WW1
Home Fires
Elizabeth Day’s quiet, moving novel about war and recovery tells the stories of soldiers who come home and those who…
World War I Tales: The Pigeon Spy
1918, France. The Germans are in retreat but, somehow, in the chaos of war, the American 77th battalion of 200…
Stay Where You Are and Then Leave
Editors' choice
London, 1914. It is Alfie Summerfield’s fifth birthday, and news has just broken that fighting has started in France. World…
At Break of Day
Ho-hum, thinks the reader – yet another novel about the Great War. Misgivings increase when the story, starting on the…
Stella Bain
Amid the rage of World War I, an American nurse is found wounded in France – and she has no…
Somewhere in France
Lady Elizabeth “Lilly” Neville-Ashford, the daughter of the Earl and Countess of Cumberland, is thoroughly stifled by her place in…
On Wings of Death
This book is set in in the First World War, where Sergeant Miller is a pilot in the Royal Flying…
Five Dead Canaries
1916. In the third of Marston’s Home Front Detective series, six young female ‘canaries’ from a munitions factory supplying the…
In Falling Snow
Readers are spoiled for choice with new historical novels set during WWI. Most offer similar themes: navigating the era’s shifting…
Unmentionables
In August 1917, the traveling Chautauqua assembly is filling tents all over the Midwest with programs designed to edify and…
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