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Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
360 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 32 cm
Description
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.
24) World War I
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
319 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 31 cm.
25) Hell's angels
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three Oxford buddies fight on opposite sides during WWI. Each is torn between obedience to his country and that of his conscience.
26) Paths of glory
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The French General Staff, safely behind the lines, sends orders for what amounts to a suicide mission. To cover up their fatal blunder, three soldiers are arrested and made scapegoats. Captures the spirit of Humphrey Cobb's novel in presenting a harsh attack on the futility of war in general and World War I in particular. A blistering indictment of military politics.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
A powerful story of love, war, and remembrance, based on the World War I memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
"This is Vikander's film and she is very good here."--Toronto Star
"Tough-minded and sometimes...
Author
Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 8
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Rilla, the daughter of Anne Shirley Blythe, grows from a carefree, irresponsible girl into a strong and capable young woman during the war years, 1914-1918.
29) 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.
30) 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
Publisher
OTTN Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"Describes the causes of World War I, including competition between Europe's Great Powers for economic and political dominance, instability in the Balkan Peninsula, and the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this realistic depiction of the lives of ordinary German soldiers Paul Baumer and his school chums are encouraged to enlist by their bombastic, slogan-chanting teacher, but they quickly learn that actual war is more gore than glory, as they crawl through mud, huddle in trenches, suffer the ordeal of frenzied hand-to-hand combat and dodge screaming shells during World War I.
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