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82) 1914
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
xiv, 446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come....
Author
Publisher
Delata Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Delta Trade Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 777 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The First World War is one of history's greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today.
89) World War I
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm + clip art CD-ROM (digital; 4 3/4 in).
Language
English
Description
Provides an eyewitness account of the war that devastated Europe, from the assassination of an archduke to the killing fields of France. New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text! Here is an original and exciting guide to the grim challenge of life or death on the Western Front. Devastating first-hand reports and contemporary photographs of the battles that slaughtered millions, together with a clear account of how nation upon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Amish air pilot Jude must decide whether to enlist in the army during World War I, which may save his entire community from persecution, but may also cause him to be shunned by those he loves, including his beloved Lyyndaya.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand’s own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, It is God’s will.” Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflictmuch less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions that it would fundamentally...
Author
Language
English
Description
France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs away from her uncle's home in Paris to evade a marriage being arranged for her in Shanghai. To prevent the union, she needs the help of her cousin Theo, who is working as a translator for the Chinese Labor Corps in the French countryside. In the town of Noyelles-sur-Mer, Camille Roussel is planning her escape from an abusive marriage, and to end a love...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
170 pages : black and white illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The "Great War" in Europe started in 1914, but it wasn't until April 6, 1917 that the United States declared war on Germany and joined World War I. German submarine attacks on American ships in March 1917 were the overt motive for declaring war, but the underlying reasons were far more complex. Even after the United States officially joined, Americans were divided on whether they should be a part of it. Osborne explores not only how and why the United...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
18 CDs : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
Language
English
Description
University of Tennessee professor Vejas Liulevicius delivers lectures for a course on the First World War, which was touched off by a terrorist act in Bosnia and quickly expanded far beyond the expectations of those involved. It became the first "total war", a conflict involving entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, devoting all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to victory at any price. The cost...
96) The eyes of Asia
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Page
Pub. Date
1918.
Physical Desc
101 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A series of letters purporting to be written by an East Indian officer wounded in France to his relatives at home." - New York Times Book Review, Oct. 20, 1918.
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