Literary Fiction War

Marseille, 1942. Helen, chanteuse anglaise sans succès, vit seule avec ses deux enfants - le narrateur et sa jeune soeur Liola. Lors de la débâcle de 1940, Helen, malade et sans le sou, s'est installée dans une mansarde donnant sur les toits. Mais son état de santé lui impose une hospitalisation et Helen craint que ses enfants ne soient recueillis séparément en son absence.

Richard Cottar is a respected independent film writer and director; his wife, Joanna, is his increasingly successful and wealthy producer. Together they are about to embark on a film about the life of Walter Benjamin, the German Jewish intellectual who killed himself in northern Spain while on the run from the Nazis in 1940. In what looks set to be the last year of Britain’s membership of the European Union, Benjamin’s story of exile and statelessness is more relevant than ever. But Richard and Joanna’s symbiotic life takes a sudden turn.

Based on a true story, Even in Darkness highlights the intimate experience of Klare’s reinvention as she faces the destruction of life as she knew it, and traces her path not only to survival, but to wisdom, meaning, and most unexpectedly, love.

After turbulent years in a Christian high school in Poland and his military service, Mordecai Goldman finds himself manning a tank for the Soviets in the Second World War. After he fights his way to Germany, Mordecai falls in love with his future wife and emigrates to Canada. Saying good-bye to everyone he loves, Mordecai moves on with his life and toward the inevitable conclusion that awaits us all.

The world seems an effervescent place of parties, jazz, and family happiness to Mary van der Linden. But the Eisenhower years are ending, and 1960 brings the presidential battle between two ambitious senators: John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. When an American newspaper reporter called Frank Renzo enters the van der Lindens' lives, they are forced to confront the terror of the Cold War that is the dark background of their carefree existence.

In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, Immanuel escapes to Sweden with his wife and two young sons.

Niels Ruel kommer i 1930'erne til København og får arbejde i en boghandel. Han bliver han ven med Flemming, en charmerende og handlekraftig ung mand. Men samtidig bliver Niels trukket ind i en kreds af mennesker, som sympatiserer med Hitlers tanker om et nyt Europa. Situationens alvor går op for ham, da Flemming melder sig til Østfronten. Romanen følger Niels Ruel i efterkrigsårene, helt frem til 2005, hvor han som olding vurderer sit livs vendepunkter i sit sommerhus i Rørvig.

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.

Als der Krieg droht, sich vom europäischen Festland aus auf England auszubreiten, richtet sich das schläfrige Dorf Crowmarsh Priors in einer neuen Art von Normalität ein: Evakuierte aus London werden bei Dorfbewohnern untergebracht. Nächtliche Fliegerangriffe gehören schon bald zum Alltag. Die Einschränkungen, die die Rationierungen mit sich bringen, machen alle Annehmlichkeiten des Lebens zunichte. Männer verlassen das Dorf und sterben.

1942: Saba Tarcan is a talented young singer with big dreams. So when an opportunity arises to entertain the troops in the Middle East, she jumps at the chance, cutting short a burgeoning love affair with a young RAF pilot, Dom. It soon becomes clear that entertaining won’t be Saba’s only mission. It's a move that will jeopardize not only her own safety, but also the love of her life.

Treason waits at the furthest reaches of Empire...When the deputy commander of Rome's Imperial Security Service is assassinated on the island of Rhodes, Cassius Corbulo swiftly finds himself embroiled in the investigation. Assisted once more by ex-gladiator bodyguard Indavara and servant Simo, his search for the truth is complicated by the involvement of the dead man's headstrong daughter, Annia.

A dazzling, compassionate and deeply moving audiobook from one of world literature's rising stars. A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events. Around these two superbly drawn characters, a double narrative assembles an enthralling array of people, places and stories.

À la fin des années trente, parce qu'elle est tombée sous le charme d'un romancier d'origine juive, Eugenia, une jeune et brillante étudiante roumaine, prend soudain conscience de la vague de haine antisémite qui se répand dans son pays. Peu à peu, la société entière semble frappée par cette gangrène morale, y compris certains membres de sa propre famille. Comment résister, lutter, témoigner, quand tout le monde autour de soi semble hypnotisé par la tentation de la barbarie ? Avec pour toile de fond l'ascension du fascisme européen, ce roman foisonnant revient sur un épisode méconnu de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'effroyable pogrom de Jassy.

Du Montparnasse des années folles au Paris de l'Occupation, Gaëlle Nohant ressuscite un héros incandescent, généreux et libre. Ses amis s'appelaient Jacques Prévert, Louis Aragon, Jean-Louis Barrault ou Pablo Neruda. Poète, amoureux, résistant, féroce et blagueur, il croquait la vie, aimait Youki et la liberté à en mourir. Ce roman qui résonne comme un hymne à l'amour et à l'amitié, à la révolte et à la joie de vivre, est l'histoire d'une rencontre inoubliable.

Großartig und nervtötend, liebevoll und erdrückend, aufopfernd, aber auch übergriffig - Michel Bergmann liebt seine Mutter Charlotte und hält sie manchmal nicht aus. Er erzählt in diesem Buch, in dem er nichts und niemanden schont, die Geschichte dieser eigenwilligen, starken Frau: ihre Vertreibung aus Deutschland, der Verlust fast der gesamten Familie, das Glück, ihren künftigen Ehemann wiederzufinden, und dennoch ein Schicksal, bei dem sie allzu oft ganz auf sich allein gestellt ist. Das Lied "A Jiddische Mame" wird gesungen von Vivian Kanner.

Hai sognato, ne sei certo, ma non riesci a ricordare nulla. È il sogno bianco. Andrea Darman conosce quella sensazione fin da bambina. Ora che – dopo anni di reclusione per le sue attività ribelli – torna sulle montagne dove è nata, tutto le sembra destinato all’oblio. Non troverà nessuno ad attenderla, e della neve e del ghiaccio che le parevano eterni non resta che una striscia. Su per quei sentieri, Andrea rivive un rito antico.

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.

لم يستطع "حليم بن صادق" منذ أن وطأت قدماه الحياة اتخاذ أي قرار، فـكيف استطاع أن يفلت من قبضة القضاء ويجعل لحظة موته قراراً يتخذه بنفسه....!!! وحتى تكون ذكراه أسطورية فقد كتب إلى نفسه رسالة يبيّن فيها أسباب انتحاره وبعثها إلى نفسه بالبريد!

Detailing a six-hour window on April 21, 1941, The Bus features eight different narrators: six mental patients, the doctor who will kill them, and the man who will burn their corpses. Crammed into a bus with 35 others and unable to see out the painted windows, the patients are transferred from the Scheuern institution to the Nazi euthanasia clinic in Hadamar, Germany.

Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the St. Paul News as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to immediate acclaim, with F. Scott Fitzgerald calling it "a work of art" and "arresting".