Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on Librivox. In 1917, he became an aviator and organized the United States Schools of Military Aeronautics at eight universities...
World War, 1914-1918
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Author:Bingham, HiramSummary: - Author:Morgenthau, HenrySummary:
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important primary historical resource for the study of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the...
- Author:Radcliffe, RobertSummary:
The story of two young pilots, George Duckworth a cynical Englishman determined to take the fight to the Germans and his Canadian friend, Mac, whose tally of kills rivals only those of the Red Baron, with whom he is fated to duel. There...
- Author:Vance, Jonathan F.Summary:
This book recreates one corner of rural Canada, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough, during the First World War. Drawing from rich narrative sources, this work uses the local to understand the national, revealing what...
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Author:Barry, SebastianSummary: -
Author:Heffernan, ColleenSummary:Everything changes when Hattie Tamblyn's much-adored older brother, Will, enlists in the Canadian army in 1916 and is sent to fight in France. Hattie lives for Will's letters from the front, but her mother retreats into depression, her...
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A history of the Great War World War One and the international crisis of the early twentieth centuryAuthor:Brose, Eric DornSummary: -
Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912...
- Author:Miller, JudithSummary:
With the Great War fueling anti-German hysteria, agents of President Wilson's Council of National Defense threaten to disfigure Jutta Schmidt, torch her family's bakery, and butcher her parents unless she returns to the Amana colonies...
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Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:When battlefield nurse Bess Crawford returns from France for a well-earned Christmas leave, she finds a bruised and shivering woman huddled in the doorway of her London flat. Realizing that the woman has nowhere to turn, Bess offers her...
- Author:Newbold, L. Iris, Newbold, K. Bruce, Walters, Evelyn A., Walters, Mark G.Summary:
Private James Herbert (Herb) Gibson was 26 years old when he volunteered for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Born near Perth, Ontario and descended from Scottish settlers, Gibson enlisted against his...
- Author:Davidson, LeonSummary:
On 25 April 1915, thousands of Australians and New Zealanders landed at an unnamed cove on the Gallipoli peninsula. They had come to fight the Turks. They thought the battle would be over in three days, but months later they were still...
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