First World War fiction Books

Europe is on the brink of catastrophe. In a small village in rural Lincolnshire, a wife kisses her husband goodbye. Childhood sweethearts, Eliza and Joe have only been married two years. They could not have imagined how soon they would be torn apart by...

Edwardian England. Agnes Ashford knows that her duty is threefold: she needs to work on cataloguing the archive of the titled Bryant family, she needs to keep the wounds of her past tightly under wraps, and she needs to be quietly grateful to her...

""Christian Weises Kluger Hoffmeister (1712)"" ist ein Roman des deutschen Schriftstellers Christian Weise. Der Roman erz�����hlt die Geschichte von Hoffmeister, einem klugen und erfolgreichen Mann, der in der Stadt lebt und arbeitet. Hoffmeister ist ein...

በእንግሊዝ WWI ውስጥ የተቀመጠው ይህ ታሪክ የአካል ጉዳተኛውን የጦር አርበኛ ሻለቃ ዱንካን መርዴይትን በመንደሩ ውስጥ በጣም ታዋቂ ከሆኑት ነዋሪዎች በአንዱ ላይ የጨለማ ሚስጥር የሚደብቅ ነው ፡፡ ይህ በዊሊያም ሌ ኩክስ እና በሌሎች የዘውግ ጌቶች መንፈስ ውስጥ የታወቀ የወታደራዊ ወረራ ልብ ወለድ ነው ፡፡ በእንግሊዝ WWI ውስጥ የተቀመጠው ይህ ታሪክ የአካል ጉዳተኛውን የጦር አርበኛ ሻለቃ ዱንካን...

For one man the trauma of life in the trenches during World War 1 and the consequent loss of friends and family, results in a reassessment of his life. Having left the front-line, George Williams finds beauty and solace in the coastline and mountains of...

Amid the violent last days of the glittering Russian court, a Russian princess on the run finds her heart where she least expects it.

The Leipsic Campaign (1852) is a historical book written by George Robert Gleig. The book is a detailed account of the Battle of Leipsic which took place in 1813 during the Napoleonic Wars. The author, who was a British army officer and historian,...

In the midst of a World War, the true enemy was unseen. It came with a handshake or a breath and it left behind 60 million dead. Spanish Flu would devastate the world. Dr. Alan Keener is a young doctor fresh out of medical school who suspects that...

Book 1: Opposition -- Was it love? No. For him, our coupling was the opportunity to one-up my father, the biggest fish in a very small pond. For three minutes. For me, I don’t know that I really thought about anything. Except I did imagine the look...

When Beatrice married Victor Davenport she intended to have his children. He's a wealthy banker, used to getting his own way. Neither of them bargained for one summer's evening and its unexpected guest. Set in London, New York and Oxfordshire in 1911,...

""Der Schulmeister und sein Sohn: Eine Erz�����hlung aus dem Drei�����igj�����hrigen Krieg"" ist ein historischer Roman von Karl Heinrich Caspari, der im Jahr 1866 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Die Handlung spielt im Deutschland des 17. Jahrhunderts,...

THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT WAR LOOMS OVER EUROPE, AFFECTING EVERYONE IN ITS PATH.A past she can’t escape. A future he wants to make his own. A war that comes between them.She’s a spy in love with the enemy.Leila Durand, an elite German spy...

“… Robinson’s eclectic array of characters and high-stakes scenarios make for an immersive beginning to a series that will appeal to fans of war dramas.”—Publisher's Weekly, In the Shadow of Your Wings As the...

England 1908: Under the clock, on a sleepy station platform nestled in rural Lincolnshire, an unexpected romance blossoms.  Maisie: Every Friday, at precisely five to six, a handsome young man arrives at the station. I know the time because I can...

York, 1919. A young pilot returns from war, scarred physically and mentally. David Young, a gifted concert violinist, drifts into a humble job accompanying silent movies at The Electric, a fleapit cinema in provincial York. There he joins a...

A struggle. A war. The past. Would you recover?Nathan Olason picks up the pieces of his life in 1893 and becomes a devoted father and grandfather. Except something from his past is holding him back.When his grandson, Mike, announces that...

Take to the skies over Europe during World War I as ace fighter plane pilots engage in battle with primitive machines that are held together with canvas, wire, wood, and metal. These adventurers, who were drawn to the conflict, came from as far afield as...

One day while cleaning out his roof attic, recently retired business consultant Angus Harrison finds a box containing typed and handwritten stories bound together in one neat pile of folders. On further inspection, he discovers that the contents contain...

A STORY OF LOVE AND REDEMPTION, DRAWN FROM REAL-LIFEVisiting Paris to find out more about her great-grandmother’s World-War-I-era pen pal Cécile, a forlorn Maggie, reeling from discovering her husband’s infidelity, learns of...

"Aislinn Givens leaves a settled life in Manhattan for an unsettled life in Singapore. That painting radiates mystery and longing. So does Clifford Garstang's vivid and simmering novel, The Last Bird of Paradise." -John Dalton, author of Heaven Lake and...

"1920 - Dips Into The Near Future" is a 1917 work by English economist John Atkinson Hobson. It contains a number of satirical writings that predict what life and the world will be life in 1920, just three years after the first publication of this book...

