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Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women--cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
3) Going west
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[1919]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
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English
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Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although World War I has been called "the War to End All Wars," that unfortunately hasn't been the case. However, the so-called Great War did change everything. Millions of people died from battle, illness, and other causes related to the war, and the destruction and death it caused was unprecedented. This absorbing book shows how the war started, as well as its longstanding repercussions. It also provides timelines for the overall war as well as...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The first American pilots to fight in World War I flew for the French military. France created a squadron of volunteer Americans called the Lafayette Escadrille (named after the great Marquis de Lafayette). Follow this squadron on their high-flying adventures: How they got into the French military. How they learned to fly. How they fought--and died. And how these American pilots would go down in history with other legendary flying aces, like the...
10) Soldiers don't go mad: a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on rich source materials as well as his own deep understanding of trauma and war, the author documents the friendship between two great WWI poets and patients at Craiglockhart War Hospital for treatment of shell shock to investigate the roots of what we now know as PTSD.
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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 both physical 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...
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Language
English
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"Can one nurse on a mission of mercy and rebellion turn the tide of WWI? November 1914--The Great War has come to Brussels, and Edith Cavell, Head Nurse at Berkendael Medical Institute, faces an impossible situation. She has sworn an oath to help any who are wounded, under whatever flag they are found. But Governor von Lüttwitz, the ranking German officer, has ordered her and her nurses to also stand guard over the wounded Allied prisoners of war...
14) In memoriam
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Henry Gaunt, a student at an idyllic boarding school in the English countryside is relieved to escape his feelings for Sidney Ellwood when he enlists to fight in World War I, but is horrified when all his classmates join him.
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After four grueling years the Great War has finally ended. Now Ernst and the few men left from his company cannot help wondering what will become of them. The town they departed as eager young men seems colder, their homes smaller, the reasons their comrades had to die even more inexplicable. For Ernst and his friends, the road back to peace is more treacherous than they ever imagined. Suffering food shortages, political unrest, and a broken heart,...
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"With her husband off fighting at World War I's eastern front, Petra Kurková embraces her fleeting freedom, roaming the city at night with her camera. A born witch, she's discovered that she can capture the souls of the dead on film. Her supernatural skills don't go unnoticed by the enigmatic Josef Svoboda. He's recruiting a team of sorcerers to infiltrate the front lines, where the bloodshed of combat has resurrected foul creatures. Petra's unique...
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum from the high shelf, a summer stroll, and idle fantasies about passersby can't put in perspective. And then the...
Author
Series
Preliminary economic studies of the war volume no. 16
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1920.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (v, 189 pages).
Language
English
20) Mamba
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exotic adventure set among ivory traders and military officers in Colonial East Africa, MAMBA stars Jean Hersholt as a British-born corrupt land-owner who battles a German officer over the honor of a his wife. But the romantic triangle is shattered when the indigenous population mounts an epic assault upon its oppressors.
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