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The Promise by Ruth Saberton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNo matter what promises you make, some dark secrets refuse to stay buried... When Nell Summers stumbles across a photograph in her late father’s belongings, the faded image of a young soldier leads her to question everything she knows...Categorized as:
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![A Nightingale Christmas Promise by Donna Douglas]()
A Nightingale Christmas Promise by Donna Douglas
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor the first time, a Nightingale nurses novel set during the First World War. Follow the senior staff as they overcome the trials of their training years. From Sunday Times top ten bestselling author, Donna Douglas. East London, 1914 Britain is preparing itself for war... -
![The Lion at Sea by Max Hennessy]()
The Lion at Sea by Max Hennessy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMidshipman Kelly Maguire has always had a love affair with the sea. And when war clouds gather over Europe, Maguire is put to the test along with the marine might of the Royal Navy. From the Hellish battles of Gallipoli to the barbarous action at Antwerp, Maguire begins to learn the lessons a sailor must face. Glory and danger abound in this sizzling saga of adventure, blood and guts... -
![War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon]()
War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe poems gathered here, which trace the course of the First World War, are an extraordinary testimony to the almost unimaginable experiences of a combatant in that bitter conflict. Moving from the patriotic optimism of the first few poems (...fighting for our freedom, we are free) to the anguish and anger of the later work (where hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists / Flounders in mud.. -
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![The Fallen Kings by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]()
The Fallen Kings by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1918: German troops flood back from the Eastern Front for an all-out assault in France, before the Americans can join the war. The under-strength British retreat, and for the first time the real possibility of defeat comes home to a shocked nation... -
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Company K by William March
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStemming directly from the author's experiences with the US Marines in France during World War I, this book consists of 113 sketches, or chapters, tracing the fictional Company K's war exploits and providing an emotional history of the men of the company that extends beyond the boundaries of the war itself... -
![Brown on Resolution by C.S. Forester]()
Brown on Resolution by C.S. Forester
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFor all his young life Albert Brown had known that he was to join the Navy, and the beginning of the First World War finds him a Leading Seaman. Alone on the barren island of Resolution in the South Pacific, he fights against the might of a German battleship. This is the first of C.S.Forester's novels about the sea...Categorized as:
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![The Lost Soldiers by Liz Trenow]()
The Lost Soldiers by Liz Trenow
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author comes a remarkable novel of three women whose lives have been torn apart by war. For fans of The Nightingale, Wives of War and Lilac Girls, In Love and War reveals the strength, love and courage found even in the darkest of times, and the ultimate triumph of hope... -
![Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull]()
Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn epic story of love found and lost, Losing Julia begins in 1928 at the dedication of a memorial to the great War in France. American Patrick Delaney has come to mourn his fallen comrades, especially his best friend, Daniel. When he sees a woman standing alone in the crowd, he realizes she must be Julia, Daniel’s lover... -
![The Echo of Twilight by Judith Kinghorn]()
The Echo of Twilight by Judith Kinghorn
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of The Last Summer, a captivating and moving story of the unlikely relationship between a lady and her maid on the eve of World War I.As I watched him — his long legs striding the narrow path through the heather, his golden hair catching the sun — I had a hideous feeling in the pit of my stomach. For it seemed as though he was already marching away from me... -
![Biggles The Camels Are Coming by W.E. Johns]()
Biggles The Camels Are Coming by W.E. Johns
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt the end of WW1, Biggles and fellow pilots contend with enemies in their own Sopwith Camels. "The Camel closed up until it was flying beside him; the pilot smiling. Biggles showed his teeth in what he imagined to be an answering smile. 'You swine,' he breathed: 'you dirty, unutterable, murdering swine! I'm going to kill you if it's the last thing I do on earth... -
![Breakthroughs by Harry Turtledove]()
Breakthroughs by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIs it the war to end all wars--or war without end? What began as a conflict in Europe, when Germany unleashed a lightning assault on its enemies, soon spreads to North America, as a long-simmering hatred between two independent nations explodes in bloody combat. Twice in fifty years the Confederate States of America had humiliated their northern neighbor. Now revenge may at last be at hand... -
![Post voor mevrouw Bromley by Stefan Brijs]()
Post voor mevrouw Bromley by Stefan Brijs
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAugustus 1914. In Londen melden duizenden jongemannen zich aan om te gaan vechten tegen de Duitsers. Martin Bromley, zeventien en te jong voor het leger, probeert de twee jaar oudere John Patterson te overreden samen in dienst te gaan, maar die wil zijn droom om te gaan studeren niet opgeven... -
