Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I by Nick Lloyd
Reviewed by Jennifer Rude Klett (Library Staff) Finally, a World War I book that acknowledges the contributions of the US Doughboys. Thank you, Mr. Lloyd. I immensely appreciated the information on the...
View ArticleAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Reviewed by Jennifer Rude Klett (Library Staff) All Quiet On The Western Front has been exalted as the best war novel ever written. I would agree with that lofty label. This World War I tale is...
View ArticleANZAC Girls (2014)
Reviewed by Pat Plamann (Library Staff) Based on the book by Peter Rees, the bravery, determination and selflessness of the women and men in WWI is portrayed here to make the viewer feel they are right...
View ArticleRin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
Reviewed by Jennifer Rude-Klett (Library Staff) On September 15, 1918, during the first large American offensive in World War I, a U.S. soldier came across a bombed-out German dog kennel and found a...
View ArticleDead Wake by Erik Larson
Reviewed by Pat Plamann (Library Staff) It’s hard to imagine a world where war had its “gentlemanly” rules such as passenger ships being safe from attack in enemy waters, but the Lusitania sailed the...
View ArticleTo The Last Man: A Novel of the First World War by Jeff Shaara
Reviewed by Jennifer Rude Klett (Library Staff) From the author of Gods & Generals, Jeff Shaara writes a gripping historical fiction on the Great War. Some of Shaara’s characters include notables...
View ArticleThe Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
Reviewed by Pat P (Library Staff) Do you know about the history of Cathar? Do you know what it is? I didn’t even know I was learning about it in this absorbing story; mystery, really. I liked this...
View ArticleWeekly Book List: Week 11 (Women in War)
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War / Karen Abbott (Civil War) The never-before-told story of four real-life women who risked everything to take on a life of espionage...
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