world war i

The harsh life of young eleven-year-old Andrew Boyd is forever altered in the summer of 1910, along with everyone he would meet from that day forth. In the lull between two wars, America wades within the shallows of prejudice and self-worth. Yet Andy serves as a mirror that unconsciously reflected people for what they truly are. Poor and hardworking, he and his mother obtain work in the industrial thriving city of Richmond, by means of the prosperously influential Stone family [From back cover.].

A devastating story of war and a generation destroyed.

Olga, the oldest daughter of the last Russian Tsar, Nicolas II, kept a diary from the time she was ten, in 1905, until March 1917, when her father abdicated from the Russian throne. Olga's diaries are held at the State Archives of the Russian Federation in Moscow. Her diaries from the World War I era have never been translated until this volume.

Harry Patch was the last surviving British soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. His memoir chronicles his Edwardian childhood, fighting in the mud during the Battle of Passchendaele, working on the home front during World War II and his fame in life as his legacy grew. He died in 2009 at 111 years of age.

European immigrants who left their native lands for America in the years during World War I often found themselves an immigrant one day and a soldier the next. The newly-arrived men were proud to serve their new country and those who survived were profoundly altered as their heroic service reshaped their families and the nation itself.

Shows that the war, once it began, did not just become an unstoppable machine but that politicians deliberately took risks that led to war in July 1914. Far from being overwhelmed, political leaders on both sides remained very much in control of events throughout. The disturbing reality is that the course of World War I was the result of conscious choices---including the continued acceptance of astronomical casualties.

Why did World War I end with a whimper, essentially an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four years of desperate fighting, why did the Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany in 1918 and taking Berlin? Did such an incomplete victory join the other reasons as the cause of World War II?.