Showing titles in World War I

The slums of Poor House Lane are no place to bring up a child, and Kate O'Connor struggles to make ends meet when her beloved husband is killed, leaving her a single mother with a baby to support on the meagre handouts she gleans from charity. So when the childless Tysons, owners of Kendal's shoe factory, offer to adopt her son, Callum, and employ Kate as his nanny, she seizes the chance to ensure he has a better life. To be so close to her son, yet no longer be his mother, is bittersweet.

In this gripping Dieselpunk war story, a Tesla-powered weapon threatens to shift the balance of World War I—not just between empires, but within the hearts of those ordered to deploy it. Verdun, 1916. Beneath the smoke-draped skies of the Meuse, Lieutenant Louis Carrel climbs into the freezing night with orders to intercept a German bomber wing. But his payload isn't shrapnel or gas. Slung under the wing of his aging Voisin is a weapon born of secrecy and lightning, a beam device too unstable for doctrine, too powerful to control. Command calls it progress. The crews on the ground call it...

WWI is waning in Europe, but Lieutenant Barksdale’s near-constant aerial combat missions have taken their toll. Lura Lee Dunn is an aspiring concert pianist whose own personal battle is just beginning. The women’s suffrage movement is on the rise, emboldening her to break free from her prominent father’s outdated expectations. Unexpectedly, at a posh Hollis House gala, she meets a young pilot, one just home from fighting the Jerries over France. Try as she might to avoid the young aviator, Lura finds herself drawn to him.

The Somme, 1916. James Falconer, once a barrow boy on a London market, stands in the trenches, awaiting the command to go over the top. Away from his business empire in London, he is simply a soldier, war the great leveller. But, unlike his men, and unknown to them, deep down, Falconer doesn’t care if he lives or dies. When a face from the past offers James the chance to repair his fractured relationship with his estranged daughter, Leonie, he must decide if he can hold different things dear – and make space in his life for love.

Jack Barlow has a dream. For generations his family have been in service at Trenwith Estate. If he can survive the ravages of war, he’ll return home to build his own mechanic business and become master of his own destiny. Louise Saint-Claire is battling against the odds to run her family farmhouse in German occupied France after her abusive husband is taken prisoner by the Germans. She is determined to survive this brutal and bloody war. But fate throws Jack and Louise together when she finds the wounded British soldier and she decides to risk everything to keep him safe

Flo Butterworth and the village singing group are asked to perform a carol concert at the local hospital. This stirs up bad memories for Flo, who lost her family at Christmas in the Blitz. VAD nurse, Evie Jones, is faced with a dilemma that throws her life into turmoil. Will Evie find a way to solve the problem and keep all she holds dear?

A lush, sweeping exploration of the fight for the soul of a nation and the sovereignty of a woman’s heart. For readers of The Alice Network and The Women of the Copper Country. The world is fracturing, and Rose Scofield is determined to build something enduring from the shards. It is 1917. As the Great War reshapes the map of Europe and technology—automobiles, moving pictures, airplanes—accelerates the pace of human life, Rose is engaged in a visceral battle closer to home. She is a woman who yearns for self-possession in an era that views her as property, and she has staked her life ...

Winter 1914. Sara Lee Kennedy reads the newspaper account of the war in Europe and is appalled. Others in her sheltered Pennsylvania home are interested only in her coming marriage to solid, self-centered, Harvey. Struggling with compassion, Sara Lee feels compelled to help the suffering Belgian Army whose country is overrun by Germans. She defies her parents and travels alone to the front lines to help anyway she can. It is there she meets Henri, a Belgian officer.

Berlin, Ende der 1920er-Jahre: In einer Stadt zwischen Glanz und Verfall suchen fünf Frauen ihren eigenen Weg. Helene, Tiffy, Ronda und Elsa kämpfen um ihre Stimme, ihre Freiheit – und um das Überleben in einer Zeit, in der Mut gefährlich ist. Ihr Widerstand wächst im Verborgenen – gegen Armut, Gewalt und die leisen Zwänge des Alltags. Zwischen politischem Aufbruch, Liebe und Verrat entsteht eine Gemeinschaft, die stärker ist als jede Macht, die sie zu brechen versucht.

Britain in the late 1970s was dubbed the ‘sick man of Europe’; a country engulfed by social, economic, and industrial malaise; a country teetering on the precipice of political revolution. What the country got instead was a musical revolution – an explosion of brash new bands whose loud, fast-paced anthems articulated the boredom and frustration of its disenchanted youth. Having quit the music business in disillusionment, David ‘Bomber’ Harris is nowadays a devoted family man. However, this brilliant, instinctive drummer is persuaded to pick up his sticks anew and make his own ...

