First World War fiction Books

Into a valley deeply divided by war, prejudice and loyalties, arrives Audrey Douglas, a young teacher.It's Januuary 1917 and this her first appointment, to replace all vestiges of German language and culture from the former one teacher school in the...

The day hinted of spring long overdue. It was March 25, 1911. In Greenwich Village, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was on fire. Nell Walker witnesses young girls jumping to their deaths to flee the flames blocking their escape. The raging inferno kills...

A man sits at a lookout contemplating his future.When Jack Kelly signed up, the war was meant to be over by Christmas. It was supposed to be an adventure, a chance to escape his life for a little. Something to tell the grand-kids about. It wasn't the...

The fury of war rages on. So does her heart ...Amidst the darkest days of war. A driven, determined young nurse risks it all. Can she save them without losing her soul? Somewhere near Passchendaele, 1917.  Sophie Romano is ecstatic, her...

The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española). Escalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Military officers stage a coup against a democratically elected, Soviet-backed, government. The country is thrown...

As Belarus grapples with the aftershocks of the Socialist Revolution, Ignat Abdziralovich, an officer, finds himself at the heart of personal and societal turmoil. While Ignat searches for love, he uncovers an unexpected family secret that pushes him to...

"Griffin, I beg you. Go to Europe and find my daughter. I'll give you any damn thing you want. I've got a bad feeling about waiting,..." April 1919. Scarred and disillusioned, John Griffin has returned home from the Great War with no job and no real...

No início da Segunda Guerra Mundial, a enfermeira e descendente alemã Emma Taylor senta ao lado da cabeceira de uma herdeira judia em Londres enquanto ela se recorda do seu querido amigo, Oscar Wilde.Enquanto a história de Wilde se desenrola, o mesmo...

All's not fair in love and war.As the Great War rages, two brothers, Leo and Alex, are ensnared in a captivating love triangle with the stunning Adelaide. While Leo is the unwavering protector, Alex, the enigmatic seducer, ultimately captures Adelaide's...

Jack Hopper is holding tight to his secret, though it gets heavier by the day. Nora Sweeny is tired of suffering losses and ready to improvise. Their relationship, based on Jack’s lies and Nora’s pragmatism, builds against a background that...

"You HAVE to know this 'century woman'..." -BLICK.ch"Wonderfully written. The book gives new zest for life, a lot of hope and strength in this new 'war time,' where old men are once again trying to destroy the world." -PBW Klemann, authorIn the...

8th August 1914...In the sequel to the acclaimed novel, The Baker's Story, award-winning author Alan Reynolds continues the historical drama following the Marsden family into the depths of the First World War. Mildred Marsden, the family matriarch, can...

1915. A world in the throes of upheaval and change. Irwin Rawson was raised poor on a homestead outside uptight Enderby, Manitoba. Troubled by an ugly, dark family secret, he finds himself fatherless, then soon loses his mother and his home. Expelled...

This is Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Alice Adams. Tarkington was, in his day, one of the most popular American novelists, with The Two Vanrevels and Mary's Neck appearing on the annual best-seller lists nine times. His works included...

This vintage volume contains a collection of short stories written by D. H. Lawrence, including 'England, My England'. The stories contained herein were written between 1913 and 1921, most of them during World War One. This collection was published in...

Hiver 1939, mon grand-père repose son journal sur la table basse qui nous sépare, son visage reflète une sorte de lassitude et de colère contenue, que je ne lui connais pas.Lorsque je lui en demande la raison, il explose ; ses joues s'empourprent et ses...

Della from East Cove: Schoolmarm, accidental midwife, battlefield nurse, lover...A refreshing and uplifting story of a young woman defying the norms of her 1900s rural Nova Scotia birth, and becoming the heroine in her own adventurous life."I loved this...

Castle Gate is the true and tragic saga of a Scottish family whose dreams of finding their fortunes in the bountiful coal mines of Castle Gate, Utah, during the Prohibition era explode in one of the most devastating mine disasters in American history. Is...

It's 1919. Corporal Joe Barlow returns from the Great War to his home in Oak Tree Place hoping only for peace and order, but this is denied him as he finds himself sole carer for this little sister Ruth and at odds with his widowed aunt who fights to...

The publication of this book, which was originally written in German, was prohibited by the Nazi Party in Germany. A young missionary serving in Germany, found and translated the love story into English and sought for a publisher in the United States...