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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....

Pierwsza wojna światowa. Trwa bitwa o Łódź. Do dworku, którego właścicielką jest Emilia Ragniewicz, trafiają po nieudanym ataku niemieccy oficerowie – Hauptmann Witold Sydow i Leutnant Wilhelm Lange. Schronienie znajdują tu również uciekinierzy z Kalisza, doktor Nawrocki i nastoletni Maksymilian. Ranny Sydow pod opieką doktora zaczyna odzyskiwać siły, jednak skrywane przez mieszkających w dworku tajemnice powoli wychodzą na jaw i stają się zarzewiem konfliktu.

1931. Fifteen-year-old Kate witnesses her mother, Millicent, push a stranger from a station platform into the path of an oncoming train. There was no warning, seemingly no reason and absolutely no remorse. 1940. Exactly nine years later, Kate returns to the station and notices a tramp laying flowers on the exact spot that the murder was committed; the identity of the victim still remains unknown.

Jest wrzesień 1947 rok. Życie toczy się wokół portów. Między Szczecinem a Świnoujściem kursują nie tylko podróżnicy, ale kwitnie też szara strefa przemytników. Tych ostatnich nie zrażają nawet codzienne kontrole funkcjonariuszy Urzędu Bezpieczeństwa. Mistrz powieści milicyjnych Jerzy Siewierski tym razem zabiera czytelników w mroczne uliczki nadbrzeżnych portów. Wyraziste i mocne postacie sprawiają, że opowiadana historia trzyma czytelnika w napięciu.

In 1942, Eva is forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children escaping to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva realises she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember their own identities.

Germania, 1944. Prelevata dal campo di concentramento in cui era prigioniera, Anke Hoff non ha idea del destino che la attende. Quando le viene ordinato di assistere, come ostetrica, qualcuno molto vicino a Hitler è costretta ad accettare: in caso contrario tutta la sua famiglia verrebbe uccisa. Nonostante l'odio per il regime che ha perseguitato lei e i suoi cari, Anke dovrà fare del suo meglio per prendersi cura della misteriosa donna e del bambino che porta in grembo, la cui vita è legata a doppio filo alla sua.

París, julio de 1942. Las autoridades arrestan a 13.000 judíos ante la mirada de los parisinos, que guardan silencio por miedo, indiferencia o simple interés, pues esperan ocupar las viviendas vacías. El pequeño Michel se oculta en un armario para huir de la redada. Su hermana Sarah cierra la puerta para protegerle y se guarda la llave, pensando que va a regresar en unas horas

1944. With deadly doodlebugs terrorising London, Bessie Rushbrook agrees to give shelter to eight-year-old evacuee Marigold in her home. But, the little girl is no stranger, and Bessie must honour the promise she gave to Marigold's mother and not reveal her connection to the child. Marigold's arrival stirs up Bessie's memories from the past when the world was at war the first time. She is forced to face her actions from those days and question the secret that she's long kept hidden. When Grace is injured in London, Bessie makes the heart-wrenching decision to confess her secret.

En mitad de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los Aliados y Alemania acordaron llevar a cabo un intercambio de soldados prisioneros de Guerra al final de la cruenta campaña militar del Norte de África, En el puerto de Barcelona, que fue el lugar aceptado por ambas partes para el intercambio, cuatro mil soldados, la mitad de cada bando, fueron intercambiados en el muelle de España, el 27 de octubre de 1943, en una operación que supuso la intervención de dos buques de cada bando.

Last Stand: Battle Group SS is an account of an epic last stand at the end of WWII. The inhabitants of a small town attempt to fight the Russian hordes as they rampage toward them. They prepare to fight what every man knows will be a battle to the death. One that will go down in history as a shining example of bravery and sacrifice, and perhaps mitigate some of the worst excesses of the Nazi regime.

Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class-obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress and gradually becomes aware that he is some kind of genius.

Napoli, estate del '43, il cielo non appartiene più alla città, ma ai bombardieri alleati. A luglio il fascismo collassa; in agosto le truppe alleate si avvicinano e a Napoli s'incattivisce l'occupazione tedesca; a settembre la resa dell'esercito italiano, rastrellamenti e deportazioni di uomini: la città sta nella tenaglia di due eserciti, uno dentro e uno fuori. Qui si svolge la vita di nove persone in quell'estate. Età, mestieri e storie differenti, compresse in un assedio, rompono le distanze tra loro e vanno insieme, prima al passo, poi fino al galoppo. 

Heinäkuun lopulla 1941 sotamies Taneli Kaappola saa määräyksen komppanianpäällikkö Tikkasen lähetiksi itärajalle. Taistelut Tyrjän kylän valtaamiseksi ovat juuri alkamassa, ja Isä-Tikkanen miehineen määrätään hyökkäyksen kärkeen.

Op een avond in het voorjaar van 1943 stopt er een Duitse legertruck in de straat van Klaas Nieboer. Duitse soldaten stappen uit en arresteren een man. Hij blijkt lid te zijn van het verzet, net als Klaas’ vader. Ook de dertienjarige Klaas smokkelt af en toe bonkaarten. Als zijn vader onverwachts wordt opgepakt wegens illegaal slachten, gaat het mis.

La vera storia dell'uomo che entrò nel più spietato campo di concentramento di sua spontanea volontà. Settembre 1940. Dal momento in cui si hanno notizie dell'inizio dell'attività nel campo di prigionia nazista di Auschwitz, ben poco filtra su quello che succede davvero oltre il filo spinato. Witold Pilecki, membro della resistenza polacca, si offre volontario per una missione ad altissimo rischio: farsi catturare dalle SS, entrare nel lager e raccogliere quante più informazioni su ciò che avviene lì dentro. Se possibile, dovrà anche sabotare le attività che vi si svolgono. 

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. 

Two years into the Second World War, and German U-boats are frequently disrupting Britain's supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program launches a new cooking contest–and the grand prize is a job as the program’s first-ever female co-host. For young widow Audrey winning the competition could be a chance to pay off her husband’s debts and keep a roof over her children’s heads. However, her estranged sister, Gwendoline, is equally set on success even if her own kitchen maid, Nell, is competing against her.

1919. On the desolate battlefields of Northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the dangerous task of gathering up the dead for mass burial. Captain Mackenzie, a survivor of the war, cannot yet bring himself to go home. First he must see that his fallen comrades are recovered and laid to rest. 

Ruth Amundsen grew up poor in Michigan’s rural Upper Peninsula during the 1920s and 1930s. As she ventured beyond the village of Big Bay, she left her real home - the shores of Lake Superior. After nursing training, she joined the US Army Nurse Corps, serving during the last year of World War II in the war-torn Philippines. When she returns to postwar America, she finds her independence, sense of contribution, and hard-earned status as a war nurse of little value to a country seeking to get back to an outdated normal, whatever the cost.

París, 1939. La joven Odile Souchet lo tiene todo: un atractivo novio oficial de policía y un trabajo de ensueño en la Biblioteca Americana de París. Pero cuando estalla la guerra y los nazis marchan sobre París, Odile se expone a perder todo lo que le importa, incluida su querida biblioteca.