Historical War Saga

En 1940, le Maroc, sous protectorat français, est administré par le régime de Vichy. Le débarquement des Alliés en 1942 va bouleverser la vie des Casablancais. Les soldats américains et l'Armée d'Afrique se mobiliseront pour libérer l'Europe. La jeunesse et l'amour triompheront de cette période troublée.

C'è un oleandro in fiore nel giardino di una casa a Carbonara, in Puglia. Lo ha piantato Agostino, quando si è trasferito lì con sua moglie Anita, per tutti "la Margiala". Donna di rara e profonda bellezza, la Margiala ha il potere di lenire i dolori dei neonati, è aiuto prezioso durante i parti e all'occorrenza è in grado di togliere il malocchio. Ha tre figlie: Rosetta, Cornelia e Diamante, la più piccola. La prima è bella e selvaggia come lei.

Sharpe's Escape takes place in the summer of 1810, once again in the Peninsular War. The French are mounting their third and most dangerous invasion of Portugal. Captain Richard Sharpe with his company of redcoats and riflemen meets the invaders on the gaunt ridge of Bussaco. But there, despite a stunning British victory, the French are not stopped and the army have to fall back.

In the winter of 1811, the war seems lost. All Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz which is now the Spanish capital and is under siege. Wellington and his British army are in Portugal, waiting for spring to spark the war to life again. Richard Sharpe and his company are part of a small expeditionary force sent to break a bridge across the River Guadiana.

Nora Brouwer, a radar operator, watches as Allied bombers crest the horizon. A cryptic call tempts her—safety or a daring mission? Her brother-in-law, Christiaan Brouwer, ensnared in an SS prison, faces a dire choice: betray his secrets or forfeit his life. What will honor demand? Floris Brouwer, once a Waffen-SS titan, now languishes at Mauthausen concentration camp. A chance to regain past glory beckons, but at war's dark price. Lisa Abrahams, master of espionage, yearns for more than London's shadows. With victory nearing, her heart races to find Christiaan and alter fate.

Summer 1935. Best friends Kate Shelton, Ella Tetley and Daphne St. Maur are on the cusp of a new life, having graduated with classics degrees. Kate is desperate to start work on an archaeological dig straightaway, and she is thrilled to be given a position at the famous Knossos palace site in Crete. However, she doesn't bargain for working with gruff site director Lewis Sinclair - nor for her own complex feelings towards him. In Yorkshire, Ella's family expect her to marry Sam, her steady friend who is training to be a doctor....

Cleethorpes – 1940. As the new year dawns, the show at the Empire comes to an end and it’s time for the girls to move on. All the seaside girls have their own battles to fight. And while they figure things out it’s time for them to do their bit for the war and keep Britain smiling.

East London, 1940. At the outbreak of war, hopeless romantic Prue Carmichael and her sister must leave their rural parish behind when their father is posted to a church in Stepney. To Prue, the blitz-ravaged streets of London seem an unlikely place for love to bloom – until a chance encounter throws rakish engineer Jack Quinn into her path. But as their connection deepens, his troubled past begins to emerge, and Prue realises Jack has secrets to hide.

Des Lebens labyrinthisch irrer Lauf begleitet die Schönaus durch ihre schwersten Jahre. Während die Nazidiktatur ihren Lauf nimmt, versuchen alle Schönaus, ihren Weg in den veränderten Umständen zu finden. Dorothea lernt das unschöne Gesicht des neuen Regimes kennen, muss Opfer bringen und ihr Leben grundlegend ändern. Heinrich hat seinen Platz gefunden und lässt die hinter sich, die ihn bisher begleiteten. Charlotte konzentriert sich auf ihre Familie und versucht, unangenehme Wahrheiten auszublenden.

May 1940. The Second World War has been waging for eight months and life for Harriet and her family is uncertain. She and her parents make their way back to their homeland for refuge since Guernsey is not seen to have strategic value to Churchill. But, when they get there, they face disaster as the Germans have invaded and taken over their island. Harriet must find a way to survive while her home is overrun.

It is 1950 and Kitty Longthorne is now a Sister at Manchester's Park Hospital, and as busy as ever. With dizzying numbers of children with polio being admitted to the children's ward, a sharp uptick of major trauma from road accidents and growing political and racial conflict affecting her patients and staff, there's no shortage of drama at the hospital. But Kitty is determined that everyone is treated with respect.

