Ergebnis für "August" in Historische Romane

Wien kurz nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs: Der Glanz der ehemaligen Weltmetropole ist Vergangenheit, die Stadt versinkt in Hunger und Elend. Polizeiagent August Emmerich, den ein Granatsplitter zum Invaliden gemacht hat, entdeckt die Leiche eines angeblichen Selbstmörders. Als erfahrener Ermittler traut er der Sache nicht über den Weg. Da er keine Beweise vorlegen kann und sein Vorgesetzter nicht an einen Mord glaubt, stellen er und sein junger Assistent selbst Nachforschungen an.

Eine Chocolaterie als Zuflucht in dunklen Zeiten. Berlin, 5. August 1936: Die Schwermut ist Elfies steter Begleiter, Zuversicht findet sie in ihrer Arbeit in der Chocolaterie Sawade, einem Hort zarter Zaubereien aus Nougat und Schokolade, feinstem Marzipan und edlen Aromen. Hier gelingt es Elfie und ihren Nachbarn, sich ihre Menschlichkeit in unmenschlichen Zeiten zu erhalten. Dann kommt Elfie dem Geheimnis einer besonderen Praline und der Geschichte einer verbotenen Liebe auf die Spur. Doch wird sie es wagen, auch ihrer eigenen Sehnsucht zu folgen.

Zehn Jahre dauerte es, bis Troja durch Odysseus' List erobert wurde - zehn weitere Jahre benötigt er, um in seine Heimat Ithaka zurückzukehren. Zahlreiche Prüfungen werden ihm von den Göttern auferlegt, ehe er endlich nach Hause findet. Das weltberühmte Epos - ungekürzt gelesen von David Nathan.

Wien, 1920: Während die Stadt immer noch mit den Folgen des Krieges zu kämpfen hat, wird August Emmerich endlich in die Abteilung Leib und Leben versetzt. Doch während seine Kollegen dort den aufsehenerregenden Mordfall an dem beliebten Stadtrat Richard Fürst bearbeiten, müssen Emmerich und sein Assistent Ferdinand Winter den Babysitter für die berühmte Schauspielerin Rita Haidrich spielen, die um ihr Leben fürchtet.

In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr...

Der zweite Band der mitreißenden Schönborn-Saga von Bestsellerautorin Barbara Leciejewski. Bremen, 1914: Sehnsüchtig wartet die 17-jährige Charlotte Schäfer auf einen Brief aus England. August Schönborn, ihr Kindheitsfreund aus Mühlbach, wurde bei Ausbruch des Krieges festgenommen und sitzt in einem Internierungslager auf der Isle of Man. Doch das rettet ihm das Leben – viele junge Männer werden nicht nach Mühlbach zurückkehren.

Duncan Cooke, aka The Duke of Stantham, had a problem. He had a huge estate in England to manage, one not far from London, and it came with all the headaches one would expect with an estate in disarray. Including six unwed cousins, women no man would touch for fear of losing a limb, or worse. Strange things happened to all who tried to court them, so they were left unwed. But Duncan realized that his hometown of Clear Creek had exactly what he needed. Men! He concocts a plan to send his cousins there.

An elderly woman recounts her Dutch family’s survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations. Eighty-year-old Mieke Geborn’s life is one of quiet routine. Widowed for many years, she enjoys the view from her...

It is 1914, and the storm clouds of war are building on the horizon. In Sydney, Josiah Steele is the new head of the family and grappling with his two very different sons - David, upstanding, decent and heir to the family enterprises; and Benjamin, wayward, restless and a magnet for trouble. To...

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Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award and 2021 Kate Challis RAKA Award! "A beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present."—Kate Morton “A groundbreaking novel for black and white Australia.”—Richard Flanagan...

With its compelling portrayal of a paranoia-ridden Moscow and blockaded Berlin, The Moscow Defector sees Duchene and Sabine, torn apart by opposing ideologies, risk their lives to try to save one another. Evocative, gripping and full of twists, this taut thriller asks if lovers can reunite against an all-powerful regime.

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Brought to you by Penguin. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society meets Lucinda Riley in this breath-taking story of how one woman's disappearance triggers the search of a lifetime. One Parisian night, a woman vanishes without a trace, leaving behind the man she loves. Sixty years...

The “reliably excellent” John Lescroart ( Publishers Weekly), acclaimed author of the best-selling novels featuring attorney Dismas Hardy, here offers a rich and engrossing historical mystery that takes us to a small French town in the dark days of World War I and introduces us to Auguste Lupa. The rumor is that he is the son of the greatest detective of all time. And the truth of his mysterious legacy may come to light as he attempts to solve the baffling murder of an intelligence agent and uncover an ingenious act of sabotage....

The Spy unfolds during the merciless winter of 1778–1779, when the American Revolution hangs in the balance on the western frontier. At its heart is Thomas Wright, a 12-year-old orphan forced to grow up fast in a land ruled by cold, hunger, and danger.

August, 1955. Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother’s Blackpool boardinghouse before she heads off to university. When Val and Cissie, both from Walker’s woollen mill in Halifax, come to stay for a week, the three young women form an instant friendship. They attend a local dance at the Winter Gardens, which changes all their lives, both for better and for worse.

Lawmaker August Flynn receives a tip-off that a Savannah gold mine is being sabotaged and many young men's lives are being needlessly lost. But the town is so wrapped up in lies, deceit, and greed that it's difficult for Flynn to know who's telling the truth.

Bestselling author Carla Kelly’s Regency seriesThe Channel Fleet continues, and the life-and-death stakes couldn’t be higher for this dashing naval hero! Return to her respectable life… Or take a scandalous path to marriage? As her snobbish aunt’s companion, penniless vicar’s daughter...

Fifteen-year old Morganna runs away from an abusive home to search for her blood father, a man she’s never met. Fearful she’ll be recognized by locals, she disguises herself as a boy. Hitching a ride from a fisherman, Morganna crosses the Bristol Channel to Goldcliff, Wales, where she hopes to find her father. She is astounded when the fisherman divulges her father is a famous Welsh privateer, the fearsome Captain Henry Blackwell.