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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Bir tayyarecinin anilari	Vecihi Hurkus	Hürkuş, Vecihi, 1896-1969; Turkish pilot; memoirs; First World War.	OL10238176W
November 1918	Alfred Döblin	November 1918: A German Revolution (German: November 1918, eine deutsche Revolution) is a tetralogy of novels by German writer Alfred Döblin about the German Revolution of 1918–1919. The four v…	OL10438563W
The Wilderling	Claire Lorrimer	Although born into the British aristocracy, the Honourable Sophia Lucienne Rochford was raised in obscurity first in a French convent and then in a Parisian brothel. Like a wilderling—a cultivated fl…	OL10540189W
Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler	1925 autobiographical book "My Struggle" (USA: "My Battle") by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler On April 1, 1924, because of the sentence handed down by the People's Court of Munich, I had to begin …	OL1067314W
A prisoner in Turkey	John Still	A first hand account of a British officer's experience as a prisoner of war in Turkey following his capture at Gallipoli in 1915.	OL1078296W
World War I	Tom McGowen	Provides an overview of the military battles and political changes that occurred during World War I.	OL109031W
Life class	Pat Barker	In the Spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when…	OL11221638W
The ghost road	Pat Barker	From Amazon.com: The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize. The Ghost Road is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fi…	OL11221644W
A month in the country	James Lloyd Carr	According to blogger/reviewer Moira Redmond, "This is famously a book where nothing happens." Birkin, a young war veteran arrives at a small country church to restore a recently-discovered 14th ce…	OL112983W
Fighting in Flanders	E. Alexander Powell	Fighting in Flanders by Alexander Powell	OL1140424W
Jahrgang 1902	Ernst Glaeser	„Der Krieg gehörte den Erwachsenen, wir liefen sehr einsam dazwischen herum.“ – Ernst wächst behütet in einer süddeutschen Kleinstadt des späten Kaiserreichs auf, und seine Welt scheint zunächst inta…	OL1156346W
Lord of the Nutcracker men	Iain Lawrence	Ten-year-old Johnny eagerly plays at war with the army of nutcracker soldiers his toymaker father whittles for him. He demolishes imaginary foes. But in 1914 Germany looms as the real enemy of Europe…	OL116319W
William Kentridge	Jane Taylor,Maria-Christina Villasenor,William Kentridge,Carolyn Christov Bakargiev,William Kentridge	"William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg) has always addressed the more challenging and intimate aspects of contemporary life and of South Africa, both during Apartheid and in the post-Apartheid per…	OL11636684W
Great Britain and the War of 1914-1918	Woodward, E. L. Sir	xxxix, 610 pages : 21 cm	OL1193600W
Gifts of War	Mackenzie Ford	During the Christmas Truce of 1914, Hal Montgomery, a British soldier, is given a photo by a German soldier, Wilhelm Wetzlar, and they make a pact. Hal promises to find his enemy's English girlfriend…	OL12049733W
Weg zurück	Erich Maria Remarque	This is the sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front. Published in 1931 this novel tell the story of the social upheaval and discord experienced by the German soldiers returning home after the Great …	OL1209312W
Your daughter, Fanny	Frances Cluett	xxxi, 172 p. : 22 cm	OL12178146W
Mr. Wilson's war	John Dos Passos	Beginning with the assassination of McKinley and ending with the defeat of the League of Nations by the United States Senate, the twenty-year period covered by John Dos Passos in this lucid and fasci…	OL1217985W
Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh	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 …	OL1219873W
The First World War, 1914-1920	Morris, Richard Brandon	Uses excerpts from letters, diaries, novels, poetry, press reports, documents, and other contemporary sources to portray the events in Europe and the United States before, during, and after World War…	OL1223210W