Ergebnis für "Julia" in Krieg & Militär

Von den Gewinnern des Kindle Storyteller Awards 2021 kommt dieser Roman über eine der erschütterndsten Zeiten der deutschen Geschichte. Ein Familienschicksal in den Wirren des Zweiten Weltkriegs Thorn in Westpreußen im Januar 1945: Viel zu spät erhalten die Menschen die Erlaubnis, sich vor der unaufhaltsam heranrückenden Roten Armee in Sicherheit zu bringen. Auch Gisela Lentz macht sich mit ihren Schwiegereltern und vier Kindern Hals über Kopf auf den Weg. Sie wollen nach Gotenhafen, denn von dort sollen Schiffe die Menschen in den Westen des Reiches bringen.

"Du wartest hier, ich bin gleich zurück", sagt Helene zu ihrem kleinen Sohn Peter, setzt ihn auf eine Bank am Bahnsteig und geht. Geht, um nie mehr zurückzukehren. Erst wenn man Helene und ihrer Lebensgeschichte zwischen zwei Weltkriegen folgt, wenn man sie durch ihre Hoffnung, Einsamkeit und Liebe hindurch begleitet, wird klar, wie diese radikale Entscheidung möglich wurde.

Se enfrentaron al horror y lucharon contra la injusticia. Pero nada reconcilia más que el amor. Recién terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en un Berlín arrasado y sin futuro aparente, Victoria sobrevive cantando cada noche en el club Kassandra. Pese a tener una mente prodigiosa, capaz de...

“Love and betrayal, forgiveness and redemption combine in a heady tale of the ever present past” (Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author) set amid the champagne vineyards of northern France during the darkest days of World War II. Perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale...

Read by Julia Whelan, including an Author's Note read by Kristin, revealing her inspiration for telling the women's heroic stories, which had been either forgotten or entirely overlooked. Adored by millions and soon to be a major motion picture, The Women is a sweeping story of epic love...

“A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.” —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for...

Willkommen zurück in Mauswald! Der Marquis de Hoto, seines Zeichens Magier und sprechendes weißes Kaninchen, und sein junger Zauberlehrling ahnen nichts Böses, als sie in dem verschlafenen Städtchen vorbeischauen. Doch die hellsichtigen Visionen einer alten Fledermaus bringen die zwei bald auf die Spur des hinterhältigen Squamatax. Die Echse ist auf der Suche nach einem sagenumwobenen elektromagischen Artefakt, das ihm das Weltenwandern ermöglichen soll. Diese Fähigkeit, zwischen Orten und Zeiten zu reisen, haben sonst nur legendäre Baumläufer, Hüter der Portalwelten wie der Marquis.

Parade “Best Books of Summer” pick * Real Simple pick * She Reads “Best WWII Fiction of Summer 2021” pick The New York Times bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism” (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II...

A "spellbinding" (Booklist) mystery linking Manhattan circa 1991 to eastern Afghanistan in 2012, Blue Hours tells of a life-changing friendship between two memorable heroines. When we first meet Mim, she is a recent college graduate who has disavowed her lower middle-class roots to befriend Kyra, a dancer and daughter of privilege, until calamity causes their estrangement. Twenty years later, Kyra has gone missing from her NGO’s headquarters in Jalalabad, and Mim—now a recluse in rural New England—embarks on a journey to find her.

A moving and entrancing novel set in Paris during World War II about an American woman, a dashing pilot, and a young Jewish girl whose fates unexpectedly entwine—perfect for the fans of Kristen Hannah’s The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls, this is “an emotional...

'Astonishing. Compelling. Powerful' - Delia Owens, bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing 'Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism' - Bonnie Garmus, Number One worldwide bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry From the worldwide bestselling author of The Four Winds, The Nightingale...

For readers of The Tiger’s Wife and All the Light We Cannot See comes a powerful debut novel about a girl’s coming of age—and how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE, BOOKLIST, AND ELECTRIC...

When former high-powered lawyer turned PI Selma Falck is shot and her oldest friend, a junior MP, is killed in a sniper attack, everyone - including the police - assume that Selma was the prime target. But when two other people with connections to the MP are also found murdered, it becomes clear...

A heart-wrenching novel of love, resilience and courage in World War II, from the author of Sisters of War – perfect for readers who loved The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The German Midwife. Ukraine, 1943 On a train from Ukraine to Germany, Lisa Smirnova is terrified for her life. The train is...

Ever since the death of his best friend, Charlie can hardly look in the mirror. He feels alienated from himself, and suddenly, things that used to feel simple seem unexplainably complicated. The weight of his past presses heavily on his soul. He wonders if everything that he did—letting his best friend enlist, deciding to enlist with him, being unable to talk about the war after they got home—all somehow led to his best friend’s suicide.

When Izzie Dean’s beloved nan, Molly Blackshaw, passes away, Izzie returns to the Blackpool bungalow where she grew up, to say good-bye once and for all. When Izzie’s homecoming reunites her with her first love, Justin Swift, every emotion that Izzie has repressed since the day he broke her heart comes rushing to the surface. But then an unexpected discovery changes everything.

Nikolai Volkov is a combat veteran of the Chechen war with a passion for finding truth and doing the right thing. His father is a decorated military hero, and Nikolai had planned to follow in his footsteps until the dramatic social and political changes in Russia made it impossible. In the new Russia, Nikolai embarked on a different career and soon became the best bodyguard in the prestigious Centurion Personal Protection Agency in Moscow. Nikolai prides himself on his ability to use his analytical skills, as well as his military combat skills when protecting his clients.

After spending her childhood in Haddon House Children's Hostel, Alice Tucker is selected to go into service at Holmorton Lodge. Left behind in the workhouse after the death of her father and the disappearance of her mother, the only clues to Alice's past lie in hazy childhood memories. Now, ten years later, she longs to uncover the truth about her family and who she really is. When a chance discovery leads her from a Welsh nursing home to a solicitor's office in Manchester, Alice begins to unravel a story far more tangled than she imagined.

A moving story of three women thrust together in the heat of war, determined to help their country… New Year's Eve, 1940: Evie Chase, determined to make a difference to the war effort, joins the ATA, the civilian pilots who ferry Tiger Moths and Spitfires to bases across Britain. Two other...

Sveta and her family have lived happily all their life in a quiet Ukrainian village. However, after their neighbor's block of flats is bombed by a Russian missile, and Sveta makes a gruesome discovery, her tiny safe world suddenly gets turned upside down.