Literary Fiction War

The common wisdom is that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, was a failed actor and a madman. But the truth is that he was the matinee idol of his time, and the attack on Lincoln was not the act of a maniac, but part of a plan developed at the highest levels of the Confederacy. In Consider the Elephant, the story of John Wilkes Booth's life and death is told by his brother, Edwin Booth, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his age.

Ein Mann hat alles verloren: seine Freundin, seine Geliebte, seinen Beruf, seine Wohnung. Nun lebt er ganz allein auf einer Insel in der Elbmündung, versieht den Dienst als Vogelwart. Ein geradezu eremitisches Dasein, das durch einen Anruf durcheinandergewirbelt wird. Anna kündigt ihren Besuch an - eben jene Anna, die sechs Jahre zuvor sein Leben komplett aus den Angeln gehoben hatte.

They came by boat from a starving land, and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains, seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at the bottom of a great metropolis. But in the terrible July of 1863, the poor and desperate of Paradise Alley would face a new catastrophe, as flames from the war that was tearing America in two reached out to set their city on fire.

De El cuaderno gris es mucho lo que puede asombrar: una conversación cazada al vuelo en un café; una sentencia (casi un aforismo) oída o pronunciada como por casualidad, capaz de condensar el sentimiento de toda una época; la sucinta y emotiva descripción de un paisaje; descarnados apuntes de crítica literaria; un afilado juicio político, hilvanado en medio de consideraciones sobre el tiempo, la higiene, la salud, las mujeres o la gastronomía....

American soldiers and native Kachin troops battle Japanese forces behind enemy lines in the Burmese jungles. But during the brutal campaign to gain territory in the unforgiving tropical landscape, Captain Reynolds and his band of special operations soldiers and guerrilla fighters struggle to find self-awareness, and even love, in the midst of the trials of combat.

London. December 1981. The IRA is on the attack, a cold war is being waged, another war is just over the horizon, and Stephen Donaldson spends his days listening. When he first joined the Institute, he expected to encounter glamorous, high-risk espionage. Instead he gets the tape-recorded conversations of ancient Communists and ineffectual revolutionaries - until the day he is assigned a new case: the ultra-secret PHOENIX, a suspected internal leak.

Любовь и преданность на фоне предательства и войны.От автора «Загадка номера 622» и «Исчезновение Стефани Мейлер».Двадцатидвухлетний француз Поль-Эмиль, мечтая бороться с нацистами, покидает оккупированный Париж, добирается до Лондона и поступает в распоряжение британских спецслужб. Он проходит обучение в школе спецподготовки и вместе с группой таких же отчаянных, пылких и юных французских патриотов возвращается на родину, чтобы включиться в подпольную борьбу.

Bestsellerautor David Safier erzählt die Geschichte seiner Eltern: Sie führt uns vom Wien des Jahres 1938, als sein Vater Joschi dort studierte, über die Gefängnisse der Gestapo bis nach Palästina, wo er als Barmann und Spion arbeitete und schließlich zur See fuhr. Waltraud wächst als Tochter eines Werftarbeiters in Bremen auf. Im Krieg wird die Familie ausgebombt, wohnt jahrelang in einem Eisenbahnwagen. Als das Wirtschaftswunder kommt, ergattert Waltraut einen begehrten Ausbildungsplatz zur Verkäuferin. Bei ihrer ersten Begegnung mit Joschi in einer Eisdiele lässt Waltraut ihn abblitzen.

Wien am Vorabend des Ersten Weltkriegs und drei junge Menschen am Abgrund der Katastrophe. Wien 1914: Das Zentrum der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie, steht Kopf. Noch sechsunddreißig Stunden, dann läuft das deutsche Ultimatum ab. Die Stadt ist ein reißender Strom, in allen Straßen bricht sich die Kriegsbegeisterung der jungen Generation Bahn. Mitten in diesen Taumel gerät Hans, ein Pferdeknecht aus Tirol, der sich auf den Weg in die Metropole gemacht hat, um die Psychoanalytikerin Helene Cheresch aufzusuchen.

Verona, 2001. Anna, ventinove anni, è una ragazza ingenua, ricca e viziata dall’adorato padre, un facoltoso imprenditore. Dopo la laurea in medicina Anna vuole specializzarsi in chirurgia plastica per aprire uno studio estetico, sposarsi e avere una famiglia. Quando però un ictus colpisce il padre e un misterioso amico gli fa visita, Anna inizia un’indagine sul passato in guerra del padre. Le tracce la conducono nell’Italia del 1944, nel pieno della furia omicida delle SS in fuga, quando le truppe scelte di Hitler trucidarono per vendetta almeno quindicimila civili.

