Titres dans 20e siècle

Avec un récit engageant et authentique de ses expériences en tant que prisonnier de guerre évadé, ce témoignage captivant détaille la vie et les luttes d'un pilote capturé en 1917 en Europe ravagée par la guerre. Le lieutenant John Ryan était impatient de voir l'action pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Il a rejoint les couleurs britanniques par Canada. En tant que l'un des nombreux pilotes américains du Royal Flying Corps avant que les États-Unis n'entrent en guerre, il a gagné ses ailes et est devenu un as par des féroces batailles aériennes dans le ciel allemand.

9 février 1942. Dès son arrivée à New York, Woodrow Cain, un jeune flic du sud des États-Unis, est accueilli par les flammes qui s'échappent du paquebot Normandie, en train de sombrer dans l'Hudson. C'est au bord de ce même fleuve que va le mener sa première enquête, après la découverte d'un cadavre sur les docks, tenus par la mafia.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad comes a sweeping historical novel set in the Depression-era and wartime New York, where a young...

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style - the iconic little black dress - and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII - as discovered in recently unearthed wartime files.

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States. The Executioner's Song follows the true story of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore, who, after being tried and convicted, insisted on being executed for his crimes. To do...

Una novela inolvidable que removerá tu corazón Madrid, principios del siglo XX. Paola es apenas una muchacha cuando, cansada de ser una carga para su familia, decide mudarse a la capital con una maleta repleta de sueños anhelando experimentar la vida lejos de su pequeño pueblo. Allí espera encontrar lujos, romance y sofisticación, pero pronto comprenderá que la realidad es mucho más cruda de lo que había imaginado.

Vom Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zum Mauerfall verbinden die Fäden des Schicksals Lene, Nora und Lieselotte: Obwohl sie sich in einer Zeit der Angst und des Terrors als Fremde begegnen, werden sie zu Freundinnen, die einander Halt geben und große Risiken auf sich nehmen. Krankenschwester Nora tut alles, um Lene zu helfen, das Leben ihres kleinen Sohnes Leo zu retten. Denn wegen eines leichten Handicaps gilt Leo als »Reichsausschusskind«. 1942 lernt Nora Lieselotte in Danzig kennen.

The county of Barsetshire is aflutter with preparations. With the wedding of Lucy Marling and Sam Adams fast approaching, and Lucy's brother Oliver brooding over his ill-fated tendre for glamorous Jessica Dean, Mrs Marling calls for reinforcements. Help arrives in the form of charming writer Isabel Dale, still mourning the loss of her fiancé on D-Day - who might just be the cure for a bruised heart.

LONDON, 1944. In advance of Operation OVERLORD, the British Secret Service devises an audacious gambit: the false-flag recruitment of a German admiral who secretly is a communist. There isn’t much time. The admiral will be approachable only during the brief window when he travels to neutral Sweden at the head of a Nazi delegation. For the daring scheme to succeed, the British first must borrow from the Americans a brilliant young analyst, Linnea Thorsell.

Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.

2001, Sydney. Ruth Wesemann reçoit un mystérieux paquet qui va la replonger dans son passé, celui de l'entre-deux-guerres et du IIIe Reich. À l'époque, Ruth est une jeune photographe insouciante. En 1933, avec l'avènement d'Hitler, sa vie bascule : résistance, persécution, exil. Depuis la capitale anglaise, elle et son mari, Hans, tentent d'aider ceux qui, restés en Allemagne, s'opposent au Chancelier, et notamment sa cousine, Dora Fabian.

Se questo è un uomo: Con ostinazione e pacatezza, Primo Levi non ha mai smesso di cercare le parole per raccontare l’atrocità della deportazione e del campo di sterminio di Auschwitz, in cui venne internato dal febbraio 1944 al 27 gennaio 1945. La tregua: La tregua è il libro del ritorno, dove Primo Levi racconta le sue esperienze durante il lungo viaggio attraverso Russia e Europa dell’Est per tornare alla sua Torino. Un viaggio assurdo, fatto di incontri con persone di civiltà e lingue diverse ma tutte vittime della stessa guerra.

Wiesbaden, 1945. La joven Hilde apenas puede creer su suerte: la guerra ha terminado y el Café del Ángel se ha salvado milagrosamente. Hilde sueña con volver a convertir el negocio familiar en el glamouroso lugar que reunía a artistas y personalidades de la ciudad.

As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love. But the church calls to Angelo and, despite his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the priesthood. Now, more than a decade later, Angelo is a Catholic priest and Eva is a woman with nowhere to turn. With the Gestapo closing in, Angelo hides Eva within the walls of a convent.

8 settembre 1943: uno dei momenti più difficili della nostra storia. Il momento in cui una generazione si trovò davanti a un bivio che l'avrebbe segnata in maniera indelebile. La vicenda di Johnny, futuro partigiano del capolavoro di Fenoglio, riassume tutta la confusione di quell'attimo incredibilmente lungo; tutto il peso delle scelte prese quando infuria la battaglia. Primavera di bellezza (1959) è il terzo e ultimo libro pubblicato in vita da Beppe Fenoglio.

"A sparkling travelogue and a poignant journey of self-discovery all in one. . . . Alka Joshi is simply the best!" —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Rose Code From the New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist, this sweeping novel of...

Paullina Simons's internationally bestselling blockbuster The Bronze Horseman told the heart-soaring tale of a young Russian woman's transcendent love affair with a Red Army soldier during the siege of Leningrad in the dark days of World War Two. The epic story continues in Tatiana and Alexander—a novel of the enduring power of love and commitment against the devastating forces of war and the equally dangerous forces of keeping the peace. A sweeping, intensely compelling romantic historical saga, Tatiana and Alexander is a Russian Thorn Birds and a truly unforgettable listening experience.

In Erinnerung an seine Kindheit macht sich der Erzähler auf die Suche nach der ehemaligen Besitzerin einer Imbissbude am Hamburger Großneumarkt. Er findet die hochbetagte Lena Brücker in einem Altersheim und erfährt die Geschichte ihrer "schönsten Jahre" und wie es zur Entdeckung der Currywurst kam. Der Bogen spannt sich weit zurück in die letzten Apriltage des Jahres 1945.

“A breezy retro novel with bite.” —L.A. Times “A 1970s-Laurel Canyon version of My Brilliant Friend.”—The Atlantic An electrifying novel about the complicated friendship between two ambitious writers and the ultimate artistic betrayal: one writes a book based upon the other's life...

"A remarkable novel: chilling, compelling, contained..." The Times "...warrants a permanent place in the growing canon of World War Two literature." Clare McHugh, BBC Culture It is Christmas Eve 1932, and the Kluger family are celebrating at home. Their only daughter Lexa is excited about her...