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Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
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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.
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
107 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
In 1914, the assassination of an Austrian archduke set off a disastrous four-year-long conflict involving dozens of countries with battles taking place in all parts of the world. World War I was the first to use planes and tanks as well as deadly gases that left soldiers blinded or "shell shocked" (a condition now called Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome). There were battles that lasted for months with opposing troops fighting from rat-infested trenches,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Rock Hudson stars as an ambulance driver that falls in love with a nurse. Initially strangers, the two find they must suddenly grapple with difficult decisions about their life together until fate steps in and their future becomes uncertain.
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Publisher
Ariel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
501 pages : map ; 23 cm
Description
"Inmenso y lujoso, el Lusitania, que zarpo de Nueva York el 1 de mayo de 1915, era un monumento al orgullo y el ingenio de la epoca, el barco civil mas rapido. Con el pasaje completo, partio con tranquilidad pese a la atmosfera belica existente. La idea de que un submarino aleman pudiera hundirlo parecia absurda, un sentimiento del que se hacia eco la naviera: (S0(BEl Lusitania es el barco mas seguro del mar. Es demasiado rapido para cualquier submarino....
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The title novella, “Legends of the Fall”—which was made into the film of the same name—is an epic, moving tale of three brothers fighting for justice in a world gone mad. Moving from the raw landscape of early twentieth-century Montana to the blood-drenched European battlefields of World War I and back again to Montana, Harrison’s powerful story explores the theme of revenge and the actions to which people resort when their lives or goals...
8) Alec
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
A reimagining and continuation of E. M. Forster's classic novel Maurice, told from the gamekeeper Alec Scudder's perspective. Di Canzio follows their story past the end of Maurice to the front lines of battle in World War I and beyond. Forster, who tried to write an epilogue about the future of his characters, was stymied by the radical change that the Great War brought to their world. With the hindsight of a century, di Canzio imagines a future for...
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
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"James Falconer--a tycoon and a self-made man--seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds bothphysical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her thrall, but years have passed and bitterness has set in....
10) The murder stone
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
xi, 352 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"The Great War is still raging in the autumn of 1916, when Francesca Hatton's beloved grandfather dies on the family estate in England's isolated Exe Valley. Grieving for the man who raised her, Francesca is stunned to find an unsigned letter among his effects, cursing the Hattons and their descendants. Now a stranger has shown up on her doorstep, accusing her grandfather of being a murderer." "Ex-soldier Richard Leighton blames Francis Hatton for...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Description
This rare testimony of a survivor of the Armenian genocide tells the dramatic story of John Minassian, a young man who witnessed the loss of his family and friends but managed to escape with his life by concealing his identity and connecting with an underground network of survivors, ultimately building a new life in the United States.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrowboat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. Ambitious, intelligent Peggy has been told for most of her life that her job is to bind the books, not read them-but as she folds and gathers pages, her mind wanders to the opposite side of Walton Street,...
13) Iwo, 26 Charlie
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"The island of Iwo Jima was the epic land and sea battle that produced one of the iconic images of WWII: the Marines raising the American flag on Mount Surabachi, an active volcano that was the site of intense hand to hand combat. In this gripping novel,Deutermann follows a young gunnery liaison officer, Lee Bishop, who during the ferocious battle for the island is pulled from his station aboard the USS Nevada to serve on-shore as a spotter, calling...
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"As World War I swept Europe, young Americans prepared to join the cause ... well, half of them did. Women were supposed to stay prim and proper at home. But Adeline and Augusta -- ahem, Addie and Gussie -- Van Buren had been taught to skate, swim, and even box. They knew women could do much more than sit around in petticoats. The sisters decided to prove this by writing strongly worded letters. No, no, of course not, Addie and Gussie were fighters!...
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