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London, 1941: In a cramped bunker in Winston Churchill’s Cabinet War Rooms, underneath Westminster’s Treasury building, civilian women huddle at desks, typing up confidential documents and reports. Since her parents were killed in a bombing raid, Rose Teasdale has spent more hours than usual in Room 60, working double shifts, growing accustomed to the burnt scent of the Prime Minister’s cigars permeating the stale air. 

By April 1916, the fervour that accompanied war’s outbreak has faded. In its place is a grim reality. Throughout Germany, essentials are rationed. Hope, too, is in short supply. Anna Zeller, whose fiancé, Bruno, is fighting on the Western Front, works as a nurse at an overcrowded hospital in Oldenburg, trying to comfort men broken in body and spirit. But during a visit from Dr Stalling, the director of the Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association, she witnesses a rare spark of optimism.

1942: With the war's outcome hanging in the balance, every sliver of intelligence can be critical. Though far from the battlefields, cities like Lisbon, Portugal's neutral capital, become lynchpins in a different kind of warfare, as President Roosevelt sends an unlikely new taskforce on a unique mission. They are librarians and microfilm specialists trained in espionage, working with a special branch of the Office of Strategic Services.

Italy, 1943. With war blazing through Europe, nowhere is entirely safe – not even the remote hills of the Tuscan countryside. It's here that Italian partisans, including thousands of women, risk their lives to provide Jewish refugees with an escape route to Switzerland. And it's here, too, that Gianna Conti travels to join the Italian Resistance in the wake of her brother Matteo's death at the hands of German soldiers. While delivering weapons and intelligence for partisans, Gianna meets Tazio Napoli, an American working undercover for the Office of Strategic Services.

France, 1939. A talented singer, Ruth Lacroix, has left Maine to live with her aunt and uncle, dreaming of performing at the Casino de Paris. But with the outbreak of war, and the heartbreaking news that her cousin has been killed by German forces, that goal is supplanted by another – to support France in any way she can. Ruth joins a friend in enlisting as a driver for the French ambulance corps. On their way to transfer injured soldiers to Dunkirk for evacuation, they encounter Jimmie, a British Royal Air Force pilot with No. 73 Squadron RAF.

Italy, 1943: With war blazing through Europe, nowhere is entirely safe—not even the remote hills of the Tuscan countryside. It's here that Italian partisans, including thousands of women, risk their lives to provide Jewish refugees with an escape route to Switzerland. And it's here, too, that Gianna Conti travels to join the Italian Resistance in the wake of her brother Matteo's death at the hands of German soldiers. Her father has been hiding Jewish refugees on their family's vineyard in Chianti, but now Gianna is bringing the fight directly to the enemy.

It is September 1940, and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around Epping Forest, the home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons. Duchess has proven to be the most extraordinary of all Susan's birds, as the two share a special bond and an unusual curiosity about the world. Thousands of miles away in Buxton, Maine, a young crop-duster pilot named Ollie Evans has decided to travel to Britain to join the Royal Air Force.

Unidos por el amor. Separados por el miedo.Una novela fascinante basada en una inolvidable historia real. En septiembre de 1940, mientras las bombas alemanas caen sobre Gran Bretaña, la joven Susan y su abuelo Bertie hallan consuelo criando y entrenando palomas mensajeras que el Ejército usará para transmitir información sobre los movimientos de los nazis en la Francia ocupada. A miles de kilómetros, en Estados Unidos, un joven piloto llamado Ollie decide unirse a la RAF, la Real Fuerza Aérea británica, entrando así en contacto con el Servicio Nacional de Palomas, donde conoce a Susan.

Una novela fascinante basada en una inolvidable historia real: la primera escuela, creada en plena Primera Guerra Mundial, de adiestramiento de perros guía. Alemania, 1916. Anna trabaja como enfermera en un hospital de campaña con soldados que vuelven del frente, rotos de cuerpo y espíritu. Bruno, su prometido, lucha en el frente occidental junto al célebre doctor Fritz Haber, a quien los altos cargos del ejército alemán le han encargado utilizar armas químicas.

1942. SALVARONO I LIBRI DALLA FURIA NAZISTA: LA STORIA VERA DI UN'EROICA BIBLIOTECARIA E DI UN LIBRAIO CON UN PERICOLOSO SEGRETO CHE CAMBIARONO IL FUTURO DELLA CONOSCENZA. È il 1942, e le sorti della guerra che sta scuotendo il mondo sono incerte. In quei giorni concitati, il presidente Roosevelt prende una decisione coraggiosa, dando il via a una missione che resterà unica nella Storia: un gruppo di bibliotecari viene inviato in Europa con il compito di salvare quel che resta di giornali, manoscritti, libri custoditi nelle biblioteche delle città neutrali.