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Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The Great War, March 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope. With a German offensive imminently approaching, the company anxiously awaits their unknown fate.
Language
English
Description
Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail.
3) War horse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young German soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time. When twenty-year-old Paul Baumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiam. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"After the death of her missionary brother, Rose finds herself in German Central Africa in the midst of World War I, with a growing hatred of the Germans. Serving as her makeshift ally is Charlie Allnutt. Allnutt's desire is wait out the rest of the war in some marshy backwater proves no match for Rose's determination to strike a blow for england, and a plan takes shape."--BOOK JACKET.
7) Under fire
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Under Fire (1916) is a novel by Henri Barbusse. Written from notes taken while Barbusse was serving in the First World War, the novel was quickly, recognized as, a powerful tale of perseverance and comradery in the face of unspeakable suffering. Intended to promote the cause of pacifism, Under Fire is deeply critical of the rich and powerful men whose inability to live peacefully, leads time-and-again to the sacrifice of countless human lives. "Each...
Author
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Germany Ascendant, Buttar examines the critical year of 1915, when Germany launched the great Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, lead by Field Marshal Mackensen. The move, which started as a minor German operation to relieve their Austro-Hungarian allies, ultimately resulted in the utter collapse of Russian forces from all of Poland and Gallacia, and came tantalizingly close to knocking Russia out of the war altogether. Next the Germans led the invasion...
Author
Language
English
Description
At 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo, the twentieth century could be said to have been born. The repercussions of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand are with us to this day. The immediate aftermath of that act was war. Global in extent, it would last almost five years and leave five million civilian casualties and more than nine million military dead. The war also left us...
10) World War I
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides an eyewitness account of the war that devastated Europe, from the assassination of an archduke to the killing fields of France. New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text! Here is an original and exciting guide to the grim challenge of life or death on the Western Front. Devastating first-hand reports and contemporary photographs of the battles that slaughtered millions, together with a clear account of how nation upon...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power. Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate on Europe₂s western front. France and Great Britain are on one side of the barbed wire, a fierce German...
Author
Series
Publisher
EDC Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Technologically, World War I was the first modern war, but the generals in charge were trained during an age of cavalry. The result was massive slaughter, making it one of the most troubling wars of history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Tells of the patriotic Americans who fought in the trenches and from the home front during this first global war. The author recounts the horrors of modern warfare, as armies fought with deadly weapons such as machine guns and poisonous gas for the first time.
20) World War I
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Chronologically presents significant events of World War One, from the development of the Franco-Prussian War in the late nineteenth century through the Paris Peace Conference held in 1919.
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