<p><strong>Set against the terrifying and tense backdrop of the First World War, this Algernon Blackwood tale is a masterful example of weird literature and a classic short horror story.</strong></p> <p>First published in...

As a young man, Edward Smith was devoted to his mother, or so everyone thought. When she disappeared, Edward began a downward spiral into the dark abyss of mental illness. In spite of his illness, Edward was a genius with an eidetic memory, and he used...

In this gripping, international best-selling sequel to The Vintner's Daughter and The California Wife, four related families confront the turmoil of the First World War, a deadly influenza epidemic and a looming American prohibition.France, 1918. Vintner...

Examined in this book in the author's continuing series are brave Bulgarian, Romanian, and Austro-Hungarian machinegun, medical, artillery, cavalry and infantry units. Additional chapters examine Bosnian/Bosniaken,Ottoman Turkish, Imperial German, and...

The exploits of the Royal Munster Fusiliers ('The Dirty Shirts') in World War 1.Daniel Wyndham, misguided American tourist, has seen the Royal Munster Fusiliers - the Dirty Shirts - go down into the mud of the Western Front.Now, in the fields of County...

In December, 1917, Halifax, Nova Scotia suffered the largest human-made explosion before the atomic bomb when two ships, one loaded to the gunwales with munitions, collided in Halifax Harbour. Jeremy Akerman's novel sets the scene through the eyes of...

THE MUST READ HISTORICAL FICTION THRILLER OF THE YEARIT'S NOT ONLY WAR THAT CREATES MONSTERS ...The Great War may be over but for disfigured veteran Charlie Hobbs, peace brings its own struggle. Appalled by his gruesome appearance, Hobbs enlists the help...

While most people credit The Jungle for exposing the horrible, unsanitary practices of America's meat-packing industry at the turn of the 19th century, the story spends far more time on the slum conditions and employer abuses heaped upon the immigrants...

In the summer of 1914, sixteen-year-old Evan Sinclair leaves home to join the Great War for Civilization. Little does he know that, despite the war raging in Europe, the true source of conflict will emerge in Ottoman Palestine, since it's from...

Return to a world of secrets, love, and spies in this historical novel of epic romance, dangerous deceit, and gripping adventure in the Middle Eastern front of the Great War the second book of The Windswept WWI Saga by author Annabelle McCormack.Egypt,...

Captain Arthur Hastings, Poirot's cohort, is recovering from a war injury at the upper-class household known as Styles Court. When the mistress of the manor, Emily Inglethorpe, is murdered. The family members occupying the house all become suspects --...

Risking her heart a hundred years in the past is not what Hannah Myers has in mind when she decides to change her life. But an unlikely journey through time brings her face to face with a man like no other. It would be easy to fall in love with David...

Believing herself abandoned by her parents, a young girl sets off on a quest to find them and on the way finds herself. Travelling through Russia, Romania, Finland, Sweden and America, her search is aided at different times by her Aunts Aninya, Elena and...

"Pennell expertly recreates early 1900s Britain through the life of an inspiring heroine and other fascinating characters. The story is a compelling portrayal of courage during chaos and war and enduring love that withstands distance and hardship."...

Although she's mostly forgotten now, in the heyday of the pulps, Greye La Spina was more successful than H.P. Lovecraft, with more than one hundred stories and serial novels published in magazines such as Weird Tales and The Thrill Book...

Demetrius Raske strikes a deal with the Devil to stop a monster stalking the city, but he may have unleashed another villain entirely...The Capital of the United League of Nations glitters like jewels on a dame's neck-a city of wicked splendor and...

Author of more than sixty popular, highly-influential Western novels, Zane Grey was born "Pearl" Zane Gray. Although no one knows for certain, it seems likely that Grey thought that "Pearl" was too feminine a name for an author of Western adventure. Zane...

Growing up in the early years of the twentieth century, Joe Dooley allows his love for music and his passionate friendships with other young men to blind him to the tides of revolution rising around him in British-dominated Ireland. When he realizes he...

Percy Mallory V2 is a novel written by James Hook and published in 1824. It is the second volume in a series that follows the titular character, Percy Mallory, as he navigates the highs and lows of life in 19th century England. The novel begins with...

*** distributed by IngramSpark ***A plan to flood out her valley. A means to destroy her culture.1920. Former Austrian Tyrol.When Katharina Thaler, a young Tyrolean farmer, finds a wounded Italian engineer in the mountains of the Reschen Valley, her...

*** distributed by IngramSpark ***In the process of understanding who you are, more often you discover who you are not.1937. Northern Italy. New international conflicts loom on the horizon, and Italy must feed its war machine. Angelo Grimani has a plan...

*** distributed by IngramSpark ***Pride goes before the fall.1900s Austrian Tyrol. Fritz Hanny, confident and optimistic, enjoys the prestige of belonging to one of the most respected families in the Reschen Valley. When he falls in love with Cecilia, a...

While World War I has the globe in turmoil, the Melling and Davenport clans have their own unrest. After the shattering loss of their youngest child, Frederick and Melissa mourn in their own ways, but Melissa's isolation leads to further heartache that...