London, 1944. With bombs raining over London, keeping the Battersea Tavern open is no easy feat for owner Winnie Berry - but the community need the warmth and familiarity of the pub more than ever. After marriage, Maureen Fanning had moved out to Wandsworth with her bad-tempered husband Brancher. But when he loses both his job and their lodgings, the only people who will take them in are her kindly grandparents, Len and Renee. Getting a cleaning job at the Battersea Tavern is the least she can do to pay them back. It would all be fine...if it weren't for Brancher.

It is 1910 in the Lincolnshire Wolds. Fourteen-year-old Rosie Waterhouse lives with her father, Sam, well-known as the local poacher, in a cottage on the Thornsby Estate. The land is owned by William Ramsey, a harsh and heartless man, determined his only son, Byron, should marry well and produce an heir. Rosie is quick to learn the tricks of her father’s trade and it’s when she’s poaching fish from the estate’s stream that she meets Byron.

Almost losing her life in a bomb blast while serving in the Women's Volunteer Service has made Ann Gilby take stock of what's really important - her family. With daughter Sheila back home, and Joy still working munitions at the Cadbury factory and engaged to her soldier sweetheart, home life feels more settled too. Ann has even come to an uneasy truce with her husband, Len, despite her recent discovery of his infidelity and the fact that he has fathered a child with another woman.

German armies once more march across Europe, and one small Welsh village is changed forever. Carrie has escaped the suffocating, unhealthy love of her brother. With her innate kindness and strength, she begins her new life in midwifery. But the shadows of war rise. She is sent first to Birmingham and then to London during the Blitz. Carrie is no stranger to tragedy, but her courage and self-sacrifice bond her tightly to new friends and old, helping to keep her safe in uncertain times. Love, laughter, and friendship abound, making her a force to be reckoned with and admired.

Inspired by the author's family history, Library for the War-Wounded transports listeners to the aftermath of World War II, uncovering the life of Helfer's father, Josef. Born with the stigma of illegitimacy, he found solace in books, and his education was eventually funded by the Catholic Church. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he witnessed the horrors of the Eastern Front and returned from the war an amputee. He married his nurse and brought his family to the high, idyllic slopes of the Austrian Alps, where he took a position as manager of a convalescent home for war-wounded.

Parlare di Napoleone vuol dire confrontarsi con un gigante. Come ha potuto un semplice adolescente originario della Corsica, basso, gracile, fisicamente molto ordinario, divenire, nel giro di due decenni, prima console, poi Imperatore di Francia e poi il terrore dell'Europa intera? Usando le parole di Manzoni, dalle Alpi alle Piramidi, dal Manzanarre al Reno, il dominio di Napoleone Bonaparte è stato davvero irripetibile. Come capo della Francia, per molte volte il resto d'Europa si è unito contro di lui, in innumerevoli Coalizioni.

The Burning Land follows a turbulent romance through the upheavals of the Civil War and America's westward migration. Henry Overstreet, a carpenter, aims to scale the social ladder in Waldoboro, Maine, in his pursuit of Katie Nash. The lovers' path runs through America's bloodiest war—one fought to redeem the nation's soul by freeing a people. Often separated, they use quiet and devoted letters to capture each other's heart as Katie wins teaching jobs usually reserved for men and Henry fights furious battles with Maine's legendary Twentieth Regiment, rising to sergeant.

Zwei Frauen. Zwei Schicksale. Ein Land in Aufruhr. Lucía hat im beschaulichen Cadaqués Heimat, Familie und Berufung gefunden. Aber die Fehde zwischen Carmencita und ihr erreicht schließlich einen Höhepunkt, der Lucías Glück ins Wanken bringen könnte. Am anderen Ende Spaniens, in Bilbao, sucht währenddessen eine junge Frau nach ihren Wurzeln und gerät dabei an die falschen Freunde – aber nur dank dieser fatalen Begegnung, die sie ihr Leben lang bereuen wird, trifft sie auf ihre große Liebe. Wird sie irgendwann auch ihre Eltern finden?

Die elsässische Winzertochter Colette ist mittlerweile im Frauen-Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück angekommen. Dort muss sie im Rüstungsbetrieb von Siemens & Halske schuften. Die Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen sind so schlecht, dass sie nicht zögert, als sich ihr ein vermeintlicher Ausweg aus dem Leid bietet: Sie nimmt das Angebot an, als Prostituierte in das Häftlings-Bordell im KZ Buchenwald zu gehen. Zusammen mit ihren Kameradinnen versucht sie dort, im »Dirnenblock« trotz aller Demütigungen, ihre Würde nicht zu verlieren und das Kriegsende zu erleben.