World War II & Holocaust

Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist....

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....

Blindsided by betrayal in pre-WWII England, a woman charts a daring new course in this captivating tale of resilience, friendship, and new love by the best-selling author of The Rose Arbor and The Venice Sketchbook.

Based on the incredible true story of two unsung heroines who defied the odds to save countless lives, this powerful novel reveals how acts of extraordinary courage by ordinary women saved so many in the countdown to WW2.

Erin O'Byrne returns to Ceann Mara, her family's remote property on the Darling River, seeking peace after a painful marital breakup. Camping by the tranquil billabong, she hopes the solitude of the Australian bush will help her heal.

As the Allied forces fight to repel invaders in the Pacific, the Duffy and Macintosh clans face their greatest challenges at home....

1945, Auschwitz: I stumble out of the gates, tightly grasping the hands of two smaller children. Hunger swirls in my stomach and the barren landscape swims before my eyes. I can barely believe it. We’re free. We survived. But what happens now…

Her beauty saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee....

The war is over; Hitler is dead - and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband, Gerhard, only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power....

Berlin, 1944. ‘It is a great honour to have you here, Herr Hitler.’ Lili doesn’t stumble over the lie, her hand steady as she pours champagne. Everything must be perfect, no one can suspect a thing…

When Jeanne uncovers a dusty old box in her father’s garage, her world as she knows it is turned upside down. She has inherited a bookstore in a tiny French village, just outside of Paris, from a mysterious woman named Laurence....

On the eve of a world war, a forbidden love will blossom in the garden of a stately home, where one young woman will make a choice that will change her life forever....

1941: A world away from idyllic childhood summers spent in Devon, Cassie Marsh steps through the sandbagged entrance to the War Room, determined to do her part for the war effort.

A misguided time travel experiment in the 25th century fans out to impact hundreds of parallel universes. Heinrich Schloss had arrived at Berlin's Tempelhof airport in 1982 to pick up his wife. After a brief migraine-like spasm, he opened his eyes to 1941 to witness Hitler's death....

Home again at Ceann Mara Station, Roisin O'Byrne, a young lawyer with a passion for protecting the Darling River where her family has lived for almost two hundred years, finds herself embroiled in a battle.

ARMOR: The Complete Series chronicles the journey of a tank crew through WWII, from North Africa to Berlin. Action-packed, authentic, and filled with flawed, tough men of the Greatest Generation, ARMOR drops you straight into the horror, brotherhood, and triumph of armored warfare....

Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper...Venice....

An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls....

London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks’ world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie’s beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go....

Paullina Simons's internationally bestselling blockbuster The Bronze Horseman told the heart-soaring tale of a young Russian woman's transcendent love affair with a Red Army soldier during the siege of Leningrad in the dark days of World War Two. The epic story continues in Tatiana and Alexander....

Berlin, 1945: Ester Pasternak walked out of the gates of Auschwitz barely alive. She survived against devastating odds, but her heartbreaking journey is only just beginning. In the camp, Ester gave birth to a tiny fair-haired infant....

All over Paris, families are being pulled from their beds in the middle of the night. And ever since her husband was shot in cold blood, Brigitte Goldstein has known she is running out of time. She and her daughter Sophie are Jewish, so it won’t be long until the Nazis bang on their door.

The Blitz. When a Royal Navy memo arrives at head office, requesting female recruits to sign up as motorcycle dispatch riders, delivering highly classified orders across the country, three women jump at the chance to sign up for the most dangerous jobs in London....

From the bestselling author of The Secret Midwife comes a story of bravery, sacrifice and resilience in war-torn Berlin—and two sisters who will risk it all to make a difference....

Auschwitz, 1942: This unforgettable novel, based on a true story, brings to life history’s most powerful tale of forbidden love. Set within the barbed wire of Auschwitz, a man and a woman fall in love against unimaginable odds....

Berlin, 1932. Als Johanna von Fehrsberg ihren Bruder Karl-Georg in der pulsierenden Hauptstadt besucht, gerät sie mitten in den Strudel des politischen Umbruchs. Der idealistische Sozialdemokrat Karl-Georg kämpft mit einer Gruppe Gleichgesinnter gegen den aufziehenden Schatten des Nationalsozialismus und bringt dadurch nicht nur sich, sondern auch seine Vertrauten in Gefahr. Als das Naziregime immer brutaler durchgreift und Karl-Georg plötzlich verschwindet, sieht Johanna nur einen Ausweg: die Flucht nach Norwegen. Dort hofft sie auf Sicherheit – und auf Sven.

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.

