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1) World War I
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An up-close look at World War I examines life in the trenches and the devastation of Europe by the Great War.
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Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 503 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. : ill.)
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This definitive ten-part series offers insight and analysis to provide a coherent and strategic military narrative from acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jonathan Lewis.
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Caroline Ferriday volume 2
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"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...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xiv, 226 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
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"World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain ground, and ended with attacks resembling the Nazi blitzkriegs. The scale of devastation was unlike anything the world had seen before: fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, and four empires were destroyed. Even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. An overwhelming disaster from which the world is still recovering, World War One...
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University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2015]
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vii, 359 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
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'A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our focus to the Eastern front, as David R. Stone does in this masterly work, fundamentally alters?and clarifies?that picture. A thorough, and thoroughly readable, history of the Russian front during the First World War, this book corrects widespread misperceptions of the Russian Army and the war in the east...
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2012
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112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
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Describes World War I, using the reader's choices to reveal historical details from the perspectives of a Belgian resistance fighter, a British soldier, and an American Field Service volunteer.
11) War horse
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Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.
12) Cavendon Hall
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Cavendon chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them, just as their ancestors did over the centuries. Charles Ingham, the sixth Earl of Mowbray, lives there with his wife Felicity and their six children: Guy, the heir, who is studying at Cambridge; their younger son Miles, attending Eton; and their four daughters Diedre, Daphne, DeLacy and Dulcie, affectionately called the Four Dees by the staff. Walter Swann,...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
360 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 32 cm
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This visual guide to the first World War features illustrated timelines, maps, and first-hand accounts of the action to bring to life the world leaders, key players and soldiers who fought the battles with the weapons and new technologies that changed history.
14) World War I
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Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
319 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 31 cm.
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MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
17) 1917
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Universal
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At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.
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Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
18 CDs : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (22 cm.)
Description
University of Tennessee professor Vejas Liulevicius delivers lectures for a course on the First World War, which was touched off by a terrorist act in Bosnia and quickly expanded far beyond the expectations of those involved. It became the first "total war", a conflict involving entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, devoting all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to victory at any price. The cost...
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