Historia, amor y misterio Sinopsis December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, […]
Segunda Guerra Mundial
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Una novela sobre la amistad y la calidad humana Sinopsis As the German troops begin their campaign to “relocate” all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch […]
Personas con gran impacto en nuestras vidas Sinopsis ‘I nearly drowned and Walter rescued me. That changes everything.’ Leipzig, 1930s Germany. Hetty Heinrich is a perfect German child. Her father is an SS officer, her brother in the Luftwaffe, herself a member of the BDM. She believes resolutely in her […]
Novelas que reflejan episodios muy tristes de la historia de la humanidad La novela histórica, de forma general, no es un género que me guste mucho, al contrario de Ana a quién si le gusta. Sin embargo, cuando se trata de historias basadas en hechos ocurridos en La Segunda Guerra […]
Una nueva historia de la creadora de Wonder Sinopsis In R. J. Palacio’s collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian’s grandmother, Grandmère. This is Grandmère’s story as a young Jewish girl hidden away by a family in Nazi-occupied France during […]
Cuando lo único que nos motiva es la venganza Sinopsis Evelyn Taylor-Clarke sits in her chair at Forest Lawns Care Home in the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by residents with minds not as sharp as hers. It would be easy to dismiss Evelyn as a muddled old woman, […]
¿Amistad a prueba de Nazis? Sinopsis Can friendship survive in a divided world? Written on the eve of the Holocaust as a series of letters between a Jew in America and his German friend, Kressmann Taylor’s classic novel is a haunting tale of a society poisoned by Nazism. First published […]
La valentía de tres costureras durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial Sinopsis Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets. War-scarred Mireille is fighting with the Resistance; Claire has been seduced by […]
Una historia de esperanza en Auschwitz Sinopsis It is 1942 and Eva Adami has boarded a train to Auschwitz. Barely able to breathe due to the press of bodies and exhausted from standing up for two days, she can think only of her longed-for reunion with her husband Michal, who […]