Nach einem Schicksalsschlag wagt die Journalistin Ruby Nevins einen Neuanfang. Bei ihrer Recherche über Cécile, den gefeierten Star des französischen Kinos der Vierzigerjahre, stößt sie auf ein mysteriöses Tagebuch. Je tiefer Ruby in die Vergangenheit der beiden Frauen eintaucht, desto mehr erkennt sie Parallelen zu ihrem eigenen Leben.

Rudolf takes portraits of hundreds of souls marked for deportation, his heart shattering with every click of his camera. He knows what the Nazis are doing to families just like theirs. One day, when the guards aren't looking, he takes a picture of a little girl on a train to Auschwitz, her tear-filled eyes pleading for help. His photograph could change the course of the war.

Philly Delaney risked everything during the war. From flying planes for the Air Transport Auxiliary corps, aka the ‘Attagirls’, to working with the Bletchley Park codebreakers, and life-or-death missions as an SOE agent in France, she and her colleagues pushed their courage—and their luck—to the limits. Joining biographer Kendra and her family on the stunning, sun-drenched Île de Ré, Philly is ready to reveal her extraordinary life story. But she has another reason for being there: she’s never given up searching for her beloved pilot husband, Ben.

In the Jewish district of Leopoldstadt, Felix Wolff watches his beloved city transform into a nightmare. As people are rounded up and sent to destinations whispered in terror, Felix’s world shatters when his father is bound for Dachau. Determined to save his father, Felix makes a fateful decision that places him directly in the Gestapo’s sights, forever altering his destiny.

Жизнь американского летчика Мики была очень проста: он сражался за свою страну, выполнял приказы старших, мечтал о возвращении домой. Проста оказалась и его смерть. Летом 1945 года его бомбардировщик разбился над японской землей. Но его душа осталась неприкаянно блуждать по улицам города, над которым он еще совсем недавно разбрасывал листовки, побуждая японцев к эвакуации. Города, где люди, хоть и истощены войной, продолжают любить и надеяться.

The descent into darkness during World War II reveals a chilling yet fascinating facet of human behavior under extreme duress. In the unforgiving landscapes of Singapore and New Guinea, Japanese soldiers engaged in acts of cannibalism that transcended mere survival instincts. This horrific practice was not solely driven by starvation but became a macabre ritual, a twisted means of reinforcing camaraderie among soldiers. The act of consuming the flesh of captured POWs served as a grim assertion of power, a stark statement that they had dominion over life and death.

Iceland. December 1944. Tatiana Eliasdottir is looking forward to welcoming her niece Elea for Christmas. She’s determined to give the little girl a joyful holiday and take her mind off troubles at home. Soon, however, the publishing house where Tatiana works is flooded with orders thanks to the first issue of a seasonal book catalog. With the war causing so many shortages, Icelanders are eager to give their loved ones something that isn’t rationed, and books are the perfect solution to their dilemma.

Walking to work at the orphanage she was raised in, Halina tries to ignore the imposing gates of Auschwitz nearby. She has one dream: to survive the war and find out who her parents were. But one morning, a Nazi officer with icy eyes blocks her way. He needs a new nanny, and he gives Halina a choice: serve in his home, or be sent to the camp....

Berlin. May 1945. A city without institutions in a continent that has become a wasteland. Thousands of former Nazis have been killed in Allied purges, and many more incarcerated in the very concentration camps they themselves established. But the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, has a problem. One of those former Nazis is actually a British spy, Edward Kayne, who has intercepted a top-secret document that Churchill insists is vital to settling the peace.

The Philippines, 1941. Young and gifted, Italian Filipina Caramina Grassi dreams of voice training in Italy to become an opera singer like her older sister, Rosa, and their Nonna before her. But when the Japanese military invades, Caramina's family is forced to flee to the mountainous Luzon jungle. Finding comfort in her music, she must find the strength to not only survive but fight to protect her siblings and overcome the devastation of war.

Elio è un giovane sognatore, maldestro e ingenuo, ma con un talento straordinario per la pittura, che però, nel mondo contadino della Val d'Orcia di inizio Novecento, sembra solo una pericolosa mancanza di quel senso pratico che la miseria esige. Suo fratello maggiore, Cordevole, è invece un tipo pragmatico e autoritario che, ricorrendo alla violenza, proverà a plasmare Elio secondo le proprie esigenze.

Singapore, 1941: Singapore City lights up with explosions as the first Japanese bombs rain down. Until now, the war has seemed a distant threat for Issey and her friends, drinking and dancing at Raffles. But with the Japanese invasion looming, Issey knows she must leave. Mysterious, handsome Alex Cartwright has sworn he will see her to safety. Cornwall, 2025: Nursing a broken heart, Lamorna flees her life in Singapore, returning to Trelenna, her Cornish family home. With ambitious plans to save and finance the crumbling house, her sister Zennor needs Lamorna’s help.

