World War Ii Mystery Thriller

In 1938, as the Third Reich is just beginning its reign of terror, hundreds of Jewish orphans are hidden away in Austria, in the midst of their underground escape to Palestine. The only man who knows their location is killed, leaving the children with precious little time to survive. The dead man leaves a single set of instructions: Find US Department of War agent Neil Reuter - he will save the children.

Kommissar Oppenheimers dritter Fall: ein packender Zweiter-Weltkriegs-Krimi über die Atompläne der Nazis von Glauser-Preisträger Harald Gilbers. Berlin, Ende April 1945: Die letzten Tage des Dritten Reichs verbringen Kommissar Oppenheimer und seine Frau Lisa in einem Unterschlupf des Ganoven Ede. Doch in den chaotischen Wirren der Niederlage werden sie getrennt. Als Oppenheimer in Edes Auftrag einen verschwundenen Schuldner aufspüren soll, bekommt er unverhofft einen Hinweis auf Lisas Vergewaltiger, den russischen Deserteur Grigorjew.

Having survived the sinking of his first ship, Ensign Ash Miller USNR is promoted and assigned to command one of the sleek new additions to "the splinter fleet", a 110-foot wooden submarine chaser armed with only understrength guns and depth charges. His task is to bring the ship swiftly into commission, weld his untried crew into an efficient fighting unit, and take his vessel to sea in order to protect the defenseless Allied merchant vessels which are being maliciously and increasingly sunk by German U-Boats, often within sight of the coast.

Isola di Capri, agosto 1939. L'Italia è nella morsa del fascismo, la Seconda guerra mondiale è alle porte. Durante uno scintillante party sotto le stelle, zeppo di aristocratici, ufficiali nazisti e miliardari americani, il celebre scrittore Curzio Malaparte, gran rubacuori ed enfant terrible del fascismo, viene accostato dalla polizia segreta di Mussolini: qualcuno lo accusa dell'omicidio di una giovane poetessa inglese, misteriosamente precipitata da un dirupo quattro anni prima.

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.

January 1945. Wherever you look on the map, the Thousand Year Reich is shrinking. Even Goebbels has run out of lies to sweeten the reckoning to come. An Allied victory is inevitable, but who will reap the spoils of war? With the Red Army about to fall on Berlin, Stalin fears his sometime allies are conspiring to deny him his prize. He needs to speak to Goebbels—and who better to broker the contact than Nehmann, Goebbels' one-time confidant?

The Second World War rages on, but Britain now faces the Nazi threat with America at its side. In a bombed-out London swarming with gangsters and spies, DCI Frank Merlin continues his battle against rampant wartime crime. A mangled body is found in the Thames just as some items of priceless art go mysteriously missing. What sinister connection links the two? Merlin and his team follow a twisting trail of secrets and lies as they investigate a baffling and deadly puzzle.

1944, England. Calum Auger can see 10 seconds into the future. Desperate not to die in the air over Germany, the Lancaster bombardier uses his unique gift to drop his payload more accurately and help the pilot avoid enemy fire. But when he can’t find a way through the flak and the damaged plane crash-lands in England, he’s stunned to discover two government agents waiting to recruit him. Drafted into a top-secret team of psychics, Calum and his new unit are tasked with tracking down spies who stole sensitive documents—papers containing information on how to build an atom bomb.

1944. Paul Brandt, a soldier in the German army, returns wounded and ashamed from the bloody chaos of the Eastern Front to find his village changed and in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut—a luxurious retreat for officers recuperating from their injuries and for those who manage the nearby concentration camps of Auschwitz. The hut is run with the help of a small group of female prisoners from the camps who, against all odds, have survived the war so far. When, by chance, Brandt glimpses one of these prisoners, he realizes he must find a way to access the hut.

Berlino, dicembre 1939. Mentre la Germania entra in guerra, i nazisti stringono la loro morsa sulla popolazione. La paranoia nella capitale è intensificata da un rigido blackout che ogni notte, al tramonto del cupo sole invernale, fa sprofondare la città in un'oscurità opprimente. Quando una giovane donna viene trovata brutalmente assassinata, l'ispettore Horst Schenke riceve subito pressioni per risolvere il caso. Trattato con sospetto dai suoi stessi superiori per la mancata adesione al partito nazista, Schenke cammina su una lastra di ghiaccio molto sottile.

May 1940. With Nazi forces sweeping across France, invasion seems imminent. The English Channel has never felt so narrow. In rural Sussex, war veteran John Cook has been tasked with preparing the resistance effort, should the worst happen. But even as the foreign threat looms, it's rumours of a missing child that are troubling Cook. A 12-year-old girl was evacuated from London and never seen again, and she's just the tip of the iceberg - countless evacuees haven't made it to their host families. As Cook investigates, he uncovers a dark conspiracy that reaches to the highest ranks of society.

