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  No More Dead Dogs

  by Gordon Korman

  Nobody understands Wallace Wallace. This reluctant school football hero has been suspended from the team for writing an unfavorable book report of Old Shep, My Pal. But Wallace won't tell a lie-he hated every minute of the book!
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  The War to End All Wars

  World War I

  by Russell Freedman

  Nonfiction master Russell Freedman illuminates for young readers the complex and rarely discussed subject of World War I. The tangled relationships and alliances of many nations, the introduction of modern weaponry, and top-level military decisions that resulted in thousands upon thousands of casualties all contributed to the "great war" that people hoped and believed would be the only conflict of its kind. In... (more)
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  The Absolutist

  by John Boyne

  It's September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War, but in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor, an act which has brought shame and dishonor on the Bancroft family. But the... (more)
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  Testament of Youth

  by Vera Brittain

  Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain’s elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta and on the Western Front. By war’s end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. Testament of Youth is... (more)
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  The Great War: Book 1

  Look to the East

  by Maureen Lang

  At the dawn of the First World War, the French provincial village of Briecourt is isolated from the battles, but the century-old feud between the Toussaints and the de Colvilles still rages in the streets. When the German army sweeps in to occupy the town, families on both sides of the feud must work together to protect stragglers caught behind enemy lines. Julitte Toussaint may have been adopted from a faraway... (more)
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  The Great War: Book 2

  Whisper on the Wind

  by Maureen Lang

  In Brussels at the height of WWI, a small, underground newspaper is the only thing offering the occupied city hope-and real news of the war. The paper may be a small whisper amid the shouts of the German army, but Edward Kirkland will do anything to keep it in print. Meanwhile, Isa Lassone, a Belgian-American socialite whose parents whisked her to safety at the start of the war, sneaks back into the country to... (more)
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  Otto Prohaska: Book 1

  A Sailor of Austria

  In Which, Without Really Intending to, Otto Prohaska Becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Habsburg Empire

  by John Biggins

  In the waning days of the Habsburg Empire a little initiative can have unintended repercussions . . . For Lieutenant Otto Prohaska of the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Navy, life can be awkward to say the least. As a submarine captain of the largest land-locked empire in history, Otto faces a host of unlikely circumstances from petrol poisoning to exploding lavatories and an angry dromedary. Things... (more)
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  Otto Prohaska: Book 2

  The Emperor's Coloured Coat

  In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War

  by John Biggins

  This book follows the hapless Lieutenant Otto Prohaska in the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and finds Otto taking an ill-considered break from duties to engage in a mad fling with a Polish actress. After a desperate attempt to elude his lover's husband, he finds himself mistaken by anarchists as one of their own. Otto soon masters their code names and secret handshakes, but when he also learns of... (more)
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  The First World War

  by Hew Strachan

  It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative one-volume history, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. Written in crisp, compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photographs—including early color photographs— The First World War re-creates this world-altering conflict... (more)
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  Random Harvest

  by James Hilton

  Charles Rainier, a prosperous Briton, loses his memory as a result of shellshock in the First World War.
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  The Great War in British Literature

  by Adrian Barlow

  The Great War in British Literature is a new title in the Cambridge Contexts in Literature series. It is designed to support the needs of advanced level students of English literature. Each title in the series has the quality, content and level endorsed by the OCR examination board. However, the texts provide the background and focus suitable for any examination board at advanced level. The series explores the... (more)
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  A Farewell to Arms

  by Ernest Hemingway

  The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the... (more)
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  All I Want

  by Shayne Parkinson

  A short story. In the wake of the Great War, a soldier and his bride turn a wasteland into a home. A tale of hope and sorrow; of loss and enduring love.
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  Laide

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  Tannhauser: Rising Sun, Falling Shadows

  by Robert Jeschonek

  The year is 1954, and in a dark and violent alternate history, the Great War never ended. The forces of the Reich, led by the occult-obsessed Kaiser, have sold their souls to demonic powers as they scour the earth in search of paranormal weaponry. Meanwhile, President Edison has sanctioned the use of potent alien technology recovered at Roswell, in hopes of aiding the beleaguered Union in its fight against... (more)
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  Post voor mevrouw Bromley

  by Stefan Brijs

  Augustus 1914. In Londen melden duizenden jongemannen zich aan om te gaan vechten tegen de Duitsers. Martin Bromley, zeventien en te jong voor het leger, probeert de twee jaar oudere John Patterson te overreden samen in dienst te gaan, maar d ie wil zijn droom om te gaan studeren niet opgeven. Uiteindelijk slaagt Martin er met een list in naar het front te vertrekken en blijft John achter in een stad waar de druk... (more)
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  World War I Trilogy

  Toby's Room

  by Pat Barker

  Booker Award winner Barker's new World War I trilogy concerns a group of friends who meet at London's Slade School of Art and move on through life—straight into the war. In this second volume (after Life Class), Toby is reported missing and believed killed, and sister Elinor tries to discover what happened. Life Class seemed a weak start to the trilogy; perhaps as we move past backstory to the real tragedy of the... (more)
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  To End All Wars

  A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

  by Adam Hochschild

  World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain’s leading investigative... (more)
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  La garçonne

  by Victor Margueritte

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  Under Fire

  by Henri Barbusse, Robin Buss

  This book follows a squad of French volunteer soldiers on the front in France after the German invasion. The book opens and ends with broad visions shared by multiple characters. The anecdotes are episodic in nature, each with an individual chapter title. In contrast to many war novels which came before it, Under Fire describes war in gritty and brutal realism.