Behold Those Hoons Despoiling The Beach
After two world wars, the economic landscape in Europe is remarkably similar to one envisaged a century ago. Before the Great War, Kaiser Wilhelm "led a prosperous, lawful and fairly free country (and) an essentially ... [... more]
Leithner |
Peter Abbott
One of the least-published campaigns of the Great War was that fought in East Africa by forces of colonial troops - British Empire, Belgian, Portuguese and German. Short of resources, many European, African and Indian soldiers recorded epics of ... [... more]
Random House |
Greg Vanwyngarden
The Pfalz Flugzeug Werke, located at Speyer am Rhein in Bavaria, was the third in the great triumvirate (along with Fokker and Albatros) of German fighter manufacturers in the Great War. When World War I broke out in ... [... more]
Random House |
J.G. Farrell
1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But his ... [... more]
Random House |
Thomas Wheeler
It is 1919 and the Great War has come to a close. But in the shadows of the world's major cities, the killing has just begun. In this perilous time, as the division between order and chaos grows increasingly slim, a ... [... more]
Random House |
J.L. Carr
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living ... [... more]
Random House |
Robert Fisk
The Great War for Civilisation Available November 8, 2005 Written by Robert Fisk Hardcover, 1168 pages [... more]
Random House |
Charles Todd
Ian Rutledge, returned home from the trenches of the Great War, loses his fiancée Jean after long months in hospital with what is now called PTSD, and faces a bleak future. Fighting back from the edge of madness, he ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
John Mosier
John Mosier is the author of The Myth of the Great War. He is full professor of English at Loyola University in New Orleans, where, as chair of the English Department and associate dean of the College of Arts and ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
