On the Western Front: The Great War in Print
 | A Century of November By Wetherell, W. D. 2004-09 - University of Michigan Press 9780472114313 Check Our Catalog A haunting story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope in a time of war …More |
  | Birdsong By Faulks, Sebastian 1997-06 - Vintage Books USA 9780679776819 Check Our Catalog Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come. …More |
 | Deafening By Itani, Frances 2004-11 - Grove Press 9780802141651 Check Our Catalog A Canadian bestseller for 16 weeks, this magnificent tale of love and war is set on the eve of World War I as a young deaf woman and a soldier try to sustain their intimacy. …More |
 | Maisie Dobbs By Winspear, Jacqueline 2004-06 - Penguin Books 9780142004333 Check Our Catalog Hailed by NPRas "Fresh Air" as part "Testament of Youth," part Dorothy Sayers, and part "Upstairs, Downstairs," this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie Dobbs to the ranks of literatureas favorite sleuths. Maisie Dobbs isnat just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligenceaand the patronage of her benevolent employersashe works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse. It is there that she learns that coincidences are meaningful and the truth elusive. After the War, Maisie sets up on her own as a private investigator. But her very first assignment, seemingly an ordinary infidelity case, soon reveals a much deeper, darker web of secrets, which will force Maisie to revisit the horrors of the Great War and the love she left behind. …More |
 | A Son at the Front By Wharton, Edith 1995-09 - Northern Illinois University Press 9780875805689 Check Our Catalog …More |
 | The Ghost Road By Barker, Pat 1996-11 - Plume Books 9780452276727 Check Our Catalog Winner - 1995 Booker Award The Ghost Road is the shattering conclusion of Pat barker's brilliant World War I trilogy. Set in the final months of the war, The Ghost Road focuses on Dr. William Rovers, the compassionate psychiatrist of Regeneration and Lt. Billy Prior, last seen as a domestic intelligence agent in The Eye in the Door. "A triumph of imagination".--Publisher's Weekly. …More |
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