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Winston Churchill called it Britain’s finest hour. The Royal Navy evacuated 330,000 soldiers from Dunkirk. But more than 200,000 were left behind. On the beaches, Jeremy Littlefield hides for his life. His path home will draw him through the iron will and the unbreakable heart of the French Resistance. Only a few miles away, his brother, Lance, rallies fellow soldiers to start a trek that will take them across Europe, sabotaging the Germans in a mission tantamount to suicide.

As the first Axis aircraft streak across English Channel airspace, so begins a battle for the ages; one that will determine the trajectory of the war. Braced for engagement on their individual fronts, the Littlefields plumb the depths of courage and ingenuity to defend their beloved Britain. Fresh from the slaughter of Dunkirk, youngest brother Jeremy is called upon to create a French Resistance network composed of former naval officers. At MI-9 headquarters, Claire Littlefield has devised an intelligence coup that could change the tide of the war.

The Blitz is in full force. Bombs rip relentlessly through London, destroying buildings, and rattling confidence. As Britain falls further into chaos, the Littlefields - ever-dedicated - must keep fighting. Jeremy prepares to fly a mission without his trusted Eagles. Still held as a POW at a high-security facility, Lance grows more, and more desperate to make an escape. And thousands of miles apart, Claire and Paul - both armed with top-secret war intelligence - experience a similar struggle: They know more than they can say. And that knowledge places their siblings in grave danger.

Japan has just attacked Pearl Harbor. In London, Prime Minister Churchill disappears. In Washington, President Roosevelt faces an alliance with conflicting objectives. In the Soviet Union, dictator Joseph Stalin watches a Nazi onslaught maul his country. From their isolated perch on Sark Island, feudal rulers Dame Marian Littlefield and her husband oppose their German occupiers in the only way left to them—through a battle of wits. They wonder about the location and well-being of their offspring, Paul, Claire, Lance, and Jeremy.

Frankreich, 12. Jahrhundert: Frei und ungebunden reist die wunderschöne Elise durch die Lande. Mit ihren romantischen Liedern bezaubert sie ihre Zuhörer - und weckt das Interesse des stolzen Ritters Gawain Steward. Einen Rausch der Lust findet sie in seinen starken Armen, obwohl sie genau weiß: Für den adligen Vertrauten des Königs ist sie nicht die Richtige. Schweren Herzens verlässt sie ihn, ihre heimliche Liebe zu ihm tief in ihrem Herzen verborgen.

Das Rad des Schicksals dreht sich weiter - Teil 2 der großen Berlin-Saga. Berlin 1922: Das Geld wird wegen der Inflation immer knapper, und ein Kind zu bekommen ist für viele Familien zum unbezahlbaren Luxus geworden. In ihrer neuen Praxis im eleganten Charlottenburg wird Magda Fuchs von ihren verzweifelten Patientinnen vor schwere Entscheidungen gestellt. Gleichzeitig arbeitet sie weiter als Polizeiärztin und stößt dabei auf eine Serie von Messerangriffen auf Prostituierte. Eines der Opfer kennt sie sehr gut.

Der Fall Trojas, die Irrfahrten des Aeneas, der Schmerz Didos, als Aeneas sie verlässt, Aeneas Gang in den Hades und vieles mehr: Vergil erschuf in der Aeneis Bilder und Geschichten, die bis zum heutigen Tag die Welt begeistern, faszinieren und, ja, auch amüsieren.

For B-24 bomber pilot Al Lycoming, the mission was history in the making. For Women’s Airforce Service Pilot Vivian Wright, it was a chance to put her skills to the ultimate test...and share in the burden of combat. Dispatched to Benghazi on mysterious orders, Al Lycoming finds nearly 200 other B-24 bombers being assembled...and a top secret assignment that will catapult them all into seemingly impenetrable Nazi defenses.

At the dawn of Creation, when Satan rebelled against God, one angel was caught in the middle. As an angel of Heaven’s worship choir, Malachi spends his days in song, yet he yearns for a more exciting role. He aspires to join the Morning Star Legion, an elite corps of warrior angels. Seemingly unattainable, his dream flickers in the distance—until God ignites a new Creation. While stars erupt across the ever-expanding cosmos and whispers swirl of a place called Earth where strange new life abounds, Malachi is finally offered a chance to achieve his long-sought ambition.

After a career-ending injury forces Hans Pepperman to lose his spot on the 1936 Olympic boxing team, he trades his athletic aspirations for a degree in mechanical engineering and secures his dream job working for the famous Willy Messerschmitt. Tasked to solve the stalling issues of the BF109 fighter plane engine, Hans finds himself smack in the middle of the Abwher Intelligence Service’s radar. Pro-Germany but anti-Nazi, he reluctantly agrees to help flush out the spy leaking secret information on the BF109 engine to foreign agencies.

When the first wave of pirated videotapes from the West reached the USSR in the second half of the 1980s, that stuff was naturally illegal. If you had money, you still watched it, of course, be it Commando, or The Godfather, or Emmanuelle, or whatever you were lucky to get. Maybe, you’d get arrested; maybem you wouldn’t.