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By: Edith Wharton (1862-1937) | |
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Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the lines, including hospitals, ravaged villages, and trenches. Fighting France records her travels along the front in 1914 and 1915, and celebrates the indomitable spirit of the French people. | |
The Marne: a tale of the war
American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She lived in Paris throughout World War I and was heavily involved in refugee work. Her 1918 novella The Marne dramatizes the events of the war as seen through the eyes of 15-year-old Troy Belknap, an American boy who longs to join up and save his beloved France. | |
Coming Home 1916 | |
Son At The Front
This is an overlooked novel by the author of House Of Mirth, Age Of Innocence, and more. She already became the first woman to win the Pulitzer prize for literature before this novel was written. Edith Wharton is known for her combination of social observations, criticism, and compassion. This WWI novel is told from the point of view of parents, forced to live their own lives when their son is at the front. John and Julia are divorced parents. When their only son George enlists, Julia and her second husband do their best to give him a desk job... |
By: Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) | |
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Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France |
By: Edmund John Kennedy (-1915) | |
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With The Immortal Seventh Division |
By: Edward A. (Edward Austin) Johnson (1860-1944) | |
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History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest |
By: Edward Alexander Moore (1842-) | |
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The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia |
By: Edward Alexander Powell (1879-1957) | |
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Fighting in Flanders | |
The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean | |
Italy at War and the Allies in the West |
By: Edward Alva Trueblood | |
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In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France |
By: Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) | |
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Never Again! | |
The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife |
By: Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) | |
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Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 |
By: Edward G. D. (Edward George Downing) Liveing (1895-1963) | |
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Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 |
By: Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) | |
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Memoirs of My Life and Writings |
By: Edward Gilliat (1841-1915) | |
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Romance Of Modern Sieges; Describing The Personal Adventures, Resource And Daring of Besiegers and Besieged In All Parts Of The World
Lively narratives of some of the great siege battles of war. The book was written before World War I, in 1908. Some of the narratives contain language which was common in 19th and early twentieth century usage but which listeners today may find offensive. |
By: Edward Gleichen (1863-1937) | |
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The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 |
By: Edward Howard Griggs (1868-1951) | |
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The Soul of Democracy The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty |
By: Edward John Thompson (1886-1946) | |
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The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad |
By: Edward Keble Chatterton (1878-1944) | |
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Daring Deeds of Famous Pirates
Edward Chatterton, a prolific British author of maritime adventures, presents fascinating stories of pirates and their exploits from earliest times through the 19th century. Chapters include the history of piracy in Tudor and Elizabethan times and stories of legendary pirates such as Black Beard, Henry Morgan, and Captain Kidd. - Summary by Larry Wilson |
By: Edward Lamplough (1845-1919) | |
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Yorkshire Battles
Edward Lamplough describes 22 battles that all occurred in Yorkshire over many time periods and political contexts. - Summary by lightcrystal |
By: Edward Osler (1798-1863) | |
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The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth |
By: Edward P. Lowry | |
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With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back |
By: Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) | |
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Taken Alive |
By: Edward Phillips Oppenheim | |
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The Zeppelin's Passenger
The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a tale of German espionage in England during World War I. Dreymarsh is a fictional “backwater” area in England with no apparent military value. The story begins with Dreymarsh residents discovering an observation car from a German zeppelin along with a Homburg hat near Dreymarsh. The mystery is further complicated when an Englishman, Mr. Hamar Lessingham, presents himself at Mainsail Haul which is the residence of Sir Henry Cranston. Lessingham bears with him, hand-carried letters from Major Richard Halstead, and a British prisoner of war in Germany... | |
Havoc
Havoc occurs when European countries are discussing covert alliances. The story revolves around the creation of a secret alliance between Germany, Russia, and Austria. The English hope to split Russia away by holding the Czar to his previous public commitments, but they need proof of what was done to create the pressure. All the pressures that lead to WWI are there, but the intrigues and secret treaties create an interesting background to the twists and turns of the plot. | |
Double Traitor
The setting is the years prior to the outbreak of World War I. It is a time when Germany is outwardly preparing for war but Britain continues to believe it is invincible and that no one would challenge her. A vast German spy network flourishes in England, often in plain view. The main character is Francis Norgate, an aspiring British diplomat who falls in disfavor with his superiors for defending a woman while stationed in Berlin. The resulting scandal causes Norgate to be recalled. On the way home, he meets a German gentleman, Selingman, who claims to be a crockery salesman... | |
Vanished Messenger
A conference of European nations is being held in the Hague. England has not been invited to attend. Some think war is about to break out. Mr. John P. Dunster, an American, is traveling to the Hague with an important document that may prevent the outbreak of war when he mysteriously disappears after a train wreck in England. Richard Hamel is asked by the British government to attempt to solve the mystery of Dunster’s disappearance and prevent the outbreak of war in Europe. |
By: Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) | |
