Resultados para "David" en Siglo XX

Hilde Krüger, actriz alemana pretendida por el ministro de propaganda nazi Joseph Goebbels, debe irse del país en calidad de espía o su carrera artística será saboteada. Es enviada a Los Ángeles, donde comparte con su gobierno información que escucha en fiestas de la alta sociedad americana. Está convencida de que puede hacer un bien a su país. Después es enviada a México para infiltrarse en las altas esferas políticas para fortalecer relaciones comerciales entre ambos países sin importar los métodos.

Una apasionante historia familiar. Un siglo convulso. Un amor extraordinario sometido a los golpes del destino. Nada hacía prever que un judío vienés, cuya familia pereció en el Holocausto, y una joven viuda de Bremen se encontrarían alguna vez, y mucho menos que se enamorarían y se atreverían a vivir juntos contra viento y marea. Cuando se conocen, Waltraut es ya viuda y Joschi tiene veinte años más que ella: a priori la situación no puede resultar más complicada, de modo que ella inicialmente lo rechaza.

En una zona industrial de Múnich y en tiempos de guerra, 27 niños asustados y hambrientos se esconden de la Gestapo. Sus padres han sido enviados a campos de concentración y no tienen otro lugar a donde ir. La maestra Claudia Kellner descubre al grupo cuando recibe por primera vez a dos víctimas sin hogar, arriesgando su propia seguridad al darles refugio. Mientras tanto, Peter Chesham, un espía que trabaja para los británicos, logra ingresar al territorio del Tercer Reich.

Vor der einzigartigen Kulisse Venedigs erzählt David Hewson eine mitreißende Geschichte von Widerstand, Liebe und Zivilcourage. Als der fünfzehnjährige Nico Uccello seinen Großvater Paolo im Krankenhaus besucht, vertraut ihm der todkranke Mann ein Manuskript an, das Nicos Leben und seinen Blick auf den geliebten „Nonno“ radikal verändern wird.

España, 1934. Diego Padilla, campeón de ajedrez, conoce a la periodista francesa Marianne Latour. La guerra civil está a punto de estallar, y en ese contexto de agitación el amor encuentra a los dos jóvenes. Juntos tendrán una hija y vivirán en Madrid hasta que la violencia y la miseria los empujen al exilio a una Francia ocupada. Allí, la partida tomará otro rumbo: Diego se enfrentará a la acusación de espionaje por parte de los nazis y a un brutal encarcelamiento.

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. As a dangerous game of cat and mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe....

Ruth’s childhood was a happy one, and her family—on her mother’s side—large and loving. But her father’s French origins have always remained a mystery. Now, with aged relatives beginning to die, Ruth decides to research her father’s family before it’s too late. When she discovers a series of long-lost cassettes, everything she thought she knew about them shatters. The tapes expose an unimaginable truth–an epic wartime story of hidden love and sacrifice, stretching back to occupied France.

1940: Dover waits for the Nazi invasion… but what if Hitler's agents are already here, among them? Canadian journalist Jessica Marshall is reporting from Dover as the town is on the brink of a German invasion. But her story never makes it into the paper… Meanwhile, Louis Renard, an intelligent, damaged man and onetime Scotland Yard murder detective, is recuperating from wounds received in the Dunkirk invasion, working in Dover's barely functioning police station.

Sniper Deacon Cole finds himself caught up in the Battle of Manila, known as “the Stalingrad of the Pacific.” Deke and the rest of Patrol Easy are soon fighting from street to street and house to house against an enemy that doesn’t know when to call it quits. The sniper duels prove to be every bit as intense as those that took place in the jungle. In the midst of the battle, they are called to help rescue hostages being held by the Japanese. If negotiations fail, Deke figures that he can let his rifle do the talking.

When George Allenby is put in charge of building a lake in the grounds of an imposing Irish manor house, he intends to do the job as swiftly as possible and return to Belfast. Allenby is still wrestling with his time as an officer during the First World War, burdened by the many things he could have done differently.

London, 1941. Britain has endured the relentless bombing campaign of the Blitz and emerged, scarred but unbroken. Caitrin, too, strives to weather each challenge that comes her way, though her ever-ready banter belies deep heartbreak and loss. But now the war has entered another phase. Instead of indiscriminate bombing, the Luftwaffe is pinpointing historic targets, including cathedrals and ancestral homes. It's as if Germany plans to erase Britain's very essence and culture, destroying morale as it does so.

