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21) Blackout
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[2022]
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English
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With his reputation already on the line for refusing to join the Nazi party, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke investigates a series of brutal murders during the Third Reich's forced nightly blackouts during the brutally cold winter of 1939 in Berlin.
22) The taster
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In early 1943, Magda Ritter's parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the Allied bombs strafing Berlin. Young German women are expected to do their duty--working for the Reich or marrying to produce strong, healthy children. After an interview with the civil service, Magda is assigned to the Berghof, Hitler's mountain retreat. Only after weeks of training does she learn her assignment: she will be one of several young...
23) The winter guest
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"Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation ... Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village ... Risking the safety of herself and her family, she hides Sam--a Jew--but Helena's concern for the American grows into something much deeper ... [as] Helena is forced to contend with the jealousy...
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"Based on a true story, Pino Lella is forced to enlist as a German soldier and recruited to become the personal driver for Hitler's left hand in Italy. With the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret"--
25) Dead of night
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Pub. Date
2024.
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First Kensington hardcover edition.
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English
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After the SS rules a doctor's mysterious death a suicide, the man's widow and Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke investigate while trying not to run afoul of the Gestapo.
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"Treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo's search for a Romanov fortune brings them into perilous contact with an ambitious neo-Nazi clan, in the thrilling adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free the Romanovs from the Bolsheviks, but, as history knows, the Romanovs died anyway. And the ransom? During World War II, the Nazis stole it from the Russians, and after that--it vanished....
27) Willful behavior
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"Brunetti is approached for a favor by one of his wife's students. Intelligent and serious, Claudia Leonardo asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a crime once committed by her now-dead grandfather. Brunetti thinks little of it--until Claudia is found dead. Soon, another corpse and an extraordinary art collection lead Brunetti to long-buried secrets of Nazi collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews--secrets few in Italy want revealed."...
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A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged Austrian police in his wake. He's been lying low ever since, but that little vacation is about to end. Somebody - Odessa, the NKGB, the Hungarian Secret Police - has broken the criminals out of jail, and he must track them down again. But there's more to it than that. Evidence has surfaced that in the war's last gasps, Heinrich...
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[2016]
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English
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In pre-war Berlin, Dieter, orphaned son of a music professor, plays piano in a bar favored by students and Nazis where he meets Sophie, a graduate student of music at Berlin's finest university and daughter of a Wehrmacht general. After an attempt on Hitler's life, suspicion is directed to Sophie's father and the young couple flee secretly to Prague. There they are relatively safe until a minor Gestapo operative becomes suspicious of their identity...
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"The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust. Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, "the butcher of Zamosc." Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser, Ben Solomon, is convinced he is right. Solomon persuades...
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"Dick Canidy and the agents of the OSS scour war torn Poland looking for a rocket scientist who holds the secrets to the Nazis most dangerous weapon in this new entry in W.E.B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling Men at War series"--
April 1940. By terms of the Soviet Nazi Nonaggression pact, the two dictatorships divided the helpless nation of Poland. Now, the Russians are rounding up enemies of the state in their occupation zone, but one essential...
32) Mila 18
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It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy - and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris's blazing novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists. Here, painted on a canvas as broad as its subject matter, is the compelling story of one of the most heroic struggles of modern times.
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After the death of his wife, Kirsten, in a mental hospital, Bernie Gunther calls it quits and opens a private detective agency. A series of missing-Nazi cases sets Bernie on a course that becomes increasingly complicated until he's beaten to a near pulp, had his little finger chopped off and is sent to a mysterious private estate to recover. There he's drawn into a nightmare involving the American occupation and the CIA, and soon his life hangs in...
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2020.
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"In 1945, as the war in Germany nears its violent end, the Huber family is not yet free of its dangers or its insidious demands. Etta, a mother from a small, rural town, has two sons serving their home country: her elder, Max, on the Eastern front, and her younger, Georg, at a school for Hitler Youth. When Max returns from the front, Etta quickly realizes that something is not right-he is thin, almost ghostly, and behaving very strangely. Etta strives...
35) City of women
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Whom do you trust, whom do you love, and who can be saved? At the height of World War II, Berlin has become a city of women. Sigrid Schröder, the model German soldier's wife, goes to work every day, does her best with her rations, cares for her meddling mother-in-law, and ignores the horrors of the regime. But behind this façade Sigrid dreams of her lover, lost in the chaos of war. Her lover is a Jew. And Sigrid is not the only one with secrets....
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"Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
38) The traitor
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Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Kensington tade paperback edition.
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English
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Drawing on the true story of the White Rose-the resistance movement of young Germans against the Nazi regime-The Traitor tells of one woman who offers her life in the ultimate battle against tyranny, during one of history's darkest hours.
In the summer of 1942, as war rages across Europe, a series of anonymous leaflets appears around the University of Munich, speaking out against escalating Nazi atrocities. The leaflets are hidden in public places,...
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[2022]
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Ukrainian
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"Druha svitova viyna. Pino Lella, zvychaynyy italiys'kyy pidlitok, navit' ne uyavlyaye, shcho yoho zhyttya ot-ot dokorinno zminyt'sya. Pislya bombuvannya zalyshyvshys' bezdomnym, Pino vstupaye v pidpillya, yake ryatuye yevreyiv, dopomahayuchy yim vyyikhaty v Al'py. A z·hodom, zapysavshys' u lavy nimets'koyi armiyi, Pino staye osobystym vodiyem henerala Hansa Layersa -- odnoho z nayzahadkovishykh i nayvplyvovishykh komandyriv Tret'oho reykhu. Tak...
40) Mestizas
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2017.
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Primera edición.
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Español
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"Pearl y Stasha son gemelas. Idénticas, inseparables, incluso pueden sentir y soñar lo mismo. A sus doce años, la guerra las arrastra a la vida adulta: ambas son llevadas a Auschwitz, junto con su madre y su abuelo. Ahí, bajo la mirada de Josef Mengele, experimentan privilegios y horrores desconocidos para otros prisioneros. Privadas de la personalidad que compartían, sus identidades son alteradas por la culpa y el dolor. Un invierno Pearl...
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