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601) Time and time again
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Time and Time Again, international best-selling author Ben Elton, takes readers on a thrilling journey through early 20th-Century Europe. It's the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who ran the only military hospital staffed entirely by women during World War I-and who transformed medicine in the process. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war, female doctors...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished in the chaos of World War I. One event precipitated the conflict, and at its heart was a tragic love story. When Austrian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand married for love against the wishes of the emperor, he and his wife Sophie were humiliated and shunned, yet they remained devoted to each other and to their children....
Series
Cavendon chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A tale spanning sixteen years in early-twentieth-century England finds the centuries-long relationship between the aristocratic Inghams and the Swann family who serves them tested by the outbreak of World War I.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"New Year's Day, 1918. America has declared war on Germany and is gathering troops to fight. But there's something coming that is deadlier than any war. When people begin to fall ill, most Americans don't suspect influenza. The flu is known to be dangerous to the very old, young, or frail. But the Spanish flu is exceptionally violent. Soon, thousands of people succumb. Then tens of thousands . . . hundreds of thousands and more. Graves can't be dug...
607) The war poets
Author
Publisher
Silver Burdett
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Brief biographies of four English poets--Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and Isaac Rosenberg--all of whom saw action in World War I and became poetic spokesmen for their fellow soldiers.
608) Flyboys
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A story of the young Americans who volunteered to be part of the French military prior to the United States involvement in WWI, also known as Lafayette Escadrille, and how they became the country's first fighter pilots.
609) From a dark horizon
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the waning days of World War I, a horrific crime behind the lines sends Lieutenant Gregor Reinhardt on a search for a killer in this electrifying thriller from the author of The Man from Berlin. It's the final days of the Great War and four years of grinding conflict has warped more than one man's mind. When a secret meeting of top brass is called someone sets off a bomb that kills all the attendees. It looks for sure that one of the men in Gregor...
610) The sea wolves
Author
Series
Isaac Bell novels volume 13
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As New England swelters in the summer of 1914, Detective Isaac Bell is asked to investigate a cache of missing rifles, only to discover something much more sinister. Whoever broke into this Winchester Factory wasn't looking to take weapons, they wanted to leave something in the shipping crates: a radio transmitter, set to summon a fleet of dreaded German U-boats. Someone is trying to keep American supplies from reaching British shores, and if Bell...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
In 1916, just thirteen years after the Wright brothers' first flight, a group of twenty-eight college students, and sons of America's early 20th century aristocracy, decided to try the sport of motorized flight and formed a campus flying club. The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockerfeller, the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad, several who counted friends and relatives...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013], c2013
Language
English
Description
The War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. In the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his duty to maintain Downton more firmly than ever.
613) Olio
Author
Series
Wave Books volume 53
Publisher
Wave Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"With ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Tyehimba Jess presents the sweat and story behind America's blues, worksongs and church hymns. Part fact, part fiction, Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes...
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Elizebeth Smith Friedman had a rare talent for spotting patterns and solving puzzles. These skills led her to become one of the top cryptanalysts in America during both World War I and World War II. She originally came to code breaking through her love for Shakespeare when she was hired by an eccentric millionaire to prove that Shakespeare's plays had secret messages in them. Within a year, she had learned so much about code breaking that she was...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Visits America's overseas military cemeteries, and weaves elements of a historical documentary with beautiful, contemporary scenes of the cemeteries, and powerful stories about the men and women who are buried in them. Includes on-location interviews with formal and informal historians and witnesses of the wars. Discusses the creation of the cemeteries.
Author
Series
Campaign volume 357
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This detailed study reveals the history of the Meuse-Argonne campaign, the US Army's first full-scale offensive against German forces in France.
Author
Publisher
Suma
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"En 1916 el artista franc�es �Edouard Lef�evre ha de dejar a su mujer Sophie para irse al frente a luchar. Cuando la ciudad cae en manos alemanas y ella ha de acoger a los soldados en el hotel que regenta, el retrato que pint�o su marido se convierte en una obsesi�on para el comandante germano y ella se ve forzada a arriesgarlo todo, su familia, su reputaci�on e incluso su vida, con la esperanza de ver a su amor una �ultima vez. Un siglo...
619) In memoriam
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, all of whom are safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. They receive weekly dispatches from The Preshutian, their school newspaper, informing them of older classmates killed or wounded in action....
Author
Series
Publisher
Pen & Sword Military
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Animals in the Great War throws a spot light on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest in Michael Morpurgos tale of the war horse reveals an enthusiasm for the animal perspective on war, but what of the untold stories of the war dog, the trench rat or even the ships pig? Through unrivaled...