An Englishman and Frenchman who were great rivals in the 1920s are teamed up in the Special Operations Executive to work behind enemy lines in France during World War Two. This tale of heroism and self-sacrifice is based upon a true story.
Matin, Midi et SoirSéries
Cette série plonge dans les opérations tendues et souvent dangereuses de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle suit des individus pris au cœur du conflit, où le courage rencontre la ruse derrière les lignes ennemies. Souvent basés sur des histoires vraies, ces récits soulignent les thèmes de l'héroïsme, du sacrifice de soi et des alliances improbables forgées face à l'adversité. Préparez-vous à des histoires captivantes de gens ordinaires confrontés à des circonstances extraordinaires.
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The Blue Noon
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Paris, 1945. A manhunt is raging across the liberated city. Airey Neave, head of Room 900, the ultra-secret M19 department, is desperate to track down Harry Cole. Harry is a rogue. He's an East End charmer and as sharp as a switchblade. But traitor? He did break a few rules and hearts along the way... but that was before he met French nurse Odile. Together they are the best clandestine operatives in northern France, heroes of the Resistance, rounding up downed pilots and ferrying them to safety. The beautiful Odile nurtures Harry's talents for the greater good. His mistake is to try and make a little money on the side. And when he gets in the way of M19, Airey Neave has a very good reason to want him silenced...
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Night Crossing
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
In 1938, Ulrike Walter, a beautiful young German musician, is engaged to be married to Erich Hinkel, a member of the Hitler Youth. But when she meets Inspector Cameron Ross, a Scotland Yard policeman, whose father is a colonel in British Intelligence, her life will be changed for ever. When war is declared, Ulrike flees Germany for the safety of England but is instead cruelly imprisoned as an enemy alien. Her only hope of rescue is Cameron, who, despite his better judgement, is falling in love with her. Then Erich is captured by the British and incarcerated in a prisoner of war camp in England. He faces interrogation by Cameron Ross, the one man who stands between him and Ulrike, the woman who means more to Erich than life itself...
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After Midnight
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
In 1964, a young Australian girl, Linda Carr, is trying to track down the wreckage of the Liberator bomber in which her father died when it crashed in northern Italy in 1944 during World War Two. She employs the help of motorcycle TT racer Jack Kirby, a man who has his own inner demons to combat. He was a Mosquito fighter pilot during the war and experienced at first hand the astonishing courage of the Italian partisans in the face of Nazi brutality. Jack is keen to find one of the partisans, a woman with a past as dark as the secrets she still holds close to her heart. What Jack and Linda discover in their journey deep into an uncharted Italian mountain region is more dangerous and life-changing than they could ever have imagined.
