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Krysia

a Polish girl's stolen childhood during World War II
2017
As German troops and bombs descended upon Poland, Krysia struggled to make sense of the wailing sirens, hushed adult conversations, and tearful faces of everyone around her. Within just days, the peaceful childhood she had known would disappear forever.

Private Peaceful

2003
Fourteen-year-old Thomas Peaceful decides join the British Army to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.

The home front encyclopedia

United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II
2007

Regeneration

1993
In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon, a combat officer and poet, writes a letter publicly disavowing the war. He is found to be "mentally unsound" and is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital, where there is a psychiatrist renowned for curing such cases.

Woodrow Wilson and world politics

America's response to war and revolution
1970
Analyzes President Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy principles, objectives, and actions and discusses how those policies affected, and were affected by, the changes that were taking place both in the United States and abroad.

World War I spies

2016
A historical account of espionage during World War II, including famous spies such as Mata Hari, covert missions, and technologies that influenced the course of the conflict.

This side of paradise

2010
Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student, experiences love, war, and poverty on his path toward self-realization in the World War I era.

Megiddo's Shadow

2008
After the death of his beloved older brother Hector in World War I, sixteen-year-old Edward leaves the family farm in Canada to enlist in Hector's battalion, where he attempts to come to terms with what has happened.

Armistice Day

2016
Relates, in graphic novel format, the events surrounding Armistice Day, the official end of World War I.

An Eagle in the Snow

In 1940 England, stuck in a train tunnel while German fighter jets fly overhead, Barney hears an unlikely story of a highly decorated World War I soldier who once had a chance to kill young Adolf Hitler.

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