Resultados para "1" en Siglo XX

En el Londres bombardeado, una secretaria encontró su misión: responder al corazón de las mujeres. Londres, 1940. En medio de los bombardeos nocturnos, Emmy Lake anhela ser corresponsal de guerra, pero su sueño se ve truncado al conseguir un puesto como mecanógrafa para la implacable columnista de consejos, Henrietta Bird. La señora Bird tiene una regla: toda carta "desagradable" va a la basura. Pero Emmy no puede ignorar el grito desesperado de mujeres que sufren la guerra, la pérdida y los amores fallidos.

1943. Alice Fafard, vingt ans, étudie à l’École normale pour devenir enseignante. Elle suit avec un mélange de résignation et de désenchantement une voie déjà toute tracée. Son Brevet obtenu, elle cherche un poste dans une école de la région, en attendant de trouver un prétendant en cette époque où les hommes de son âge se font rares. Pourtant, derrière ses airs tranquilles se cache une grande passionnée de mathématiques, un domaine dans lequel elle excelle. Plus que tout, Alice veut vivre pleinement, goûter à la liberté au-delà des limites imposées aux femmes.

거대 악으로부터 세상을 구하기 위해자신의 몫을 했던 모든 사람들에 관한 이야기2060년의 옥스퍼드는 시간 여행을 하는 수십 명의 역사학자가 과거로 보내지면서 혼란스럽다. 마이클 데이비스는 진주만으로 갈 준비를 하고...

On vuosi 1944. Tanska on miehitetty ja Akselin vaimo odottaa lasta. Kauhean väärinkäsityksen jälkeen Aksel joutuu tilanteeseen, jollaista ei pitänyt tapahtua: saksalaiset vangitsevat Akselin ja lukitsevat hänet epäinhimillisiin oloihin laivan lastiruumaan. Pian Aksel ymmärtää, että matkan lopussa odottaa jotain vielä pahempaa - häntä ollaan viemässä keskitysleirille. Akselin täytyy paeta. Jesper Bugge Kold on tanskalainen kirjailija. Hän on kokenut toimittaja ja hän on kirjoittanut monia palkittuja dekkareita.

Brzeziny, Poland, 1939. Zofia's comfortable lifestyle overturns when her husband, Jabez, who monitors Nazi activity, has gone missing. Rather than fleeing the country with her young son, as she had promised Jabez who is fearing retaliation, she decides to stay. She cannot possibly leave her friend, Aanya. Since their childhood they have amazed fellow Brzeziners that it does not matter that Aanya is Jewish and deaf, and that Zofia is Catholic and hearing. Now, more than ever with war looming, Zofia will do whatever is necessary to protect her family and Aanya.

In the glamorous world of 1940s New York, Hattie James is a rising star, enchanting audiences at the iconic Copacabana Club. But her glittering life is shattered by a shocking phone call: her father, a respected diplomat, has been arrested for espionage, accused of aiding Nazi Germany. As her world crumbles, Hattie is plunged into a whirlwind of danger and deceit. Following her father's dramatic escape and alleged betrayal, Hattie is coerced by the FBI to aid their hunt. Her mission: infiltrate Rio de Janeiro's high society and uncover the truth about her father's loyalties.

Born to a groom at the elegant manor house Foxden Hall, the Dudley sisters never imagined the impossible choices World War II would force upon them. When London’s bombs destroy her teaching dreams, Bess returns to Foxden Acres as a Land Girl, watching on as the man she’s always loved plans a life with another, until tragedy violently changes everything. In the glittering West End, her sister Margot grasps stardom on the stage, only to be trapped between her ambitions and falling bombs. And in Nazi-occupied France, Claire gambles her life as an undercover agent.

It's 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin's Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy is. As Europe heads towards war, treason is in the air. British spymasters know there is one Soviet agent in their ranks, codenamed Agent ‘Archie', and there's a frantic search to find them. What they don't know is that he is not the only traitor.

When Jox McNabb is expelled from school he is forced to look to his future. Inspired by the sight of a Hurricane flying over him, he becomes determined to join the RAF. And after basic training, Jox is posted to RAF Montrose with the growing group of other recruits he has met along the way.

1939. Bess Dudley's life is filled with possibility. As the daughter of the groom at historic Foxden Hall, she has worked hard to secure a sought-after teaching position in London. Then, on a visit home for the holidays, Bess reconnects with handsome and aristocratic James Foxden, whom she has loved since childhood. There’s a new spark between them and Bess travels to London with James’s card and joy in her heart.

