World War Ii Mystery Thriller

January 1944—a senior member of the French Resistance betrays his comrades to the Abwehr and Gestapo, but who? Within hours, the Germans arrest hundreds of suspected resistance fighters and incarcerate them in the infamous Amiens prison. When a Resistance spy inside the prison informs his leaders, Dominique Ponchardier and Boniface Monier, of German plans to conduct mass executions within weeks, they are helpless to respond. In a last-ditch effort to free their Résistants awaiting death or deportation to labor camps, they turn to the British for help.

New Orleans, 1944. Sabotage—that's the word on factory worker Justine Byrne's mind as she is repeatedly called to weld machine parts that keep failing with no clear cause. Could someone inside the secretive Carbon Division be deliberately undermining the factory's war efforts? Raised by her late parents to think logically, she also can't help wondering just what the oddly shaped carbon gadgets she assembles day after day have to do with the boats the factory builds....

Es 1943 y la neutralidad de Suecia en la Segunda Guerra Mundial está bajo presión. Laura Dahlgren, la brillante y joven mano derecha del negociador jefe del gobierno está al tanto de estas tensiones. Sin embargo, cuando la mejor amiga de Laura de la época universitaria, Britta, es descubierta asesinada a sangre fría, Laura está decidida a encontrar al asesino.

The last weekend of May 1944, a saboteur is finalizing his plans to destroy the town of Scarlet Tanager, Kentucky, and its coal industry for the sake of his reputation, the fatherland, and the fuhrer. The innocent will suffer, the uncommitted will cower, those who care will rally, blood will be spilt, fuses will be lit, and the Earth will shake.

Februar 1945: Während überall im Reich die Bomben der Alliierten niedergehen, treibt ein Serienmörder in mehreren deutschen Städten sein Unwesen. Seine Opfer: SS-Männer und deren Familien. Die Jagd auf das Ungeheuer führt Kriminalrat Erich Klemmer und seine Assistentin Luci Rost in die Abgründe des nationalsozialistischen Apparates und in jene Stadt, die bislang als einzige im Reich von den Bomben verschont wurde: Dresden... Die ungekürzte Hörbuchfassung zum ersten Roman aus der Klemmer-Reihe von Alexander Asisi. Gelesen von dem Schauspieler und Max-Ophüls Preisträger Johannes Brandrup.

Britain, 1954. The Second World War has ravaged the country, and for years families had been forced to go without to help the war effort. Even in the tiny stone village of Capel Celyn - where time seemingly stands still in the lush beauty of the surrounding hills - the war has left behind empty tables and broken hearts. But then the residents learn that their beloved village is at risk of being taken from them, and in the most shocking way imaginable. Who will be brave enough to save it?

En mitad de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los Aliados y Alemania acordaron llevar a cabo un intercambio de soldados prisioneros de Guerra al final de la cruenta campaña militar del Norte de África, En el puerto de Barcelona, que fue el lugar aceptado por ambas partes para el intercambio, cuatro mil soldados, la mitad de cada bando, fueron intercambiados en el muelle de España, el 27 de octubre de 1943, en una operación que supuso la intervención de dos buques de cada bando.

The year is 1944, and Lieutenant Harry Gilmour is recovering in Beirut from an ill-fated British campaign to seize the Greek Islands. After four years at sea, he is expecting a shore job as his next appointment. Instead, a flash signal from C-in-C Mediterranean arrives: Report to Alexandria and assume command of HM Submarine Saraband. His new command has just arrived there en route to the Indian Ocean and the war against Japan. With a sullen, uncooperative crew, Harry must navigate Japanese convoy routes through the shallow, treacherous waters of the Malay Archipelago.

Von lebensgefährlichen Entscheidungen, gefälschten Pässen und schicksalhaften Freundschaften. Fritze Thormann, Vielleser und begeisterter Sportler, gehört zu den Menschen, die das Pech haben, dass sie immer wieder zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort sind. Mit seinen fast 16 Jahren ist er deswegen schon in viele riskante Situationen geschlittert. Zuletzt beim Ehrendienst der HJ während der Olympiade 1936. Gerade noch gelang es ihm, seinem Läufer-Idol Jesse Owens ein Autogramm abzujagen, als kurz darauf dunkle Wolken über ihm aufziehen.

Yugoslavia, 1941. Yugoslavia - hitherto neutral - finds itself at war with Germany as the pro-Nazi government is overthrown and replaced by a pro-Allied administration. The staff at the British Embassy make hasty plans to leave the country, but one of the military attachés, Captain Tony Davis, is separated from his comrades. Together with a motley crew of refugees, Davis escapes into the mountains of the west and begins a breathtaking series of adventures as he encounters the remnants of the Serbian army, the dreaded Ustase terrorists and, eventually, the Partisans.

