Showing results for "Me" in 20th Century

Meet Me at Rainbow Corner follows the lives of Dot, Lilly and their friends, as they dance the nights away, fall in and out of love, and navigate the horrors of war. Lilly goes on a secret mission with her Colonel to France, and Dot becomes pregnant and returns to Liverpool. When the war is over, they are reunited, having travelled by boat to the US with countless other war brides to meet their repatriated fiancés again. Along the way, they uncover a case of inside espionage and learn the true meaning of love.

An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction, Send for Me moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family.

Cornwall, England, 1941. Gazing at the coiled barbed wire and danger signs on this once-beautiful beach, Maddie suddenly hears a frightened little cry. Her heart pounding, she races down the dunes, but knows she will never reach the child in time. Maddie Brady is overwhelmed with relief to see a brave soul ahead of her rescue a little boy trapped among the landmines on the beach. But thanking the man, Maddie is shocked to hear a German accent. Why would an escaped German prisoner of war rescue an English boy?

Peace has broken out, and World War I flying ace and all-round chancer Bartholomew Bandy isn’t exactly making a success of being a commercial pilot in the USA. But when a job lot of aircraft bits purchased with the last of his pay turns out to be a complete Vickers Vimy bomber, he feels his luck has changed. With the help of his very tall, very sweet girlfriend Cissie, and the hindrance of his very short, very bad, and beautiful girlfriend Dasha, Bart smashes (literally) straight into the exciting new world of the movies.

Georgie Paolini was doing his part in the war effort; working part-time at the factory as he planned his life. Graduate from high school, get married, enlist in the army, kill Nazis, come home and become a professional musician. But the best laid plans make God laugh.

Im April 1945 erreichte die Front das kleine märkische Dorf Halbe, das bis dahin kaum jemand kannte. Doch was sich dann auf den Straßen in sowie auch um diese Ortschaft abspielte, wurde eine der blutigsten Schlachten des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Was im Kriegsjahr 1943 in Stalingrad geschehen war, wiederholte sich zwei Jahre später scheinbar hier.

Appena vieni a sapere chi ha potuto fare del male ad Ariane, o chi la conosceva meglio degli altri, appena hai un nome... devi dirmelo. Hai la mia parola di ex prigioniero: ti aiuterò a evadere. È il 1945, è quasi estate, quasi tempo di pace. La Francia del sud è stata liberata ma le ferite della guerra sono ancora aperte e il terreno è pieno di insidie: sotto la sabbia della Costa Azzurra, milioni di mine inesplose intrappolano la riviera.

'Return to Me' is a historical fiction work which is written to be used as an impactful educational resource for students who are studying World War II. The book covers all 5 fronts of the war, with a clear explanation of the role the key players: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Empire of Japan) played in the escalation and eventual resolution of the war. The story is intertwined with characters living in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains during the Depression and World War II.

Isola di Capri, agosto 1939. L'Italia è nella morsa del fascismo, la Seconda guerra mondiale è alle porte. Durante uno scintillante party sotto le stelle, zeppo di aristocratici, ufficiali nazisti e miliardari americani, il celebre scrittore Curzio Malaparte, gran rubacuori ed enfant terrible del fascismo, viene accostato dalla polizia segreta di Mussolini: qualcuno lo accusa dell'omicidio di una giovane poetessa inglese, misteriosamente precipitata da un dirupo quattro anni prima.

1938, Hitler visita l'Italia. Uno storico dell'arte irlandese, trasferitosi da tempo a Roma, è costretto ad accompagnare Mussolini e il suo ospite per gallerie e musei. Tra il fascino e il disgusto, ha l'occasione di osservare da vicino i due tiranni e di chiedersi se possa sfruttare l'occasione per "occuparsi" di loro. Con profondo imbarazzo è costretto però a constatare che manca della tenacia necessaria per passare all'azione. Trent'anni dopo, sua figlia si imbatte in una foto scabrosa che ritrae il padre con i due dittatori.