Germany 1939 – To save her baby, Trudi Beck must hand her over to strangers who will take her across the sea to a foreign country. Trudi has already lost her husband to the Nazis, her stepsons are taking the train too. Walking away from the train station with empty arms is the hardest thing she's ever done. London 1939 – Newly married, Sally Matthews, is alone again. Her husband is away training for war, leaving her days and home empty. She volunteers to help with the children from the Kindertransport, becoming captivated by five-year-old Tom and his baby sister, Liesel.

Drei ungleiche Schwestern gegen alle Widerstände. Wiesbaden, 1945: Henni steht vor den Trümmern ihres Lebens. Der Krieg hat die Sektkellerei der Familie schwer beschädigt, und Hennis Mann wird in Russland vermisst. Zudem wartet sie verzweifelt auf ein Lebenszeichen ihrer jüngsten Schwester Bille, die als Krankenschwester an die Front gegangen ist. Hennis Schwester Lisbeth reist aus Berlin an, das Verhältnis der beiden ist allerdings zerrüttet. Als Bille unverhofft zurückkehrt, tief verstört und hochschwanger, fasst Henni neuen Mut: Sie wird die Sektkellerei retten.

"För läsare som tycker om att läsa om kvinnoöden, liknande Ruth Kvarnström-Jones serie Stockholms pärlor." BtjFörsta världskriget rasar i Europa och bagarfamiljen Thoresen i Kristiania har ont om mjöl. En dag kommer en inbjudan från de två fastrarna i Amerika till äldsta dottern Thea. Hon kan hjälpa familjen ekonomiskt om hon tar ett jobb för den rika familjen Vanderbilt i Amerika. Säger hon ja måste hon säga farväl till sin pojkvän Hans, som pratar om att förlova sig.Thea reser över Atlanten till ett liv hon inte hade kunnat föreställa sig.

1942: a German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. But he is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret services have need of a man like him.... In occupied Europe, Denmark is a hotbed of problems for British intelligence. Rumours of a war-ending weapon being developed by the Germans are rife. Sent to Copenhagen, Prince is soon caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Dodging Gestapo agents, SS muscle and the danger of betrayal, his survival - and the war effort - hangs in the balance. 

Set against the backdrop of the construction of the Berlin Wall, The Last Secret Kept explores the beauty of individualism while demolishing the invisible walls built between ourselves and our loved ones.

Kateřina Dubová has always aspired to walk in her father's footsteps as a respected journalist, and the Second World War presents a unique opportunity for her to prove her worth to the world. A tip about an assassination attempt on a high-ranking Nazi official, Reinhard Heydrich, the "Butcher of Prague" leads Kateřina into the shadows of the Nazi occupation. Soon she discovers things are not as they seem.

Eine Frau und ihr Kampf gegen die gefährlichste Waffe der Welt. Leipzig im Juni 1942: Die Physikerin Margarete von Brühl arbeitet an der Entwicklung einer Uranmaschine. Sie ahnt nicht, wie sehr sich die Gestapo für ihre Experimente interessiert. Als es in ihrem Labor zu einer Explosion kommt, bei der ihr Assistent und heimlicher Geliebter stirbt, wird sie verhaftet - und danach von einem alten Freund befreit. Er behauptet, Mitglied einer Widerstandsgruppe zu sein und dass Margaretes Forschung dem Bau einer Atombombe dient.

When Naomi's daughter, Perle, starts to have nightmares about smokestacks and creepy doctors, Naomi is struck with terror—the terror of a mother who fears her daughter is in mortal danger. Naomi believes dreams are glimpses into the future. She, too, has had dreams of foreign soldiers with a strange flag invading her tiny village. She knows in her heart that evil is brewing.

At age 15, Ned Halloran lost both of his parents - and almost his own life - when the Titanic sank. Determined to keep what little he has, he returns to his homeland of Ireland and enrolls at Saint Edna's school in Dublin. Saint Edna's headmaster is the renowned scholar and poet Patrick Pearse - who is soon to gain greater fame as a rebel and patriot. Ned becomes deeply involved with the growing revolution...and the sacrifices it will demand.

This is the story of two teenage British boys in a Britain occupied by the Germans, which is what might have happened if the Nazis had successfully carried out their plans to invade Britain under Operation Sea Lion in the 1940s. Alan Mitchell and Sam Roberts study at St. John's Academy in the fictional Cambridgeshire market town of Hereward. Their Home Guard unit is defeated and the Schutzstaffel (S.S.) massacres the prisoners but the boys escape and return to German occupied Hereward.