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Adam Nowak, an American, is dropped into occupied Poland by British Intelligence to work as an assassin and resistance fighter against the Nazis, but during the Warsaw uprising Adam encounters Natalia, a covert operative, and together the pair begins their hunt for the Katyn Order, which authorized the slaughter of twenty-thousand Polish Army officers and civilians.

Recounts life in Stalin's Gulag prison in the late 1940's through the hundreds of love letters between Lev Mishchenko, falsely accused of treason, and his fianc?e, Sveta.

Forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral, haunted all her life by terror and emptiness, returns to her homeland, the Dominican Republic, and finds herself reliving the bloody revolution of 1961, when brutal dictator Rafael "The Goat" Trujillo--under whom Urania's father served as secretary of state--was overthrown.

British prisoners of war are forced by their Japanese captors to build a bridge in the jungles of Burma.

Tells the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese consul in France during the early years of World War II, who defied the policies of Portugal's prime minister Dr. Antonio Oliviera de Salazar by signing visas that allowed ten thousand Jews to escape the Nazi death camps.

Presents diary entries from Mary Berg, which she began at the age of fifteen, and details her first-hand account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and other horrors brought on by the Nazis during World War II, and describes how she was smuggled out of Warsaw along with her family.

Sofia escapes from a Siberian labor camp in 1933 and sets out to honor a promise to find her friend Anna's lover Vasily, a passionate revolutionary, and after being nursed back to health by kind Gypsies, Sofia meets Mikhail Pashin, a man she could easily fall in love with if only she were sure he was not Vasily in disguise.

British agent Charlie Muffin goes undercover as an arms trader in order to infiltrate the leading Russian mafia families and find out who has pulled off a major heist of weapons-grade nuclear material.

Teenager Shen and his younger sister, Chang, seek refuge with a troupe of traveling acrobats after they are separated from their parents, and eventually join the Treasure Fleet of the new Emperor in hopes that it would keep them out of harm's way.