Ergebnis für "D-Day" in Literatur & Belletristik

Stellen Sie sich vor, die Geschichte hätte einen anderen Weg genommen – was wäre, wenn Frankreich und Großbritannien im Jahre 1915 eine gewaltige Landung an den Stränden Belgiens gewagt hätten, um den Stellungskrieg aus seiner Erstarrung zu reißen und das deutsche Kaiserreich zu bezwingen? Kann der Angriff auf Ostende das Blatt wenden oder gelingt es dem Kaiserreich, die Landung in ein Desaster zu verwandeln?

Erleben Sie den 3. Band der erfolgreichen Alternativwelt-Serie über einen anderen 2. Weltkrieg jetzt als rundum überarbeitete Neuausgabe! Nie war Alternativweltgeschichte aus Deutschland besser! Synopsis: Der Kampf geht weiter. Das Kriegsjahr 1944 steht ganz im Zeichen einer drohenden Invasion der Westmächte in Nordfrankreich. In einem gnadenlosen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit setzt Feldmarschall Rommel alle Hebel in Bewegung, um die Wehrmacht auf die Abwehr der Invasionstruppen vorzubereiten.

Der vorliegende Band "D-Day Normandie 44" lässt Sie in die Materialschlachten nach der alliierten Landung in Frankreich eintauchen. Die wenigen deutschen Divisionen müssen sich einem an Material und Menschen weit überlegenen Feind stellen. Erleben Sie durch die Augen des Kompanieführers Bergner das erbitterte Ringen um die Küstenstadt Caen.

Le Débarquement allié en Normandie, le 6 juin 1944, passe à juste titre pour un des grands tournants de la Seconde Guerre mondiale - à tel point que dans l'esprit de beaucoup de Français le reste de la guerre ne fut qu'une formalité. Or, il n'en est rien. Si le Débarquement fut un de ces moments où se forgent les légendes, la bataille qui s'ensuivit, connue sous le nom de bataille de Normandie, fut autrement plus longue, difficile et décisive.

Ein mörderischer Wettlauf mit der Zeit Bodyguard: Dieses Wort versucht ein sterbender Mann mit letzter Kraft in den Boden zu ritzen. Ein Wort, das zu Nicolas Guerlain führt, Personenschützer der französischen Regierung. Nicolas erkennt, dass es eine Verbindung gibt zu den Feierlichkeiten in...

The worldwide phenomenon from the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, and The Evening and the Morning His code name was “The Needle.” He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence—a master spy with a legacy of violence in his...

The common world has changed forever following the twenty-eight-hour electromagnetic pulses resulting from an extensive coronal mass ejection from the sun. As a result, new COVID strains and economic collapse have decimated the population. Two recent college graduates face starvation when their friend and benefactor fails to return. The young adults, joined together by hidden feelings and kinship of home, embark on a journey to rejoin their families that are hopefully still alive. A chance encounter with a grizzled prepper speeds them along, with detour after detour.

What makes life meaningful? How do we confront our inevitable end? An eminent psychiatrist draws on decades of clinical experience to show how he and his patients have grappled with the most profound existential questions. “A remedy more powerful than any fad or pill could promise.”...

‘Unsparing and tender’ Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn ‘A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers’ Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon ‘A quietly stunning achievement’ Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous As the world changes around them, a family...

In 1944, American naval officer Lt. Wyatt Paxton arrives in London to prepare for the Allied invasion of France. He works closely with Dorothy Fairfax, a "Wren" in the Women's Royal Naval Service. Dorothy pieces together reconnaissance photographs with thousands of holiday snapshots of France - including those of her own family's summer home - in order to create accurate maps of Normandy. Maps that Wyatt will turn into naval bombardment plans. As the two spend concentrated time together in the pressure cooker of war, their deepening friendship threatens to turn to love.

The breathtaking sequel to the all-time classic, THE EAGLE HAS LANDED, reissued for a new generation The greatest World War Two story of all time – is not over… By the end of 1943, all evidence of the abortive German attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill has been carefully buried in an...

Bloomsbury presents Hill 112 by Adrian Goldsworthy, read by Henry Nott. A gripping story of friendship and division in the midst of warfare, set against one of the most dramatic, dangerous, and crucial campaigns of World War II: the Battle of Normandy. They went to war as boys. Will they make it...

To what lengths will the British go to smuggle a secret weapon into Nazi Germany? An unmissable Second World War thriller from bestseller Alex Gerlis. 'Absorbing ... Gerlis directs his cast with verve' Financial Times Hiding in the horror of Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto with his family, scientist...

The most important essays and interviews from the remarkable multi-decade career of David Graeber, the hugely influential and bestselling co-author of The Dawn of Everything. "The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently,"...

He never forgave her for leaving. She never forgot the man she left behind. And now his past has come back to put her in the crosshairs. Former Navy SEAL Weston “Cowboy” Hayes has spent years outrunning the ghosts of his past—missions that went wrong, brothers he couldn’t save, enemies who don’t forget. Keeping his world small, quiet, and controlled is the only way he knows how to survive. Until Reese Faye comes home. After losing her job without warning, Reese has nowhere else to go but the town she swore she’d never return to.

June 6th is the Day of Days. Same date; six different years, the Time Patrol must save our timeline from the shadow by preserving our past to protect our timeline from annihilation. History is made by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The fact that often history doesn't record the heroics of these people doesn't alter that.

So the question arises, what would happen if two serial killers suddenly found themselves thrown together by fate? Richard Michael Lamont has a conundrum when he picks up a woman named Savvy Cofield walking along a Tulsa street in a driving rainstorm. Everything he’d planned down to the last detail, has gone awry. Now he’s trapped with no way out. There’s no one he can call, especially not the police. Hoping to find a resolution to his present situation, while Richard and Savvy are hiding out in the small Oklahoma town of Colby, Richard comes up with a plan.

This book was written to help people achieve a more happy and successful life while better connecting to their spirituality. To provide direction for anyone that is seeking self-improvement, growth, motivation, and more fulfillment from life.

Shortly after returning home from being held captive overseas, former Navy SEAL Silas Williamson found himself sole guardian of his four-year-old niece. Moving to Hope Springs was supposed to be a safe haven for them both, but then she showed up. The woman who has haunted every moment of his life since they parted ways a decade ago. Bianca Theodore has certainly suffered through her fair share of dark times. As a military trauma surgeon, she's saved more lives than she can count. However, there was one life she refused to save.

A knight, newly-returned from the Crusades, rides out one day to look over his estates. He doesn’t return and nothing is seen or heard of him or his horse again. His grieving lady dies of a broken heart within a year. This is the legend of Elmswood, a mid-Kent village. The children of the Davington family and their friend, John, go with their sledges to Castle Hill to have fun in the deep snow, but their fun turns into a terrifying adventure when they encounter a knight. Is he the knight from the legend? They think so, but are they right?