Azulejo es el tímido héroe de este relato, es uno de esos “niños de la guerra” que tanto se ha ocupado la literatura moderna española. Salvo en la primera parte del libro, donde el autor mantiene una quimérica conversación con el chaval considerado como un yo-otro independiente y autónomo, es el autor quien toma la palabra en tercera persona como cronista de la vida de ese niño, luego adolescente, hijo de una familia republicana en los años treinta y cuarenta del pasado siglo, los infaustos años de la guerra incivil y su primera posguerra.

Conciliando sapientemente fantasia e realtà storica, con "La banda Gordon" Marco Dell'Omo firma un romanzo irresistibile, che affonda le radici in un Abruzzo di metà Novecento, sospeso fra le follie del regime fascista e la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. La storia prende le mosse da un anziano generale in pensione, Piero Vinci, che a distanza di molti anni ripercorre la sua adolescenza ai tempi del Duce.

Danielle Steels roman "Signetringen" tager sin begyndelse i 1930’ernes Berlin. Den smukke Kassandra, som er gift og har to børn, Ariana og Gerhard, med den stenrige Walmar von Gotthard, forelsker sig hovedkulds i den jødiske forfatter Dolff Sterne. Sammen oplever de en stormende, men kort lykke, som Gestapo gør en brat ende på. Dolff bliver dræbt, og Kassandra tager sit eget liv. Flere år senere, under krigen, bliver den nu 16-årige Gerhard indkaldt til hæren.

París, 1942. Los alemanes están por ocupar la Ciudad Luz, pero a la glamurosa Estelle Allard no puede importarle menos. Ella vive en un mundo de opulencia, alejado de las penurias de la guerra, rodeada de lujos y arte. Sin embargo, cuando los nazis comienzan a llevarse a sus amigos, Estelle no duda en ayudarlos sin importar que esto pueda hacerle perder todas sus comodidades e, incluso, la vida. Londres, 2017. Cuando Aurelia Leclaire hereda un fantástico departamento en París, se sorprende al descubrir los secretos ocultos de su abuela.

Irish domestic worker Norah King's decision to ask her wealthy employer, Caroline Parker, for an elegant red coat that the Beacon Hill matriarch has marked for donation ignites a series of events that neither woman could have fathomed. The unlikely exchange will impact their respective daughters and families for generations to come, from the coat's original owner, marriage-minded collegian Cordelia Parker, to the determined and spirited King sisters of South Boston, Rosemary, Kay, and Rita.

Tokyo, 1940. While Japan's war against China escalates, young Yuji Takano clings to his cocooned life: his beloved evenings of French conversation at Monsieur Feneon's, visits to the bathhouse with friends, his books, his poetry. But conscription looms and the mood turns against foreigners, just when Yuji gets entangled with Feneon's daughter. As the nation heads towards conflict with the Allies, Yuji must decide where his duty - and his heart - lies.

Butangen, Norway, the years before WWII: Astrid Hekne has inherited the fighting spirit of her grandmother, who was a protector of the mythic Sister Bells that had once hung in the village’s church. The once-traitorous priest Kai Schweigaard, now in his eighties, is wondering how his death, prophesied in a centuries-old tapestry, will come true. Schweigaard tries to understand the myths about the Night of the Scourge, which, according to old village beliefs, is the night when the known world will fall and the Earth will be scraped down to bare rock. Then Norway is occupied by the Nazis.

Long considered one of the best American novels of our time, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable tale of an American ambulance driver and his passionate affair with a beautiful English nurse. Set against the backdrop of World War I, this gripping semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war as only Hemingway can. A story of love and pain, loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms paints an intimate portrait of the pain and intensity of a love overshadowed by the inexorable creep of global war.

Ein verwunschenes Küstendorf in der Provence in den 30er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts: Über alle Klassenunterschiede hinweg wachsen fünf Kinder miteinander auf: Nathalie, die Bürgerstochter, Fabrice und Didier, die Brüder vom Schloss, und das Mauerblümchen Delphine sowie Nathalies algerischer Diener Salah. Doch auf dem Weg zum Erwachsenwerden zerbricht ihre kleine geborgene Welt: Nathalie ist in Didier verliebt, dieser aber bringt den Mut nicht auf, um sie zu kämpfen.

The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War II, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi regime's euthanasia program would come to determine the fate of many of the clinic's inhabitants.