![Shannon by Frank Delaney]()
Shannon by Frank Delaney
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the summer of 1922, Robert Shannon, a Marine chaplain and a young American hero of the Great War, lands in Ireland. He still suffers from shell shock, and his mentor hopes that a journey Robert had always wanted to make—to find his family roots along the banks of the River Shannon—will restore his equilibrium and his vocation... -
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![Her Privates We by Frederic Manning]()
Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHer Privates We Frederic Manning First published in 1930 Her Privates We is the great book of World War 1 written from the ordinary soldier's point of view. Called the "book of books" by Lawrence of Arabia, Her Privates We is an expressionist classic that magnificently captures the horror of war... -
![The Poppy Sisters by Deborah Carr]()
The Poppy Sisters by Deborah Carr
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDivided by war. Reunited by courage.Two sisters, torn apart by war, face daily battles to save the lives of the wounded soldiers in their care…Older sister Phoebe is a VAD at a Base Hospital in Étaples, France, treating men who’ve served at the Front... -
![As the Poppies Bloomed: A Novel of Love in a Time of Fear by Maral Boyadjian]()
As the Poppies Bloomed: A Novel of Love in a Time of Fear by Maral Boyadjian
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeginning 24 months before WWI and the Armenian genocide is a love story that unravels a piece of 100-year-old history seen through the eyes of the young, courageous, and unyielding Anno and Daron... -
![1914 and Other Poems by Rupert Brooke]()
1914 and Other Poems by Rupert Brooke
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery... -
![The First of July by Elizabeth Speller]()
The First of July by Elizabeth Speller
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn July 1st, 1913, four very different men are leading four very different lives. Exactly three years later, it is just after seven in the morning, and there are a few seconds of peace as the guns on the Somme fall silent and larks soar across the battlefield, singing as they fly over the trenches. What follows is a day of catastrophe in which Allied casualties number almost one hundred thousand...Categorized as:
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![Katabasis by Joseph Brassey, Cooper Moo]()
Katabasis by Joseph Brassey, Cooper Moo
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe death of the fearsome Ögedei Khan has brought the Mongol invasion of the West to an abrupt halt. Exhausted, plagued by uncertainty and self-doubt, and reeling from betrayal by one of their own, the surviving Shield-Brethren struggle across a frozen, shattered wasteland to return home after their desperate battle in Mongolia... -
![The Cartographer of No Man's Land by P.S. Duffy]()
The Cartographer of No Man's Land by P.S. Duffy
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom a hardscrabble fishing village in Nova Scotia to the collapsing trenches of France, a richly atmospheric debut novel about a family divided by World War I.When adventurous Ebbin goes missing at the front in 1916, Angus defies his pacifist upbringing to join the war and search for his beloved brother-in-law... -
![While the Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier]()
While the Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhile the Gods Were Sleeping is a novel about the magnitude and impact of the First World War, the recollections of which are recorded in the notebooks of the elderly Helena. The young Helena is sent to her uncle’s country house before the war, and from here she witnesses scenes of indescribable horror... -
![Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll]()
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S... -
![On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides]()
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratings12 hrs 8 minsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean WarOn October 15, 1950, the vainglorious General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of U.N... -
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![Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor]()
Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That's who I am.He became famous through his academy award-winning performance as Dith Pran in the film The Killing Fields, but the key to Haing Ngor's screen success was the terrible truth of his own experiences in the rice paddies and labour camps of revolutionary Cambodia... -
![Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll]()
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe planning, the strategy, the sacrifices and heroics-on both sides-illuminating the greatest naval war in history. On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss... -
![The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze]()
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe idea that Nazi Germany was an unstoppable juggernaut, backed by an efficient, highly industrialized economy, has been central to all accounts of World War II... -
![The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns]()
The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country... -
![Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully]()
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMany consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange’s bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement... -
![The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk]()
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to...
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