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381) 1919
Author
Series
U.S.A. series volume 2
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
13 sound discs (16 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
1919 opens to find America and the world at war, and Dos Passos's characters are thrown into the snarl. Follow the daughter of a Chicago minister, a wide-eyed Texas girl, a young poet, a radical Jew, and catch a glimpse of Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Unknown Soldier.
382) Wings
Author
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, black and white (tinted) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two young men in love with the same woman must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
383) The wonder of it all
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"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....
Author
Publisher
Witness Impulse
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
vii, 159 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Now published together for the first time: Charles Todd's absorbing short stories--'The Kidnapping,' 'The Girl on the Beach,' 'Cold Comfort,' and 'The Maharani's Pearls'--featuring everyone's favorite Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge and intrepid battlefield nurse Bess Crawford. These vibrant tales transport readers from the home front in Great Britain where ominous clouds of war will soon lead to the trenches of France, to the bloody front lines...
Author
Publisher
Bantam, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
651 pages
Description
"An indispensable, sharply drawn account of America's pivotal--and still controversial--intervention in World War I, enlivened by fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period, from the New York Times bestselling author of AWorld Undone"--
"An indispensable, sharply drawn tour through America's epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, enlivened by fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the...
387) Wings
Author
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, black and white (tinted) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two young men in love with the same woman must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
388) Birds without wings
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Physical Desc
xi, 553 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Description
This is the story of a small town in Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the men and women-Armenians, Christians, Muslims-whose lives are intertwined and rooted there: Iskander, the potter and local fount of wisdom; Philotei, the Christian girl of legendary beauty, courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the goatherd, a great love that culminates in tragedy and madness. When jihad is declared against...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
"From bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss, praised for her accessible blend of narrative nonfiction with graphic novel-style chapter openers in The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner, comes another fascinating story of a groundbreaking woman in STEM. One of the founders of U.S. cryptology who would eventually become one of the world's greatest code breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980) was a brilliant...
390) Iwo, 26 Charlie
Author
Series
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...
391) A gentleman's murder
Author
Publisher
Inkshares
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
The year is 1924. The streets of St. James ring with jazz as Britain races forward into an age of peace and prosperity. London's back alleys, however, are filled with broken soldier sand still enshadowed by the lingering horrors of the Great War. Only a few years removed from the trenches of Flanders himself, Lieutenant Eric Peterkin has just been granted membership in the most prestigious soldiers-only club in London: the Britannia. But when a gentleman's...
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