by Jonathan Crown (2015)
The remarkable story of a little dog who changed world history. Berlin, 1938: Sirius, a dashing fox terrier, lives a charmed life with the German Jewish Liliencrons. But, with the rise of Nazism, the Liliencrons decide to leave Berlin for Hollywood. Sirius takes his destiny into his own hands with the kind of melancholic mirth exclusive to his breed. He becomes a celebrated film star and circus performer, friend to Rita Hayworth and Cary Grant. But, when a magic trick goes wrong, Sirius ends up back in war-torn Berlin. Never one to despair, he finds himself in the Fuhrer's headquarters as Adolf Hitler's lap dog and an informant for the resistance. Dictated to him by his dog Louis Sirius's grandson Jonathan Crown has at last made this inspiring story available to the non-canine population.
Rachel Johnson
Munich, 1936. She doesn't know it, but 18-year-old Daphne Linden has a seat in the front row of history. Along with her best friend, Betsy Barton-Hill, and a whole bevy of other young English upper-class girls, Daphne is in Bavaria to improve her German, to go to the Opera, to be 'finished'.
Lion Feuchtwanger
**Die Geschwister Oppermann** ist ein Zeitroman von Lion Feuchtwanger aus dem Jahr 1933, der zusammen mit den Romanen Erfolg und Exil zu Feuchtwangers „Wartesaal-Trilogie“ gehört. Die ersten beiden Auflagen des Romans erschienen 1933 und 1935 unter dem Titel Die Geschwister Oppenheim. Ein deutscher Nationalsozialist mit dem Namen Oppermann hatte noch während der Drucklegung durch Drohungen gegen den noch in Deutschland lebenden Bruder Feuchtwangers eine Namensänderung erzwungen. Spätere Auflagen trugen dann den ursprünglich vorgesehenen Titel. Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte der jüdischen Geschwister Oppermann, Gustav, Martin, Edgar und Klara, und ihrer Familien in den Jahren 1932 und 1933 vor dem Hintergrund der Machtergreifung der Nazis in Deutschland. Dabei spiegelt sich in der Haltung der Romanfiguren auch die Täuschung Feuchtwangers über die Chancen der Nazis auf eine Machtübernahme in Deutschland wider; Feuchtwanger war selbst lange von einem Scheitern der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung ausgegangen und hatte noch im Dezember 1932 bei einem Interview das politische Ende Hitlers angekündigt (Hitler is over). (Wikipedia)
James Holland
April 1940. Nazi Germany has invaded neutral Norway. Fleeing north are three officers of the King's Guard - men who have been entrusted by the Norwegian King to get leading scientist Hening Sandvold out of Oslo to safety. As Sergeant Jack Tanner and his comrades are pushed back from Lillehammer, they are stranded in the mountains, where they stumble across Sandvold and his protectors, and then a French patrol of alpine troops. Sandvold holds the key to a secret that could change the outcome of the entire war - but the odds are stacked against this ragtag group of soldiers and civilians making it to safety.
Gillian Bradshaw
Spring, 266 BC. When Isokrates, helmsman of the Rhodian warship Atalanta, encounters a pirate vessel off the Lycian coast, he finds himself caught up in affairs of state more deadly than the naval battles hes accustomed to. Among the pirates victims is a beautiful woman, the mistress of a king, who is fleeing to her lovers enemy with news that will start a war to engulf the whole of the east.