that she is staying behind in order to care for her aging parents but her real reason is completely different. Beyond her work as librarian, Rivka serves as a spy for the Jewish underground, a critical role in the changing reality in Europe.

The true story of 14-year-old Lucy who survived the concentration camp of Auschwitz. LUCY DEUTSCH (born Lucy Lebovitz in 1930 in a village in the Karpathian mountains) was 14 years old when was deported to the concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau with her parents and three siblings. While her mother and two younger siblings went straight to the crematorium, Lucy could escape the gas chamber by pretending to be eighteen years old. Lucy’s strength and faith of a better future ahead helped her to survive the unimaginable cruelty of the Nazi machinery in the concentration camp.