Showing results for "the-field" in 20th Century

1948: Change has come to every corner of the globe - and Rosie Stanton, returning home to Northern Queensland after serving the war effort in Brisbane, plans to rescue her family’s foundering sugarcane farm with her unstoppable can-do spirit. Coming up against her father’s old-world views, a farm worker undermining her success, and constant reminders of Rosie’s brothers lost in the war, Rosie realizes she wants more from life and love - but at what cost? Italian immigrant Tomas Conti arrives at a neighboring farm, and sparks fly as Rosie draws close to this enigmatic newcomer.

In this epic and haunting series a young man's life is forever changed as, enveloped in the bohemian art world of the 1930s, he embarks on a journey of love, loss, and restoration. Jack has been praised all his life for his extraordinary artistic talent and is rarely seen without his sketchpad. However, in Jack's world art is considered a hobby - men are expected to have jobs that offer security and advancement. When tragedy threatens, Jack is torn: Should he follow the well-laid plans for his future or pursue a path set to disappoint his family and which offers only uncertainty?

From the best-selling author of The Piano Tuner comes Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World War. Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a 22-year-old medical student when World War One explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus.

Young nurse Gemma is struggling with the traumas she has witnessed through her job. Needing to escape from it all, she agrees to help renovate a rundown farmhouse in Doullens, France, a town near the Somme. There, in a boarded-up cupboard is a tin that reveals the secret letters and heartache of Alice Le Breton, a young volunteer nurse who worked in a casualty clearing station near the front line. Set in the present day and during the horrifying years of the war, both women discover deep down the strength and courage to carry on in even the most difficult of times.

1917. Driving an ambulance through the mud in Flanders, aristocrat Evie Creswell is a long way from home. At Oaklands Manor she was expected to look pretty and make a good marriage. But with the arrival of World War One everything changed. Evie shunned an aristocratic husband and instead wed artist Will Davies, who works as a butcher's apprentice. As she struggles to transport the wounded to hospital, avoiding the shells and gas attacks - her privileged home life, and her family's disappointment at her marriage, are a lifetime away.

A love that transcends borders and barriers. This book follows the beautiful and complicated journey of two people who fight all the odds and always find their way back to each other. From lost comrades to withered flower petals and the detrimental consequences of WWII, this book encompasses the heart-wrenching realities of how war separates us. But, in the end, true love triumphs over the chaos.

Nach einem Schicksalsschlag, der ihre Karriere als Straßenmusikerin beendet, flüchtet Loreena zu ihrer Familie nach Eden Fields – einer idyllischen Farm in den irischen Wicklow Mountains. Hier hofft sie auf einen Neuanfang und stößt dabei auf die Spuren von Gwendolyn McEala, einem jungen Dienstmädchen, das 1911 unter mysteriösen Umständen verschwand. Bis heute ranken sich Gerüchte um ein Verbrechen auf Eden Fields und um ein Herz, das sich nie bändigen ließ.

Chicago, 1950: Die mutige und hochtalentierte Wissenschaftlerin Rosalind Porter ist eine der wenigen Frauen, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg am Bau der Atombombe beteiligt waren. Die unvorstellbaren Auswirkungen ihrer Arbeit machen Rosalind immer noch zu schaffen – ebenso wie die Trennung von ihrem Kollegen Thomas, ihrer großen Liebe. Als dieser plötzlich vor der Tür steht, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Das FBI kommt auf Rosalind zu: Agent Charlie Szydlo verlangt, dass sie ihm geheime Informationen über Thomas besorgt. War er wirklich ein Spion? Rosalind muss sich entscheiden, auf wessen Seite sie steht.