Literary Fiction War

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".

An extraordinary work of fiction, inspired by historical events - an exquisitely crafted double portrait of a Nazi war criminal and a family savaged by World War II, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both called home....

1922. When the Turkish Army occupies Smyrna, Zoë Haggitiris escapes with her family, only to lose everything. Alone in a sea of desperate strangers, her life is touched, for a moment, by a young English boy, Tom Collyer, also lost, before the compassion of a stranger leads her into a new life. Years later when war breaks out, Tom finds himself in Greece, and in the chaos of the British retreat, fate will lead him back to Zoë. But he will discover that the war will not end so easily for either of them.

September, 1943. Tuscany, Italy. In the hilltop town of Barga, everyone holds their breath. Even the bells fall silent. Everything Vittoria Guidi knows and loves is at risk. German troops occupy the mountains around her home, as America's Buffalo Soldiers prepare to invade. As Vittoria's country is torn in two, so is her conscience. Should she side with her Scots-Italian father or her Fascist mother? Should she do what she is told - or what she believes in?

Mildred Groves, an unusual young woman gifted and cursed with the ability to see the future, goes to work in a top-secret research facility during WWII, only to be tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind.

A small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father at an international airport, with only the clothes on his back and a handful of money jammed in the pocket of his coat. In order to understand this heartbreaking and indefensible decision, the story must return to the moment, decades earlier, when Vollie Frade, almost on a whim, enlists in the US Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam. Breaking definitively from his rural Iowan parents, Vollie puts in motion an unimaginable chain of events that sees him go to work for insidious people with intentions he cannot yet grasp.

Gemma Harper est une jeune New-Yorkaise ambitieuse dont les certitudes vacillent à la mort de sa mère. C'est au cœur d'une Normandie inconnue que ses pas vont la guider à la découverte de ses origines cachées, liées à celles de Philippine, femme au destin romanesque durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. 2000, Gemma est une jeune New-Yorkaise vive, séduisante, pragmatique, travaillant avec passion dans l'entreprise familiale de produits alimentaires. À la mort de sa mère, elle découvre que sa "vraie" grand-mère était française ; elle décide alors de partir, seule, sur ses traces.

Ukraine, 1923. On a small farm, two boys are born within days of each other, both Ukrainian, one Jewish. Mykhail and Asher grow up inseparable, together finding friendship, adventure and escape from the harshness of Russian rule. But after Asher’s family flees to Warsaw, their worlds are torn to shreds by the Second World War. The war brings cruelty to both boys. Although Asher finds love in Warsaw, the city is far from the haven his family sought; meanwhile Mykhail becomes a victim of the bitter struggle for Ukraine. But worse follows, in the shape of the Treblinka death camp.