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940.3 STEVE
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940.3 STEVE
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"1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian David Stevenson examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century that followed. He shows how in this one year the war was transformed, but also what drove the conflict onwards and how it continued to escalate."--Inside dust jacket.
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First U.S. edition.
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
940.4125 MORTO
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940.4125 MORTO
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Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War I. While their story is almost always overlooked, the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who served the British Empire in World War I played a crucial role in the eventual Allied victory. Despite their sacrifices, Indian troops received mixed reactions from their allies and their enemies alike--some were treated as liberating heroes, some as mercenaries...
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F MORRO
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F MORRO
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"It is the summer of 1914. As the world teeters on the brink of the Great War, a callow American painter, Francis Wyndham, arrives at a renowned European insane asylum, where he begins offering art therapy under the auspices of Alessandro Caligari - sinister psychiatrist, maniacal artist, alleged sorcerer. Determined to turn the impending cataclysm to his financial advantage, Dr. Caligari will -- for a price -- allow governments to parade their troops...
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940.3411 BEAUJ
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940.3411 BEAUJ
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Each November, about a hundred people with paper poppies pinned to their coats gather around a memorial in Edinburgh. They're there to commemorate the more than a dozen members of the local football team, Heart of Midlothian--almost every member of its starting lineup and many of its backup players--who went to war. When they enlisted in November 1914, the Edinburgh Evening News ran pages of splendid photos of the Hearts players in McCrae's Battalion....
5) Birdsong
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French trilogy volume 2
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First Vintage International edition.
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Rootless and heartbroken Stephen Wraysford joins the army at the outbreak of World War I. He and his men are given the assignment to tunnel under the German lines and set off bombs. The comaraderie, love, and loyalty of the soldiers contrasts with the horrors of the underground, air, and trench warfare.
Sebastian Faulkss emotionally charged story of love, death, sex and survival follows a young Englishman from his arrival in Amiens in 1910, where...
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Tales from The Black Chamber volume 1
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"An alternate history of World War I novel"--
7) Blood dark
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F GUILL
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F GUILL
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Cripure, as his students call him-the name a mocking contraction of Critique of Pure Reason-despises his colleagues, despairs of his charges, and is at odds with his family. The year is 1917, and the slaughter of the First World War goes on and on, with French soldiers not only dying in droves but also beginning to rise up in protest. Still haunted by the memory of the wife who left him long ago, Cripure turns his fury and scathing wit on everyone...
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Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the best military button will be Button King. The boys agree....
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
940.4127 DOUGH
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940.4127 DOUGH
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Central - Adult Biography
B THORP M
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B THORP M
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"Mary Thorp, an English governess working for a Belgian-Russian family in German-occupied Brussels, kept a secret war diary from September 1916 to January 1919. This long-forgotten diary sheds light on an important aspect of the First World War: civilian life under military occupation in a transnational conflict"--
"An Englishwoman of no particular fame living in World War I Brussels started a secret diary in September 1916. Aware that her thoughts...
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"The story of three downed British airmen who mastermind an elaborate, rollicking escape from a WWI German POW camp"--
12) Frantz
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DVD FOREIGN FRE FRANT
3 available
DVD FOREIGN FRE FRANT
3 available
Shirlington - Adult DVD
DVD FOREIGN FRE FRANT
1 available
DVD FOREIGN FRE FRANT
1 available
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Widescreen ed.
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Central - Adult DVD
DVD FOREIGN FRE FRANT
3 available
DVD FOREIGN FRE FRANT
3 available
Shirlington - Adult DVD
DVD FOREIGN FRE FRANT
1 available
DVD FOREIGN FRE FRANT
1 available
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Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
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Glencarlyn - Adult Detective
D HUANG
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D HUANG
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Shirlington - Adult Detective
D HUANG
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D HUANG
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D HUANG
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D HUANG
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Shirlington - Adult Detective
D HUANG
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D HUANG
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"The year is 1924. The cobblestoned streets of St. James ring with jazz as Britain races forward into an age of peace and prosperity. London's back alleys, however, are filled with broken soldiers and still enshadowed by the lingering horrors of the Great War. Only a few years removed from the trenches of Flanders himself, Lieutenant Eric Peterkin has just been granted membership in the most prestigious soldiers-only club in London: The Britannia....
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940.45943 HASAR
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940.45943 HASAR
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940.4512 SONDH
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940.4512 SONDH
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This compelling book explores Germany's campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare in World War I, which marked the onset of total war at sea. Noted historian Lawrence Sondhaus shows how the undersea campaign, intended as an antidote to Britain's more conventional blockade of German ports, ultimately brought the United States into the war. Although the German people readily embraced the argument that an "undersea blockade" of Britain enforced by their...
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971.622 BACON
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971.622 BACON
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971.622 BACON
1 available
971.622 BACON
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction
971.622 BACON
1 available
971.622 BACON
1 available
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First edition.
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
971.622 BACON
1 available
971.622 BACON
1 available
Central - Recently Returned
971.622 BACON
1 available
971.622 BACON
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction
971.622 BACON
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971.622 BACON
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After steaming out of New York City on December 1, 1917, laden with a staggering three thousand tons of TNT and other explosives, the munitions ship Mont-Blanc fought its way up the Atlantic coast, through waters prowled by enemy U-boats. As it approached the lively port city of Halifax, Mont-Blanc's deadly cargo erupted with the force of 2.9 kilotons of TNT - the most powerful explosion ever visited on a human population, save for Hiroshima and Nagasaki....
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
940.45973 HERNO
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940.45973 HERNO
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"When war broke out in Europe in August 1914, the new German luxury ocean liner SS Vaterland was interned in New York Harbor, where it remained docked for nearly three years--until the United States officially entered the fight to turn the tide of the war. Seized by authorities for the US Navy once war was declared in April 1917, the liner was renamed the USS Leviathan by President Woodrow Wilson, and converted into an armed troop carrier that transported...
18) The Great War
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Aurora Hills - Adult DVD
DVD 940.373 GREAT
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DVD 940.373 GREAT
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Central - Adult DVD
DVD 940.373 GREAT
1 available
DVD 940.373 GREAT
1 available
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Aurora Hills - Adult DVD
DVD 940.373 GREAT
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DVD 940.373 GREAT
1 available
Central - Adult DVD
DVD 940.373 GREAT
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DVD 940.373 GREAT
1 available
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In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the war on April 6, 1917, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and the American troops who came to be known as 'doughboys.'...
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First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
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940.373 PECK
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940.373 PECK
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"A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath"--Front jacket flap.
Though overshadowed by the tens of millions of deaths and catastrophic destruction of World War II, the Great War was the most important war of the twentieth century. It was the first continent-wide conflagration in a century, and it drew much of the world into its fire. By the end of it, four...
20) The Guardians
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Westover - Adult DVD
DVD FOREIGN FRE GUARD
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DVD FOREIGN FRE GUARD
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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.