Resultados para "Families" en Guerra y ejército

Hamburgo, 1970. Henny celebra su cumpleaños rodeada de su familia y de sus inseparables amigas. El hilo de la complicidad que unía su vida con la de Käthe, Lina e Ida continúa ahora en las nuevas generaciones: Florentine, la modelo que regresa de París con una inesperada noticia; Katja, que...

1949. La guerra ha terminado. Hamburgo queda reducida a escombros y muchos se encuentran sin un hogar al que regresar. Como Henny, quien no ha podido olvidar la mirada de su amiga Kathe en ese tranvía... Lina, por su parte, ha abierto una librería, Ida está decepcionada por su relación con...

He’s a decorated war veteran and he wants to die. She’s a prominent psychologist and she won’t give up on him. Neither knows how to lose. When a suicidal client seeks her help, Dr. Angela Blackwell cannot turn him away, despite the fact that he isn’t seeking the kind of help she normally provides her clients. The man, who won’t fully identify himself, wants the distinguished psychologist to stand witness after his planned death in six months’ time, ensuring his wife will not be charged as an accessory or be hindered from collecting the death benefit he carefully provisioned for her.

Uhtred af Bebbanburg har generobret sit fædrene hjem. Det er dog ikke længe, han kan nyde sin sejr, da han bliver truet fra alle sider af både nye og gamle fjender. Igennem årtier har Uhtred stået midt mellem hedninge og kristne, mellem sakserne og vikingerne, mellem den gamle verden, han blev født ind i, og den nye verden, han voksede op i.

This page-turning novel from Fiona Field interweaves the stories of three very different women trying to get to grips with the life of a military wife Chrissie finds solace in her career as a medic in the regiment, but will love for a married man prove her undoing? Maddy is bogged down with a...

This is the story of two girls who, on the surface, seem to have a lot in common. Samantha Lewis will put everything into being the good soldier she thinks her father wants her to be. But her heart will lead her in an unexpected direction and threaten her love. Michelle Flowers also craves her...

The summer of 1939 broke the Maudsley family. Cecily was only 13 years old and desperate to grow up, desperate to be as desired and reckless as her older sister, Rose. Now in her 40s, the family resemblance is uncanny, but Cecily is a shadow of her former self. A part of her died that fateful summer. Returning to the deserted family farm, Cecily recalls the light before the storm, before the war came and before the terrible family tragedy. She remembers how everyone was guarding a secret.

Czy o wojennej traumie można zapomnieć? Czy można czuć się sierotą, dziedzicząc traumę po przodkach? Czasy obecne, Hrubieszów. Uciekając przed małżeńskim kryzysem, Małgorzata przyjeżdża do domu rodzinnego w celu opieki nad sędziwą babcią. Powrót do krainy dzieciństwa budzi w niej dawne demony lęku i opuszczenia. Pewnego dnia staruszka przywołuje wojenne wspomnienia i otwiera przed wnuczką najgłębsze sekrety rodowe. Czy poznanie historii rodziny pomoże Małgosi zrozumieć siebie? Kwiecień 1943, Wołyń. Jaś, jedenastoletni chłopiec z polsko-ukraińskiej rodziny, ucieka nocą z ogarniętej pożogą wioski.

Above Us the Milky Way is a story about war, immigration, and the remarkable human capacity to create beauty out of horror. As a young family attempts to reconstruct their lives in a new and peaceful country, they are daily drawn back to the first land through remembrance and longing, by news of the continued suffering and loss of loved ones, and by the war dead, who have immigrated and reside with them, haunting their days and illuminating the small joys and wonders offered them by the new land.

As the dark specter of the Nazis settles over Germany, two wealthy and educated brothers are suddenly thrust into the rising tide of war. Karl, a former soldier and successful businessman, dutifully answers the call to defend his country, while contemplative academic Gerhard is coerced into informing for the Gestapo. Soon the brothers are serving in the SS, and as Hitler's hateful agenda brings about unspeakable atrocities, they find themselves with innocent blood on their hands.

