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world war, 1914-1918

Life on the Western Front

Describes the weapons used in World War I; what life was like for soldiers on the front line, and how the trench systems of the Western Front saw some of the heaviest fighting of World War I.

The home fronts in World War I

Describes the many difficulties for people on the home front during World War I, from rationing and bombing raids to enemy occupation and the Spanish flu pandemic.

Hattie Big Sky

2007
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.

The singing tree

1940
Life changes drastically for a Hungarian family when World War I upsets their peaceful, contented existence and the children are left in charge of the farm.

Zeppelin!

a battle for air supremacy in World War I
1984

Charley's war

2 June 1916 - 1 August 1916
2004
A comic book featuring Charley Bourne, a British boy who lies about his age to enter the army in 1916. Bourne's romantic ideas about the war change as soon as he arrives in the trenches in France. Includes a detailed commentary on the writing and publication of the story.

Back to the front

an accidental historian walks the trenches of World War I
1997

The world collides

the Battle of Gallipoli
2009
Chronicles the Battle of Gallipoli, a nine month fight during World War I, in which Allied forces fought the armies of the Central powers to prevent the Central powers from controlling the European continent.

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