Ein mysteriöser Sonderbefehl der deutschen Heeresleitung schickt eine Gebirgsjägereinheit auf ein Himmelfahrtskommando. Die Soldaten Konrad Hartmann und Daniel Kemper werden nach Finnland abkommandiert. Dort beteiligen sie sich an der deutschen Großoffensive gegen die Sowjetunion. Rasch jedoch wird den beiden Freunden klar, dass ihr eigentlicher Auftrag ein ganz anderer ist. Ihre Eliteeinheit setzt sich ab, angeführt von SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Krieger und einer seltsamen Frau, die über noch seltsamere Fähigkeiten verfügt.

With the coming of the Olympic Games to Berlin, a false air of civility has taken over as the government extends a welcome to the world. But below the surface, the police state remains, and hundreds of so-called “undesirables” are rounded up and held in a newly constructed concentration camp in the city. In desperation, one of the prisoners reaches out to the Ritter family, and Maureen and her band of subversives will undertake a mission of mercy that could see them all end up as victims of the dreaded Gestapo.

Nazi Germany has been crushed, but is the war really over? Klara, Hitler's personal cook, swears she glimpsed him fleeing the Berlin bunker via a secret tunnel. The world needs undeniable proof of the Fuhrer's death, but it's not that simple. While Allied intelligence agents scour Europe to find such proof, and a Hitler double—"the Wolf"—lays a false trail across two continents, the real Hitler hides out in a Polish monastery, desperate to find his gold train so he can fund the Fourth Reich.

When saving a life in 1946 Alabama, Amish giant Konrad took one in return and must run before the electric chair claims him. In New York, Nazi propaganda fools him into jumping on a ship to Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich. In 1965, at Gothengau, an SS-run colony in Ukraine, a terrorist rocket attack on Berlin compels soldier-farmer Konrad to focus on his duty: commanding an SS convict battalion. He must flex his muscle for the armed forces or the Holocaust's perpetrators--his superiors, colleagues, and neighbors in Ukraine.

December, 1940. Christmas is coming, but the season of goodwill is overshadowed by the death and destruction of the Blitz. In London's Covent Garden, where the glamour of theatreland rubs shoulders with the bustle of the capital's biggest fruit and vegetable market, the war has closed the theatres and ruined the market trade. When a daylight air raid hits the Prince Albert Theatre in Drury Lane, rescuers find a man dying in the wreckage. But it wasn't the bomb that's ending his life - he's been stabbed, and with his dying breath he whispers what sounds like a fragmented confession.

Kim Maxwell has been languishing in the “cooler” in what she sees as punishment for getting caught—and tortured—by the Nazis, before being freed by Resistance fighters and smuggled back into England. Now she is sent for by the head of SOE. This is her chance to prove herself. A fellow agent has been found murdered. It would seem that Lilian Harvey heard something she shouldn’t have and that her murder was a warning. Setting out to uncover the culprit, Kim spots a strange zigzag pattern on the wall above the bed where the body was found, which Lilian drew using her own blood as she lay dying.

Kommissar Oppenheimers vierter Fall: ein packender Krimi über eine Mordserie im zerbombten Berlin von Glauser-Preisträger Harald Gilbers. Berlin 1946. Nach Kriegsende nutzt Kommissar Oppenheimer seinen kriminalistischen Spürsinn, um Vermisste ausfindig zu machen. Routinemäßig besucht er dazu die Berliner Flüchtlingslager. Als der verunstaltete Leichnam eines vertriebenen "Volksdeutschen" aufgefunden wird, bekommt Oppenheimer von dem sowjetischen Oberst Aksakow den Befehl, sich mit der Sache zu beschäftigen. Weitere brutale Morde lassen nicht lange auf sich warten.

Opium fürs Volk. Berlin im aufregenden Jahr 1925. Die Sass-Brüder, ehemals Kleinkriminelle, die sich ganz nach oben gearbeitet haben, planen den nächsten Coup. Mit einem chinesischen Partner wollen sie Opium in die Hauptstadt bringen. Ihre Rechnung scheint aufzugehen. Der Stoff wird ihnen förmlich aus den Händen gerissen, doch immer wieder werden Überfälle auf ihre Transporte verübt. Offenbar sind auch andere Kreise an den Drogen interessiert. Und dann taucht auch noch ein zwielichtiger Politiker auf, der von Franz Sass Informationen will und auch vor Erpressung nicht zurückschreckt.

On Sunday 22nd June 1941, at 03.05, three and a half million Axis troops burst into the Soviet Union along a 1,800-mile front to launch Operation Barbarossa. The southern thrust of the attack was aimed at the Caucuses and the oil fields beyond. Kyiv was the biggest city to stand in their way. Within six weeks, the city was under siege. Surrounded by Panzers, bombed and shelled day and night, Soviet Commissar Nikita Krushchev was amongst the senior Soviet officials co-ordinating the defence.