It is 1940, and, as the Battle of Britain takes to the air, Hope Stapleford is recruited to join the Special Operations Executive. On her way to Scotland, she is pulled from a train and driven to spymaster Fitzroy's stately home. She is his intelligence operative, and he wants to send her to a Scottish airfield where Harvey is already stationed undercover as a mechanic. At the airbase, Hope and Harvey find a community in turmoil. Pilots talk of strange sightings in the air, and local mechanics report mysterious scratches appearing on the wings and fuselage of the aircraft.

Wie weit muss eine Mutter gehen, um ihr Kind zu schützen? 1939: Die jüdische Pianistin Eva sucht in Prag verzweifelt nach einem Weg, ihre Tochter Miriam vor den heranrückenden Deutschen in Sicherheit zu bringen. Als letzter Ausweg bleibt ihr, sie mit einem Kindertransport nach London zu schicken. Doch wie wird ihr Kind die Reise ins Ungewisse überstehen? In England bemüht sich die Britin Pamela, der kleinen Miriam ein Zuhause zu geben, muss aber gleichzeitig um ihre eigene Familie fürchten.

A former Legionnaire had been working as an investigative journalist in Paris. He meets a mysterious American, of Jewish and Latino descent, by chance when the latter sails into a quiet fishing village nestled in a remote Andalusian bay in Spain. The yachtsman, also a former French Foreign Legionnaire, explained that he had been working in private security, and he tells a story that dates back to the dark days of Nazi Germany and it at first seems to be fictitious. However, the journalist began to question what he had been told.

November 30, 1939 - invaded by the Soviet Union, Finland must mount a desperate defense against overwhelming odds. Outnumbered and outclassed, the world expected the tiny Nordic nation to quickly succumb to the communist juggernaut. Instead, the saga of David versus Goliath was reimagined into Finnish farmers and woodsmen standing firm against Soviet steel.

En 1944, alors que l'Europe est à feu et à sang, le médecin d'origine bordelaise Pierre Castel est chargé par les services secrets britanniques d'une mission cruciale auprès d'Hitler, à Berchtesgaden. Mais tout ne se passe pas comme prévu... et il retourne en Allemagne sous une fausse identité, en avril 1945. Il doit, dans le bunker du Führer, rejoindre un complice au moment où la ville est encerclée par l'Armée rouge.

Londra. È notte ed Ethan Cooper, giornalista del Guardian, è alla guida. All'improvviso, sbucato dal nulla, un uomo si lancia sotto la sua macchina. L'asfalto, zuppo di pioggia, rende inutile la frenata: l'impatto è inevitabile, gli effetti devastanti. Resosi conto della gravità dell'incidente, Ethan chiama i soccorsi e raggiunge l'uomo in fin di vita. Questi, con le ultime forze, gli consegna due oggetti e pronuncia alcune frasi incomprensibili. Sentendosi responsabile per quanto accaduto, Ethan comincia allora un'indagine.

Bryan Hale is a damaged man. The stresses of combat flying in England's summer skies during the Battle of Britain, and night-fighting in the icy darkness of the Blitz, together with the loss of friends and a shattered heart, have left him broken and grounded. Fortress Malta, and the unrelenting Nazi siege that aims to grind it away, will be the furnace that forges him anew.

July 1942. Never has the outcome of the war been more uncertain. Britain might have ruled out any risk of invasion, but Stalin's Russia is bowing under the blows of Hitler's armies. The Nazis unleash an occult war in an attempt to tip the scales: whoever reunites the four sacred Swastikas will win. Double Agent Tristan Marcas sets out in search of the Romanov treasure, which is said to harbour the final relic. He's got no time to lose: the battle is about to come to a head.

Noor Inayat Khan, princesa india que trabaja como espía para el bando aliados en la Segunda Guerra Mundia, es apresada en París por las fuerzas nazis. En su poder hay una información que podría sacudir el tablero político internacional del momento. Sin embargo, sus enemigos están a punto de descubrir que Noor Inayat Khan es mucho más que una mujer desvalida.

There might be a war on, but that doesn't stop Georgina Garrett running her business with an iron fist. No one said running the Battersea gang was going to be easy, but her unflinchable nature makes Georgina unstoppable. With a role that requires a ruthless ability to seek revenge and pay out crippling punishments, Georgina's enemies are growing in number. With a target on her back, Georgina knows she must do everything to protect her family. But, with the loss of someone closest to her, can Georgina rise up from the ashes or allow a usurper take her crown?