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The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods | |
The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine |
By: Edward Streeter (1891-1976) | |
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Dere Mable
Bill is in training camp, preparing to go off to World War I. This book is a collection of love letters written to his sweetheart, Mable. The letters are humorous, mis-spelled, and have many stories of life in an army camp – all from Bill’s unique perspective. |
By: Edward Sylvester Ellis (1840-1916) | |
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The Daughter of the Chieftain : the Story of an Indian Girl |
By: Edward William Bok (1863-1930) | |
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The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after |
By: Edwin F. Benson (1867-1940) | |
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Crescent and Iron Cross | |
Dodo Wonders
"Dodo Wonders" is the third and last of the "Dodo" novels by E.F. Benson, author of the "Mapp and Lucia" series as well as numerous stand-alone novels and short stories. Dodo was rumored to be based on Lady Margot Asquith; when questioned about it, Lady Asquith reportedly replied that Benson had taken nothing from her for the character of Dodo "except her drawing-room." "Dodo Wonders" takes Benson's characters, the glittering socialite Lady Dodo Chesterford, her husband, and friends into World War I-era England... |
By: Edwin George Rundle (1838-) | |
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A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle |
By: Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) | |
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A Message to Garcia Being a Preachment |
By: Eleanor C. (Eleanor Catherine) Price | |
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Angelot A Story of the First Empire |
By: Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1878-1933) | |
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress. Later, seeking to better herself, she accepted employment as a housekeeper for a well-to-do Scotch cattle-man, Mr. Stewart, who had taken up a quarter-section in Wyoming. The letters, written through several years to a former employer in Denver, tell the story of her new life in the new country... | |
Letters on an Elk Hunt
This is a sequel to Letters of a Woman Homesteader in which Elinore Rupert (Pruitt) Stewart describes her arrival and early years on a Burntfork Wyoming ranch in 1909-1913. The letters are written to her elderly friend, Mrs. Coney, in Denver. In the present collection of letters, Elinore describes a lively excursion on horseback and wagon into the Wyoming wilderness during July-October 1914. Her traveling companions are her husband “Mr. Stewart,” their three oldest children, and kind-hearted, opinionated neighbor Mrs... |
By: Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1842-1933) | |
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Boots and Saddles
Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870’s life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, just before her husband and his troops met their tragic deaths in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. “Our life,” she writes, “was often as separate from the rest of the world as if we had been living on an island in the ocean.” Her portrait of her husband, General George Armstrong Custer is laudatory—his intellect, his love of dogs (he kept a hunting pack of 40 at the post); but, Boots and Saddles is more than just a memorial... |
By: Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1867-1947) | |
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The Story of a Pioneer |
By: Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) | |
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A Simple Story
The story could really have been simple: Miss Milner, who is admired for her beauty and charm, could have been a socialite, marry a respectable and good looking man and be happy in the standards of her time. But if it was so, why would there be a book? Miss Milner, beautiful and charming as she is, announces her wish to marry her guardian, a catholic priest. But women in the 18th century do not declare their wishes or speak about their passions, and- after all- he is a catholic priest… And if he finds a way to marry her, is this her road to happiness? |
By: Elizabeth M. Duffield | |
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Lucile Triumphant |
By: Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873-1961) | |
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Peking Dust |
By: Elmore Barce (1872-1945) | |
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The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 |
By: Elsie Knocker (1884-1978) | |
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Cellar-House of Pervyse
Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker were two British nurses and ambulance drivers whose staggeringly heroic efforts during World War I saved countless lives and earned them life-long honor. They were especially known for their determination to treat wounded soldiers on the front lines instead of transporting them at great risk to "safer" hospital facilities, even though many of their actions went directly contrary to official bureaucratic regulations. In November of 1914, they took the step for which they are most famous... |
By: Emile Cammaerts (1878-1953) | |
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Through the Iron Bars Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium |
By: Emile Joseph Dillon (1855-1933) | |
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England and Germany |
By: Émile Zola (1840-1902) | |
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The Downfall |
By: Emilie Searchfield | |
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The Heiress of Wyvern Court |
By: Emily Sarah Holt (1836-1893) | |
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A Forgotten Hero Not for Him |
By: Emmett J. Scott (1873-1957) | |
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Negro Migration during the War |
By: Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts | |
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The Story of the "9th King's" in France |
By: Eric Fisher Wood (1889-1962) | |
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The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone |
By: Ernest Belfort Bax (1854-1926) | |
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German Culture Past and Present |
By: Ernest Dunlop Swinton (1868-1951) | |
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The Defence of Duffer's Drift |
By: Ernest Protheroe | |
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Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell
Edith L. Cavell (1865–1915) was a British nurse who attended to soldiers of both sides during World War I, and helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium, for which she was arrested, court-martialed, found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Attempts to mount an appeal failed, and she was summarily executed within hours of the sentence by a German firing squad. Publication of the news prompted spontaneous grief and worldwide condemnation. Many memorials were created around the world, including a statue adjacent to Trafalgar Square in London... |