"Two women--a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947--are brought together in a . . . story of courage and redemption"--Amazon.
In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons whileher father is away fightingin World War I, twelve- year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a Germanspy.
Describes some of the creative and subversive tactics used during World War I, including the adventures of Eugene Bullard, the first African-American fighter pilot, a kind of camouflage called Dazzle Painting that made ships look like Easter eggs, or that Americans Indians sent secret messages as code talkers in the Choctaw Telephone Squad.
A fictionalized biography of eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, who remembers his boyhood and the events leading up to World War I, as he lies dying on a battlefield in France.
Provides an illustrated overview of America's involvement in World War I, discussing how the conflict started, its impact on the world, the weaponry used, the major battles, and other related topics.
In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy.
Examines the life of John McCrae, discussing his childhood, family, careers in medicine and the military, World War I experience, and other related topics, and including more than one hundred photographs, documents, and images.
Provides information about various aspects of World War I, discussing the causes and outbreak of the war, different battles and fronts, and the end of hostilities, and features a time line of key events and developments over the course of the entire war, as well as topical time lines.
