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Julia has just turned seventeen when she first meets Captain Charles Hamilton. A casualty of war he has lost all memory of his family or life before he heroically saved a soldier from the trenches. He has come to the home of Julia's parents, Philip and Jenny Allington, to recuperate and try to piece his past back together. Julia and Charles fall in love but it seems there are secrets in his past which cannot remain hidden for long, and soon Julia realises the man she married is more scarred than...

In the spring of 1941, Yugoslavia finds itself at war with Germany. British military attache, Captain Tony Davis, is separated from his comrades and escapes to the mountains. He encounters remnants of the Serb army, the dreaded Ustase terrorists, and eventually the Partisans led by Josip Broz, alias Tito.

France 1944 in the closing days of the Nazi occupation, a beautiful young Englishwoman arrives in the war-torn town of Bourg-en-Bresse to work as an interpreter. Unbeknownst to her superiors, she also plans to search for the French soldier who has captured her heart.

This story is set in the summer of 1942. Leningrad, Russia's premier city after Moscow, has been besieged by German and Finnish troops for weeks in a siege that will eventually last 900 days. Leningrad, built by Peter the Great, is a prestige object for both the Russians and the Germans. Stalin will defend it to the last; Hitler will fight to the last to gain it. Now, Hitler personally prepares a daring and ambitious plan. The city is surrounded save for a narrow corridor based on Lake Ladoga. T...

Meriel Evans had worked in her father's estate agency since leaving school and she was happy there, but at twenty-nine she knew she had to make a move. She found a place at the Ace Estate Agency but realised at once that the owner, George Dexter, and her father knew and disliked each other. Though neither would explain why. She was attracted to the house called Badgers Brook and determined to stay, even though she would miss her parents and her lifetime love, Leo Hopkins. The quarrel between Dex...

They called themselves the Pact of Steel. They were Germany, Japan and Italy, and in 1941 they dreamed up an audacious plan to take over the world. They would drive from east to west to destroy the British Empire and then the United States. Finally, Soviet Russia would fall to them too, and the earth would belong to them, and, in particular, to Adolf Hitler, the ruler of National Socialist Germany. In the spring of 1941, when a sudden revolt broke out in Iraq, still dominated by the British sinc...

Summer, 1944. The survivors of the decimated SS Assault Regiment Wotan are withdrawn from Russia to stiffen the ranks of the newest SS division: the 'Baby Division' made up of 20,000 teenage volunteers from the Hitler Youth. Kuno von Dodenburg, commander of the Wotan, doesn't like his new assignment one bit. When the Allies attack, the 'babies', he thinks, will be slaughtered. There is a way out. The generals ask him to participate in their daring plan to assassinate Hitler and sue for a separat...

Badgers Brook offers her the chance for a fresh start. As the Second World War ends, Sophie Daniels quits the WAAF with nowhere to go. She wanders around the country searching for a place where she can settle, living in bedsits, barns, and small guesthouses in the meantime. Eventually she finds Badgers Brook, where she meets and befriends nine-year-old Bertie, neglected and running wild.The neighbours warm to her, the place is welcoming, and Sophie knows she has found her home. Friendly local Ry...

April 4, 1945. President Roosevelt is briefed on the war in Europe: 28,000 men, women, and children are dying every day. A group of German staff officers is ready to assume leadership of the Third Reich and surrender instantly. The German SS is preparing a fortified retreat in the Bavarian Alps where Hitler may be able to carry on the war for years.... The president makes the obvious but difficult decision: assassinate Hitler. Immediately. Chosen by America's OSS for this critical and dangerous...

DISCOVER THE PERFECT SUMMER READ . . . The Girl You Left Behind is the hauntingly romantic and utterly irresistible weepy from Jojo Moyes, the author of the international bestsellers Me Before You and Still Me.'This won't disappoint. A masterclass in storytelling that fans of Me Before You will adore' Elle___________What happened to the girl you left behind?France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. But when she is ordered to ser...

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg takes us to Chicago at the time of World War II in this wonderful story about three sisters, their lively Irish family, and the men they love. As the novel opens, Kitty and Louise Heaney say good-bye to their boyfriends Julian and Michael, who are going to fight overseas. On the domestic front, meat is rationed, children participate in metal drives, and Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller play songs that offer hope and lift spirits. And now the Heaney s...

In the winter of 1917, a big-boned young woman shows up at George Bliss's doorstep. She's looking for a job breaking horses, and he hires her. Many of his regular hands are off fighting the war in Europe, and he glimpses beneath her showy rodeo garb, a shy but determined girl with a serious knowledge of horses. So begins the irresistable tale of Martha Lessen, a female horse whisperer trying to make a go of it in a man's world. Along the way, Martha helps a German family, ostracised by the com...

A clandestine love affair is kindled during the dark days of the Nazi occupation of Prague; its consequences reverberate through the decades and across thousands of miles, with tragic results. This work is suitable for readers of the most all-consuming literary hits of recent years from "The God of Small Things" and "Snow Falling on Cedars" to "Fall on Your Knees" and Captain Corelli's "Mandolin". 'My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it lef...

It only takes one voice to resist. Caught by the Nazis distributing forbidden leaflets, Sophie Scholl is facing execution. Only one route remains: confession and betrayal of everything she stood for… but will she take it? What would you be willing to die for? Nominated for a 2023 CATS award for best production for children and young people Duncan Kidd's Storm Lantern is a timely examination of the final hours of Sophie Scholl at a moment in history when the forces of fascism are on the rise on...

It is 1942, and senior German officer, U-boat "ace" Otto Kruger finds the PoW officers under his command are impatient with his autocratic regime, which forbids escape unless it has been properly planned. A battle of wits between Kruger and his captors follows.