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A classic portrait of America during World War I, from American author Zane Grey, famously known for his romanticized stories about the old West. 'The Desert of Wheat' (1919) sets the tone for a nation's anxiety at the brink of a century of change. It is a 20th century tale of romance and sabotage, describing the effect war has on a country and its people. Grey has written a classic Western with a patriotic and anti-union propaganda twist, recounting...

An American ambulance driver serving on the Austro-Italian front in World War I becomes entangled with an English nurse and deserts to join her after the retreat of Caparetto.

Tells the story of Amory Blaine as he struggles to grow up in the years following his return from World War I.

The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War, helping to deal with the many wounded. There, serving on a hospital ship, she makes a promise to a dying young lieutenant to take a message to his brother, Jonathan Graham: "Tell Jonathan that I lied. I did it for Mother's sake. But it has to be set right." Later, when her ship is sunk by a mine and she's sidelined...

"A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable." — Boston Globe

One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)

Historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.

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"In 1917 London, misguided suffragette Grace Mabry hands a white feather of cowardice to Jack Benningham, secretly serving as an English spy, neither aware of the extent of the danger and betrayal soon to surround them both"-- Provided by publisher.

Ian Rutledge returns to his job at Scotland Yard after five years on the battlefield, keeping secret the fact that he is still suffering from shell shock, and almost immediately is sent to investigate the case of a murdered military officer in which the chief suspect is a much-decorated war hero.

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.

A story of a stray dog who accompanies his new master in the trenches of World War I.

A farewell to arms: A tale of wartime love, it tells the heart-wrenching story of ambulance driver Lt. Frderic Henry and his love, nurse Catherine Barkley. The two meet and fall in love in Italy during WWI and though war and destruction rages around them, the couple will stop at nothing to be together. Penny serenade: As Julie prepares to leave her husband Roger, she begins to play through a stack of recordings that chronicle their life together....