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Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh
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Franz Werfel |
**The Forty Days of Musa Dagh** (German: *Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh*) is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of … |
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The Amazon Quest (The House of Winslow #25)
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Gilbert Morris |
Emily Winslow felt deeply indebted to James Parker when she learned that his wounds resulted from trying to save her brother's life in the trenches of World War I. But by the time she discovered what… |
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Crossing stones
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Helen Frost |
In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Murie… |
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The Enormous Room
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E. E. Cummings |
The Enormous Room is Cummings’s autobiographical narrative of the time he spent in La Ferté Mace, a French concentration camp a hundred miles west of Paris. Cummings and a friend, both members of an … |
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Birds Without Wings
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Louis de Bernières |
Birds Without Wings is a novel by Louis de Bernières, written in 2004. Narrated by various characters, it tells the tragic love story of Philothei and Ibrahim. It also chronicles the rise of Mustafa … |
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A Good Woman
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Danielle Steel |
Annabelle Worthington, born into a life of privilege, was raised amid the glamour of New York society. But everything changes on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic alters her w… |
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Men in War
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Andreas Latzko |
The time was late in the autumn of the second year of the war; the place, the garden of a war hospital in a small Austrian town, which lay at the base of wooded hills, sequestered as behind a Spanish… |
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The Children's Book
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A. S. Byatt |
Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize--winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I year… |
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Brothers far from home
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Jean Little |
In 1916, in Uxbridge, Ontario, twelve-year-old Eliza, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, chronicles her family's experiences after her two brothers leave for Europe to fight in the war. |
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Ashenden
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William Somerset Maugham,W Some Maugham |
THE GREATEST SPY IN THE HISTORY OF FICTION!
ASHENDEN is one of the two or three greatest spy stories ever written. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, himself a former British Operative, based this novel on his … |
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Paths of glory
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Humphrey Cobb |
Familiar to many as the Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, *Paths of Glory* explores the perilous complications involved in what nations demand of their soldiers in wartime. Humphrey Cobb's … |
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The murder stone
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Charles Todd |
Charles Todd's critically acclaimed novels featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge have been hailed by The Washington Post Book World as "one of the best historical series being written today.… |
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