Joel Rotenberg
The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives ... [... more]
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Ian Sumner
Initially the strongest of all the Allied armies, France's metropolitan and colonial units bore the greatest burden during the first two years of the Great War, and made a great contribution to the final victory. In common with most European ... [... more]
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A Month in the Country
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living ... [... more]
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Peter Abbott
One of the least-published campaigns of the Great War was that fought in East Africa by forces of colonial troops - British Empire, Belgian, Portuguese and German. Short of resources, many European, African and Indian soldiers recorded epics of ... [... more]
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Peter Jung
The part played in the Great War by the armies of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy is little known to English-speakers, perhaps because 1918 saw the complete destruction of the Empire. Yet it was of great importance, providing nearly all ... [... more]
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Thomas Wheeler
It is 1919 and the Great War has come to a close. But in the shadows of the world's major cities, the killing has just begun. In this perilous time, as the division between order and chaos grows increasingly slim, a select group of visionaries ... [... more]
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the ...
 Worth the weight!: If you are at all interested in the events of the last quarter century then you must buy this book. It begins with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and ends with the current war in Iraq. In between Fisk will take you through the [... more]
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John Mosier
John Mosier is the author of The Myth of the Great War. He is full professor of English at Loyola University in New Orleans, where, as chair of the English Department and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, he taught primarily ... [... more]
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Great War In Africa 1914to1918
Far removed from the trenches there was Africa...: When the British Empire entered the First World War following the German invasion of Belgium, any chance that the conflict would remain a localized European event was ended, it became truely global. [... more]
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A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
Exciting history: I read history as background for writing my novels, and have slogged through many a tome that might put me to sleep before finding a cogent point that I can use for what might be called 'intimate background material' for my own books. I' [... more]
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A Weekend With the Great War: Proceedings of the Fourth ...
Author: Ill.) Great War Interconference Seminar 1995 (Lisle Author: Steven Weingartner Author: George Anastaplo Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 940.3 EAN: 9781572490680 ISBN: 1572490683 Number Of Pages: 308 Publication Date: 1997-09 [... more]
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The Great War: 1914-1918
Kitchen sink: The word that best describes Ian F.W. Beckett's The Great War 1914-1918 is thorough. He covers every possible aspect of the war, from its campaigns to political intrigue to labor movements to cultural impact. Unlike standard histories [... more]
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