Ergebnis für "Joseph" in 20. Jahrhundert

Graf Franz Xaver Borstin ist zu Zeiten der Donaumonarchie der unbestrittene, gütige Herrscher über den kleinen Ort in Galizien, in dem seine Untertanen, Bauern, Handwerker, Juden und Christen, im besten Einverständnis miteinander leben – gestützt von der Philanthropie Borstins, dessen Verehrung für den Kaiser Franz Joseph allseits bekannt ist. Als dieser in Borstins Haus während eines Militärmanövers übernachtet, ist der Graf selig. Doch eines Tages ist der erste Weltkrieg vorbei, das Kaiserreich Geschichte – und Polen eine Republik.

Named a Best Mystery & Suspense Book of the Year by BookPage and CrimeReads “A steamy, thrilling crime story” (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon set in pre-World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just the cost...

Leutnant Trotta rettet dem Kaiser in der Schlacht bei Solferino das Leben und wird zum Dank in den Adelsstand erhoben. Sein Sohn dient als Bezirkshauptmann in der Provinz, dessen Sohn - der Enkel des 'Helden von Solferino' - versucht erfolglos, Karriere beim Militär zu machen. Dann beginnt der Krieg.

In the heat of World War II, deep behind enemy lines, there are missions so secret that even history forgot about them—until now. The second explosive installment in the Code Name series uncovers one of the most daring and covert operations in WWII—so much so that it had to be cleared for publication by the Department of Defense eighty years after the real-world mission took place.

The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf, by Louis Joseph Vance, was first published in 1918, and is the second of what eventually became an 8-book series. The main character, known as The Lone Wolf, is a reformed jewel thief who in this story, is a British spy, who uses several names including Michael Lanyard.

Austria 1914. Il giovane Trotta, nobile per nomina, conduce la stessa vita leggera e vuota del resto della decadente nobile gioventù viennese, finché non conosce il cugino caldarrostaio Joseph Branco e l’amico di questi, il vetturino ebreo Manes Reisiger. Persuaso di trovare in loro la concretezza che ritiene gli manchi, allo scoppio della guerra si arruola nel loro reggimento e li segue fino in Galizia orientale, oggi Ucraina ma allora parte dello sterminato Impero austroungarico, e quindi in Siberia, che nel romanzo di Roth è una magica e remota isola di moralità e bontà.

Montmartre au petit jour. Chaque matin, l'auteur, attablé au Sans-Souci, voit passer une femme dans la rue. Elsa Wiener, il l'apprendra bientôt, a fui l'Allemagne. Son mari Michel y est resté, enfermé dans un camp. Elle chante dans les boîtes de nuit. Elle vit seule avec un enfant juif, Max, que les nazis ont rendu infirme. On suit avec fascination la lente chute d'Elsa, sa déchéance, au nom d'un amour qui n'existe peut-être pas. Avec le portrait de cette passante des aubes transies de Pigalle, Kessel semble dire adieu au Paris des années folles.

In the first months of 1936, Adolf Hitler risked everything by ordering his untrained military to reoccupy the Rhineland. It was a bluff. The Germans would have been forced to retreat if the French or British had offered the slightest opposition. But the bluff succeeded. History changed decisively. Hitler quieted the opposition at home, and marched the world relentlessly on, to the edge of destruction and beyond.

When everyone is watching, survival will be her greatest performance ... A gripping, utterly absorbing novel about survival and art as defiance on the 1930s Berlin stage, from the bestselling author of The Woman from Saint Germain Berlin 1932: With the country in chaos, Monika Varády, a young...

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! Named “The Book of the Year” by Lee Child in The Guardian From “master of the genre” (The Washington Post) and author of Leaving Berlin, a heart-pounding and intelligent espionage novel about a Nazi war criminal who was supposed to be dead...

On a bombing mission over Germany, David Turner's thoughts are with Sally Barnes in Liverpool. Deaf since childhood, Sally is young and vulnerable and David wishes he could be with her to protect her from the horros of war. But to Sally, David is just the boy from down the road. It is Lee, the young carefree American airman, who has won her heart.

Shortlisted for the 2021 Leacock Medal for Humour Longlisted for the 2020 Toronto Book Awards How can you say goodbye forever when you've left an important secret unspoken? "I'll tell you what I'm going to do," Zoltan said. "When I die, I'll leave my luck to you." Zoltan Beck is dying. His...

From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes Joseph Kanon's riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice. Winner of the Hammett Prize It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has...

En Izquierda y derecha Joseph Roth describe un mundo particular conformado a la luz de la posguerra luego de la Primera Guerra Mundial: el de la familia Bernheim. Paul y Theodor, hermanos, exhiben dos caracteres que emergen de una familia que se ha venido abajo, tanto a nivel económico como a nivel moral.

“Gripping, horrifying, and surprisingly moving.” —Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train With over 250,000 copies sold, an award-winning WWII novel about the heroism of a single Finnish infantry company—and the best sniper the world has ever seen—defending their country against...

Best known for her posthumously published novel Suite française, Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903. Her family fled the Russian Revolution for Paris, where she found fame as a novelist. But when the Nazis occupied France, she was arrested as a Jew and sent to Auschwitz, where she died aged just 39. This collection includes four of her best works, dramatised for radio with a full cast.

Ernest Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, follows the adventures of a group of young, hard-drinking, American expatriates - which Hemingway refers to as the "Lost Generation" - as they pinball through Europe, from France to Spain and back again.

Kenneth Afton hates everyone. Though, he hates ‘krauts’ more than anything and unfortunately, Kenneth is forced to marry within the German mob, Immer Treu. This deal is to strengthen their alliance before the business is snuffed out by the Nazi soldiers moving in. He must come to terms with his newfound transaction and aid his new wife as she rises within the ranks of her gang. In time he questions his hatred for krauts and comes to find that he adores how his wife provokes every reaction from him.