World War Ii Romance

Werther in Westfalen, 1933: Josephine, die jüngste Tochter von Anton und Anna Leyen, hat die Liebe zu Süßigkeiten geerbt und arbeitet in der Zuckerwarenfabrik ihrer Familie. Als sie den jungen Manfred kennen lernt, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf. Durch eine Idee von Manfred kreiert Josephine ein neues Bonbon, das einzeln verpackt und immer gleich groß ist – die ersten Markenbonbons sind erfunden. Die beiden heiraten, aber ihre Liebe wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt, als die Nationalsozialisten an die Macht kommen und Manfred, der jüdischer Herkunft ist, Repressalien ausgesetzt ist.

Born to a secure, middle-class Polish Jewish family, seventeen-year-old Reuven works alongside his father, an artisan businessman whose shop creates the finest handmade umbrellas in Poland. But the family’s peaceful life shatters when the Nazis invade their homeland, igniting World War II. With terrifying brutality, the Nazis confiscate their business, evict them from their home, and strip away their rights, threatening the lives of the city’s Jewish population, including Reuven and Zelda, the girl he loves.

Penny is hell-bent on revenge on the man who caused her to flee France as a fourteen-year-old with little more than the clothes on her back. She lost everything, her friends, her home and her family. Stifled by the restrictions of her father's family, she aches to contribute more to the war effort. A brush with death puts her face all over the newspapers and almost breaks her heart in the process.

Meet Nancy Youngblood, a blithe and vivid heroine of an investigating disposition. When Nancy inherits a minor interest in a factory soon to become vital to the winning of World War II, she sees it as a chance to get closer to Robert Dalhart, who has taken over the factory on his father's death. Nancy has always loved him but because they grew up together on the same block Robert thinks of her as a kid sister. But soon sabotage, murder, and strikes threaten the plant and Robert - who evidence suggests may be the culprit, perhaps as an agent of the German government.

Alice Katz is a young Jewish physicist, one of the only female doctoral students at her university, studying with the famed Dr. Oppenheimer. Her well-to-do family wants her to marry a man of her class and settle down. Instead, Alice answers her country’s call to come to an unnamed city in the desert to work on a government project shrouded in secrecy. At Los Alamos, Alice meets Caleb Blum, a poor Orthodox Jew who has been assigned to the explosives division. Around them are other young scientists and engineers who have quietly left their university posts to come live in the desert.

When Laura Powell and Henry Salter travel to Paris in 1938, neither considers the other very good company. Laura is a shallow, spoiled heir to a fortune, and Henry an opportunistic bore—or so they think. But as her father’s protégé, Henry is tasked with accompanying Laura for her safety, even as she continues to scorn him. Orphaned stowaway David forces the pair to see eye to eye. They can ignore their growing feelings, but they can’t deny the boy’s need for protection. Yet even with this tentative truce, their problems are far from over.

1948: Clara lebt mit ihrer Schwiegermutter und ihrer Schwägerin im Hamburger Gängeviertel, das von Krieg und Armut geprägt ist. Obwohl ihr geliebter Mann Valentin seit Jahren als verschollen gilt, hat sie ihren Lebensmut nicht verloren. Unerschütterlich glaubt sie an seine Rückkehr und den Aufschwung des langsam erblühenden Hamburgs. Bei ihrer Arbeit als Straßenbahnschaffnerin trifft sie schließlich auf den jungen Gastarbeiter Matteo. Es dauert nicht lang und ihre Begegnungen häufen sich. Clara ist von seinem italienischen Charme und seiner fröhlichen Art verzaubert.

This is a fictionalized story concerning an inheritance that ultimately ends up with a newly married couple at the beginning of the Great Depression. The inheritance does not consist of money but, instead, of the bride's sisters plus various properties in West Virginia. Despite the religious prejudice of the time, this new Protestant/Catholic group manages to form a real family while living in a quirky house through the bad financial times as well as through the future World War II.

A scorching sunshine has been burning the streets of central London for days but apart from a handful of West End spots heaving with tourists, the city is empty. Just behind Piccadilly, the streets of St James are deserted. The grand, imposing Georgian facades sit in perfect stillness. Jude Montague prepares to close his art gallery at the end of another ordinary day but just as he is about to leave, a woman arrives. Bianca Fremont is beautiful and intriguing, and when Jude discovers Bianca owns a torn fragment of what could be a genuine Caravaggio, Jude is caught in a search.

