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The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of World War II from Germany back to Paris. This program includes a...

Der Lyoner Anwalt Gaspard Bernaux hat zwei Probleme am Hals: einen schwierigen Prozess, in dem er an der Unschuld seines Mandanten zweifelt, und das schöne Lächeln von Charlotte, der Enkelin seiner Mandantin. Charlotte Martin ist Psychologiestudentin und begeisterte Surferin. Die Einladung ihrer tot geglaubten Großmutter nach Lyon weckt ihr Misstrauen. Was will ihre Großmutter nach all den Jahren? Was verbirgt der Anwalt?

Mitten im schwülen Pariser Sommer gibt das alte Auto von Thomas den Geist auf! Doch in der Metro, die er gezwungenermaßen nutzen muss, begegnet ihm eine bezaubernde Schönheit. Aber nicht nur sie bereitet ihm fortan schlaflose Nächte, auch die Verwüstungen in seinem Restaurant. Ella glaubt zu träumen, als ihr eines Morgens im Zug dieser großgewachsene Mann mit den faszinierend grünen Augen gegenübersteht. Was hat er mit dem Gemüse in den Taschen vor? Und warum verhält er sich so seltsam, als sie ihn näher kennenlernen will?

In the dark days of war, who can you trust? When journalist Marlene Villeret parachutes into Nazi-occupied France by moonlight, her role is to observe the French way of life until her departure at the next full moon. With swastikas draped around Paris and families torn from their homes in front of helpless friends and neighbours, Marlene wants to do more with her short time in the city. But when she forms a bond with Niklas, a German soldier, she has cause to question all that she thought she knew about the war. With every passing day, Marlene is drawn further into danger. When she is ...

Die Nachricht vom plötzlichen Unfalltod seiner Mutter wirft François aus der Bahn und deckt Geheimnisse auf, die besser verborgen geblieben wären. Während er nach der Ursache forscht, ereilt ihn der Hilferuf seiner früheren Freundin Simone. Dabei geht es um den Verkauf eines kostbaren Gemäldes im Besitz ihrer Familie. Beim Versuch, das Rätsel ihrer Familien zu lösen, geraten sie immer tiefer in Verstrickungen, die Jahrzehnte zurückreichen und ihr beider Leben verändert. Und als wäre das nicht schon Aufregung genug, flammt ihre alte Liebe wieder auf.

Nine-year-old Oscar Rosenfeld chases his runaway kitten, delighted to be outdoors after months of being cooped up in a small Viennese apartment. His parents and sister Miriam race after him in alarm. He immediately runs into two policemen who catch hold of him. But they have no intention of returning him safely to his family. Their faces contort in disgust and rage. For Oscar has Down’s Syndrome and as such is targeted by the Nazis for extermination. Oscar’s parents fight to save him, their father is killed and their mother is beaten to the ground. Her last words to Miriam are to take ...

In this “extraordinary and brilliant book” (Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves), a prize-winning historian offers the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe The German Peasants’ War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the...

The enemy of my enemy… became my brother in arms. In the final days of World War II, as Hitler’s regime collapsed and the Western Front pushed deep into Austria, an extraordinary event unfolded—one so surreal, so improbable, that it sounds like the plot of a war movie. But it happened. And it’s true. May 5, 1945. In the mist-shrouded Tyrolean Alps, a medieval stone fortress known as Castle Itter stood at the center of a harrowing standoff. Inside were some of France’s most important political and military prisoners—former prime ministers, generals, cultural icons—held by the ...

The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history’s greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi Party, and their views on the Holocaust...

This is a WW2 story of great courage and survival against almost impossible odds. During the year of 1942, Yvette Jackson, a young fun loving and very beautiful twenty year old girl was enjoying her second year as a medical student training to be a doctor. However, her world turned upside down when requested to attend the office of her professor, who informed her that she had an unknown visitor waiting for her. She’d received a visit from the mysterious caller, who simply called himself, Mr. Black. She discovered this man worked at the offices of “The Department of Fish & Fisheries” ...

ChatGPT said: Entdecken Sie die zauberhafte Welt der zweisprachigen Gute-Nacht-Geschichten – jetzt als Hörbuch. Dieses liebevoll produzierte Audioerlebnis begleitet Kinder auf eine spielerische Sprachreise zwischen Deutsch und Französisch. Mit über 40 kurzen, kindgerechten Geschichten lernen junge Hörer die französische Sprache auf natürliche Weise kennen – ganz entspannt, direkt vor dem Einschlafen. Jede Geschichte wird zunächst auf Deutsch gesprochen und anschließend auf Französisch erneut erzählt.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island “Brava to Lynne Olson for a biography that should...

Ciudadanos no es la versión trillada de un régimen muriendo de enfermedad y decrepitud, sino el reflejo de la transformación que cambió la historia de Europa para siempre: el paso de hombres y mujeres de «sujetos» a «ciudadanos». Partiendo de la idea de que la fe de los ciudadanos en la libertad fue la causa más que el producto de la Revolución francesa, Schama dibuja un país en ebullición en el que se derrumban las diferencias entre nobles y plebeyos, en un escenario de hambre, ira, terror y muerte.

Vielleicht haben Sie schon früher versucht, Französisch zu lernen. Vielleicht haben Sie teure Kurse gekauft, unzählige Videos geschaut oder stundenlang Grammatikregeln gebüffelt, die einfach unmöglich zu merken oder im echten Leben anzuwenden waren. Das Problem? Die meisten Methoden sind langweilig, unpraktisch und passen nicht in Ihren vollen Alltag.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of...

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A darkly comic, speculative debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret, sinister cost. Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of “great works of literature,” but instead...

Dr. Mike Dow is a best-selling author, psychotherapist, and relationship expert. So why is he writing a book about stroke?Well, what you probably don't know about Dr. Mike is that his younger brother, David, is a stroke survivor. What's more, David's stroke happened when he only 10 years old...

From the internationally acclaimed Oxford authority on Communism, a definitive history that examines the origins of the ideology, its development in different nations, its collapse in many of those countries following perestroika, and its current incarnations around the globe. The Rise and Fall...

A crisis of conscience puts an American, stuck in the Prussian army, on the run at the onset of the Franco-Prussian War. But as Carl flees the German onslaught into France, he finds himself running deeper into the mysteries of his past. Will he learn the truth before he faces a firing squad? The French Fiasco is an action-packed swashbuckling romantic adventure with historically accurate depictions of the battles of Saarbrücken, Spicheren, Sedan, and many more, with real historical characters like Otto von Bismarck and Napoléon III. The French Fiasco is Book 6 of the Long Century Series. ...