World War Ii Mystery Thriller

Segunda Guerra Mundial. Verano de 1943. Todos los países de Europa han ido cayendo bajo el dominio nazi. El viejo continente, reducido a escombros, se ha convertido en un animal herido que agoniza víctima de los bombardeos y el fuego de artillería.

Zahlreiche Deutsche Wissenschaftler werden von den Alliierten, überwiegend den Amerikanern, außer Landes geschafft. In der neuen Heimat können sie, teilweise völlig unabhängig von ihrer Verwicklung im Nazi-Regime, ungestört ihre Arbeit fortsetzen. 75 Jahre später, wird ein amerikanischer Neuro-Wissenschaftler - Dr. Nathan Sanders - mit Krankheitsbildern konfrontiert, die er bisher in seinem Leben noch nie gesehen hat und stellt Nachforschungen an. Dabei stellt er fest, dass die historischen Ereignisse, so wie sie bisher dargestellt wurden, nicht stimmen können.

DECEMBER 1942. As the war rages on, the accidental death of a young man is almost unremarkable. Except this young man was patrolling the grounds of Hursley Park House, where teams are designing crucial modifications to the Spitfire. JANUARY 1943. Josephine Fox is given a code name and a mission as she is seconded to Hursley: uncover the network responsible for information leaks to the enemy. And when the dead man's father visits Bram Nash convinced that his son was innocent of espionage and the victim of murder, her friend is also drawn into the investigation.

1942. The war at sea is being lost. One percent of all naval personnel are being referred to as psychiatric casualties. The British Admiralty introduces the Stone Frigate approach.

History hinged on a call as the German high command waited for Hitler’s order to invade Czechoslovakia. That was the signal that would launch their revolt to bring down the Reich. Every detail of the coup was in place. Access roads to Berlin would be blocked. The city sealed. Communication centers taken. A commando squad―sixty hand-picked men―were ready to storm the Chancellery and seize Hitler. The only open question: to try Hitler as a traitor or execute him on the spot.

As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, an underfunded MI5 struggles to contain the German and Russian spies who are flocking to England to recruit sympathetic British agents. The section’s biggest challenge, however, lies with fascist aristocrats and several Parliament MPs who support Nazi Germany’s foreign policy and its leader Adolf Hitler. Some of them, including Sir Oswald Mosley, are planning for a revolution if Prime Minister Chamberlain declares war on the Third Reich.

Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada - Eagle and Crane - are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks to the Thorn family's belief that the Yamadas - Japanese immigrants - stole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family.

This is the story of four GIs in one tank, cut off behind German lines during WWII. They fight to stay alive and remain human during the carnage of war.

Berlin, 1944. A serial killer stalks the bombed-out capital of the Reich, preying on women and laying their mutilated bodies in front of war memorials. All of the victims are linked to the Nazi party. But according to one eyewitness account, the perpetrator is not an opponent of Hitler's regime, but rather a loyal Nazi. Jewish Detective Richard Oppenheimer, once a successful investigator for the Berlin police, is reactivated by the Gestapo and forced onto the case.

Barcelona, primavera de 1941. Martín Marín és un jove falangista extremeny que arriba a la ciutat per incorporar-se al cos de policia. Va ple d’ideals i de projectes, i està decidit a participar activament en la construcció de la Nova Espanya. Però allò que troba Marín és una ciutat en runes, miserable i amb les ferides de la guerra encara obertes. Esgarrifat, es topa amb l’estraperlo i la prostitució, que omplen els carrers, i alhora intueix que els vencedors no posen prou energia en el redreçament de la moral.

Carcassonne, 1942. Terwijl talloze Franse soldaten aan het front hun leven geven om de Duitsers het hoofd te bieden, besluit de dappere jonge Sandrine haar eigen strijd te voeren. Onder de codenaam Citadel brengt ze een groep vrouwelijke verzetsstrijders bijeen. Samen met hen riskeert ze alles wat haar lief is om een einde te maken aan de angst die de Duitse bezetting met zich meebrengt. De vrouwen van de Citadel-verzetsgroep weten nog niet dat ze zich mengen in een strijd die veel ouder en duisterder is dan ze ooit hadden voorzien.

