WW1
The Fallen Snow
When Joshua Hunter returns from the Great War to Appalachian Virginia in 1918, he’s surly to all his loved ones,…
The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret
Catherine Bailey went to Belvoir Castle on the Rutland family estate to “research a book about this small corner of…
The Meaning of Names
Germans began flocking to Nebraska in the mid-1800s, pushed out of Germany by revolution and drawn by cheap farmland. Their…
Biggles Learns to Fly
This novel was originally published in 1935, and Biggles is a very familiar name to me as he was my…
Dark Invasion
Though the United States remained neutral early in World War I, they sent munitions and supplies to fortify the Allies.…
The Moon Field
This is a book about Britain in the Great War, and George, junior postman, his pranks as a youth, his…
Upon a Wheel of Fire
Upon a Wheel of Fire is a thoughtful, era-spanning, epic novel that moves from WW1 through the interwar years to…
When the Guns Fall Silent
Jack Loveless, veteran and war hero, takes his grandson to visit the allied cemeteries in Northern France, 50 years after…
World War I Tales: The Bomber Balloon
A village in Essex, 1916. World War I is raging, and ordinary civilians are also under attack. The Germans are…
Home Fires
Elizabeth Day’s quiet, moving novel about war and recovery tells the stories of soldiers who come home and those who…
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