Constanze Manziarly war während des turbulenten letzten Jahres des Zweiten Weltkriegs die Leibköchin Hitlers. Von den am 1. Mai 1945 aus dem Führerbunker Geflüchteten ist sie die Einzige, die seitdem als vermisst gilt – man fand sie weder tot noch lebendig… bis jetzt.

In the Pines follows the lives of the Loftin family, their kin, and the women who keep their homes, heal their wounds, and carry their burdens. As sons march off to war and daughters face the echoes of past choices, matriarchs Ma Loftin and Annie Cole anchor a legacy woven with heartbreak, resilience, and quiet magic. From the work camps of the South to the icy shores of the Aleutian Islands, this sweeping saga captures the strength of ordinary people in extraordinary times, people who bury their dead, raise each other’s children, and fight fiercely for every small joy that remains.

Berlin 1944: Die sechzehnjährige Mara Prager liebt den Film … und die Sterne. Eines Tages beobachtet sie einen echten Filmstar im Nachbarhaus und erfährt, dass dort die bekannten Musiker Bruno Balz und Michael Jary wohnen. Beinahe zeitgleich lernt sie den Verwaltungssoldaten Manfred und den Flakhelfer Helmut kennen, die ihre Leidenschaften teilen.

Virginia Abrams believed the war had taken all it could from her when her husband was killed in the Philippines. One year later, she's in a dark, unexpected quandary—pregnant and on the run to avoid a ruthless political family that wants to erase all connections between her and the man who assaulted her.

Com pela voz da própria Verdade, este audiolivro é uma comovente história sobre até onde somos capazes de ir em busca do perdão. Nico Krispis tem 11 anos e nunca contou uma mentira. Quando os nazistas invadem sua casa, em Salônica, na Grécia, o menino judeu se vê sozinho com um oficial alemão, que decide explorar sua inocência de maneira cruel. Ele é convencido de que poderá rever sua família se fizer um pequeno serviço por alguns dias: ir até a estação de trem e garantir aos judeus forçados a embarcar que todos estarão seguros em seus “novos lares”.

Luglio 1943, Bari. Un corteo pacifico di studenti che festeggiano la caduta del regime si imbatte in un presidio di soldati e miliziani. Alessandro Latorre, diciassette anni, assiste impotente a una violenza efferata, destinata a segnare per sempre la sua generazione. A settembre, dopo l'armistizio, un gruppo di giovani intellettuali occupa la sede di Radio Bari, e in breve tempo lo strumento di propaganda del Regime si trasforma nella più importante voce della lotta di liberazione in Europa.

Hyères, 1945. C'est presque l'été, presque la paix. Après cinq années de conflit, tous n'aspirent qu'à revivre, libres. Et pourtant, sur les rives de la Méditerranée, des millions de mines laissées par les Allemands menacent d'exploser. Qui s'en souvient ? Comment trouver sa place dans ce monde que l'on ne reconnaît plus, lorsqu'on revient des camps, comme Saskia, ou du maquis, comme Fabien ? Quand on recherche au milieu du chaos, comme Vincent, la femme qu'on aime d'un amour fou, incandescent, et qui a disparu ?

Evacuated to the countryside, she realises there are more dangers than German bombs in wartime. In summer 1939, Canadian-born teacher Victoria McKaye takes up a new position at a London school, only to shortly coordinate the evacuation to the countryside with standoffish spinster Beatrice and young, quiet Nell. Arriving in the village of Hazelbury, Victoria sorts out billets for her young charges and meets Louis Granger, a naval officer. As their friendship turns to something more, she notices some strange behaviours - including him meeting with foreign men in secret locales.

England, 1940 . “Hello Gracie,” Louisa reaches out a trembling hand to the six-year-old little girl. Her dark eyes are wide with fear and Louisa’s heart shatters. She is devoted to the children in her new boarding school. But when the war comes closer than ever, can she keep them safe? Louisa Brightford is anxiously preparing to turn her home into a boarding school when with a bang of the exhaust, a car carrying nine evacuated children arrives. As they tumble out and run around the sun-kissed fields and her rambling mansion, the children capture Louisa’s heart.

Luring Nazi officers from smoky taverns to their deaths was not what Evi Strobel bargained for when she agreed to join the Dutch Resistance. But that is what she did until that fateful night she was saved from rape by a downed American Airman. Nor did Zoe Visser expect to be picking pockets for Dutch ID cards for use by escaping Jews, much less leading frightened enemies of the Reich toward uncertain treks to the Belgian border.

Berlin, 1946. Dans ses décombres fumants, sept femmes décident de reconstruire leur existence. Elle est l'âme de la pension où vivent les sept femmes, une maison « interdite aux hommes ». Avec son passé trouble, il menace leur fragile équilibre, entre solidarité vitale et visions irréconciliables de l'histoire.