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Berlin, Ende 1918: Die drei Freunde Carl, Isi und Artur haben sich bis in die Hauptstadt durchgeschlagen. Der Kaiser ist gestürzt und Träume von Freiheit liegen in der Luft. Carl will nur noch eins: echten Frieden. Und Kameramann sein, bei der berühmten UFA. Artur hat sich in kürzester Zeit zum König der Berliner Unterwelt hochgearbeitet, während Isi die Nähe linker Aufständischer sucht - bis sie den Adelssprößling Aldo von Torstayn trifft und ihre Prinzipien ins Wanken geraten.

Workers in the Clarks shoe factory, at the heart of the village, have left for the army in droves, and news from the Front seems to grow darker by the day. When lifelong friends Louisa, Jeannie and Kate receive the news they had been fearing, all hope seems lost. And Louisa’s world will be rocked further when she makes another discovery, one that will see her cast out by her family, changing her life forever.

Round about the second anniversary of the start of World War 1, Roger Waterlow is still stuck ashore in charge of the ramshackle British naval intelligence effort in a sweltering notionally "neutral" country in South-eastern Europe. As rumor follows rumor and the situation becomes daily more confused, Waterlow and his organisation learn of three couriers trying to carry correspondence to Berlin—correspondence that might give the Entente powers vital insights into German intentions for the region, if only they can be intercepted and their papers seized....

What if the silence after a war was more dangerous than the war itself? In the aftermath of a forgotten war, Elijah Boone, a battle-scarred ranger, is sent to the mist-shrouded mountains of Wyoming. His orders are unclear. His mission, whispered not written, is simple: watch. But some silences are meant to conceal more than memories—they are built to bury truths too heavy for any nation to bear. Among the broken ridgelines and snow-choked basins, Boone uncovers remnants of an erased history: shallow graves, desperate survivors, and orders that were never supposed to exist. Each discovery ...

Peace has broken out, and World War I flying ace and all-round chancer Bartholomew Bandy isn’t exactly making a success of being a commercial pilot in the USA. But when a job lot of aircraft bits purchased with the last of his pay turns out to be a complete Vickers Vimy bomber, he feels his luck has changed. With the help of his very tall, very sweet girlfriend Cissie, and the hindrance of his very short, very bad, and beautiful girlfriend Dasha, Bart smashes (literally) straight into the exciting new world of the movies.

A Tesla weapon buried beneath the Western Front threatens to unravel more than enemy lines. June 1917. Beneath the scarred ridges of Messines, the war grinds on—not just above ground, but deep within it. Inside the dark corridors of Germany’s Tesla Division, Oberleutnant Heinrich Voss faces a dilemma that cannot be solved by rank or regulation. As harmonics ripple through chalk and stone, something older than tactics begins to stir—an engineered silence, calibrated to kill. The Resonanzmine Type R was never meant to hum this long. Designed as an experimental breakthrough in ...

1915. Margaret and Philip Tallis are happily married, have a thriving business and three children, Daisy, John and Lily. At 20, Daisy is an impassioned, headstrong girl, determined to follow her parents’ footsteps in Birmingham’s jewellery trade. While studying at the college for...

London, 1952: Forty-six-year-old Elizabeth Dalloway feels she has failed at most everything in life, especially living up to her mother, the elegant Mrs. Dalloway, an ideal socialite and model of perfection until she disappeared in the summer of 1923—and hasn’t been heard from since. When Elizabeth is handed a medal with a mysterious inscription from her mother to a soldier named Septimus Warren Smith, she’s certain it contains a clue from the past.

Book 1: The Fall River Family Saga Book 2: Meghan's Story Book 3: Molly's Story Book 4: Annie's Story Save and Buy the Complete 4-book Box Set! 1847. Fall Rivers, Massachusetts. When Ryan Lochlan was orphaned after losing his parents to Ireland’s potato famine, he sailed on a ship to America for a better life. His dream came true when he met the beautiful Abby McVinny, even after her father threatened him with a shotgun. From the moment their eyes locked, their lives intertwined, and there began a journey of love, adventure, and tragedy. Ryan and his best friend Mick know how to defend ...

