World War I

From the enlistment lines in Harlem to the training camp at Spartanburg, South Carolina, to the trenches in France, this riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black 369th infantry regiment, the Harlem Hellfighters, conveys an action-packed and powerful tale of honor and heart.

The Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Printed on fine accordion-fold paper and packaged in a deluxe slipcase with a 16-page booklet, The Great War is a landmark in Sacco's illustrious career and allows us to see the War to End All Wars as we've never seen it before.

Classic romantic adventure is a tale of opposites attracted. Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wend their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic steam launch, and are gradually joined together in a mission of retaliation against the Germans. Fighting time, heat, malaria and bullets, the two have a dramatic rapprochement before the explosive ending of the book.

The timeless classic of World War I Germany that speaks to generation after generation.

The protagonists are Stephen Wraysford, a British businessman, and Isabelle Azaire, a married Frenchwoman. They meet in 1910, she elopes with him, gives birth to his child, then remorse sends her back to her husband. But World War I will bring them together when he returns to France as an officer in the British army.

First published in 1929, this love story is set against the drama of World War I. Several other editions are available through the Blume Library.

When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister and their influence leads John into a tragic drama that threatens to destroy everything he cares about.

First published in 1939 Dalton Trumbo's story of a young soldier horribly maimed in the First World War became an immediate best seller. The book also became the most popular anti-war book of the Vietnam peace movement.

Virginia Woolf details Clarissa Dalloway's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess, exploring the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life.

Includes: One man's initiation, 1917 -- Three soldiers -- Manhattan transfer.

It is a story of a battle for a man's mind in which only the reader can decide who is the victor, who the vanquished, and who the victim. One of the most amazing feats of fiction of our time.

Also available in William Faulkner's Novels 1926-1929.

Several other editions are available through the Blume Library.

In this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War.

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 both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation.

Includes "Easter 1916."

Concentrating on the classic poems by the greatest poets of World War One, this collection contains 250 poems by 80 poets. Historical and biographical background material, extracts from diaries, personal letters and autobiographies illuminate the poetry.

Included among a wealth of memorable verses are Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier," Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In the Pink" by Siegfried Sassoon, "In Flanders Fields" by Lieut. Col. McCrae, Robert Bridges' "To the United States of America," Thomas Hardy's "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations,'" Robert Graves' "A Dead Boche," as well as works by Walter de la Mare, May Wedderburn Cannan, Ivor Gurney, Alice Meynell, and Edward Thomas.

Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one of the greatest horrors mankind has inflicted on itself. For the group of ordinary men in the French Sixth Battalion, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply a matter of survival, lightened only by the arrival of their rations or a glimpse of a pretty girl or a brief reprieve in the hospital. Originally published in French as "La Feu."

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.

With its strikingly original interpretative strength and its wealth of compelling documentary evidence drawn from all sides in the conflict, this work has quickly established itself as a classic in the history of modern warfare.

The twenty people from whose journals and letters Englund draws are from Belgium, Denmark, and France; Great Britain, Germany, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire; Italy, Australia, and New Zealand; Russia, Venezuela, and the United States.

The story of the Doughboys of the American Expeditiionary Force who went to France in 1917-1918 to "make the world safe for democrary" is one of the great untold epics of American history.

The picture that emerges is often at odds with the popular notion of the disillusioned doughboy. Though hardened and harrowed by combat, the veteran heard here is for the most part proud of his service, service undertaken for duty, honor, and country. In short, a hundred years later, the doughboy once more speaks in his own true voice.

By the end of the war, three great empires--the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottoman--had collapsed. But as Keegan shows, the devastation extended over the entirety of Europe, and still profoundly informs the politics and culture of the continent today. His brilliant, panoramic account of this vast and terrible conflict is destined to take its place among the classics of world history.

A thrilling tale of combat and heroism, Five Lieutenants tells the story of five young Harvard men who took up the call to arms in the spring of 1917 and met differing fates in the maelstrom of battle on the Western Front in 1918.

Through brilliant and often darkly comic portraits of these men and their lives, their foibles and obsessions, Miranda Carter delivers the tragicomic story of Europe's early twentieth-century aristocracy, a solipsistic world preposterously out of kilter with its times.

The author pieces together colorful personalities, historic moments, and intimate details to create a social history of the two years following the Great War in Britain.

This book "pays special attention to the troubling aftermath of the war: the emergence of new nations amid old and festering problems; how the victims and survivors dealt with loss and disfigurement, guilt and hatred; and the terrible legacy of brutality that has marked so much of the twentieth century."

Published to immediate national praise, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1963, this bestselling account of the explosive, complex, and controversial early days of World War I is considered today a classic work of history. Two 8-page inserts.

Through its unique amalgam of pictorial and narrative brilliance, the book illuminates the war as no other work has done.

Describes British climbers' attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s, discussing such topics as the role of imperial ambition in the expedition and the way in which the ascent reflected England's post-World War I redemption efforts.

Based on an astonishing collection of letters and diaries harvested by Andrew Carroll and the Center for American War Letters over many years, this book tells the story of the American experience in World War I with General John Pershing in the foreground against a landscape of extraordinary voices, to convey the grassroots perspective of American doughboys, war nurses, and their families with extraordinary intimacy and power.

In his riveting narrative, Hochschild brings World War I to life as never before while focusing on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes.

Documents the incidents surrounding a German diplomat's bid for international power that led to America's entry into World War I.