Bøger om Liberation from Fascism & Resistance

Toscana, 1943. Beatrice er fanget i det krigshærgede Italien og søger tilflugt i smukke Villa delle Colombe, der for mange er en sikker havn i en utryg tid. Men efterhånden som krigen kommer nærmere, tvinges beboerne til at bevidne - og gøre - utænkelige ting ...2015. Tess har mistet sin mand og ankommer til Toscana, hvor et ophold i Villa delle Colombe skal hjælpe hende med at hele sit knuste hjerte. Her møder hun den aldrende Beatrice, som passer stedet og den smukke have. Men under idyllen fylder bekymringer om stedets fremtid, da ejeren, Marco, har planer om at sælge. Fortvivlet erkender Beatrice, at hun er nødt til at afsløre villaens smertefulde historie.Efterhånden som den spektakulære historie udfolder sig, bliver det tydeligt, at Villa delle Colombe ikke bare er et tilflugtssted, men et fyrtårn af håb i mørke tider. Kan Tess overbevise Marco om at redde villaen – og selv genfinde lykken?Pressen skriver: Om Biavlerens løfte:”En meget fin historie om at holde fast i den, man er”**** – Femina”En skøn historisk roman. En meget rørende fortælling om kærlighed, mod og styrke”– Bogblogger.dkOm Sanglærkens hemmelighed:”Medrivende og underholdende.”– Lektørudtalelse

Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal.She was her father's confidante during the 20 years of Fascist rule, acting as envoy to both Germany and Britain, and playing a part in steering Italy to join forces with Hitler. From her early twenties she was effectively first lady of Italy. She married Galeazzo Ciano, who would become the youngest Foreign Secretary in Italian history, and they were the most celebrated and glamorous couple in elegant, vulgar Roman fascist society.Their fortunes turned in 1943, when Ciano voted against Mussolini in a plot to bring him down, and his father-in-law did not forgive him. In a dramatic story that takes in hidden diaries, her father's fall and her husband's execution, an escape into Switzerland and a period in exile, we come to know a complicated, bold and determined woman who emerges not just as a witness but as a key player in some of the twentieth century's defining moments. And we see Fascist Italy with all its glamour, decadence and political intrigue, and the turbulence before its violent end.

'In Detective Eddie Giral, Chris Lloyd has created a flawed hero not just for occupied Paris, but for our own times, too' KATHERINE STANSFIELDParis, 1940. As the city adjusts to life under Nazi occupation, Detective Eddie Giral struggles to reconcile his job as a policeman with his new role enforcing a regime he cannot believe in but must work under. He's sacrificed so much in order to survive in this new world, but the past is not so easily forgotten. When an old friend and an old flame reappear, begging for his help, Eddie must decide how far he will go to help those he loves. He can remain a good man and do nothing, or risk it all in a desperate act of resistance...Praise for Chris Lloyd and Detective Eddie Giral:'Terrific' SUNDAY TIMES'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation' ANDREW TAYLOR'A thoughtful, haunting thriller' MICK HERRON'Sharp and compelling' THE SUN