Knihy so štítkom second world war

Between shades of grey
Ruta Sepetys One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable and harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father o viac

Bodies
Si Spencer VERTIGO brings you a graphic novel with four detectives, four time periods, and four dead bodies - all set in London. Edmond Hillinghead is an 1890s overachiever who's trying to solve a murder no one cares about while hiding his own secret. Karl Whiteman is our dashing 1940s adve viac

Captain America
Roy Thomas This is a "one-shot" story involving Cap and Bucky fighting Baron Zemo and Master Man during World War II.Baron Zemo,s wife and son are also in this story. viac

Christian Dior
Alexandra Palmer Arguably the most famous fashion designer of the twentieth century, Christian Dior created feminine fashions that were desired, worn, and emulated by women around the world. This lavishly illustrated volume explores the brilliance behind Dior’s dramatic creations, which revived t viac

Cilka's Journey
Heather Morris Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her. In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women pr viac

In the Woods of Memory
Šun Medoruma “Generally regarded as Okinawa's most adventurous and promising writer of fiction today.”—Michael S. Molasky, University of Minnesota In the Woods of Memory is a powerful, thought-provoking novel that focuses on two incidents during the Battle of Okinawa, 1945: the sexual assa viac

Infiltration
Albert Speer   Joachim Neugroschel Examines Nazi Germany's industrial and armament struggles, revealing the rivalry between Speer and Himmler, and discusses Speer's attempts to save Jewish workers and his coming to terms with his own moral responsibility. viac

Lady Spitfire
Sébastien Latour   Milorad Vicanović Bringing together the volumes “La Fille de l’air”, “Der Henker”, “Une pour tous et tous pour elle” and “Desert Air Force”, this epic takes place mostly in the early days of the Second World War. A young pilot named Laure Chevalier, the daughter of a World War I ace, flees France viac

Love and Ruin
Paula McLain The bestselling author of The Paris Wife returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn—a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century viac

Neighbours
Jan Tomasz Gross Destruction of Jewish community in Jedwabne in Poland in 1941 carried out by local Polish population - the neighbors of the victims. viac

Parallel Journeys
Eleanor Ayer She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their parallel journey through World War II. Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different viac

Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys It's early 1945 and a group of people trek across Germany, bound together by their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged land. Four young people, each haunted by their own dark secret, narrate their unforgettable stories. Fans of The Book Thie viac

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
John Boyne The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about. viac

The Burden of Hitler's Legacy
Alfons Heck The Burden of Hitler's Legacy is Alfons Heck's incredible story of serving the Nazi regime, and the bitter disillusionment he suffered as the Germany he loved was battered into oblivion. Only in the waning days of World War II, did he begin to learn of the terror and cruelty that viac

The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank 70th Anniversary Edition In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary in which she confided her viac

The Good Nazi
Dan Van Der Vat Explores the life of this seemingly penitent participant in the Holocaust who, in fact, ordered the eviction of 75,000 German Jews. viac

The Librarian of Auschwitz
Antonio G. Iturbe Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge viac

The Makioka Sisters
Junichiro Tanizaki 'An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade...I'd put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century' David Mitchell 'A near-perfect novel' Hanya Yanagihara In the years leading up to the Second World War, four sisters live in dilapidated houses viac

The Seventh Cross
Anna Seghers Seven prisoners escape from Westhofen concentration camp. Seven crosses are erected in the grounds and the commandant vows to capture the fugitives within a week. Six men are caught quickly, but George Heisler slips through his pursuers' fingers. It becomes a matter of pride to t viac

The Silent Unseen
Amanda McCrina A mesmerizing historical novel of suspense and intrigue about a teenage girl who risks everything to save her missing brother. Poland, July 1944. Sixteen-year-old Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and he viac

The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris The #1 International Bestseller & New York Times Bestseller. In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (t viac

The Volunteer
Jack Fairweather In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interned at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mission was to report on Nazi cri viac

The wind knows my name
Isabel Allende This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel viac

The Yellow Bird Sings
Jennifer Rosner Poland, 1941. A mother. A child. An impossible choice. Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, spend day and night hidden in a farmer's barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow bird from her mother's st viac

Total War
Kate Clements   Paul Cornish   Vikki Hawkins   Margaret MacMillan Total War is an illustrated account of the most pivotal historical episode of the 20th century: the Second World War. It was not one single event, but rather the confluence of many simultaneous conflicts across the globe – on land, in the air, across the sea and beneath it. The s viac

When Time Stopped
Ariana Neumann In this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. ‘The darkest shadow is ben viac