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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
533 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"By April 1916, the fervor that accompanied war's outbreak has faded. In its place is a grim reality. Throughout Germany, essentials are rationed. Hope, too, is in short supply. Anna Zeller, whose fiancé, Bruno, is fighting on the western front, works as a nurse at an overcrowded hospital in Oldenburg, trying to comfort men broken in body and spirit. But during a visit from Dr. Stalling, the director of the Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association,...
382) Once an eagle
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 520 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The epic story of America in the 20th century, told through the lives of two career soldiers, spanning both World Wars. Sam Damon is a courageous and compassionate man who finds his calling leading his men in war and in peacetime. Courtney Massengale, on the other hand, is a ruthless achiever who will let nothing stand in his way to the top. In the late days of World War I, Damon and Massengale become friends, but as events unfold, the vast difference...
383) The horizon
Author
Series
Royal Marines saga volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"This story takes Jonathan Blackwood into the 1914-1918 war, and is in two parts. The first, the Gallipoli campaign offers a horrifying initiation into war and the second half concerns the Naval Division in Flanders and trench warfare."--Fantastic fiction.
384) The dancing years
Author
Series
Morland dynasty volume 33
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
503 p. ; 23 cm.
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Susan moves with her father from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood, an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son's own tour of duty begins. Finding out whether he will return home safely or not makes for some of the most dramatic moments in motion picture history.
386) The wayward prince
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 319 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"The fate of Prince Harry and the British throne lies in the hands of Joanna and the Watsons in The Wayward Prince, the next Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery from USA Today bestselling author Leonard Goldberg"--
388) Rusted souls
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Leeds, 1920. Chief Constable Tom Harper of Leeds City Police has just six weeks left in the role before his well-earned retirement. But even though his distinguished forty-year career is ending, the crime and mayhem on the city's streets continues. Council leader Alderman Thompson is being blackmailed. He wants Harper to find the love letters he sent to a young woman called Charlotte Radcliffe and return them discreetly. Elsewhere, masked, armed robbers...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxv, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"As a young British intelligence officer in Cairo, archaeologist and adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence became involved in the 1916 Arab Revolt, fighting alongside rebel forces against the Ottomans. He made a legendary 300-mile journey through blistering heat; he wore Arab dress; and he strongly identified with the people in his adopted lands. By 1918, he had a £20,000 price on his head. Despite readers' long fascination in his story, Lawrence--one...
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (approximately 1440 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
History marks the advent of modern warfare in the 20th century with this epic DVD collection. Discover how the First World War changed the face of battle forever from hand-to-hand combat to high-tech warfare, in History of WWI: the first modern war. Experience the acrobatic encounters of flying aces high above the battlefield in Dogfights. Watch the Normadny assault in spectacular high definition in D-Day in HD, and learn soldiers' personal stories...
392) Death of a showman
Author
Series
Jane Prescott novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"In Mariah Fredericks's Death of a Showman, the fourth in this absorbing series set in Gilded Age New York, lady's maid Jane Prescott is thrust into the world of show business, where a killer is stalking Broadway. It's the summer of 1914 and Jane Prescott-lady's maid to Louise Tyler, daughter of a wealthy New York society family-has just arrived home from Independence Day celebrations to find musician Leo Hirschfeld playing the Tylers' piano. Jane's...
393) Dogs of war
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
194 p : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs. Based on true stories.
394) The African Queen
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
Author
Series
Locke and Key volume 7
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
210 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"Take a trip through the past and unlock moments from Keyhouse's long history that expand the saga of the Locke family in this collection of stories including the crossover with Neil Gaiman's Sandman Universe! Contains three prequel short stories, "Small World," "Open the Moon," and, collected for the first time, "Face the Music," leading into the gut-wrenching tour de force that begins with ...In Pale Battalions Go... and culminates with the Sandman...
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