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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of hardship and sacrifice, of young, mud-spattered men in water-logged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts by a few feet of dirt. Long considered the most futile arena of the First World War, the Western Front has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of life. In this epic narrative...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes--as everyone does--that it will be over by Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate the holiday among the romantic cafes of Paris. But as history tells us, it all happened so differently... Evie and Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged young lady, Evie longs to play...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
It was called the "War to End War," cost over 35 million lives, and changed the scope of warfare forever. Readers discover these and many more vital facts about World War I in this absorbing history resource. A general timeline highlights the major events of the war for readers, and each chapter features an additional timeline to present further details about the dates that shaped the war. This book provides a comprehensive overview of "The Great...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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 Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find...
Author
Publisher
Bantam, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
"An indispensable, sharply drawn account of America's pivotal--and still controversial--intervention in World War I, enlivened by fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period, from the New York Times bestselling author of A World Undone"--
"An indispensable, sharply drawn tour through America's epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, enlivened by fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of...
26) World War I
Author
Series
Publisher
Brown Bear Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Charts the stages of the conflict that devastated Europe between 1914 and 1918.
28) World War I
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about World War I. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
29) Black chamber
Author
Series
Tales from The Black Chamber volume 1
Publisher
ACE
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An alternate history of World War I novel"--
Teddy Roosevelt is president for a second time right before WWI breaks out. On his side is the Black Chamber, a secret spy network watching America's back. On a transatlantic airship voyage, Black Chamber operative Luz O'Malley Aróstegue poses as an anti-American Mexican revolutionary to get close to a German agent coded named Imperial Sword. Can she get him to trust her, so she can learn the Reich's...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1914, the world's biggest countries (and some of its smallest, too) were gearing up for a massive fight. Land, history, geography -- each country came to war for different reasons and with different resources. But most ended up the same: sending their young men to fight for their lives in the mud, on the sea, and in the air, in a conflict that would eventually claim more than 9 million lives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of In the Garden of Beasts presents a 100th-anniversary chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania that discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as President Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat and architect Theodate Pope Riddle.
32) War horse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"In 1920s England, a young woman of limited means and even less experience confronts the ghost of a mysterious serving maid.... Sarah Piper's lonely threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis--rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed by ghosts--has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Autumn 1915. World War I is raging across Europe but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches--though that hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher "Kit" Cobb, a Chicago reporter with a second job as undercover agent for the U.S. government, is officially in Paris doing a story on American ambulance drivers, but his intelligence handler, James Polk Trask, soon broadens his mission....
35) World War I
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Learn all about military vehicles and tank warfare, the first ever gas attacks used during a war and Armistice, and peace after four years of fighting.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The third novel in a WWI alternate history series where America's greatest weapon against Germany is the Black Chamber, secret agent Luz O'Malley, and technical genius Ciara Whelan. Only they can protect America's best hope of winning the war. The Great War is at a stalemate, and the only thing stopping Germany from striking America is the threat of the United States using their own Annihilation Gas against them. But America's supply is quickly decaying...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In the thrilling third installment of the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, Kit discovers a secret plan to transform Zeppelins into dangerous killing machines--and to turn the tide of war in Germany's favor" --
"[I]t is 1917, and the United States is wavering on the brink of war. Kit [Christopher Marlowe Cobb] is now a full-blown spy in England, working undercover in a castle on the Kentish coast owned by a suspected British government mole named...
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In a time line format, describes the causes leading up to World War I and political events and battles during the war. Includes primary source quotes"--Provided by publisher.
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