Nicole Sutton’s world has been turned upside down. Sixteen and suffering the fallout of a devastating family tragedy, she is forced to move away from her London home to the quiet town of Henley - and a new life she never wanted nor expected. In the dusty cellar of her strange new house, Nicole stumbles upon a worn old journal left behind by a previous occupant. Inside, through the eyes of a soldier named Mac, she finds herself drawn into a brutally honest memoir of the horrors of war and Auschwitz - and of the life and love Mac had to leave behind.

London, 1944. Two young nurses meet at a train station with a common purpose: to join the war effort. Scarlet longs for the chance to find her missing fiancé, Thomas, and to prove to her family - and to herself - that she's stronger than everybody thinks. Nursing is in Ellie's blood, but her humble background is vastly different from Scarlet's privileged upbringing. Though Ellie puts on a brave face, she's just as nervous as Scarlet about what awaits them in France.

In the spring of 1946, ex-corporal Sam Richardson returns home from the "forgotten war" in Burma to his hometown of Wigton in Cumbria, England, to the joyful relief of his young wife, Ellen. He finds a town in which, seemingly, little has changed: the same twisting alleys, weavers' cottages, and medieval archways, and the same lack of prospects for an uneducated, working-class man like himself. Sam, however, has changed.

Le gorille c'est le surnom d'Ezer, ancien membre des services secrets israéliens et garde du corps de Moshe Dayan ou encore de Golda Meir. C'est aussi le père de Dory, qui vit aujourd'hui à Berlin avec son compagnon et invective cette figure autoritaire et viriliste, dans une langue qu'ils n'ont pourtant pas en commun – ni la langue maternelle de l'auteur (l'hébreu), ni sa langue paternelle (l'allemand).

Ein berührend erschütternder Roman über den letzten Sommer vor Kriegsende Anfang 1945 muss die zwölfjährige Luisa Norff mit ihrer Mutter und der älteren Schwester aus dem bombardierten Kiel aufs Land fliehen. Das Gut ihres Schwagers Vinzent, eines SS-Offiziers, wird ein unverhoffter Raum...

Der Waisenjunge Karl Siebrecht will im Berlin der Zwischenkriegszeit Karriere machen. Er chauffiert verbotene Frachten und dunkle Gestalten durch die Stadt und wird zum Beobachter der Berliner Gesellschaft. Rund zwei Jahrzehnte deutscher Geschichte erzählt dieser packende Roman über einen...

Ein Berliner Ehepaar wagte einen aussichtslosen Widerstand gegen die Nazis und wurde 1943 hingerichtet. Von ihrem Schicksal erfuhr Hans Fallada aus einer Gestapo-Akte, die ihm durch Johannes R. Becher in die Hände kam. Fieberhaft schrieb Fallada daraufhin im Herbst 1946 in weniger als vier...

In 1939, the unexpected death of Sandra Anderson dramatically and ruthlessly changes forever the lives of the family she leaves behind. Kitty, her spoiled and pampered 15-year-old daughter, has to give up her dreams of a career as she becomes the family drudge. Sandra's heartbroken husband, Johnny, finds solace for his grief by becoming the main mouthpiece for his trade union in the shipyards, leaving little time for newborn Rosebud, whose birth caused her mother's death.

A Dangerous Age tells the story of the women of the Hand family, three cousins in a Southern dynasty rich with history and tradition who are no strangers to either controversy or sadness. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, the novel is a celebration of the strength of these women, and of others like them. In her characteristically clear and direct prose, with its wry, no-nonsense approach to the world and the people who inhabit it, Gilchrist gives voice to women on a collision course with a distant war that, in truth, is never more than a breath away.

İkiz kardeşler, Amed ile Aziz... Etrafı dağlarla çevrelenmiş, savaşın tam ortasındaki isimsiz bir ülkede anne babalarıyla yaşayan iki çocuk. Dağların öte tarafında köpekler yaşıyor, yani düşmanları... Bölgenin savaşçı liderlerinden biri bir gün babalarını ziyaret eder ve kana kanla yanıt vermek için çocuklarından birini savaşta feda etmesini ister. Baba Zohal çıkışı olmayan bir ikileme düşer. Anne Tamara ise bu isteği kabullenemez. Üstüne üstlük Aziz kanser hastasıdır. Zaten ölüme mahkûmdur. Baba, biri hasta diğeri sağlıklı iki çocuğu arasında nasıl seçim yapar?