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61) A woman of war
Author
Publisher
Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Germany, 1944. Taken from the camps to serve the Fuhrer himself, Anke Hoff has been assigned as midwife to one of Hitler's inner circle. If she refuses, her family will die. Torn between her duty as a caregiver and her hatred for the regime she's now a part of, Anke is quickly swept into a life unlike anything she's ever known - and she discovers that many of those at the Berghof are just as trapped as she is. Soon, she's falling for a man who will...
62) The wish child
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words (?promise?, ?love?, ?mercy?). Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Drawn together as Germany?s hope for a glorious future begins to collapse, the children find temporary...
Author
Language
English
Description
It is 1944 and Florence is occupied by Nazi German forces. The Italian resistance movement has not given up hope, though - and neither have Paolo and his sister, Constanza. Both are desperate to fight the occupation, but what can two siblings do against a whole army with only a bicycle to help them?
64) Rosie's war
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Rosie Gardiner is having a tough war. She's had to leave her job as a nude at the Windmill in Soho after a horrific assault which left her pregnant, and is now living back at home with her recently remarried dad. Despite her best efforts, Rosie and her dad just can't get along and the strain of coping as a young unmarried mother is getting to her. As the Nazis strafe the city with V2 bombs, Rosie is determined to keep her head up through the Blitz...
Author
Series
District nurse volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Alice Lake and her friend Edith have had everything thrown at them in their first year as district nurses in London's East End. From babies born out of wedlock to battered wives, they've had plenty to keep them occupied. As rationing takes hold and Hitler's bombers train their sights on London, there is no escaping the reality of being at war. With the men away fighting for King and country, it's up to the nurses to keep up the Spirit of the Blitz...
66) A wartime secret
Author
Publisher
Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Maggie is offered an escape from bombed-out London when her new job takes her from the working-class East End to a stately home in the Cotswolds. She's nervous but determined to do her bit for the war effort - and away from the city's chaos, perhaps Maggie can secretly track down her mother, a German national arrested after the war began. Grand Snowden Hall is an utterly alien world to Maggie, but she soon makes friends with the other residents, who...
67) Love and war
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Living in their two-up-two-down in Rotherhithe in 1938, Eileen and Ronald Wells lead a happy and settled existence with their three daughters, all of whom have jobs, boyfriends and promising lives ahead of them. But soon the storm clouds of war engulf Europe and they suddenly find their idyllic family life thrown into chaos. Throughout the country young people hasten to join up, and Eileen watches anxiously as her two older girls do the same, one...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Sunny grew up in the Mother and Baby Home on Grove Lane, London. The daughter of a wartime nurse and a Polish pilot, she was abandoned by her mother shortly after her birth and taken in by Nan, the warm and gentle proprietor of the home in which she was born. Never having known her parents, Sunny has always felt like she doesn't quite fit in, but at 16-years-old she is ready to find her place in the world. Heading out to start her first job, she finally...
Author
Publisher
Rosa Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It's 1942 and as shortages of staff - and goods - begin to bite, young Lily Collins is thrilled to step up to sales junior in her job at Marlow's department store. But bombs are still falling and Lily and fellow shop girls Gladys and Beryl need a stiff upper lip to wave boyfriends, husbands and brothers goodbye, especially with a baby on the way and grim news on the wireless. When Jim, who works with Lily at the store, seems restless, things are bad...
70) The rabbit girls
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Berlin, 1989. As the wall between East and West falls, Miriam Winter cares for her dying father, Henryk. When he cries out for someone named Frieda - and Miriam discovers an Auschwitz tattoo hidden under his watch strap - Henryk's secret history begins to unravel. Searching for more clues of her father's past, Miriam finds an inmate uniform from the Ravensbrück women's camp concealed among her mother's things. Within its seams are dozens of letters...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Brilliance audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From the author of The House by the Lake comes a powerful novel of friendship during World War II, fighting for the truth, and making peace with the past. At the height of World War II, Eva Scott's dream comes true. Accepted into the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), she leaves balmy California and the man she loves for gruelling training in Texas, ultimately landing at formidable Camp Davis in North Carolina. Vastly outnumbered by men and amidst...
Author
Publisher
Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
1942. The war rages on and Ellie must do her bit! Ellie Simpson isn't your usual Spitfire pilot, but then with the world at war nothing is quite as it used to be! The ATA is calling upon its most expert and trusted pilots to deliver the precious bombers wherever they're needed, and Ellie, who can fly a Spitfire as well as the boys on the frontline, is their newest recruit. Giving her all to a job she loves leaves Ellie precious little time for Squadron...
74) The German nurse
Author
Publisher
Lamplight Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Guernsey, 1940. As war storms through Europe, Churchill orders the evacuation of all military personnel from the island. Boats ferry soldiers and vulnerable young children to England, leaving their parents and loved ones behind to face the invading German army on their own. One of the few remaining policemen on the island, Jack must protect not only his friends and family, but also the woman he loves: Johanna, a Jewish nurse from Germany, whose secret...
75) Lily's war
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Language
English
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Description
It's 1942 and World War Two is in full swing. In Manchester, Lily Mullins is determined to do her bit for the war effort. Her friends and her sweetheart have all joined up and Lily's sure there must be a role for her that goes further than knitting socks for the troops! Lily had always dreamed of flying, so she jumps at the chance to become a WAAF and soon discovers that she has a talent as a wireless operator. Helped along the way by a gang of girls...
76) Finisterre
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Series
Language
English
Description
An FBI detective and a German naval officer are unaware of the roles assigned to them by German intelligence as part of Operation Finisterre - a last-ditch plan to enable Hitler to bluff his way to the negotiating table.
77) An orphan's war
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her childhood sweetheart Johnny is killed in action, Maxine Grey loses more than her husband - she loses her best friend. Desperate to make a difference in this awful war, Maxine takes a nursing job at London's St Thomas's hospital. She takes comfort in the attentions of a handsome surgeon, but Edwin Blake isn't all he seems. And as the Blitz descends on the capital, Maxine faces more heartache. When she returns to Liverpool, she harbours a secret....
78) An orphan's wish
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
War rages, but the women and children of Liverpool's Dr Barnado's Home cannot give up hope. What more could you wish for than a poignant, heart-warming saga to read this Christmas?
Author
Series
Women at war volume 3
Publisher
Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Georgie - when the man she has always loved is sent to France on a secret war office mission every knock of the door fills her with dread of it being the feared telegram boy. Beth - orphaned as a child, Beth is coming of age and determined to do her bit for the war effort. Caught up in a whirlwind romance, she marries only to become a war widow - and one expecting a baby who will never know his brave father. Can she find happiness again? Hetty - desperately...
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