Invierno de 1944-45. En las ruinas de la Alemania nazi, un agente estadounidense de la OSS y una luchadora de la resistencia comunista descubren que el amor es la misión más peligrosa de todas. ¡Pero los espías mienten y los espías mueren en este trepidante thriller de acción ambientado en la Guerra Fría! ¡Excelentes nuevas traducciones! ¿Te gustan las buenas series de acción y aventuras? ¿Te has devorado las obras de Brad Thor, Vince Flynn y Lee Child? Si eres fan de Mitch Rapp, Scot Harvath, Jack Ryan, Grayman, Jack Reacher o Milton, de Mark Dawson, te encantará esta serie de ...

At the onset of the first World War, E.G. Lewis wielded his outsized charm and entrepreneurial spirit to attract legions of women to move across the country to build a new American dream in Atascadero, California. His new city, envisioned to rival Los Angeles and San Francisco, targeted the millions of subscribers to his national women's magazines who longed for a utopia designed for progressive women and their families.

Stalin ya no está entre los vivos. En 1954, después de tres décadas preso en campos penitenciarios, Iván Grigórievich regresa a Moscú para comprobar que la vida allí ha seguido sin él. Desde el desangelado reencuentro, cargado de contención y culpa, con su primo Nikolái, un científico...

In this WW1 Dieselpunk war story, a Tesla pilot ascends into skies where loyalty shatters and the future burns electric. The winter of 1916 on the Eastern Front offers no shelter, only frostbitten silence, unseen enemies, and a sky that kills slowly. As Russia deploys its most experimental Tesla Weapon yet, the line between vision and madness thins. The Stratoskop rises above Lake Naroch to hunt through clouds and ice for patterns only machines dare trace, but its pilot, Irina Mirova, carries her own calculations: what it means to serve, to be seen, and to come back down. Crackling with ...

The Tree of Heaven follows the fortunes of the Harrison family as the children grow up in the shadow of the First World War and Dorothy's brothers go off to the trenches, while she becomes involved with the suffrage movement, and later joins a version of the Women's Social and Political Union.

As war rages, Barbara Sinclair is desperate to escape her unhappy home life. And with the threat of German bombs ever present, Barbara reluctantly agrees to marry John, her childhood friend, who is leaving to join the RAF. But an encounter with Alex Everton, a dashing Spitfire pilot, complicates matters for Barbara. With emotions running high, she begins to question whether she has made a terrible mistake. With the constant threat of death all around her, Barbara must try to find a way to deal with the complexities of her difficult home life and her emotional relationships, too.

She ran from Poland as a child. She thought Wales would keep her safe. She was wrong. At ten years old, Lauren Bucievski was torn from everything she knew. No explanation. No goodbye. Just her father's hand pulling her into the dark, and the sound of their old life disappearing behind them. Wales gave her shelter. A quiet bay. A new name for her fear. But safety has a way of being temporary and when Stefan walks back into her world from across the sea, Lauren realises she has been waiting for her past to find her all along. Across a bleeding Europe, a young Polish soldier claws his way ...

Set amidst the turbulence of WW1, Mary Wood’s evocative historical saga The Abandoned Daughter follows Ella, a voluntary nurse tormented by soldiers' cries and the wound of a shattered trust. As her friendships teeter, exacerbated by the strains of war, Ella's isolation deepens. Within the...

Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honour begins with 13 year-old Blackie O’Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just buried his sister, Bronagh, and must leave his home to set sail for England, in search of a better life with his mother’s brother in Leeds. There, he learns his trade as a navvy, amid the grand buildings and engineering triumphs of one of England’s most prosperous cities and starts to dream of greater things.

Esta espléndida novela cuenta cómo el protagonista, rodeado de cientos de personas que viven en su ciudad, que actúan junto a él y a veces se cruzan con él, intenta vivir en Nueva York durante los años que anteceden y siguen a la Primera Guerra Mundial.

1914: A Alemanha se prepara para a guerra e os Aliados começam a construir suas defesas. Ambos os lados precisam da Rússia, que enfrenta graves problemas internos e vive na iminência de uma revolução. Na Inglaterra, Winston Churchill arquiteta uma negociação secreta com o príncipe Aleksei Orlov, visando a um acordo com os russos. No entanto, o anarquista Feliks Kschessinsky, um homem sem nada a perder, está disposto a tudo para impedir que seu país envie milhões de rapazes para os campos de batalha de uma guerra que nem sequer compreendem.