Resultados para "Marina, Marina" en Siglo XX

Es 1943 y la neutralidad de Suecia en la Segunda Guerra Mundial está bajo presión. Laura Dahlgren, la brillante y joven mano derecha del negociador jefe del gobierno está al tanto de estas tensiones. Sin embargo, cuando la mejor amiga de Laura de la época universitaria, Britta, es descubierta asesinada a sangre fría, Laura está decidida a encontrar al asesino.

La saga degli Effinger ha inizio con Paul e Karl - figli del capostipite Mathias, orologiaio a Kragsheim - che da un piccolo paese si dirigono alla volta della Berlino cosmopolita per cercare fortuna. Ambiziosi e irrequieti, mecenati talentuosi e sensibili, ardenti patrioti e prussiani, in poco tempo gli Effinger riescono a guadagnarsi la fama di abilissimi imprenditori e a diventare una delle famiglie piú importanti della città.

La magnifica festa del 30 gennaio 1933 sarebbe stata ricordata negli anni a venire come l'ultima occasione in cui si erano ritrovati tutti insieme. Fu un momento scintillante e al tempo stesso un commiato: la Berlino della comunità ebraica, con la sua vivacissima, brulicante polifonia, era perduta per sempre. Dopo il grande successo de Gli Effinger, Gabriele Tergit narra le vicende di cinque famiglie berlinesi sradicate dalla ferocia della storia del Novecento.

A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection. In August 1939...

What is a sensitive classical pianist doing in a sleazy WWII Parisian cabaret? Why is he keeping his Chopin sheet music inside the piano bench every night? Which two people from his past have scarred his soul forever? Winter Pale, a young beautiful foreigner, a girl with a painful past of her own, recounts his story and, with it, delves deep into her own soul.

Pirandello ci accompagna all'interno dello scompartimento di un vagone ferroviario in cui ritroviamo il timore e le angosce di un intero paese allo scoppio della Grande Guerra. Uno spaccato umano eccezionale con cui Pirandello riesce a raccontarci un mondo intero.

Gaetano Marino interpreta "La camera in attesa", classica novella di Pirandello incentrata sul patetismo degli affetti familiari sullo sfondo della Grande Guerra.

Pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1919, "Berecche e la guerra" verrà poi inserita da Pirandello in "Novelle per un anno". Pirandello ci presenta la storia del Prof. Berecche, studioso e cultore della Germania, che dovrà confrontarsi con il dramma e l'insensatezza della Prima Guerra Mondiale.

Allo scoppio della Grande Guerra Marco Leccio decide di arruolarsi. Si presenta così alla leva con tanto di divisa da garibaldino. Le motivazioni alla base del suo gesto sono politiche e sentimentali: vuole partecipare alla liberazione delle terre irredente interrotta a Bezzecca, ma vuole anche andare al fronte insieme a suo figlio.

Boston, 2009. Lucy has been left reeling by the death of her beloved grandfather. They had always planned to visit France together after her college graduation. Now, still aching from his loss, Lucy decides to take the trip alone. Normandy, 1937. Sixteen-year-old Elise embarks on a whirlwind romance with a young American man, which transports her from the drudgery of her everyday life caring for her mother. But neither she, nor William, is prepared for the war that will threaten to tear them apart.

In this explosive third installment, the jungles roar with artillery, automatic weapons, and the screams of the wounded and dying! Decker, Edson, and Puller must use whatever means necessary to smash through Japanese lines and secure the freedom and safety of themselves and the people of the Solomons!

Hungry, exhausted, and bloody, the U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal can't rest for long because the Empire of the Rising Sun is massing to roll over them like a bloody tsunami. And all that separates the marines from destruction is a single little river and 500 miles of tropical islands.

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES ""[Miller’s] character portraits are indelible, often heartbreaking. At times this novel moved me to tears, the highest possible compliment.” —New York Times Book Review...

Guadalcanal, the largest island in the Solomons, is being occupied by the Imperial Japanese Navy. As a new airfield nears construction, the United States Navy and Marine Corps know they must act quickly or the entire course of the war could swing in Japan’s favor. As a massive invasion force gathers, Art Turner and the decorated crew of USS Bull Shark are once again sent on a secret mission. The clock is ticking, and Turner, his Marine Raiders, and the Bull Shark herself must face aircraft carriers, marauding Japanese soldiers, and a deadly jungle before time runs out!

In April 1943 a young woman washes ashore on a deserted beach in Cornwall, England. With shorn hair and a number stitched on her tattered chemise, Alice is the survivor of a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat. She's found by the mysterious Viscount Jack Trewella, who suspects that she's a prisoner of war or a spy. But the secret Alice asks Jack to keep is one he could never have guessed, and it creates an intimate bond he never expected.

Elise wächst in den 1930er Jahren in einem kleinen Dorf in der Normandie auf. Als sie William kennenlernt, einen Freund ihres Bruders, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf in den charmanten, gutaussehenden Amerikaner. Aber dann bricht der Krieg aus, und als William als Soldat nach Frankreich zurückkehrt, geschieht das Unfassbare, er kommt am Omaha Beach ums Leben. Hank, sein bester Freund, verspricht, sich um die junge Frau zu kümmern, und nimmt sie mit nach Amerika. Elise jedoch kann ihre große Liebe nicht vergessen.

From the New York Times bestselling author Janet Skeslien Charles and based on the true story of Jessie Carson—the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France—this is “a moving tale of sacrifice, heroism, and inspired storytelling immersed in the power of books to...

As captain of a destroyer in the US Navy, Merrill Kendrick plays a crucial and dangerous role in protecting the convoys that are essential to Britain’s survival in the Second World War. Despite pressure from his father to join the family company, a supplier of military radios, Kendrick chose to fight on the front lines of the war, a decision he’s never regretted. But when technical issues with his family’s Gatekeeper radios lead to devastating consequences in combat in the Atlantic, Kendrick needs answers.