Ergebnis für "zweiter weltkrieg" in Coming of Age

Köln, 1941. Anna wächst bei ihrer Tante Marie und ihrem Onkel Matthias auf, einem Bäckerehepaar. Das Mädchen liebt die Backstube über alles. Der Duft von frischgebackenem Brot, die mehlgeschwängerte Luft, der große Ofen aus Vulkanstein - für Anna der schönste Ort der Welt. Doch mit dem Krieg kommt das Unglück: Matthias wird eingezogen, die Bäckerei bei Luftangriffen zerstört, und Anna und Marie sind obdachlos.

Nach der Machtergreifung ist in Ginsterburg Alltag eingekehrt. Lothar träumt vom Fliegen. Seine Mutter Merle misstraut der neuen Ordnung, kann aber nur ohnmächtig zusehen, wie sein Traum ihren Sohn in die Arme der Hitlerjugend treibt. Manche Einwohner der kleinen Stadt leiden, andere profitieren – und die meisten versuchen, sich irgendwie zu arrangieren. Doch der Krieg, an fernen Fronten geschlagen, ist bald auch in Ginsterburg zu spüren, in den erschütterten Beziehungen und Seelen der Menschen.

Aufwühlender historischer Roman auf zwei Zeitebenen – Beruhend auf wahren Ereignissen, erzählt SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin Laura Baldini von einem berühmten Kinderarzt, seinen kleinen Patienten und einer mutigen Krankenschwester, die alles für die Kinder riskiert. Als die junge Psychologin Sarah 1986 zu Forschungszwecken nach Wien zieht, kommt sie der erschütternden Geschichte einer Klinik während der Nazi-Zeit auf die Spur: Wien, 1926: Erich ist acht Jahre alt, als er in die Uniklinik zu Dr. Hans Asperger kommt. Erich sieht die Welt nicht wie andere Kinder.

Eine etwas andere DDR-Geschichte: ironisch, rotzig, zärtlich. Mit tiefgründigem Humor erzählt Bastienne Voss von der Zeit mit ihrem Opa Gustav, dem "Oberirren mit dem KZ-Koller", und ihrer Oma Wilma. "Zuerst hatte ich einen Großvater, dann eine Großmutter und dann Eltern und alles andere, was so zum Leben gehört. Großvater hatte ein Ding zu laufen. Dass er sich das im KZ weggeholt hatte, wusste ich damals noch nicht. Jedenfalls ließ er an dem Ding, das er zu laufen hatte, alle teilhaben, und so hatte auch Großmutter bald ein Ding zu laufen. Bei mir wuchs das Ding von Jahr zu Jahr, bis es hier und da mein sogenanntes Normalverhalten überschattete. In unserer Familie hatten also mindestens drei Leute eine Macke: Opa, Oma und ich. 13 Jahre lang polterte Großvater durch mein Leben. 13 Jahre lang fürchtete ich mich vor dem Tyrannen und Wundertäter, den ich abgöttisch liebte."

Central Italy, on the eve of the Second World War. A group of young Italians find themselves in the midst of what will soon become a civil war. Among them is Stefano Portelli, a hopeful lawyer with a head full of utopias, in love with Eleonora. And there is his sister-in-law Nina, secretly linked to Sergio, a partisan leader.

Faye Bright always felt a little bit different. And today she’s found out why. She’s just stumbled across her late mother’s diary which includes not only a spiffing recipe for jam roly-poly, but spells, incantations, runes and recitations...a witch's notebook. And Faye has inherited her mother’s abilities. Just in time, too. The Crow Folk are coming. Led by the charismatic Pumpkinhead, their strange magic threatens Faye and the villagers.

1942, New York. As war rages in Europe, Lily Rose is grateful for her perfect life: a wealthy family who love her and a dream job working uptown as a restaurant chef. Times are changing for women, and Lily is determined to run her own kitchen one day. She hopes handsome Tom Morelli, son of Sicilian immigrants, will be at her side. Together they work late, dreaming up delicious meals for New Yorkers struggling with wartime rationing and the threat of sons and sweethearts being called up. Then Tom receives a devastating telegram that changes everything: He is drafted to fight in Italy.

First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, and tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz, Czeslawa is then photographed. Three months later, she is dead. How did this happen to an ordinary Polish citizen? This is the question that Tuck grapples with in this haunting novel.

Stefano e Nando, i due amici "immortali" di questo romanzo, vengono da lontano. Attraversano sessant'anni della nostra storia e come eroi omerici si muovono sotto le mura di Troia che sono di volta in volta la drammatica ritirata di Russia del 1943, le lotte operaie alla Fiat, la battaglia per un nuovo benessere, la rivolta delle generazioni più giovani. Stefano e Nando si battono, nel bene e nel male, per un'idea di mondo che cresce insieme a loro, ai loro amori, alle loro famiglie, e che non dimentica mai l'amicizia che li lega.

