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Sven Hassel Reign of Hell

Rumor has it; they are being moved to Warsaw. Heide, who is always informed, claims that all hell is loose over there. There is talk of a German pullback from the eastern frontline. Thousands of British paratroops have landed and Polish soldiers converge on from the woods. But the Polish army is already doomed. Not only by the Reichsführer Himmler in Berlin, but also by Marshal Stalin. The Polish nationalists vainly beg the Red Army for help. But it has already been decided that the Polish communists...

Engels | 8 uur 50 minuten (455 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2019

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Sven Hassel Blitzfreeze

Porta struggles to keep the heavy tank between the marching soldiers. One moment of inattention, and he will bulldoze an entire company. An enormous fireball strikes the bushes in front of the vehicle. The panzer soldiers jump head first from the tanks for cover. With frightened eyes and beating hearts they lay in the sun, waiting for death. A great wall of fire rises towards the sky. - Stalin organ, Heide mumbles terrified. Porta speeds up the engine. The tank plows through sun and water. They are...

Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (562 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2019

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Karen Campbell The sound of the hours

Een Italiaans meisje uit Toscane wordt tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog verliefd op een zwarte soldaat.

Fictie

Engels | 450 pagina's | Bloomsbury Circus, London | 2019

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Meg Waite Clayton The last train to London

a novel

Het verhaal van de Nederlandse Truus Wijsmuller-Meijer die eind jaren dertig door het regelen van kindertransporten vanuit Wenen duizenden Joodse kinderen in veiligheid wist te brengen.

Fictie

Engels | 451 pagina's | Harper, New York | 2020

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1917

In april 1917 krijgen twee jonge Britse korporaals opdracht een boodschap af te leveren bij een bataljon dat in een Duitse hinderlaag dreigt te lopen. Als ze niet op tijd aankomen, zullen 1600 soldaten sterven,

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Sven Hassel Assignment Gestapo

It feels as if the entire area is blown up. A long rumbling explosion shakes the German position. Then an infernal scream sounds. Through flashes of fire, they see Tiny’s huge silhouette with the light grey bowler on his head. He is standing by the end of the enemy trench with his machine gun resting on his hip. The tracer streak projectiles shoot out of the muzzle. Bewildered shapes flee in panic. - What a bunch of devils, the Russian lieutenant exclaims in admiration. "A BRILLIANT SVEN HAZEL,...

Engels | 12 uur 31 minuten (547 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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Sven Hassel The Commissar

Heide wails, jumps up and lands on the other side of the trench, where he slides through the mud like a bulldozer. Our tank starts backing up in full speed. Porta has clearly also spotted the madness lying ahead in wait of spreading death and mutilation. Nothing travels as fast as the rumor that the front troops have hit the dreaded mines. Suddenly everything goes quiet. Even the heavy Maxim gun stops. Everyone holds their breath and waits for the mine to go off. " THE CERTAIN SENSE OF DRAMATIC...

Engels | 11 uur 49 minuten (556 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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Sven Hassel Comrades of War

We hear the crawlers closing in. A T-34. They must have seen us, Tiny whispers. - Stay low until it is right here, then we run! The horrible clattering of the crawler comes closer and closer. I know this fear, creeping up the spine. It will mean certain death if they run just one second too soon. How we get up, I don’t know, the legs move automatically. The tank wiggles over the hole and crushes everything in it. Then it rumbles on... "THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR HAS GOTTEN HIS...

Engels | 11 uur 27 minuten (538 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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Sven Hassel Court Martial

The Legionnaire swings the MG-muzzle. The smoke eats its way into the officers’ stomachs. They drop to the snow-covered ground, coloring it red. Bestial shrieks sound from the woods as a wave of fur clad soldiers storm out. They are near the Finish-Russian frontline. The machine guns snarl till the magazines are emptied. Old Man’s platoon, with Tiny the giant and Porta in the lead, fights a rough battle behind Russian lines. " AMAZINGLY WELL WRITTEN – HASSEL TAKES HIS ANTI-MILITARY TENDENCIES...

