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1) World War I
Author
Publisher
Covent Garden Books/DK Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
319 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the animosity-filled years prior to 1914 through the Treaty of Versailles and from the European campaigns to naval battles, this book explains the causes of the war, the course the war followed, and what made it the most costly and destructive war in the world's history.
4) The great Halifax explosion: a World War I story of treachery, tragedy, and extraordinary heroism
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A gripping account of the world's largest man-made explosion before the atomic bomb describes the events that led to the catastrophic igniting of the French freighter Mont-Blanc in 1917 Halifax, killing and wounding thousands while leading to advances in medicine and weapons science.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I--this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first aerial bombardment of London and its inhabitants. Each...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For those who loved New York Times bestseller Rin Tin Tin comes the memorable story of Sergeant Stubby--World War I dog veteran, decorated war hero, American icon, and above all, man's best friend--never before told and timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of World War I. National Geographic tells the story of a stray dog who becomes Sergeant Stubby the War Dog during World War I. Beloved award-winning author and library darling Ann Bausum...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xix, 650 pages : Ilustrations (maps) ' 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A lucid account of the epic story of the Ottoman empire, from its origins in the thirteenth century through its destruction on the battlefields of World War I, takes readers into the one of the largest and most influential empires in world history that extended from Hungary to the Persian Gulf and from North Africa to the Caucasus.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 540 p., [32] p. of plates ; ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A narrative history of World War I explores its impact on everyday men and women, drawing on diaries and letters by twenty individuals from various countries to present an international mosaic of perspectives.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 474 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark Invasion is Howard Blum's gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American soil during World War I, and the NYPD Inspector who helped uncover the plot--the basis for the film to be produced by and starring Bradley Cooper. When a "neutral"...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1916, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the "Adam...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Recounts the struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to radium while working factory jobs during World War I, describing how they were mislead by their employers and became embroiled in a battle for workers' rights.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For readers of W.G. Sebald and Daniel Mendelsohn, by a writer whose storytelling is 'devastatingly agile' (New York Times Book Review). Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to be forced to then escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 577 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A narrative chronicle of World War I's Arab Revolt explores the pivotal roles of a small group of adventurers and low-level officers who orchestrated a secret effort to control the Middle East, demonstrating how they instigated jihad against British forces, built an elaborate intelligence ring and forged ties to gain valuable oil concessions.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit all utterly alone. Wilson doesn't know how to climb. He barely knows how to fly. But he has the right plane, the right equipment, and...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic harcover edition.
Physical Desc
lx, 649 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west--the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge. Drawing freshly on widespread...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When he emerged from the nightclubs of Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan was often identified as a "protest" singer. As early as 1962, however, Dylan was already protesting the label: "I don't write no protest songs," he told his audience on the night he debuted "Blowin' in the Wind." 0"Protest" music is largely perceived as an unsubtle art form, a topical brand of songwriting that preaches to the converted. But popular music of all types has long given...
