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The author of the “enthralling” (Woman’s World) The Lost English Girl returns with a heartfelt new novel about estranged sisters who inherit their late mother’s dress shop in World War II London. Isabelle Shelton has always found comfort in the predictable world of her mother’s...

Operation Barbarossa is in full swing as the Germans and their Axis allies are moving inside the Soviet Union. The battles of Smolensk and Kiev are looming on the horizon, and further away, Moscow and Leningrad. Can the Red Army withstand the German offensive and defeat the invaders?

From the New York Times bestselling and National Jewish Book Award winning author: a dramatic and hopeful story of escape and survival in WWII Europe. It is October 1944, and Hitler has dispatched Adolf Eichmann and his death squads to Hungary to annihilate the Jewish population. Julia Powers...

Drugi tom bestsellerowej Trylogii szczecińskiej, historii o pamięci, która żyje w opowieściach, o trudnych rozmowach, które budują i o tym, że najgłębsze prawdy ukryte są w ciszy, spojrzeniu i niedopowiedzeniach. Magdalena z uwagą i przejęciem słucha wspomnień dziadka, Ludwika Starkowskiego. Jego opowieści, sięgające czasów wojny i powojennej rzeczywistości, są pełne dramatów, trudnych decyzji i emocji, które nie tracą na sile, mimo upływu lat.

Opowieść o sile rodzinnych więzi, o znaczeniu pamięci i o tym, że nie da się pójść naprzód bez zrozumienia tego, co było. Magdalena już wie, że jej rodzinna historia jest skomplikowana, bo wojna odcisnęła na niej swoje piętno. Z zapartym tchem słucha wszystkiego, o czym opowiada jej dziadek, Ludwik Starkowski, a z jego wspomnień buduje obraz rodziny nieidealnej, lecz prawdziwej.

Marzec 1945 r. Nastał armagedon. Kiedy na Gdańsk spadają radzieckie bomby, zamieniając go w gruzy, Rita wspomina przeszłość i opłakuje bliskich na oliwskim cmentarzu. Janek opuszcza partyzancki oddział i przedziera się do płonącego miasta. Czy Otto przeżył Stalingrad? Co się stało z Anielą, która pewnego dnia wyszła z domu i słuch o niej zaginął? Czy w ruinach miasta Rita i Janek odnajdą nareszcie siebie i miłość, którą przerwała wojna?

In this haunting historical novel, a light-skinned Black man goes undercover to investigate lynchings in the Jim Crow South, only to be confronted by the very evil that has pursued him since childhood. Clark Wendell White first encountered the Nightmare as a child during the Atlanta Race Riot of...

In 2000, Sophie Cass, an ambitious journalist, may have finally found her big break. Convinced a celebrated painter in the Hamptons is hiding a dark secret, she sets off to unravel the truth about his past. Her research takes her back decades to 1940, as an international group of artists and intellectuals gather at The House of Dreams, a beautiful villa just outside Marseilles where American journalist Varian Fry and his remarkable team are working to help them escape France.

What happens when a love story turns into a political nightmare? From the moment Amalia enters his shop, the immigrant shoemaker Erasmo imagines she will fulfill his dream of America. And their story begins in promise. The lovers are passionate for life and each other, but they both come to see the truth beneath the surface. Amalia has opened Erasmo's eyes to inequality and the exploitation of the poor. Against the backdrop of the WWI Red Scare, while the Spanish Flu rages, Erasmo becomes embroiled in the battle between Italian anarchists and the federal government.

1943. The war is turning against the Third Reich, but the Luftwaffe are eagerly exploiting a lethal blind spot in the RAF's Lancaster bombers with their innovative upward-firing cannon. MI5's Tam Moncrieff lobbies ceaselessly for a solution in the face of officials' indifference. His quest sees him accompanying a bombing raid deep into Nazi Germany that will change the course of the war. The target is the Nazis' flagship city of Nuremberg. With bright moonlight and clear visibility, the conditions are perfect… for the enemy. The Luftwaffe are jubilant as they take out plane after plane.

In the heart of World War II, amid the chaos of battle and the roar of engines, one young Jewish man rises to the challenge, embodying courage in the face of adversity. This powerful narrative chronicles the journey of a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps, who, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, leaves his hometown and embarks on a mission to fight for freedom. As he navigates the skies above France and Germany, he wrestles with the weight of self-doubt and the harsh realities of anti-Semitism, all while forging an unbreakable bond with his fellow airmen.

Strangers separated by an ocean, drawn together by a clandestine letter. One desperate summons could seal their future ... and the fate of the war. Weary from London’s air raids and the loss of her father at the Battle of the Somme, Josie Harrington wonders if The Great War will ever end. Determined to bring hope to her country’s bleak existence, she joins an underground postal service, delivering soldiers’ letters in order to avoid censorship on both sides of the line.

In a quiet lakeside hotel nestled in the shadow of the Italian Alps, seventeen-year-old Giulia Leone lives a life untouched by war – until the day ruthless German SS officers arrive in the village . Her father's hotel is no longer a place of peace, but a trap for the Jewish guests who have taken refuge there. Among them is Ester, the bright, spirited girl who has become Giulia's closest companion. When a daring plan to help Ester's family escape spirals into chaos, Giulia is the only one who gets away.

Germany, 1939: Annaliese is a doctor’s wife, living in an elegant grey stone house with ivy creeping over the balcony. But when her husband is ordered to work at the Dachau labor camp, her ordinary life is turned upside down by the horrors of war. And Annaliese finds herself in grave danger when she dares to fight for love and freedom. America, 1989: Turning the pages of the newspaper, Annaliese gasps when she recognizes the face of a man she thought she’d never see again....

A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II—while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's...

“Love and betrayal, forgiveness and redemption combine in a heady tale of the ever present past” (Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author) set amid the champagne vineyards of northern France during the darkest days of World War II. Perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale...

The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! “An irresistible tale which showcases the transformative power of literacy, reminding us of the hope and sanctuary our neighborhood bookstores offer during the perilous trials of war and...

L'aproximació de Jean Echenoz a la Gran Guerra, a aquesta barbàrie sense precedents que va sacsejar mig món i va destrossar l'altre mig, se salda amb un relat precís i afilat sobre la marxa dels soldats per França, l'estrèpit de la carn i el metall , els projectils i els morts, la massa sense ment enviada a morir. Una novel·la d'absències, de desesperació i de fugida.

In late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear’s intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves—murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect “pure-blood” Germans? The Martels are one of many families of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed in Ukraine for more than a century.

Surrey, England, 1938. After 30 devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husband’s appeal for divorce. It’s Ellie’s opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. She’s taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper Mavis, and her elderly friend Dora—each needing escape—impulsively head for parts unknown in the South of France.