Nei campi di Piccardia: il romanzo storico ambientato durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale che presenta le eroine destinate a brillare nella Seconda. Francia, 1918 Torniamo ai turbolenti campi di battaglia della Prima Guerra Mondiale, dove due donne straordinarie si dimostrano all'altezza della situazione. Agnès de Saint-Aubin, una baronessa parigina diventata pioniera della chirurgia sul campo di battaglia, collabora con il medico americano Alan Bell. Nel caos del controllo tedesco all'ospedale di guerra del Castello di Dragoncourt in Piccardia, Agnès nasconde un segreto che mette in ...

The New York Times bestselling author of the The Paris Library returns with a powerful, moving new novel based on the extraordinary true story of Jessie Carson, the American librarian determined to bring books to the children of war-torn France. 'This is hands down my book of 2024. A rich...

From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we unearth - and those that are too dangerous to tell. The once impoverished medical student Agnes Glock is now the fabulously wealthy Mrs Mulberry. Her estate in the mountains is magnificent, a haven for...

La jeunesse provençale de Giono, entre une mère repasseuse et un père cordonnier, est forcément solaire, musicale, saturée de parfums, de portraits, de tableaux... Dans ces souvenirs parus en 1932, les simples deviennent des héros, les animaux voisinent avec les anges et la nature se gorge de mythes. Transcrite dans la langue du bonheur, voici la genèse d'un très grand écrivain.

Death Disease Dreadful work conditions A sequence of problems plagues Poppy Elgin, who arrives in England from Australia in the midst of the Spanish influenza outbreak. The Great War is over; her troubles are just starting. Will no one come to her aid? It's 1919 and women are cropping their hair, shortening their skirts, widening their horizons. Will Poppy ever really be an independent woman? Could a new friend be the solution? Petals & Pages is the heart-warming story of two friends whose valiant attempts at becoming independent women are thwarted at every step.

Strangers separated by an ocean, drawn together by a clandestine letter. One desperate summons could seal their future ... and the fate of the war. Weary from London’s air raids and the loss of her father at the Battle of the Somme, Josie Harrington wonders if The Great War will ever end. Determined to bring hope to her country’s bleak existence, she joins an underground postal service, delivering soldiers’ letters in order to avoid censorship on both sides of the line.

One woman’s courage will change everything. Angel of Mercy transports readers to 1914 Canada, where the world is on the brink of war and one young woman must choose between love and purpose. Henrietta “Hettie” Steward dreams of continuing her work as a nurse, but society — and her husband — expect her to abandon her career for domestic life. When war erupts in Europe and her husband enlists, Hettie defies convention and joins the Canadian Army Nursing Service. Thrust into a world of courage, heartbreak and sacrifice, she witnesses the devastating cost of battle while fighting her ...

WINNER 2025 GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS - SILVER MEDAL WAR & MILITARY BATTLE ACTION - CUBA AND SOUTH AFRICA Abridged Edition A tale of a special breed of warriors, bagpipers, who lead from the front as the British Empire ruled the waves and became the empire the sun never set on. Historical fiction - 1900 South Africa - The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders face off with the Boers in the 2nd Boer War. Twin brothers from Pitlochry, Scotland pipe the Highland Brigade to battle. Their story, what it takes to be a piper, and how it turns out is a fascinating tale of adventure, daring, whisky, and lasses. ...

A minister has been murdered along with his paramour, their bodies found in the basement of church's residence. The preacher's wife is missing. Gabrielle Walsh, a former traveling evangelist, knew both the preacher and his wife. A year after the man's demise and the woman's disappearance, a "man" surfaces in a neighboring community operating a "spiritualist camp", where "he" offers to contact dead loved ones. Gabby knows the medium is the missing wife. Gabby agrees to assist the police by going undercover to try and apprehend a murderess.

El 10 de diciembre de 1922, Albert Einstein recibió el Premio Nobel de Física correspondiente al año anterior, tras un año de deliberaciones del Comité. Sin embargo, para sorpresa de todos, no lo recibió por su famosa Teoría de la Relatividad, sino por sus investigaciones sobre el efecto fotoeléctrico. El presidente del Comité Nobel, el profesor Arrhenius, fue claro en su discurso de aceptación: «Probablemente no haya ningún físico vivo cuyo nombre sea tan conocido como el de Albert Einstein. La mayor parte del debate se centra en su teoría de la relatividad. Esta teoría ...