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Horizon, a novel
A wartime story of conflicting emotions and loyalties. Some Tyrolean citizens, north and south, sick of being under Italian rule, look to the Nazi invasion as a liberation, their promises of freedom as something worth fighting for. Other wiser heads, including liberated POW Roy know the Nazi's treachery. Roy is holed up for 8 months in a family home as liaison between the local resistance and…
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Fathom five
A teenage boy and his friends spend the spring of 1943 trying to discover who in Garmouth, a sleepy English seaport, is passing information to the Germans.
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The Silence of Ghosts
The Silence of Ghosts
"Dominic Lancaster hoped to prove himself to his family by excelling in the Navy during World War II. Instead he is wounded while serving as a gunner and loses his leg. Still recovering from his wounds and the trauma of his amputation when the Blitz begins, Dominic finds himself shuffled off to the countryside by his family, along with his partially deaf sister, Octavia. The crumbling family…
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The Key to Rebecca
Roman over een Duitse spionageoperatie tijdens de oorlog in de Noordafrikaanse woestijn in 1942.
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The Machine Gunners
After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it.
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The second lady
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Pray for Brave Heart
About the undeclared and ever-waging war of our time, the war for men's minds, and the action takes place in Switzerland.
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The Whip Hand
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Family Trade
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Mysterious Mr. Sabin
"The mysterious Mr. Sabin is an unscrupulous French royalist who aids the German government in a conspiracy of war against England. His part in the plot is that of securing valuable papers recording the coast defenses of England, for which services he demands Germany's conquest of France and the restoration of the monarchy in the person of Prince Henri and his cousin, Helene of…
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If you can't be good
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Windmills of the gods
A college professor, a naive Kansan, becomes the US ambassador to Romania and learns a lot about life.
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The man who lost the war
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The Spymasters
The Spymasters
Summer 1943. Two of the Allies' most important plans for winning World War II are at grave risk - Operation Overlord's invasion of France, and the Manhattan Project's race to build the atomic bomb. A furious FDR turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan - and Donovan turns to his top agent, Dick Canidy, and his team. Their work is cut out for them. In the weeks to come they will fight not only the…
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London Belles
London Belles
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The river line
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Night of the Fox
Narra unos acontecimientos que hubieran podido cambiar radicalmente el desenlace de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Un veterano agente secreto británico debe rescatar a cualquier precio a un coronel norteamericano que ha naufragado cerca de la isla de Jersey, ocupada por los alemanes. El éxito de la operación resulta aún más problemático por la presencia en la isla de un doble del mariscal Rommel. La…
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Le grand cahier
Un premier roman à la charnière de deux imaginaires. "L'Ouest intimiste et l'Est politique" (G. Brisac, "Le Monde", 7 mars 1986, p. 22). Les héros sont des jumeaux qui, comme l'écrit J.-Folch-Ribas dans "La Presse" du 10 mai 1986, opposent la perversité au mal.
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