Después de la destrucción, ¿qué queda para volver a empezar?, se pregunta David Toscana en La ciudad que el diablo se llevó, una novela coral que hace de la imaginación un proceso de supervivencia en un país devastado por la Segunda Guerra Mundial, donde el futuro parece que no llega nunca. Feliks, Kazimierz, Eugeniusz y Ludwick conviven con las heridas de una ciudad que no acaba de resucitar y recorren las ruinas de Varsovia como si recorrieran sus propias vidas despedazadas por la guerra.

1940: Weeks after the evacuation of Dunkirk, Germany is poised to invade a near-defenseless Britain. To safeguard the Crown Jewels from the Nazis, Winston Churchill devises a daring gamble to have them shipped overseas. The priceless artifacts will be secretly removed from the Tower of London and driven north to Scotland by two operatives posing as a young married couple, to be taken from there to Canada.

בירושלים של סוף שנות החמישים נחלץ מומיק בן התשע, בנם היחיד של זוג ניצולי שואה, לשחרר את הוריו מסיוטיהם. באומץ של מי שאין לו ברירה הוא נאבק לשחרר את ארץ שם מתוך שתיקותיהם, מרסיסי הזיכרונות שלהם, מסיפורי ילדים שהוא מכיר, ומן המיתוסים הישראליים של השנים ההן. הוא נלחם למען הוריו, ועיקר מאבקו הוא בחיה הנאצית, זו שטרפה את חייהם, זו שיכולה לצאת מכל חיה "אם רק יתנו לה את הטיפול המתאים ואת האוכל המתאים"

Helen Fairfax is a ferry pilot and the mother of Peter, aged six. From Monday to Friday, she flies from factories to airfields, then returns to the family farmhouse where her parents look after the boy. She feels torn being away from her son so much, but after her husband died in the Battle of Britain she vowed to live up to his example of courage and strike back at the enemy. Now the Germans are about to launch the V-2 against London, and MI6 is desperate to get its hands on an undamaged prototype of the rocket to discover how it might be defeated.

In the bleak days of 1942, Countess Elisabeth von Trecheim, Berlin-born and city-raised, runs her husband’s family estate in isolated Silesia, while her Panzer officer spouse, Hans-George, confronts the horrors of Stalingrad. Meanwhile, Gideon Rokesby, an English mining engineer, is captured by the Germans in North Africa and endures brutal internment, showing determination to escape. As fate links these characters within a chaotic, war-torn world, a dance of survival, loyalty, and forbidden connection unfolds against the looming collapse of the Third Reich.

Summer, 1939. British journalist John Russell has just been granted American citizenship in exchange for agreeing to work for American intelligence when his girlfriend, Effi, is arrested by the Gestapo. Russell hoped his new nationality would let him safely stay in Berlin with Effi and his son, but now he’s being blackmailed. To free Effi, he must agree to work for the Nazis. They know he has Soviet connections and want him to pass them false intelligence. Russell consents, but secretly offers his services to the Soviets instead.

Berlin, 27 February 1933. A month after Hitler's inauguration as Chancellor of Germany, the Reichstag parliament building is set ablaze. The Nazis use the torching to justify a campaign of terror against their political opponents. John Russell's recent separation from his wife threatens his right to reside in Germany and any meaningful relationship with his six-year-old son Paul. He has just secured work as a crime reporter for a Berlin newspaper, and the crimes which he has to report are increasingly entangled in the wider nightmare engulfing Germany.

In an overgrown industrial area of wartime Munich, 27 children hide from the Gestapo, scared and hungry. Their parents have been sent to concentration camps, and they have nowhere to go. Teacher Claudia Kellner discovers the group when she first takes in two homeless victims, risking her own safety by giving them shelter. Meanwhile, Commando Peter Chesham, a spy working for the British, succeeds in entering Third Reich territory. But his top-secret mission is threatened when he discovers the hiding place of the orphans.

The fight for victory in the Pacific continues; this time at Leyte in the Philippines. Deacon Cole and the rest of Patrol Easy are sent as an advance unit to help crack the formidable Japanese defenses before the American invasion. To make the mission even more difficult, the Japanese have deadly snipers of their own. If Deke and the others can’t help bring down the enemy defenses in time, there will be a terrible price to pay when US troops hit the beach.