Presents a photographic history of World War I, focusing on America's participation in the conflict, examining the reasons why the U.S. joined the war effort, and the experiences of soldiers as well as citizens on the home front.
Presents information on the airplane pilots of World War I, including a biography of several flying aces, how they were trained, and what type of planes they flew. Includes glossary and index.
Examines the issues surrounding the European nations in the years prior to World War I including the Spanish-American War, American imperialism, tensions between France and Germany after the Franco-Prussian War, and U.S. policies toward Europe.
Readers learn how new technology exploded and resulted in developments in cryptography and surveillance as both sides raced to crack the codes and win the war.
Exmamines the social and political issues of the 1920s, when immigration, the women's vote, prohibition, African American movement to the North, and communism were all fiercely debated.
In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle.
Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.
A retelling of the "Frog Prince" fairy tale in which a young woman, stranded at her Belgian estate on the Western front of World War I, finds a soldier who has been injured by poison gas at the bottom of her well, and feels compelled to save him from the Germans.
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.
