1940s
The 1940s were a decade defined by the thunder of World War II — a time of extraordinary courage, heartbreak, and resilience that continues to captivate readers around the world. Books in this genre transport you to bombed-out cities, occupied territories, and the lives of ordinary people caught in the sweep of history's most turbulent chapter.
1940s knygų santraukos
Nine Days
A soldier ships out, a father's death, and a secret pregnancy force a mother's impossible choice.
Istorinė proza
Australija
Grožinė literatūra
Istorinė
Karas
Nine Days
A soldier ships out, a father's death, and a secret pregnancy force a mother's impossible choice.
Istorinė proza
Australija
Grožinė literatūra
Istorinė
Karas
The Bronze Horseman
Leningrad under siege: Tatiana falls for her sister's soldier, whose secret past could doom them.
Istorinė proza
Romantika
Istorinis romanas
Karas
Rusija
The Bronze Horseman
Leningrad under siege: Tatiana falls for her sister's soldier, whose secret past could doom them.
Istorinė proza
Romantika
Istorinis romanas
Karas
Rusija
When the World Was Ours
Three best friends in 1936 Vienna. A photograph on the Ferris wheel. Then the Nazis come.
Istorinė proza
Holokaustas
Jaunimo literatūra
Paauglių literatūra
Karas
When the World Was Ours
Three best friends in 1936 Vienna. A photograph on the Ferris wheel. Then the Nazis come.
Istorinė proza
Holokaustas
Jaunimo literatūra
Paauglių literatūra
Karas
Visa šviesa, kurios nematome
A blind girl reads on the radio as Saint-Malo burns; a German soldier buried in rubble listens.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Karas
Wwii
Istorinė
Visa šviesa, kurios nematome
A blind girl reads on the radio as Saint-Malo burns; a German soldier buried in rubble listens.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Karas
Wwii
Istorinė
Merginų miestas
Expelled from college, a seamstress discovers glamour and peril in her aunt's 1940s theater.
Istorinė proza
Brendimo istorija
Grožinė literatūra
Suaugusiems
Romantika
Merginų miestas
Expelled from college, a seamstress discovers glamour and peril in her aunt's 1940s theater.
Istorinė proza
Brendimo istorija
Grožinė literatūra
Suaugusiems
Romantika
Anglų pacientas
A nurse, a burn patient, a ruined villa: morphine dreams of desert love and hidden identity.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Klasika
Romantika
Karas
Anglų pacientas
A nurse, a burn patient, a ruined villa: morphine dreams of desert love and hidden identity.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Klasika
Romantika
Karas
Cilkos kelionė
Auschwitz survivor Cilka is sentenced to a Siberian gulag. Inside, nursing becomes her salvation.
Istorinė proza
Holokaustas
Karas
Išgyvenimas
Istorinė
Cilkos kelionė
Auschwitz survivor Cilka is sentenced to a Siberian gulag. Inside, nursing becomes her salvation.
Istorinė proza
Holokaustas
Karas
Išgyvenimas
Istorinė
The Comfort of Ghosts
An investigator finds squatters in a derelict London mansion: children trained for a secret war.
Detektyvas
Istorinė proza
Istorinė
Karas
England
The Comfort of Ghosts
An investigator finds squatters in a derelict London mansion: children trained for a secret war.
Detektyvas
Istorinė proza
Istorinė
Karas
England
Front Lines
1942: women are drafted into combat. Three soldiers face the brutality of the North African front.
Istorinė proza
Jaunimo literatūra
Karas
Spekuliatyvioji proza
Military
Front Lines
1942: women are drafted into combat. Three soldiers face the brutality of the North African front.
Istorinė proza
Jaunimo literatūra
Karas
Spekuliatyvioji proza
Military
Beyond That, the Sea
An English girl evacuated to Boston during the Blitz spends a lifetime torn between two homes.
Istorinė proza
Wwii
Grožinė literatūra
Istorinė
XX amžius
Beyond That, the Sea
An English girl evacuated to Boston during the Blitz spends a lifetime torn between two homes.
Istorinė proza
Wwii
Grožinė literatūra
Istorinė
XX amžius
Wish You Well
Orphaned city kids land on a great-grandmother's Appalachian farm. The land demands everything.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Istorinė
Grožinė suaugusiems
Šeima
Wish You Well
Orphaned city kids land on a great-grandmother's Appalachian farm. The land demands everything.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Istorinė
Grožinė suaugusiems
Šeima
Prarastų vardų knyga
A librarian spots the book she used to hide Jewish children's real names from the Nazis.
Istorinė proza
Istorinė
Karas
Holokaustas
Žydiška
Prarastų vardų knyga
A librarian spots the book she used to hide Jewish children's real names from the Nazis.
Istorinė proza
Istorinė
Karas
Holokaustas
Žydiška
Evil Under the Sun
Poirot's island holiday is shattered by a strangled beauty and a circle of unbreakable alibis.
Detektyvas
Klasika
Kriminalinis žanras
Įtampa
Murder
Evil Under the Sun
Poirot's island holiday is shattered by a strangled beauty and a circle of unbreakable alibis.
Detektyvas
Klasika
Kriminalinis žanras
Įtampa
Murder
All They Will Call You
A 1948 plane crash kills 28 Mexican deportees. Buried nameless, forgotten... until a song remembers.
Istorija
Socialinis teisingumas
Muzika
Mexican
1940s
All They Will Call You
A 1948 plane crash kills 28 Mexican deportees. Buried nameless, forgotten... until a song remembers.
Istorija
Socialinis teisingumas
Muzika
Mexican
1940s
Cluny Brown
Sent to a country house, a plumber's niece charms a Polish exile and scandalizes the household.
Istorinė proza
Klasika
Humoras
Romantika
Komedija
Cluny Brown
Sent to a country house, a plumber's niece charms a Polish exile and scandalizes the household.
Istorinė proza
Klasika
Humoras
Romantika
Komedija
The Harmony Silk Factory
A son inherits a dead man's legend and three contradictory versions of the same life.
Istorinė proza
Azija
Istorinė
Grožinė literatūra
Karas
The Harmony Silk Factory
A son inherits a dead man's legend and three contradictory versions of the same life.
Istorinė proza
Azija
Istorinė
Grožinė literatūra
Karas
Untergetaucht Eine junge Frau uberlebt in Berlin 1940-1945
She walked past the Gestapo in her petticoat, then vanished into Berlin for three years.
Istorija
Memuarai
Holokaustas
Karas
Žydiška
Untergetaucht Eine junge Frau uberlebt in Berlin 1940-1945
She walked past the Gestapo in her petticoat, then vanished into Berlin for three years.
Istorija
Memuarai
Holokaustas
Karas
Žydiška
