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Series
District nurse volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Maizie and her husband, Sam, run the Paris Hotel in Coverack, Cornwall, but when World War II starts Sam joins up and leaves Maizie to run the hotel. Struggling to keep the hotel going, Maizie is further troubled when she takes on Rosemary and Bobby, two evacuees from Plymouth but after a difficult start the children settle in and Maizie, who wants a family, enjoys their company. Her happiness is further enhanced with the arrival of the attractive...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The 60-ton monster could destroy any Allied tank from more than a mile away, and it soon became the most feared tank in the world. Desperate to discover the secret technology used in the Tiger's manufacture, Winston Churchill close a brilliant young army engineer, Major Doug Lidderdale, as his special agent. In a late-night briefing in the subterranean War Rooms under Whitehall he ordered him: 'Go catch me a tiger'. Doug did not hesitate and by February...
64) 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
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...
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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...
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Language
English
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In Rita Bradshaw's Beneath a Frosty Moon, it?s 1940 and Britain is at war with Germany. For Cora Stubbs and her younger siblings this means being evacuated to the safety of the English countryside. But little does Cora know that Hitler?s bombs are nothing compared to the danger she will face in her new home, and she is forced to grow up fast. However, Cora is a fighter and she strives to carve out a new life for herself and her siblings. Time passes,...
68) 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...
69) 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...
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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?
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) An orphan's war
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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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....
76) An orphan's wish
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
1940: When the island of Guernsey is invaded by the Nazis, two sisters are determined to rebel in any way they can. But when forced to take in a German soldier, they are shocked to find a familiar face on their doorstep - a childhood friend who has now become their enemy. 2016: Two generations later, Lucy returns to Guernsey after the death of a distant cousin. As she prepares the old family house for sale, Lucy discovers a box of handwritten notes,...
78) A sister's war
Author
Publisher
Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Britain, 1943. Though she's the youngest of her siblings, Ronnie Linfoot is determined to do her bit for the war effort - just as her two older sisters are. Against her mother's wishes, she signs up to join the Grand Union Canal Company, where she'll be working on a narrowboat taking critical supplies from London to Birmingham and back again. But without an ounce of experience on the waterways, she must learn the ropes quickly, and the job doesn't...
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...
80) Finisterre
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Series
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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.
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