Soraya M. Lane Knihy

Druhá světová válka pohltila celý svět a britské dopravní letectvo potřebuje zoufale pomoc. Ti nejlepší totiž svádí boje s Luftwaffe… a umírají. Na výzvu odpovídá i řada žen. Jenže zatímco ve vzduchu je v boji o život s nepřítelem i přírodou vše jasné, na zemi musí dívky čelit předsudkům, pohrdání i přehlížení. Průrazná Američanka Lizzie, zakřiknutá Ruby i pragmatická May budou muset vybojovat svou vlastní válku…

An epic, sweeping love story about a young woman discovering a secret history passed down from her Grandmother. The Italian Daughter is a romantic, heartbreaking novel about lost loves, family secrets and enduring hope

Londýn, 1944. Na nádraží se potkají mladé zdravotní sestřičky, obě míří za stejným cílem: pomoci své zemi ve válce. Scarlet touží po šanci najít svého pohřešovaného snoubence Thomase a chce dokázat rodině i sama sobě, že je silnější, než si všichni myslí. Ellie má ošetřovatelství v krvi, ale pochází z mnohem skromnějších poměrů, na hony vzdálených od Scarletiny privilegované výchovy. I když se naoko tváří statečně, při myšlence na to, co je možná čeká ve Francii, cítí stejnou nervozitu jako Scarlet. V Normandii tyto dvě kamarádky brzy poznají Lucy, zkušenou sestru, kterou zdánlivě nedokáže nic otřást. Svou odvahou a schopnostmi ohromí obě začátečnice, ale sama si je moc dobře vědoma, jaká nebezpečí jejich povolání přináší… a i ona se bojí, jestli se vrátí domů živé. Surovost světa zmítaného válkou je dožene až na hranici vlastních sil. Scarlet, Ellie a Lucy se budou muset spolehnout jedna na druhou a sílu jejich vzájemného přátelství, aby přežily.

London, 1995: When on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a news broadcast runs an appeal for information on the identity of a midwife who saved hundreds of lives, Emilia knows it is time to finally tell her story.Occupied Poland, 1942: Despite the constant presence of German soldiers in her village, Emilia is allowed certain freedoms as a midwife―the most precious is innocently cycling past Nazi checkpoints to the homes of expectant mothers on her rounds. But Emilia has a secret: for years she’s also been visiting the hidden Jewish mothers and working for the resistance…until she is betrayed.Suddenly a prisoner of Auschwitz, Emilia is surrounded by horror and despair. When she is put to work as a midwife in the camp, she realises that she has a chance to bring a small glimmer of hope to the pregnant women of Auschwitz. Alongside a brave imprisoned doctor, Aleksy, and an innocent outcast, Lena, she comes up with a dangerous plan. A plan that if discovered could mean a fate far worse than death, but if they act undetected, they could save countless lives…

From the bestselling author of The Last Correspondent comes the powerful story of three brave women who go to war--and end up fighting for their lives. Sicily, 1943. Three American women, all nurses in the Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron, are determined to do all they can for their country. Vita is fun-loving, Dot shy and sweet-natured, and Evelyn practical and determined, but for all their differences, a life of military service pulls the three together as firm friends. When they're selected for a daring mission, the women are proud to play their part. But disaster strikes when their plane crash-lands behind enemy lines in occupied Albania. Together with twenty-three other medics, they find themselves trapped, cut off from all communication with the squadron, and in terrifying and unimaginable danger. As days and nights pass without hope of rescue, the group must travel on foot across unfamiliar terrain thick with Nazis and their violent local allies. Can Evelyn, Vita, and Dot survive the perilous journey through enemy territory--and finally find their way home?

London, 1941. The Blitz. When a Royal Navy memo arrives at head office, requesting female recruits to sign up as motorcycle dispatch riders, delivering highly classified orders across the country, three women jump at the chance to sign up for the most dangerous jobs in London. As bombs fall, decimating the city they love, these three brave women build a sisterhood amid the rubble, facing down anyone, even their own families, who objects to their service

The Cuban Daughter is a romantic, heartbreaking novel about a young woman who travels to Havana in order to find love and uncover the truth behind a devastating family secret

How far will they go for family, friendship, and love? Occupied France, 1940. When the staff at a field hospital draw straws to find out who will join the evacuation from Dunkirk, Nurse Cate is left behind. But when the Nazis arrive to claim prisoners of war, she takes her chance and flees into the night, taking one patient with her. Fifty miles away, the surrendering soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment are shot dead by the advancing Germans. Beneath the pile of bodies two men survive, crawling to the safety of a nearby farmhouse, where sisters Elise and Adelaide risk their lives to take them in. When Cate, too, arrives at their door with her injured soldier, the pressure mounts. The sisters are risking everything to keep their visitors safe. But with the Nazis coming ever closer and relationships in the farmhouse intensifying, they must all question the sacrifices they are willing to make for the lives of others. How far will they go for family, friendship, and love?