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Widow Cesira and her daughter Rosetta flee bombed Rome to their native Ciociaria, where they experience hunger, fear and misery. Liberation brings tragedy: Rosetta is raped by Moroccan soldiers, destroying their faith in God and people.
Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms (1929), set on the Italo-Austrian front, follows the love story and wartime experiences of Frederic Henry, an American lieutenant who serves as an ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War I.
Germany after World War I. Three inseparable war comrades struggle to survive amid poverty and inflation. In the chaos, one of them finds great love – but time is against them.
In occupied Prague in 1942, the student Pavel hides the wounded Jewish woman Hana. In danger and fear, a strong love is born between them. The Gestapo discovers them, Pavel dies tortured under investigation, and Hana survives the Holocaust carrying the me
The novel is a kaleidoscopic, polyphonic account of the life of Gerda Taro (née Gerda Pohorylle, 1910–1937), the first female war photographer to die on the battlefield. A must-read for fans of historical fiction about strong women and anti-fascism.
The novel tells a moving story about the Spanish Civil War. Through the fates of journalists, intellectuals and ordinary people, it depicts the brutality, ideological conflicts and demonic side of a war in which "the devil speaks Spanish".