Engels | 11 uur 23 minuten (502 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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Sven Hassel Marchbattalion

A special command from the convict regiment, wearing Russian uniforms, take over four Russian T-34 tanks. Remote reconnaissance far behind the Russian lines in Caucasus. The year is 1942. Hour for hour, the tanks roll eastward. Several times, Russian departments challenge them. We follow the soldiers in their desperate struggle to find their way back to the German lines. The distances are great, the friends are few and death is always right behind them... "HASSEL IS ONE OF THE BEST EUROPEAN WRITERS,...

Engels | 7 uur 34 minuten (341 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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Sven Hassel OGPU Prison

At least one battalion of flame-throwers is swinging around like a pack of crazy wild boars. Long, flaming red tongues of fire are hissing from the towers, charring every living thing. From the GPU-prison stream shoals of red prisoners. A barrage of incredible dimensions is hammering down behind the Germans. It seems like the Russians have guessed that they are pondering an escape and want to stop it with an impenetrable wall of fire, spreading as far as the eye can see. " SVEN HASSEL IS AN OUTSTANDING...

Engels | 11 uur 59 minuten (525 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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Sven Hassel Monte Cassino

Monte Cassino, the sacred monastery north west of Naples. The Germans have built massive defense positions. The battle of Monte Cassino in the winter and spring of 1944 turns into an indescribable hell for both the defending and attacking forces. The allies bring into action all planes, artillery and armors from many nations. The German forces are led by the best elite troops. Among them is the 27th Panzer-regiment - the penal regiment. No one expects any of them to survive - but some of them do......

Engels | 8 uur 44 minuten (386 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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Sven Hassel Bloody Road to Death

Bloody partisan fights rage in the Balkans. Grenades rain down over the streets. From the rooftops, a heavy machinegun fire strikes down on the hunting battalion. Moaning, the injured soldiers crawl for cover. Molotov cocktails explode with hollow roars, and the burning liquid splash up on humans and materiel. - Partisan, the major stutters terrified and jumps off the vehicle. Porta salutes him with an idiotic smile. - Reporting to the Major that they will probably make it hot for us! " THIS NOVEL...

Engels | 11 uur 9 minuten (490 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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Das Boot

Vanuit bezet Frankrijk anno 1942 vaart een Duitse onderzeeboot uit voor een eerste missie terwijl op het vasteland de Duitse vertaalster Simone Strasser worstelt met haar loyaliteit.

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Anthony Doerr All the light we cannot see

a novel

Door de Tweede Wereldoorlog en D-Day raken de levens van een blind Frans meisje en een jonge Duitse militair in St. Malo met elkaar verbonden.

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Engels | 531 pagina's | 4th Estate, London | 2023

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G. A. Henty On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War

As the first Anglo-Burmese War is raging, a young man, Stanley, finds himself involved. Set in early nineteenth century India and Burma, "On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War" is an exciting adventure, loaded with historical detail. G. A. Henty (1832-1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent, best known for his historical adventure stories. His works include "The Dragon & The Raven" (1886), "For The Temple" (1888), "Under Drake's Flag" (1883) and "In Freedom's Cause" (1885)....

Engels | 8 uur 42 minuten (398 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Katherine Mansfield In a German Pension

Recovering from a miscarriage and a bad marriage, author Katherine Mansfield, barely 21, wrote these excellent short stories around the time she was staying in a spa town in Germany. With wry humour, she depicts a German upper middle class defined by their rude habits, but she also touches upon the hard life of servants and the oppression of women. The latter distinguishes her writing from that of Jane Austen, but the way in which Mansfield mocks the stiff-upper-lipped ladies and Barons of these...

Engels | 3 uur 35 minuten (163 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Django

In 1943 wil de Sinti-jazzgitarist Jean 'Django' Reinhardt uit Parijs naar Zwitserland vluchten.

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Anthony McCarten Darkest hour

In mei 1940 wordt Churchill premier en vormt op verzoek van George VI een oorlogskabinet. Hij moet besluiten of hij vredesonderhandelingen wil voeren met Nazi-Duitsland of meedoen aan de oorlog.

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Jennifer Egan Manhattan Beach

De zoektocht van een jonge vrouw in Brooklyn tijdens Tweede Wereldoorlog, die zich heeft opgewerkt als eerste vrouwelijke duikster in de Brooklyn Naval Yard, naar het lot van haar verdwenen vader.

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Engels | 438 pagina's | Corsair, London | 2017

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