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March, 1941. World War Two is well underway and the Blitz is taking its toll on Central London with bombs raining down almost every night. Inspector Coburg and his trusted Sergeant Lampson are just recovering from the devastating bomb attack on the Café de Paris when they get a call asking them to go to the disused Lord's Underground station. Once there, they are taken to see the body of a man on the former platform. He's been beaten to death by blows on the back of his head, by what Dr Welbourne believes to have been a cricket bat.

Zweig askerlik görevini yerine getirmeyi reddedip 1918 yılında Avusturya'nın izniyle İsviçre'ye gitmiş, 9 Marttan itibaren bir yıl boyunca Zürih Gölü tepelerindeki Rüschlikon köyünde, Hotel Belvoir'da yaşamıştı. Genç ressam Ferdinand da Birinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında Zürih Gölü tepelerindeki bir köyde, içinde, kendine ait bir atölyenin de olduğu bir evde derin fakat yanıltıcı bir huzurla yaşamaktadır. Ancak savaş peşini bırakmaz, birliğe katılma emri onu sığındığı ülkede de bulur.

A Man Could Stand Up—is the third of four installments in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, which follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy British landowner and the last British Tory; his unfaithful wife, Sylvia; and his mistress, Valentine Wannop. Opening on Armistice Day (November 11, 1918), A Man Could Stand Up—serves as the climax of the series. Highlighting the tension between traditional values and a rapidly changing social order, the novel details Christopher and Valentine's trials as the post-war world takes shape around them.

A heartwarming and gripping saga series perfect for fans of Elaine Everest and Rosie Clarke. 1915: As war continues to rage across the Channel, the families of the Somerset village of Street can no longer avoid its long shadow. Workers in the Clarks shoe factory, at the heart of the village...

Animati dall’orgoglio per il proprio paese, incalzati dal professor Kanterok e persino dai genitori (anch’essi darebbero loro dei vigliacchi se non lo facessero), Paul Bäumer e molti dei suoi compagni partono volontari per il fronte. Qui però la terra ribolle sotto l’esplodere delle bombarde, sprizzano fontane di fango e di ferro, volano schegge di granate e le pance dei cadaveri si gonfiano. Meyer, Marx, Hämmerling e Kemmerich sono morti, Haie Westhus sta morendo, Martens non ha più le gambe.

The Emperor's Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the passing of time and the loss of youth and friends. Prophetic and regretful, intuitive and exact, Roth's acclaimed novel is the tale of one man's struggle to come to terms with the uncongenial society of post-First World War Vienna and the first intimations of Nazi barbarities.

At the onset of the first World War, E.G. Lewis wielded his outsized charm and entrepreneurial spirit to attract legions of women to move across the country to build a new American dream in Atascadero, California. His new city, envisioned to rival Los Angeles and San Francisco, targeted the millions of subscribers to his national women's magazines who longed for a utopia designed for progressive women and their families.

March, 1918. British newspapers carry the dreadful news that the German Spring Offensive has begun, with thousands of British lives lost. Detective Sargeant Joe Keedy is awaiting release from hospital in London and is anxious to resume the fight against crime on the Home Front. Late one night, a bank is raided by a gang and the villains escape by car with a sizeable haul. Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion is put in charge of the case, but without Keedy at his side he faces an uphill battle to solve this perplexing case.

In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention. “A brilliant, beautiful book [that] touches the soul.”—Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of...

After a short spell in the trenches in 1915, Jack Cunningham, a miner from the North-East of England, finds himself recruited as a tunneler to dig mines under the German lines, becoming involved in the underground warfare between the two sides. Telling his story through a series of flashbacks, he is tormented by a voice inside his head, questioning his memories and his obvious guilt at surviving when others didn’t, swinging between varying states of confusion and control over his situation and over what is and isn’t real.

History tells us that baseball legends Christy Mathewson and Ty Cobb volunteered as Captains in the World War I Chemical Warfare Service. After the 1918 baseball season ended, both shipped out for France where they were exposed to poison gas during a training exercise. Mathewson got by far the worst of it, and died just a few years later, in 1925, of tuberculosis that was brought on by his exposure. History has it wrong.

Dr. Wolfgang Pike would love nothing more than to finish the requiem he’s composing for his late wife, but the ending seems as hopeless as the patients dying a hundred yards away at the Waverly Hills Tuberculosis sanatorium. If he can’t ease his own pain with music, he tries to ease theirs—but his boss thinks music is a waste, and in 1920s Louisville, the specter of racial tensions looms over everything. When a retired concert pianist arrives, Wolfgang is thrust into an orchestra of the most extraordinary kind that emerges to change everything.

From New York Harbor to the battlefields of France, relive World War One through the eyes of an unknown soldier, as told through his diary. See how the 100-year-old diary brings a father and his estranged son back together by retracing his experiences fighting in the battlefields of France in 1917 -1918 to his final resting place—the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

No More Parades is the second of four in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, a work that Ford hoped would contribute to the obviating of all future wars. The novel follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy British landowner and the last British Tory; his unfaithful wife, Sylvia; and his mistress, Valentine Wannop. Highlighting the tension between traditional values and the new reality of a world marred by war, the novel details Tietjens' turmoils in both his personal life and on the warfront—and what follows when those struggles become one and the same.

A heartfelt wartime saga from million-copy bestseller Rosie Clarke continues the Trenwith Series Caught between enemy lines – can they survive? 1914, Hampshire Jack Barlow has a dream. For generations his family have been in service at Trenwith Estate. If he can survive the ravages of war...

The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf, by Louis Joseph Vance, was first published in 1918, and is the second of what eventually became an 8-book series. The main character, known as The Lone Wolf, is a reformed jewel thief who in this story, is a British spy, who uses several names including Michael Lanyard.

Die Fortsetzung der Familiensaga um eine große Liebe zur Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin Margit Steinborn. Du hast mich gefunden, doch schon beginnt der Sommer, lange Schatten zu werfen... Berlin, 1914. Isa und Henning träumen von einer gemeinsamen Zukunft, doch die Wirklichkeit schiebt sich unbarmherzig zwischen sie. Die gesellschaftlichen Schranken der Kaiserzeit prägen das Leben in der Hauptstadt und der Krieg fordert erste Opfer. Aus Pflichtgefühl verlobt die Arbeitertochter Isa sich mit ihrem Freund Viktor.

The Parade's End tetralogy privileges not the conflict of World War I itself, but the impact the war had on its participants and upon society writ large. It is often referred to as one of the greatest 20th century novels, and one of the best depictions of war in literature.

In the last days of World War I, Corporal Adolf Hitler was blinded by mustard gas, necessitating a month-long confinement in a military psychiatric hospital. Peculiarly, amid Germany's final days of World War I, the modest corporal was transported 700 kilometers from Ypres, Belgium, to northern German Pomerania, seeking the expertise of the nation's foremost neuropsychiatric physician.

In the summer of 1914, sixteen-year-old Evan Sinclair leaves home to join the Great War for Civilization. Little does he know that, despite the war raging in Europe, the true source of conflict will emerge in Ottoman Palestine, since it's from Jerusalem where the German Kaiser dreams to rule as Holy Roman Emperor.