As the Great War rages across Europe, twenty-one-year-old Ruby Archer decides to ‘do her bit’ at an East End munitions factory. The work is relentless and deafening, but the camaraderie of the other girls carries her through. As the threat of another Zeppelin attack grows by the day, Ruby cannot ignore the abandoned animals scavenging the local streets. She rescues a stray kitten, Tess, and takes in an injured terrier Mac, but when all the local cats mysteriously disappear, she knows she needs to do more, and with the help of her friends plans to open a weekly animal clinic.

1942. Evie Sinclair has enlisted in the ATS to serve her country. Her mother disapproves, wanting her to stay and help run the household, but her father supports her bid for independence. Though conditions are austere and the training is intense, Evie is proud to become a qualified gunner girl, part of the team operating the anti-aircraft batteries. When she meets RAF bomber pilot Matt Goodwin at a dance, it's not long before they fall in love. But then tragedy strikes. Matt is killed on a mission, leaving Evie bereft - and expecting a child.

Growing up without the care of a loving family made Anna Golding fiercely independent. So when war breaks out, determined to do her duty, she joins the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Her fellow trainees are like the sisters she never had. However, as they all talk of fond memories of home, Anna's heart breaks. Her past is too painful to share. Then she meets her friend's brother, Royal Air Force navigator Jimmy Armstrong, whose gentle care makes her feel safe for the first time in her life. Anna and Jimmy must snatch moments together as their duties pull them to opposite ends of the country.

Berry Chambers and her co-workers have joined the Women's Timber Corps - known as the Lumberjills - to do their bit for Britain. On their first day felling trees, they rescue an RAF pilot and become entangled in the loveless marriage of her new landlords. Danger is never far away, be it an ill-timed axe swing or the occasional activity of the Luftwaffe overhead. Add a psychotic farm cat, a couple of young runaway evacuees, a spate of malicious packages, and the jealousy of the Land Girls next door, and life for Berry and her friends is never boring.

Carrie's life is turned upside down when the London Chest Hospital is bombed in the Blitz and it threatens to tear her from the slowly flowering love she has found in Michael's arms. After this horrific incident, her bravery is brought to the attention of the authorities. They contact her with a proposal, which drags her into the center of the conflict in Europe and out of the security of her home and family.

Thunder in the Sun is the fourth in the continuing Llewellyn family saga. Carrie, in her new role as district nurse, finds that she has far more to deal with than patients recovering from minor ailments. She takes charge of organizing a troop of evacuated children escaping the Blitz in London and finding them safe houses in which to stay. Some are lucky, but some are not, and Carrie’s life is flooded with incidents of cruelty, rape, and heart-wrenching drama.

Nurse Wendy Smith promised her mother she’d see the world, starting with beautiful Hawaii. Her promise to herself—to never depend on a man—is harder to keep when navy officer K.T. McAllister jitterbugs into her life. Then Pearl Harbor is attacked and, as Wendy nurses an injured K.T., she learns he too has promises to people back home. Yet as K.T. grows stronger, so do her feelings, and her longing for the forbidden.

21-year-old Alix is studying in Paris, far away from Sasha, her Serbian father and Leonora, her English mother, as World War Two breaks out. Finding hope even in troubled times, romance sparks with fellow student Raoul; but she soon learns young love can be tumultuous. So, when Steve, a handsome American pilot with Serbian ancestors, enters her life, she can't ignore her feelings toward him. And making a decision will be even harder as both men leave for war.

At 17, Renee Rushmore lives at home with her father Ivan—a cruel man who rules the house with an iron fist and keeps Renee isolated and alone. She is desperate to escape him, but with no friends to help her, what hope does she have? Then war breaks out. With factories and farms looking to take on female workers, Renee dares to hope that her freedom might be within grasp. And when she hears through a kindly local farmhand named Jimmy that Oak Valley Farm is in need of help, she might just have found her chance.

1940: Austrian refugee Karl Lang has lost everything—his country, his home, and his family. All that is left to him is a burning ambition to see the Nazis defeated. Desperate for work and a way to help the war effort, he finds the one place that will take a refugee like him: a supply steamer traversing a deadly path past enemy U-boats.

Als Jersey im Sommer 1940 von den Deutschen besetzt wird, hat der Krieg das Leben der Schwestern Robinson bereits eingeholt. Nachdem Jenny ihren Traum von einem Studium in Cambridge auf Eis legen muss, schließt sie sich mit ihrem Freund Pip dem Widerstand auf der Insel an. Und auch Alice begibt sich in große Gefahr, als sie den jungen deutschen Arzt Stefan kennenlernt und sich immer mehr zu ihm hingezogen fühlt. Als das Schicksal sie entzweit, müssen beide Schwestern ungeahnte Opfer bringen, um zu überleben.