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Author
Series
Eliza Ferriday volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1914 and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
During World War I, April Tipton, a nineteen-year-old former maid, takes a job at Thornshire Arsenal filling shells, where she befriends the wife of a star footballer and the decides to join the ladies' football club.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
While tending to the soldiers in his care, chaplain Joseph Reavley stumbles upon the body of a war correspondent, while his brother Matthew, an intelligence officer, searches for the sinister criminal mastermind known as the Peacemaker.
Author
Series
The Bess Crawford mysteries volume BK. 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
World War I nurse Bess Crawford promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will carry his dying request to his brother, a request that is treated with skepticism, leading Bess to carry it out herself and put her own life at risk for Arthur's sake.
Author
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 249 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twenty-year-old Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiam. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under the first brutal bombardment in the trenches. Through the ensuing years of horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different...
Author
Series
A novel of World War 1 volume 5
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the war coming to a close, chaplain Joseph Reavley and his family learn that the identity of the sinister ideologue called the Peacemaker is about to be revealed by a German counterpart, but the family must first solve the mystery of a murdered nurse.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1962.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (511 pages : illustrations, maps)
Language
English
Description
"The drama of August, 1914, a month of battle in which war was waged on a scale unsurpassed, and whose results determined the shape of the world in which we live today."--Jacket.
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From literary powerhouse Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, comes a big, brilliant, sweeping novel of love, memory, and history in the making. It tells of the relationship between Pinto and Osman, who cross the battlefields of the First World War, find love, and fight to survive"--
17) Nick
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrator from "The Great Gatsby" imagines the life of Nick Carraway before Gatsby, depicting a war-traumatized, heavily drinking man who embarks on a doomed journey of redemption from Paris to New Orleans.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
176 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A narrative history of World War I for young readers that features archival photographs, and describes how advanced military weaponry impacted the course of the war.