world war, 1914-1918

"The story of three downed British airmen who mastermind an elaborate, rollicking escape from a WWI German POW camp"--Provided by publisher.

"The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: 'Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?' but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music revealing that War is no match for the power of Love"--OCLC.

"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.

"It's 1918, and war is everywhere. John's father is fighting in the trenches far away in France, while his mother works in a menacing munitions factory just down the road. His teacher says that John is fighting, too, that he is at war with enemy children in Germany. One day, in the wild woods outside town, John has an impossible moment: a dreamlike meeting with a German boy named Jan. John catches a glimpse of a better world, in which children like Jan and himself can one day scatter the seeds of peace"--Provided by the publisher.

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.

An introduction to the history of World War I which erupted in 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

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 medic sent to the front lines in the trenches of World War I writes a letter home to his young son.

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.