The utter devastation of global war continues to spread, driven by new weapons and old hatreds. The United States is deadlocked--battling Canada and Great Britain to the north and the Confederate States in the south. In this world,...
World War, 1914-1918
- Auteur:Turtledove, HarrySommaire:
- Auteur:Turtledove, HarrySommaire:
In American Front he envisions World War I as it may have been if fought on American soil. The United States and Germany clash with the Confederacy, France, and Britain as the machines of modern warfare litter the landscape with carnage...
- Auteur:Moyes, JojoSommaire:
Unwillingly rendered an object of obsession by the Kommandant occupying her small French town in World War I, Sophie risks everything to reunite with her husband a century before a widowed Liv tests her resolve to claim ownership of...
- Auteur:Jackson, GeoffreySommaire:
When Great Britain and its dominions declared war on Germany in August 1914, they were faced with the formidable challenge of transforming masses of untrained citizen-soldiers at home and abroad into competent, coordinated fighting...
- Auteur:Little, JuditheSommaire:
Antoinette and Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel set out with a determination to prove themselves. Their journey propels them out of poverty and into extravagance. But when World War I breaks out, their lives are irrevocably changed,...
- Auteur:Quinn, KateSommaire:
It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in...
- Auteur:Colin McClarenSommaire:
In a small town in country Australia, railway man George Bingham toils away, dreaming of adventure in far-off lands. When the call for Great War volunteers comes, he leaves behind his worn mattock and his first love, jumping the first...
- Auteur:MacMillan, MargaretSommaire:
In this course, University of Toronto history professor Margaret MacMillan takes us back to Paris in 1919, when, for six months, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and French Prime Minister George...
- Auteur:SMITH, WilburSommaire:
Sebastian becomes involved in ivory poaching and the events leading to the invasion, by the Germans, of East Africa, at the time of the second World War.
- Auteur:Montgomery, L. M.Sommaire:
Fifteen-year-old Rilla, the daughter of Anne Shirley Blythe, grows from a carefree, irresponsible girl into a strong and capable young woman during the war years, 1914-1918.
- Auteur:Harrigan, StephenSommaire:
Exiled to Texas with his grown daughter, sculptor Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is commissioned to create a statue for a man who recently lost his son in WWI. But as work on the statue progresses, secrets slowly reveal themselves and Gil's...
- Auteur:Morpurgo, MichaelSommaire:
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself...
- Auteur:MacMillan, MargaretSommaire:
In this work of narrative history, MacMillan brings extraordinary personalities to life. The great-granddaughter of Lloyd George, she makes use of his personal papers and gives a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days...
- Auteur:Sasges, MichaelSommaire:
"“Our well beloved dead who died that we might live.” In the town of Merritt, in British Columbia’s Nicola Valley, stands a granite cenotaph erected in memory of 44 men who died soldiering in the First World War. Those men came from a...
- Auteur:McGuinness, FrankSommaire:
- Auteur:Tennyson, Brian DouglasSommaire:
When the First World War ended in 1918, its profound impact did not. The war continued to haunt a nation. Nova Scotia at War, 1915-1919 is an in-depth study of Nova Scotia's role that was, at the time, the most traumatic collective...
- Auteur:Dueck, AdeleSommaire:
When Lisa asks her grandmother, Nettie Pauls, about her life before she came to Canada, Grandmother Nettie hands her her old diary that tells an amazing tale of survival during a time of war, famine, and terror.
- Auteur:Fallada, HansSommaire:
The bookkeeper Johannes Pinneberg and his new wife, the sales girl Emma, had hardly found out that she was two months pregnant when Pinneberg is fired and must find a new job in the middle of the economic crisis. Pinneberg's...
- Auteur:Wolfer, DianneSommaire:
Fay lives alone on windswept Breaksea Island with only her journal to confide in. Life changes dramatically in 1914 when war is declared and the 30,000 men of the combined Australian New Zealand Imperial Forces gather in Albany. Fay...
- Auteur:ANTHONY, Hubert LawrenceSommaire:
"An extraordinary insight into the war experiences of a very young man, and the relationship between a son and his mother, during the horrors of Galipoli and its aftermath ... Sapper Hubert Anthony was seventeen when he enlisted in...