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Eine große Liebe. Getrennte Wege. Doch das Schicksal hat andere Pläne für sie. Unterfranken, 1916: Während auf Gut Benhaim Alberts und Emilias Hochzeit gefeiert wird, muss Klara eine folgenschwere Entscheidung treffen, die sie wegführen wird von ihrem kleinen Sohn und dem Mann, dem ihr Herz für immer gehört. Von der Liebe enttäuscht wagt Rainer Benhaim mit der Gründung einer Möbelmanufaktur einen Neubeginn. Der Erfolg gibt ihm recht: Schon bald ist das Unternehmen, das er zusammen mit seinem Bruder Albert leitet, über die Grenzen Frankens hinaus bekannt.

Russia, 1917. Petrograd is on the eve of revolution. For Countess Sophia Orlova, the city of her childhood—the only home she has ever known—has become her deadly enemy. The mob are ready to get rid of anyone connected to the old regime, including Sophia. When rebels threaten to shoot Sophia and her husband, they are saved by Nikolai, a fervent supporter of the revolution. Determined to help Nikolai’s cause, Sophia sets up a hospital wing in the house, nursing injured victims by his side.

In den Wirren des Nazi-Regimes kämpft eine deutsche Jüdin darum, ihre Tochter aus den Klauen des Bösen zu retten. Paris 1941. Die deutsche Jüdin Sarah sitzt mit ihrer fünfjährigen Tochter Rebekka in Paris fest, während der zweite Weltkrieg tobt. In ihrer Verzweiflung versuchen sie, dem immer enger werdenden Korsett der Nazis zu entkommen und ins neutrale Spanien zu fliehen. I

En un París sombrío, un americano recibe un misterioso paquete de manos de una pareja rusa, solo para ser atacado poco después por delincuentes. Mientras tanto, en un lujoso tren que recorre Europa, las vidas de una heredera en crisis, un detective enigmático y una serie de personajes intrigantes se entrelazan. Entre rubíes legendarios, secretos peligrosos y pasiones ocultas, Hércules Poirot deberá desentrañar un crimen que se convierte en un laberinto de sospechas.

From the author of Death on the Lusitania, The Spies of Hartlake Hall is a gripping and evocative historical crime novel which shines a light on the codebreakers and spies who helped avert disaster in WW1.

STRONG, FAST, AND TOO SMART describes tomboy Hattie Dumond, born in bilingual New Orleans in 1914. No one, including Hattie, thought that would save her life two decades later. She struggles against the restrictions women face in those early 20th century years. Yes, she's a tomboy, but she can slip into the role of debutante and trains her intellect to straddle both worlds.

Dans la France de l'après-Grande Guerre, un huis clos magnétique entre une jeune domestique et son maître. Domestique au service des bourgeois, elle est travailleuse, courageuse, dévouée. Mais ce week-end-là, elle redoute de se rendre chez les Daniel. Exceptionnellement, Madame a accepté d'aller prendre l'air à la campagne. Alors la petite bonne devra rester seule avec Monsieur, un ancien pianiste accablé d'amertume, gueule cassée de la bataille de la Somme. Il faudra cohabiter, le laver, le nourrir. Mais Monsieur a un autre projet en tête. Un plan irrévocable, sidérant.

After a short spell in the trenches in 1915, Jack Cunningham, a miner from the North-East of England, finds himself recruited as a tunneler to dig mines under the German lines, becoming involved in the underground warfare between the two sides. Telling his story through a series of flashbacks, he is tormented by a voice inside his head, questioning his memories and his obvious guilt at surviving when others didn’t, swinging between varying states of confusion and control over his situation and over what is and isn’t real.

Hampshire, 1916: Alice traces her hand over the cold glass of the window as the pale morning light slips into the empty room. The pain of loss is worse than a physical one. Reminders of Edmund are all around her. The coldness of the sheet on the other half of the bed. The unrelenting silence in the cottage when her stepdaughter Lottie is at school or tucked up asleep at the end of another day. Keeping up with their stained-glass commissions takes every ounce of her strength, and as Lottie becomes more withdrawn, Alice worries desperately about how best to care for the troubled girl.

