World War II & Holocaust

Manchester, 1943. Kitty's new venture, hosting wedding receptions at Dunbar's Hotel, has got off to a flying start, and she's looking to the future. With the tide of the war turning and victory on the distant horizon, Kitty is keen to keep her independence once the men come home. Beatrice's work in welfare is hugely rewarding, and she loves the children's clubs she runs at Dunbar's. But when a spate of thefts breaks out locally, the police become involved. Former hotel maid Lily knows she still loves her estranged husband, Daniel.

When Hell was forged… Guadalcanal was the model! Death from the sky… death from the sea… or death from a savage horde of enraged Japanese… From the best-selling author of the USS Bull Shark series… Yamamoto and Hyakutake must retake Henderson Field at all costs… General Vandegrift and the Marines must hold it at any price… and the butcher’s bill keeps rising. Pouring on the pressure, the Japanese launch deadly aerial assaults by day and terrifying battleship bombardments by night.

The Prisoner is the much-anticipated sequel to Persephone Books’ bestselling title, Crooked Cross by Sally Carson. It is now August 1933, and the deadly fervour of Hitler’s Nazi regime continues to spread across Germany. Michael Reader, a young Englishman, decides to visit his friends the...

Oslo, 1938. Johanna von Fehrsburg hat in Norwegen mit Sven ein neues Leben aufgebaut. Doch der Schatten des nationalsozialistischen Deutschlands reicht weit. Als ihr Bruder Karl-Georg eine gefährliche Widerstandsmission plant, nimmt Johanna gegen dessen Willen seinen Platz ein. In Berlin taucht sie unter falscher Identität in eine Stadt ein, die sie kaum wiedererkennt. Während sie im Auftrag des Widerstands Informationen sammelt, begegnet sie Moritz – dem Mann, der ihr einst das Herz brach.

When Swindon comes under attack in late 1940, the women of the Great Western Railway Works find themselves on the frontline of war, battling for Britain. Working long gruelling shifts, watching for enemy aircraft from the factory roofs, and sleeping in crowded air raid shelters.

Since the house was built in 1810, the Danes have always lived at Woodspring. Over the generations it has given them shelter, solace and joy. War brings change, and the next three generations of the family will lead very different lives, at home and abroad. Peace is shattered, pain is unavoidable, loves are found and lost, but Woodspring is constant, and will always draw them back...

'A fast-paced, beautifully written, and moving story. Refreshing to read a book set in a different theatre of war. Wartime Shanghai jumped off the page' CLARE FLYNN 'Wow what a stunning read this was … All the moments in this book held me' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Unputdownable read'...

Her mother was taken by the Nazis. Would she ever find her way home? Inspired by the true story of how Jewish people escaped fascist Germany, helped by two extraordinary sisters. 'I adored it. A truly heartrending, stirring, important novel, perfect for anyone who enjoys a cracking good tale'...

Milano, 8 settembre 1943: il paese si ferma ad ascoltare l'annuncio dell'armistizio. In realtà, sta per avere inizio la fase più dura del conflitto, in cui sarà difficile capire di chi potersi fidare davvero. Mentre Marilù resiste, cercando di tenere al sicuro le ragazze che lavorano per lei e aiutando come può i partigiani del quartiere, Venera decide di entrare nella Resistenza per opporsi alla situazione generale insieme alle donne lasciate in città, stanche di non avere mai voce in capitolo.

For fans of Ariel Lawhon and Rhys Bowen, an Oppenheimer–meets–The Rose Code World War II novel of a young mother’s self-discovery as she is drawn into a love triangle with an atomic spy in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. When nineteen-year-old Doris Friedman marries Rob in 1941 and...

From a USA Today bestselling author, this is a heart-stopping story of lost love, family drama, resilience and courage in World War II – perfect for fans of Heather Morris, Mandy Robotham and Kate Quinn. Pre-order now! 'Kortchik has penned a raw, unflinching account of wartime survival.' SUSAN...

A beautifully written tale based on the true-life story of Varian Fry, called "the artists' Schindler," who rescued thousands of Europe's finest creative minds from certain death in WWII. In 2000, Sophie Cass, an ambitious journalist, may have finally found her big break. Convinced a celebrated...

When Dorothy Linford defies her father to marry Franz Hartmann, a former German internee, she’s cast out from the Linford family and forced to build a new life in Germany. For a time, happiness thrives – until the 1930s bring fear and suspicion that threaten to tear their world apart. Across the Channel, Dorothy’s sister Nellie and cousin Louisa face struggles of their own as the Linford family fractures under the weight of old secrets. Separated by distance but bound by love, the sisters must cling to hope – even as the shadow of war darkens their lives forever.

