Four women, Margo, Dottie, Lucy, and Penny, depend on their friendship and their faith to help them weather their own personal crises, as well as the stress of having their husbands and sons engaged in battle during World War II.

One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin -- code name: "The Needle" -- who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.

A beautiful, provincial Norwegian town is invaded by German soldiers. An act of brutality begins an uncontrollable, unalterable chain of events.

It's always been easier for Cara Hargraves to bury herself in the past than confront the present, which is why working with a gruff but brilliant antiques dealer is perfect. While clearing out an estate, she pries open an old tin that holds the relics of a lost relationship: among the treasures, a World War II-era diary and a photograph of a young woman in uniform. Eager to find the author of the hauntingly beautiful, unfinished diary, Cara digs into...

Truly one of the most remarkable books to come out of the war. Mr. Michener is a born story-teller. THE NEW YORK TIMES Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for FictionEnter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. The soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting...

British intelligence agent Felicity "Flick" Clairet must train a group of English women, within days, to blow up the Nazis' main telephone exchange in France and paralyze communications on D-Day. American spymaster Paul Chancellor falls in love with Flick as they plan the mission.

It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: "Operation Eagle", SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler's audacious plan to kidnap Winston Churchill on British soil in November 1943. But, despite spectacular secrecy, there was to be no surrender without a fight.

Early in 1943, adventure crackles across the globe from the Philippines to Budapest, and from Washington to Cairo.

Dick Canidy and his colleagues in the Office of Strategic Services face a great task--to convince Hitler and the Axis powers that the invasion of the European continent will take place anywhere but on the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. All it will take is one slip to send the whole mission tumbling down like a house of cards...

As the war heats up, "Wild Bill" Donovan's agents suddenly find themselves battling on two fronts at once, and fate is just about to deal them a few surprises.