History tells us that baseball legends Christy Mathewson and Ty Cobb volunteered as Captains in the World War I Chemical Warfare Service. After the 1918 baseball season ended, both shipped out for France where they were exposed to poison gas during a training exercise. Mathewson got by far the worst of it, and died just a few years later, in 1925, of tuberculosis that was brought on by his exposure. History has it wrong.

From New York Harbor to the battlefields of France, relive World War One through the eyes of an unknown soldier, as told through his diary. See how the 100-year-old diary brings a father and his estranged son back together by retracing his experiences fighting in the battlefields of France in 1917 -1918 to his final resting place—the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf, by Louis Joseph Vance, was first published in 1918, and is the second of what eventually became an 8-book series. The main character, known as The Lone Wolf, is a reformed jewel thief who in this story, is a British spy, who uses several names including Michael Lanyard.

No More Parades is the second of four in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, a work that Ford hoped would contribute to the obviating of all future wars. The novel follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy British landowner and the last British Tory; his unfaithful wife, Sylvia; and his mistress, Valentine Wannop. Highlighting the tension between traditional values and the new reality of a world marred by war, the novel details Tietjens' turmoils in both his personal life and on the warfront—and what follows when those struggles become one and the same.

In the last days of World War I, Corporal Adolf Hitler was blinded by mustard gas, necessitating a month-long confinement in a military psychiatric hospital. Peculiarly, amid Germany's final days of World War I, the modest corporal was transported 700 kilometers from Ypres, Belgium, to northern German Pomerania, seeking the expertise of the nation's foremost neuropsychiatric physician.

In the summer of 1914, sixteen-year-old Evan Sinclair leaves home to join the Great War for Civilization. Little does he know that, despite the war raging in Europe, the true source of conflict will emerge in Ottoman Palestine, since it's from Jerusalem where the German Kaiser dreams to rule as Holy Roman Emperor.

In the midst of chaos and destruction, a young singer's vibrant spirit fights to find its voice. "What was Beautiful and Good" is an enthralling novel based on a true story, weaving together history, art, and a tale of resilience. Emmy Hennings, a free-spirited artist, revels in the beauty and excitement of Europe's most captivating cities. But when the First World War shatters her world, Emmy's life takes an unexpected turn. Unable to perform and separated from her friends and lovers who are drafted into the military, she finds herself imprisoned for trivial offenses and branded unpatriotic.

East London, 1916: The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby Archer, this is a dream come true – and her blossoming romance with a local boy is the icing on the cake. But in wartime things change in the blink of an eye. When a heartbreaking tragedy shatters Ruby’s world, suddenly she is at odds with everyone - her family, her friends, and even her sweetheart. And when the hospital is threatened with immediate closure, she’s not sure who to trust.

"Whispers of Rebellion" continues the gripping saga from "A Noble Destiny," plunging listeners into the turmoil of 1937 Europe. Led by Austrian aristocrat Alexsander Jakob "James" Wallner von Rieser, the clandestine group employs the Mark 2 suitcase radio to thwart Hitler's impending threat. Amid family seeking refuge and Alexsander's mysterious headaches, love faces trials while Evangeline's journey intertwines with the group's mission. As Wilhelm infiltrates the Nazis, the Mayrhofen estate becomes the stage where the prototype radios hum with the "Whispers of Rebellion."

Антона Климова, ветерана французского Иностранного легиона, похищает ЦРУ, чтобы после внедрения вирусной закладки в сознание отправить на СВО. Предполагалось, что, проявив геройство, он будет награжден высшим политическим руководством в Кремле и сможет устроить диверсию… Но из-за сбоя в программирующей аппаратуре в момент землетрясения его сознание переносится в прошлое, и Антон попадает на Первую мировую войну, где внедренная программа начинает действовать.

In 1915, the world is in turmoil. A war, the likes of which has never been seen, involves much of the known world. An Englishman, John Norton Griffiths, proposes using miners to tunnel under the enemy lines and destroy them from below. Once his idea is accepted, other countries of the Empire decide to raise similar tunneling companies. Canada, New Zealand and Australia provide companies of men, drawn from mining and trades backgrounds, to assist in the defeat of an aggressive enemy, intent on domination.