Ergebnis für "The Man" in 20. Jahrhundert

Dieser authentische Roman aus der Sicht eines Jungen beschwört unsentimental, aber voller Anteilnahme eine Idylle, die 1945 in Schutt und Asche versank. Es ist die Geschichte einer Landschaft und einer Zeit, vor allem aber ist es die Geschichte von Hermann Steputat, der geboren wurde, als Paul Hindenburg starb, und der elf Jahre später zu den wenigen Dorfbewohnern gehörte, die den Krieg überlebten.

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THE ALLIES HAD LOST THE WAR? America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war -...

Set in mid-century Rome and England, this forbidden slow-burn love story will take your breath away SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘If I had to pick a favourite from the year so far, it would be this’ - Pandora Sykes ‘Lush...

Britain, March, 1944. After a desperate aerial battle over Somerset, a German bomber goes down in flames. When Joan discovers the Luftwaffe pilot hiding in her barn, her first instinct is to turn him in – against her better judgment, she offers him shelter instead. As they work side by side in the fields, a forbidden love begins to flourish. As the walls close in on their unlikely affair, Dieter and Joan's lives become fraught with danger, until passion and patriotism finally collide.

The winner of the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competition Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to head up a new post in the...

Read by Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Missing You) The Man From St Petersburg is a dark tale of family secrets and political consequences. Ken Follett's masterful storytelling brings to life the danger of a world on the brink of war. A Secret Negotiation 1914. Tensions are rising as Europe finds...

Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran fresh out of prison, returns in this riveting new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. Featuring duet narration with Edoardo Ballerini and Brittany Pressley. The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in...

“A damn good read.”—Alan Furst A brilliant debut novel, at once teasing literary thriller and a darkly comic blend of history and invention, The Torqued Man is set in wartime Berlin and propelled by two very different but equally mesmerizing voices: a German spy handler and his Irish...

Hans Fallada wrote this stunning novel in only 24 days - just after being released from a Nazi insane asylum. Based on a true story, Every Man Dies Alone tells of a German couple who try to start an uprising by distributing anti-fascist postcards during World War II. But their dream ultimately proves perilous under the tyranny that dominates every corner of Hitler’s Germany.

The 'Master of the wartime spy thriller' (FINANCIAL TIMES) returns with the gripping follow up to the bestselling A Prince and a Spy, as Tom Wilde is sent to Germany to investigate the truth behind Hitler's death . . . Germany, late summer 1945. The war is over but the country is in ruins...

Brought to you by Penguin. In the early morning hours of 6 November 1943, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler receives the coded message he has been waiting for "The Eagle has landed." It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: Operation Eagle, Himmler's audacious...

Even before Spain joined the war in early 1762, it was obvious that it wouldn’t have the strategic effect that the cousins, King Louis and King Charles, had hoped. France needed a success to bring Britain to the negotiating table: nothing grand—Louis didn’t have the force for that—but something that would hurt the City of London in its pocket. A raid on the Newfoundland fisheries would have an immediate financial impact. In normal times the dried cod provided an important dietary supplement to the population of the Atlantic basin and a steady stream of gold for the City’s coffers.

Brought to you by Penguin. FEATURING HUGE NAMES FROM LITERATURE, COMEDY AND BEYOND - INCLUDING RODDY DOYLE, FRANK SKINNER AND ALAN TITCHMARSH - THIS ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES REIMAGINES JEEVES AND WOOSTER THROUGH FRESH EYES. The irrepressible duo first appeared on the page in 1915, coming to feature...

Tinker, tailor, soldier, scholar, spy. Who could have imagined that the young man with modest beginnings who had grown up in a farming village in the Loire valley, was made destitute by the Great Depression, went on to serve in the Foreign Legion, was educated and taught at the Louvre, captured after Dunkirk by the Wehrmacht during the German invasion of France, escaped and found his way to Valençay where he was charged with safeguarding in his bedroom Leonardo’s immortal Mona Lisa from destruction by the Nazis.

Rose est sage-femme sur l'île de Groix. Dans le tumulte d'une guerre qui dure depuis trop longtemps, elle se donne corps et âme à ses patientes. Sa vie bascule en septembre 1944 lorsque son domicile est réquisitionné pour héberger deux officiers ennemis.

The prequel to the million-copy bestseller, A Woman of Substance, where, high on the Yorkshire moors, the story of Blackie O’Neill and Emma Harte begins… Orphaned and alone, 13-year-old Blackie O’Neill must leave County Kerry to find work and put food in his mouth. His only chance of...

WATERSTONES AND FOYLES BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER 2026 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD FOR FICTION 2026 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINSTON GRAHAM PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026 LONGLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK...

The seventh and final volume in Jeffrey Archer’s New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles series, This Was a Man, brings the epic saga of the Clifton family’s love, loss, and ambition to a dazzling conclusion. Harry Clifton’s story began in 1920, as a dock worker in England, and now...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones, a propulsive and heart-wrenching story of a young woman entrusted with a boy’s life as WWII rages in Italy 1940, Italy. Lili and Esti have been best friends since they first met at university. When Esti’s son Theo is born...

Read by Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Spooks) The Man From St Petersburg is a dark tale of family secrets and political consequences. Ken Follett's masterful storytelling brings to life the danger of a world on the brink of war. A Secret Negotiation 1914. Tensions are rising as Europe finds...