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Author
Publisher
Seaforth Publishing, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"More than one hundred years after the battle of Jutland, the first and largest engagement of dreadnoughts in the twentieth century, historians are still fighting this controversial and misunderstood battle. What was in fact a strategic victory stands out starkly against the background of bitter public disappointment in the Royal Navy and decades of divisive acrimony and very public infighting between the camps supporting the two most senior commanders,...
2) Held
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault-a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate. 1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls-a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with...
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Language
English
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"During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale. "A wonderful clash of fire and ice—a book you won't want to let go of."—Diana Gabaldon, author of Outlander January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse...
4) Darling Lili
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two strangers find love amidst the chaos of World War I in this musical extravaganza set in the harrowing world of international espionage.
Author
Publisher
Random House Canada
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier—his great-uncle Harry. Some years ago a stash of family records was handed down to Michael Palin, among which were photos of an enigmatic young man in army uniform, as well as photos of the same young man as a teenager looking uncomfortable at family gatherings. This, Michael learned, was his Great-Uncle Harry, born in 1884, died in 1916. He had previously...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As a young British intelligence officer in Cairo, archaeologist and adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence became involved in the 1916 Arab Revolt, fighting alongside rebel forces against the Ottomans. He made a legendary 300-mile journey through blistering heat; he wore Arab dress; and he strongly identified with the people in his adopted lands. By 1918, he had a {pound}20,000 price on his head. Despite readers' long fascination in his story, Lawrence—one...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For weeks after the sinking of the Titanic, Yorick spots his own name among the list of those lost at sea. As an apprentice librarian for the White Star Line, his job was to curate the ship's second-class library. But just as he was about to board to tend to his library throughout the passage, a superior takes his place, leaving Yorick stranded at the dock. The Titanic was not Yorick's first brush with death, but as with every near-miss he manages...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
An affecting human drama of love, loss, and strength unfolds against the backdrop of World War I. The women of the Paridier farm, under the deft hand of Hortense, the family's matriarch, must grapple with the workload while the men are off at the front. New tools allow the women to triumph over the land, newfound independence is acquired, yet emotions are stirred, especially when the men return.
10) The razor's edge
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The adaptation of the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham of a World War I veteran disillusioned by jazz-age values. A WW I veteran breaks off his engagement to Isabel and sets out on a journey that takes him through the trenches of WW I, the Himalayas of India, and Paris.
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
" ... Offers a scathing firsthand account of war from the point of view of women actively engaged in it. Helen Zenna Smith and her companions are volunteer ambulance drivers. They've actually paid for the priviliege of serving at the French fronlines, seemilngly so their upperclass mothers may brag about who has given up the most for the war effort. The bite of the novel comes from Smith's outrage at the senselenssness of war, at her country's complacent...
12) The road dance
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church bells tolled to celebrate the war's end. Korda's dramatic...
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