Sicily, 1943. Eddie Harkins, former Philadelphia beat cop turned Military Police lieutenant, reluctantly finds himself first at the scene of a murder at the US Army's 11th Field Hospital. There the nurses contend with heat, dirt, short-handed staffs, the threat of German counterattack, an ever-present flood of horribly wounded GIs, and the threat of assault by one of their own - at least until someone shoots Dr. Myers Stephenson in the head.

In a time of war, nowhere is safe. While World War Two rages, Cat Carlisle runs a women’s refuge to protect beaten wives. But when one of the women is found dead in the woods behind the house, Cat’s world shatters. Was the killer a violent husband seeking revenge? A secret lover? Or is something more dangerous at play? Because Cat and her fiancé, Thomas, have a secret: they’re hiding a precious golden chalice, keeping it locked safely away from the plundering Nazis until the war is over. But someone wants that treasure, and no one will be safe until they get it....

Jim Heydrich is the Canadian-born nephew of one of the most feared men in the Gestapo. When his family returns to Germany just before the war, Jim arrives in the Third Reich as a young, sensitive theater student, both protected and encumbered by his famous relation. Resisting an invitation to join the Nazis, he instead finds himself a member of an English-language theater troupe working in Occupied Europe.

Ucraina, 1941.Tutto inizia con l'Operazione Barbarossa, l'attacco nazista all'Unione Sovietica. Tra i primi a varcare il confine tra Germania e Russia c'è un giovane capitano dell'esercito tedesco: il suo nome è Martin Bora, il detective che ha reso celebre Ben Pastor. Colto, distaccato, compassionevole e nel contempo severo, anche in Russia Bora sarà costretto a dare prova del suo talento investigativo, inciampando quasi subito nel cadavere mutilato di una contadina.

Continua la saga di Martin Bora. Siamo nel 1944. Lasciata Roma diretto a Bolsena, Bora viene catapultato a Faracruci, un paesino dell'Abruzzo, per una missione segretissima e rischiosa. Si tratta di recuperare dei documenti brucianti. A complicare la situazione, si intromette il cadavere di un giovane sconosciuto, trovato una mattina nella piazza del paese. Fra thriller e spionaggio, uno dei romanzi più avvincenti della serie, sullo sfondo della guerra e della Resistenza abruzzese.

It is March 1938. A print worker petitions Holmes about the disappearance of a fellow worker at the Daily Mail. Holmes investigates, and after interviews with the newspaper’s proprietor, Viscount Rothermere, and with Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German ambassador, it becomes clear the missing print worker has died fulfilling a commission for the German ambassador, although it is not clear what the commission is.

Martin Bora, giovane capitano del controspionaggio militare e protagonista fisso dei thriller bellici di Ben Pastor, arriva nella Ville Lumière per svolgere un incarico molto delicato: fare rapporto sulle strane mosse di Ernst Jünger, il grande scrittore, l'eroe della patria, l'amante della guerra, che però ha col regime di Hitler un infido rapporto. E sempre a lui toccherà investigare sulla misteriosa morte, avvenuta in Bretagna, della moglie di un commodoro della Marina del Terzo Reich.

Spagna, 1937. La guerra civile tra i repubblicani e gli insorti franchisti non conosce un istante di tregua. Convinto volontario del "Tercio" franchista, Martin Bora vive il conflitto spagnolo come un'avventura entusiasmante, dove il rigore delle scelte politiche si sposa all'impeto vitalistico dell'azione pura. I primi dubbi, tuttavia, cominciano ad apparire quando si imbatte nel cadavere di un uomo barbaramente assassinato. Si tratta di Federico Garcia Lorca, brillante poeta, progressista, omosessuale. Chi l'ha fatto fuori?

It is May 1940. The British army has been routed and is awaiting its evacuation. Winston Churchill asks Holmes to stand by to provide advice on what steps to take in the face of the anticipated aerial onslaught of the Luftwaffe on British airfields. As German attacks mount, Holmes offers unpalatable advice which Churchill accepts for want of an alternative. As German attacks switch from the airfields to production facilities, Holmes provides additional detective advice on a most unexpected matter.