WW1
Forest Brothers
This debut novel opens in Estonia in 1918, in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when the country…
Fields of Glory
This deeply moving little book comes to the reader softly, like a rainstorm of the lower Loire. Words patter on…
Aprons and Silver Spoons
At fourteen years old Mollie is told that she must find a job. Without any skills, she takes a job…
The Ambassador’s Daughter
Margot Rosenthal spent the majority of the war in England with her father, a professor. Now her father is one…
S.O.S. Lusitania
1915. Thirteen-year-old Finbar Kennedy suffers from prophetic nightmares. His latest is of an explosion on a big ship, and he’s…
Hornet’s Sting
This novel vividly describes the multitude of characters and exploits of Hornet Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps and opens with…
A Conscious Englishman
Set in 1914 shortly after the declaration of war, this biographical novel covers the final years of journalist and poet…
Instrument of Slaughter
In the bleak winter of 1916, war takes its increasing toll of young servicemen in France. For some Londoners, the…
Love for a Soldier
Spring 1918. Crash-landed in German-occupied France after an aerial duel with the Red Baron, wounded and desperate for escape, Captain…
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
In an event well known to history, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo on the morning of June 28,…
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