Twenty-year-old Kate is ready to leave behind her small London suburb and chase her dream of becoming a singer. But when Britain declares war on Germany, Kate’s future is suddenly uncertain. Her ambitions are put on hold as she faces the threats of bombing raids and the possibility of invasion. Living in a time of fear and uncertainty, Kate struggles to find balance in her life—particularly as a speech disability hinders her singing career and a failed romance adds to her emotional burden.

Violet Ellis is living in the shadows of her father’s ruined reputation. So, when wealthy widower James Atherton offers her employment, she immediately begins the treacherous journey to his home on the remote Cornish island of Aoife’s Bay – despite the bone-chilling allegations surrounding his late wife Elizabeth’s death. In James’s company, Violet begins to feel the love that has been missing all her life. But when anonymous letters start to plague the bay’s residents, threatening to expose what really happened to Elizabeth, Violet feels the hostility towards her grow.

In the spring of 1957, Jacob Versteeg is graduating from high school at the top of his class. Quite an accomplishment for a guy who spent his young childhood in a German concentration camp. When the war ended, he was adopted by Huub Versteeg, a kind fellow POW at Bergen-Belsen who had taken him under his wing. For ten years Jacob grew up in Chicago surrounded by the love of his new family, including Danny and Anya McClain and their two young children. In fact, he has thrived.

Ania hears the explosion of gunshots before she sees the Nazi soldiers approach her beloved home. Her family don’t have time to run, but she does. Hiding nearby, she listens to her sister’s screams and – stroking the red ribbon she keeps tied around her wrist – she begins to plot her revenge… Taunted her whole life for being smarter than anyone else in the village, now living in war-torn Poland, being governed by Nazis who think Poles are subhuman and women only good for one thing… Ania now only has her wits to rely on, if she's going to survive.

After the U.S. declares war on Japan in 1941, all persons of Japanese descent in the Western U.S. come under suspicion. Curfews are imposed, bank accounts frozen, and FBI agents search homes randomly. Despite the fact that two generations of the Miyota family are American citizens, Fumio and his parents and sister Kimiko must pack meager belongings and are transported under military escort to the California desert to be held at Camp Manzanar, leaving their good friends and neighbors the Whitlocks to care for their farm and their dog, Flyer.

Voor de fans van Kristin Hannah, Anthony Doerr en Elizabeth Jane Howard. In het interbellum groeien de drie Seagravekinderen – Cristabel, Florence en Digby – op aan de kust van Dorset. Hun jeugd speelt zich af in de decadente jaren na de Eerste Wereldoorlog, als het voortbestaan van de Engelse aristocratie op losse schroeven komt te staan. Verwaarloosd door hun ouders en geïsoleerd van de buitenwereld vertrouwen de drie vooral op elkaar en genieten ze van hun gezamenlijke avonturen. Als er op het nabijgelegen strand een walvis aanspoelt, vormt dit voor de kinderen een spannend spel.

È il 1931, Graziano Biagioni ha compiuto dieci anni, l’Italia è sempre più fascista e la squadra della Fiorentina, nata da poco, è appena approdata in serie A. Graziano vive a Brozzi, borgo alle porte di Firenze, e con gli amici Barnaba, Gigli e Montini condivide un’estrema passione per la maglia viola. “Viola! Viola! Duce! Duce!” è il loro motto. Nessuno dei quattro ha idea delle vicende che stanno per investirli. Ognuno, a suo modo, dovrà fare i conti con la crescita, le donne, la storia, le ragioni e le conseguenze della dittatura.

Cosimo, Italo e Vanda sono bambini di appena dieci anni con i sogni, la voglia di scoprire il mondo e la spensieratezza dell’infanzia intrappolate dalla Seconda guerra mondiale. Mentre l’intera nazione vacilla, i tre, di fronte alla scomparsa di un amico, non hanno dubbi: devono partire per una missione di soccorso. La loro fuga darà il via a una seconda, disperata missione di soccorso, quella di una suora e di un militare in convalescenza che subito si mettono sulle loro tracce. Nel 2023 da questo libro è stato tratto un film omonimo diretto da Claudio Bisio.

Czechoslovakia, 1944. Hilda and Sheindy's quiet lives are overturned the day the Nazis march them out of their village home and onto a train bound for the unknown. Separated from their parents and five older siblings, the girls cling to each other for survival in their new reality—between the cold, lonely walls of Auschwitz. Hilda knows that if they want to live, they will have to escape.

England, 1940. Only given two days leave after barely escaping Nazi troops in Paris, Lily Baker visits her fiancé’s family and is dismayed to learn he’s still missing in action. And going from an exciting overseas telephonist post to a routine office assignment leaves her bored… until the Blitz begins. Joining the Air Raid Protection service, Lily’s perilous new role puts her on the chaotic frontlines of deadly shelling and scared crowds turning hostile. But despite her heroism, she is plagued by guilt when she starts feeling attracted to a fellow A.R.P. member.

South Dakota, 1949. WW II veteran John Smith longs for the life he lost after the tragic death of his wife during childbirth. But in the desperation to provide for his two small children, he is manipulated into an unsuitable marriage by a young woman with a dark neurosis. Tormented by his own grief and the ravages of war, John is blind to his children’s turmoil and pain.