At sixteen, newly orphaned Lucy LeVine feels lost in war-torn Britain. Living under her stern grandmother's roof, she longs for escape—and a chance to strike back at the enemy who killed her parents in France. So when a mysterious man offers to smuggle her into occupied territory in exchange for her help, Lucy grasps the dangerous opportunity. Once behind enemy lines, Lucy is placed with French-Canadian resistance fighter Guy Napolin and his determined band of operatives. But nothing in occupied France is simple.

Nick Turnhouse is now a senior captain, some two thirds of the way up the List, perhaps as little as five years short of automatic promotion to Rear Admiral. As such, he must accept more responsibility, and he will be expected to offer more than blind obedience to his orders. It is time to...

For Detective Constable Faye Smith, London is not as safe as it seems. The criminal underworld is gaining strength, enjoying a lively existence below the surface. Then two bodies are found in the war-time shelters, a man and a woman. Faye, keen to unravel the mystery of the double murder, finds herself tangled up in crimes that stretch far beyond a simple killing. Faye and Ellie must face their toughest case yet as their lives change, irrevocably, for the future.

Brought to you by Penguin. A heartwarming new WWII saga of friendship, bravery and scandal that sees a young woman swap a Welsh mining town for Buckingham Palace As bombs rain down on London, the Palace gates open for a young royal maid . . . The year is 1944, and in South Wales...

December 1942, Nazi-occupied France. OSS officer Malcolm Parker parachutes into Brittany to revive the Resistance—only to land in a German trap. Wounded and hunted, his mission becomes survival. In Paris, Marguerite Klotz hides in plain sight, playing the part of a barmaid. Under the protection of her uncle, Abwehr officer Rudy Goethe, she spies for the Nazis to keep her Jewish identity buried. As Goethe dismantles the Resistance from within, tremors are felt across the Channel.

Jewish refugee Felix Wolff believes he has found safety in England, but he is arrested and thrown into a British internment camp as a suspected Nazi spy. To clear his name and join the fight against Hitler, he must break free of a system that mistakes him for the very evil he fled. Fresh off his ruthless campaign in Poland, Sicherheitsdienst agent Karl Vogt is sent on a chilling mission: to devise a system for controlling the growing Jewish population within the Reich. His cold efficiency lays the groundwork for a coming horror the world has yet to comprehend.

A debut novel by the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days, following two very different Jewish women in Warsaw in the late 1930s as they unexpectedly come together in their search for love, meaning, and a sense of home, and as they grapple with the storm...

World War II, Berlin. Freyja Bremer, a patriotic museum assistant, marries Kaspar Voigt, an ambitious SS scholar, to protect her father. As she strives to safeguard the priceless Priam's Treasure from air raids, Freyja falls in love with Darien Lessing, an archaeologist who exposes the moral decay beneath the regime's myths. Her awakening drives her into perilous resistance – aiding a Jewish doctor and his wife, Darien's sister – while uncovering Kaspar's role in the SS's darkest programs, which subvert history to justify invasion, abduction and murder.

Spanning from the battles in the sky of WWI, to the dark days before World War II, the story follows TJ’s evolution from a wounded recruit to a battle-forged veteran. Haunted by the love he lost and the men he buried, he struggles to survive not just the war around him but the war within his own heart. Along the way, an old man guides him toward a truth he never expected — a truth tied to family, sacrifice, and destiny.

Sisters Anna and Jennifer Nightingale are recruits in the top-secret Siren Squadron: a group of women trained in the RAF to fight against the enemy. The Sirens are tasked with flying a series of night stealth missions as part of Operation Scorpion. The first mission is successful, and on returning to base they are told that new members will be joining their ranks.

In this gripping coming-of-age novel, a group of young people's lives and passions collide in unexpected ways as World War II transforms Italy and England. Central Italy, on the eve of the Second World War. A group of young Italians find themselves in the midst of what will soon become a civil...

For the people on the rugged Irish island of Winding Gale, life has always been hard. Now in the wake of the second World War, the island is dying, the young taken away by death or the appeal of better lives elsewhere, leaving behind only a handful of adults. But on the night the men of the island disappear while fishing in uncharted waters, the women are forced into a conflict with something both new and unfathomably old. A strange greenish mist rolls in, cutting off the island from the mainland. Spiral symbols appear in the sand, fashioned from dead fish and stones.