World War I Collection Spotlight - In the Trenches [European...

1) 1914: a novel

Author

Echenoz, Jean

2) The absolutist

Author

Boyne, John

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"The Absolutist" is a masterful tale of passion, jealousy, heroism, and betrayal set in one of the most gruesome trenches of France during World War I. This novel will engage readers until its most extraordinary and unexpected conclusion.

3) All quiet on the western front

Author

Remarque, Erich Maria

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Depicts the experiences of a group of young German soldiers fighting and suffering during the last days of World War I.

4) Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: a German fortress, a treacherous American general, and the battle to end World War I

Author

Walker, William T

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"A painstakingly researched account of World War I's violent Meuse-Argonne Offensive and the 100-year-old cover-up at its center traces the efforts of AEF Commander-in-Chief John J. Pershing to capture the near-impregnable German Montfaucon and the inside betrayal that cost untold lives,"--NoveList.

5) The cartographer of no man's land

Author

Duffy, P. S

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Book, Large Type

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Angus MacGrath is a ship's captain in Nova Scotia, contending with his pacifist father and changes in the shipping industry in the middle years of WWI. When his brother-in-law, Ebbin, goes missing in France, he enlists in the Allied forces to try to find him. Expecting to serve from the safety of a London cartography division, he finds himself instead as an officer on the front lines, facing mustard gas, watching his men die for paltry gains of German...

6) A fable

Author

Faulkner, William

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This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works and an essential part of the Faulkner canon.

7) Fire and movement: the British Expeditionary Force and the campaign of 1914

Author

Hart, Peter

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The dramatic opening weeks of the Great War passed into legend long before the conflict ended. The British Expeditionary Force fought a mesmerizing campaign, outnumbered and outflanked but courageous and skillful, holding the line against impossible odds, sacrificing themselves to stop the last great German offensive of 1914. A remarkable story of high hopes and crushing disappointment, the campaign contains moments of sheer horror and nerve-shattering...

8) The Somme: the darkest hour on the Western Front

Author

Hart, Peter

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On July 1, 1916, the British Army launched the "Big Push" that was supposed to bring an end to the horrific stalemate on the Western Front between British, French, and German forces. What resulted was one of the greatest single human catastrophes in the history of warfare. Scrambling out of trenches in the face of German machine guns and artillery fire, the Allied Powers lost over twenty thousand soldiers that first day, but this "battle" would drag...

9) The first of July

Author

Speller, Elizabeth

10) First over there: the attack on Cantigny, America's first battle of World War I

Author

Davenport, Matthew J

11) Gallipoli: the end of the myth

Author

Prior, Robin

12) The Great War: July 1, 1916 : the first day of the Battle of the Somme : an illustrated panorama

Author

Sacco, Joe

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"A 24-foot-long black-and-white drawing printed on heavyweight accordian-fold paper and packaged in a deluxe hardcover slipcase. The set also includes a 16-page booklet featuring an essay about the first day of the Battle of the Somme by Adam Hochschild and original annotations to the drawing by Sacco himself."

13) harlems hell fighters the african american 36ninth

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14) A higher form of killing: six weeks in World War I that forever changed the nature of warfare forever

Author

Preston, Diana

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"In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought with poison gas, torpedoes killing civilians, and aerial bombardment. Each of these actions violated rules of war carefully agreed at the Hague Conventions of 1898 and 1907. The era of weapons of mass destruction had dawned. While each of these momentous events has been chronicled in histories of the war, historian Diana Preston...

15) hundred days the campaign that ended world war i

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16) Line of fire: diary of an unknown soldier (August, September 1914)

Author

Barroux

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Words taken from a diary by an unknown French soldier are paired with illustrations depicting the action.

17) A long long way

Author

Barry, Sebastian

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Barely 18-years-old, Willie Dunne leaves Dublin in 1914 to fight for the Allied cause, largely unaware of the growing political and religious tensions festering back home. Evoking the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, this powerful novel underlines the cruelty and sadness of war and the divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers felt. Running throughout is the question of how such young men came to be

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18) Paths of glory

Series

Criterion collection volume 538

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During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.

19) Schlump

Author

Grimm, Hans Herbert

Series

New York Review of Books Classics

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"Seventeen-year-old Schlump marches off to war in 1915 because going to war is the best way to meet girls. And so he does, on his first posting, overseeing three villages in occupied France. But then Schlump is sent to the front, and the good times end. Schlump, which was published anonymously in 1928 and widely translated at the time, was one of the first German novels to describe World War I in all its horror and absurdity and it remains one of...

20) The sojourn

Author

Krivak, Andrew

Series

Sojourn novels (Andrew Krivak) volume 1

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Krivak pens a stunning debut novel of brutality and survival on the Southern Front of World War I.

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