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Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
39 p. ; color illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Description
In 1914 France, a British soldier writes to his mother about the strange events of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, when German and Allied soldiers met on neutral ground to share songs, food, and fun. Includes historical notes and glossary.
86) J'accuse
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
After serving in World War I, a man tries to create a machine which will prevent war, but when the government interferes with his plan, he summons the ghosts of the war to rise from the dead and protest.
Author
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"Unique among World War I campaigns, the fighting at Gallipoli brought together a modern amphibious assault and multi-national combined operations. It took place on a landscape littered with classical and romantic sites - just across the Dardanelles from the ruins of Homer's Troy. The campaign became, perhaps, the greatest 'what if' of the war. The concept behind it was grand strategy of the highest order, had it been successful it might have led...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail.
89) Trench Warfare
Author
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 22 x 25 cm.
Description
This title examines the conditions, designs, soldiers, diseases, and warfare tactics of World War Is trenches. Compelling narrative text and well-chosen historical photographs and primary sources make this book perfect for report writing. Features include a glossary, a selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library...
91) Life class
Author
Series
Life class novels (Pat Barker) volume 1
Formats
Description
A novel capturing the devastation and psychological trauma of the Great War on every level of British society focuses on a group of young art students, including Paul Tarrant, a Red Cross volunteer, who discovers that life, love, and art will never be the same.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 485 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Evaluates the impact of World War I on the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East as a whole, explaining the region's less-understood but essential contributions to the war and the establishment of present-day conflicts.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 358 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
"It was one of the most heroic events in American military history. Here is the larger-than-life story of World War I's "Lost Battalion" and the men who survived the ordeal, triumphed in battle, and fought the demons that lingered. In the first week of October 1918, six hundred men attacked into Europe's forbidding Argonne Forest. Against all odds, they surged through enemy lines--alone. They were soon surrounded and besieged. As they ran out of ammunition,...
94) The walnut tree
Author
Series
Bess Crawford mystery volume 4.5
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Haunted by what she witnessed in France during the enemy invasion of 1914, Lady Elspeth Douglas is transformed by her experience and leaves her life behind to become a nurse and return to the battlefields of France to do her part.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 7
Pub. Date
c2010
Formats
Description
August 1914: Michael Clifton is mapping the land he has just purchased in California's beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, certain that oil lies beneath its surface. But as the young cartographer prepares to return home to Boston, war is declared in Europe and Michael puts duty first and sails for his father's native country to serve in the British army. Three years later, he is listed among the missing. April 1932: London psychologist and investigator Maisie...
Author
Formats
Description
"This Side of Paradise" is about the education of a youth, and to this story Fitzgerald brings the promise of everything that was new in America during the years following World War I. Amory Blaine-egoistic, versatile, callow, and imaginative-inhabits a book that is interwoven with songs, poems, playscripts, and questions and answers.
98) Stella Bain
Author
Description
"An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but...
99) Captain
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It's 1915 and British troops are about to sail to Gallipoli. Billy is the youngest soldier in his platoon and is teased for not being old enough to drink or shave. The truth is, at fifteen he's not old enough to be a soldier, either, and he's terrified of the war he's about to fight. Then he meets Captain, a refugee boy, and his donkey, Hey-ho. Together they teach Billy what it means to be brave, loyal, and fearless, and above all what it means to...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 657 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of hardship and sacrifice, of young, mud-spattered men in water-logged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts by a few feet of dirt. Long considered the most futile arena of the First World War, the Western Front has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of life. In this epic narrative...
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