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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction
Harry Seymour and Samantha Hazelwood want to get married and
build a family. He is a college student from a wealthy New Orleans
family, and she is the daughter of an old Virginia family. They
could be married without delay, if not for the war that tore the
United States apart. With heavy heart, Harry enlists with the
Confederacy but hates the thought of fighting his own kin from
Connecticut. In the meantime, Sam is recruited to be a spy in
Washington.
As the war comes to an end, the two lovers are reunited. Harry
is a broken man-financially and psychologically, having faced the
terrors of war and lived to tell about them. Still madly in love,
Sam welcomes him home; with the help of relatives and a former
slave, they rebuild their fortunes during the turbulent
Reconstruction. But their troubles are far from over. An old
nemesis will not let the war end at Appomattox.
Elliot Seymour is one of Harry's Connecticut cousins, and he
finds a way to imprison Sam. He confiscates the lovers' home and
uses their former slaves against them. Will Harry and Sam's love
survive yet another tragedy? War is hell; it can ruin an entire
country, but it can also make warriors out of cowards, heroes out
of slaves, and spouses out of lovers-if only good can prevail in
the midst of horror.
Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish Children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the Kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was 10 year old Lore Segal.
For the next seven years, she lived as a refugee in other people's houses, moving from the Orthodox Levines in Liverpool, to the staunchly working class Hoopers in Kent, to the genteel Miss Douglas and her sister in Guildford. Few understood the terrors she had fled, or the crushing responsibility of trying to help her parents gain a visa. Amazingly she succeeds and two years later her parents arrive; their visa allows them to work as domestic servants - a humiliation for which they must be grateful.
In Other People's Houses Segal evokes with deep compassion, clarity and calm the experience of a child uprooted from a loving home to become stranded among strangers.
Three women. One daring mission.
1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home.
Setting out to learn the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace finds herself drawn to a young mother turned agent named Marie, whose mission overseas reveals a remarkable story of friendship, valor and betrayal. In this riveting story inspired by true events, Pam Jenoff weaves a tale of courage, sisterhood and the great strength of women to survive in the hardest of circumstances.
Cynthia Blair, the fourth owner of China Bank, opens her home in a
tangible expression of thanks and support to members of the Pacific
Submarine Fleet Force for their extraordinary service to the United
States. When former shipmates reunite at Blair Mansion, they
unwittingly become involved in the most brazen hijacking attempt
the U.S. Navy has ever seen. Lieutenant Commander Charley Jason and
Polly Flowers' wedding is set to occur at the mansion the night
before inspections will be held on the Piratefish and Minefish
submarines. Also coinciding with the wedding festivities is a
secret mission designed by Colonel Mark Hong, a Red Chinese officer
and agent extraordinaire. Disguised as a bank interne, Hong arrives
at Blair Mansion for his training in American banking. After
members of his gang clandestinely slip ashore, they immediately
begin terrorizing the residents of Chinatown and proceed
step-by-step toward their target. Late on the night of the wedding,
the gang takes hostages and seizes control of a submarine at
Treasure Island. Chief Gunnersmate Carruther and Lieutenant
Sylvester of the Piratefish interrupt the hijacking with their own
counterattack. in the midst of the explosive action in the waters
off the Golden Gate?
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