world war, 1914-1918

Told in graphic novel format, the story of Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, from his beginnings as a cavalry member and a pilot-in-training to his death at the age of twenty-five and his enduring legacy.

Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War II, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant.

Discusses the political and social conditions that led to World War I, including the growth of nationalism, the competition for territories in the Balkans once under Ottoman control, and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand..

Explores the events that occured after the armistice of 1918 ended World War I, describing the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that would create bitter resentment in Germany and pave the way for World War II.

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.].

Hatred and hunger: the great war had been the worst disaster in history. Nine million soldiers were killed and millions more were injured. War without end: broken hopes, broken families, broken lives. The world at the end of World War I was full of these.

Mutiny: by 1917, men, armies and nations were nearing a breaking point. For individual soldiers, it emerged as "shell shock", a personal withdrawal from an intolerable reality. Collapse: At the start of 1918, the odds looked bad for the Allies. With Russia knocked out of the war by revolution and the French Army rocked by mutiny, Germany stepped up the offensive on the Western Front.

Total war: by 1915 the conflict had spread across boundaries between continents and peoples, becoming a global war. Slaughter: World War I gave new meaning to death on the battlefield, a breadth and horror summed up in one word: slaughter.

Explosion: a sweeping look at the conditions and events that caused the cataclysm to unfold. Stalemate: the military believed that technical advances would make for a quick outcome on the battlefield.