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Author
Series
Caroline Ferriday volume 2
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
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xiv, 226 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
Description
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.
9) World War I
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
319 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 31 cm.
10) Gallipoli
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915. They are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey.
11) 1917
Publisher
Universal
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xv, 787 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Retells the first world war from the perspective of the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary, highlighting the impressive mobilization of troops that sustained the war and the devastating impact the war had on each nation.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Description
"By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come....
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