Resultados para "man" en Siglo XX

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THE ALLIES HAD LOST THE WAR? America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war -...

1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk builds from the facts of Operation Paperclip, the US government’s secret recruitment of 1,600 top Nazi scientists, to pose a dark what-if scenario.

Tinker, tailor, soldier, scholar, spy. Who could have imagined that the young man with modest beginnings who had grown up in a farming village in the Loire valley, was made destitute by the Great Depression, went on to serve in the Foreign Legion, was educated and taught at the Louvre, captured after Dunkirk by the Wehrmacht during the German invasion of France, escaped and found his way to Valençay where he was charged with safeguarding in his bedroom Leonardo’s immortal Mona Lisa from destruction by the Nazis.

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them. W. H. Auden A Man Could Stand Up is the third of four installments in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, which follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy British landowner and the last British...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. “John J. Gobbell is the John Le Carré of Naval thrillers.”—John Lehman, Former Secretary of the Navy The year is 1968, and global upheaval is the norm. As the war rages in Southeast Asia, a US traitor sells top-secret codes to the Soviet Union...

Britain, March, 1944. After a desperate aerial battle over Somerset, a German bomber goes down in flames. When Joan discovers the Luftwaffe pilot hiding in her barn, her first instinct is to turn him in – against her better judgment, she offers him shelter instead. As they work side by side in the fields, a forbidden love begins to flourish. As the walls close in on their unlikely affair, Dieter and Joan's lives become fraught with danger, until passion and patriotism finally collide.

In a history where war's darkness intertwines with ancient terrors, John Cody and the soldiers by his side fight a hopeless battle across a darkened 1940s Europe. What begins as a quest to liberate a fallen world quickly reveals an even deeper nightmare: towns and cities swallowed by silence, histories erased, and an unearthly presence lurking in the void.

Hans Fallada wrote this stunning novel in only 24 days - just after being released from a Nazi insane asylum. Based on a true story, Every Man Dies Alone tells of a German couple who try to start an uprising by distributing anti-fascist postcards during World War II. But their dream ultimately proves perilous under the tyranny that dominates every corner of Hitler’s Germany.

Love never dies in this novel by a writer of addictive emotional thrillers. The Independent Told from three perspectives, A Particular Man is about love, truth and the unpredictable consequences of loss. When Edgar dies in a Far East prisoner-of-war camp, it breaks the heart of fellow prisoner...

Porta lotta per tenere il pesante carro blindato in mezzo alla colonna dei soldati. Un momento di distrazione e schiaccerebbe un'intera compagnia. Un'enorme palla di fuoco piomba tra i cespugli davanti al carro. I carristi si lanciano fuori dai mezzi blindati in cerca di riparo. Con il terrore negli occhi e il cuore che batte all'impazzata, giacciono al sole ad aspettare la morte. Un gigantesco muro di fuoco si alza verso il cielo. - Gli organi di Stalin, sussurra Heide spaventato. Porta accende il motore. I carri armati avanzano attraverso sole e acqua. Sono a Mosca, 1941.

As the war turns in Britain’s favour, Brin confronts old and new enemies and discovers someone close to him is a British traitor. Jameson finally breaks free of the torturer, Anton Ziegler, but is he walking into even greater danger when the SS takes him captive and extradites him to Berlin? MI5 continues to groom its double-cross agents in the lead up to Britain’s greatest deception against Germany, while the Germans use a legion of British traitors in their propaganda war against Russia.

Widely acclaimed for its warm humour, lyricism and honesty, as well as its accurate evocation of the '30s, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve has become a sung-after classic. In this delightful autobiographical novel, Dannie Abse skilfully interweaves public and private themes, setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in Wales against the troubled backcloth of the times - unemployment, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini and the Spanish Civil War.

In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow's son, who was 11 years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down. What Walter finds is a scathing chronicle of one the most tumultuous years in German history, narrated by a secret agent on a deadly mission.

Dieses Hörbuch erzählt die unglaubliche, aber wahre Geschichte des Sinto-Jungen Mano. Er überlebt mehrere nationalsozialistische Konzentrationslager und den Todesmarsch von Sachsenhausen. Er sitzt am Straßenrand, abgerissen, krank und verstört durch seine Erlebnisse im KZ. So finden ihn befreite französische Kriegsgefangene auf dem Weg nach Hause und nehmen den Elfjährigen mit. Bevor sie die französische Grenze überqueren, schärfen sie ihm ein, seinen Namen und seine Herkunft nicht zu verraten. In Frankreich darf niemand merken, dass er Deutscher ist.

Wenn die Vergangenheit dunkle Schatten auf die Zukunft wirft, ist es Zeit, neue Wege zu gehen ... München in den frühen 1950er Jahren: Die junge Margot ist stolz, als eine der wenigen Frauen einen Studienplatz für Mathematik an der LMU bekommen zu haben. Bei einer Vorlesung fällt sie durch...

Read by Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Spooks) The Man From St Petersburg is a dark tale of family secrets and political consequences. Ken Follett's masterful storytelling brings to life the danger of a world on the brink of war. A Secret Negotiation 1914. Tensions are rising as Europe finds...

A debut novel inspired by the true story of the author’s grandparents, tracing the slow-burn love story between a Catholic priest and a progressive theology teacher across Rome and England during the twentieth century It’s the 1960s, and David is handsome, charismatic, and sworn to celibacy...

Auschwitz, 1944. Alfred Mendl's days are numbered. But he has little left to live for - his family were torn away from him, his life's work burned in front of his eyes - until a glimmer of hope arises as he watches a game of chess. To the guards Mendl is just another prisoner, but in fact he...

The 'Master of the wartime spy thriller' (FINANCIAL TIMES) returns with the gripping follow up to the bestselling A Prince and a Spy, as Tom Wilde is sent to Germany to investigate the truth behind Hitler's death . . . Germany, late summer 1945. The war is over but the country is in ruins...

The Kaiser fined him for his writings; journalist Carl von Ossietzky refused to pay. The Weimar Republic charged him with treason for publishing the truth about their illegal military build-up. He fought them in court and went to prison. In early 1933, when Hitler took power, journalist Carl von Ossietzky was one of the first to get thrown into the new concentration camps.