Historique / 1914-1918

At Some Disputed Barricade

Anne Perry's World War One #4

de Anne Perry

Anne Perry’s gift for illuminating the heart’s deepest secrets shines through in her bestselling series of World War I novels. With compelling immediacy, she depicts the struggles of men and women torn by...

Hollywood

de Gore Vidal

Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the United States.

        It is 1917, and...

Lilies in Moonlight: A Novel

de Allison K. Pittman

He’d lost his zest for life. She was just lost. Will they find the healing and love they long for?

After a roaring night on the town, fun-loving flapper Lilly Margolis, dazed and disoriented, twists her ankle...

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree: A Novel

de Ann Weisgarber

"An eye-opening look at the little-explored area of a black frontier woman in the American West." --Chicago Sun-Times

Praised by Alice Walker and many other bestselling writers, The Personal History of Rachel...

The Collection: A Novel

de Gioia Diliberto

Isabelle Varlet, charming and naïve, comes from a long line of seamstresses in a small town in France. A series of unfortunate events and her prodigious sartorial talent carry her to Paris, which in the wake...

Leaving Rock Harbor: A Novel

de Rebecca Chace

An unforgettable coming-of-age story and a luminous portrayal of a dramatic era of American history, Rebecca Chace’s Leaving Rock Harbor takes readers into the heart of a New England mill town in the early...

White Blood

de James Fleming

An epic novel of Russia on the eve of revolution

The son of an English father and a Russian mother, Charlie Doig is a big man -- big in stature and big in spirit. A naturalist, he roughs it around the world...

The Soldier's Song

de Alan Monaghan

Dublin, 1914. As Ireland stands on the brink of political crisis, Europe plunges headlong into war. Among the thousands of Irishmen who volunteer to fight for the British Army is Stephen Ryan, a gifted young...

The Soldier's Return

de Alan Monaghan

Battered and broken by three years of fighting, Stephen Ryan returns to Ireland – to the woman he loves, and in the hope of a return to his old life. But, instead, he finds the seeds of a new conflict are...

Hardcastle's Frustration

de Graham Ison

As the Great War grinds to its bloody finale, DI Hardcastle is encumbered with a frustrating and complicated investigation . . . -March, 1918. The Great War is grinding slowly to its bloody finale. Divisional...

Harvest of War

de Hilary Green

A stirring and tempestuous First World War saga - the second instalment in the Leonora Trilogy. - 1916. The remnants of the Serbian army are holed up in the Greek city of Salonika. Working as a volunteer with...

It's Me Again

de Donald Jack

It's 1918, and Bandy has survived the trenches and the war in the air, but now that he has his own squadron to command there are even worse things in store for him. His adjutant. A parachute test. A Paris dentist....

Land of Marvels: A Novel

de Barry Unsworth

Barry Unsworth, a writer with an “almost magical capacity for literary time travel” (New York Times Book Review) has the extraordinary ability to re-create the past and make it relevant to contemporary readers....

The Horizon

Blackwood Family #3

de Douglas Reeman

World War I, 1915, Jonathan Blackwood fights from the sea, supported by the Royal Navy in the battlefields of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli, watching the slaughter mounting around him, helpless to save either...

Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916

de Peter De Rosa

"A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the patriot leaders' last days . . . It's powerful stuff."

--The Sunday Press (Ireland)

On Easter...

Beyond The Aegean

de Elia Kazan

From Elia Kazan, the celebrated writer and director:  a huge, stunning story of a word in tumult and an immigrant’s life redeemed.

   It is a pivotal moment in history.  The First World War has barely...

Darkening Stars

de José Leon Machado, Milton M. Azevedo & Karen C. Sherwood Sotelino

"Darkening Stars - A Novel of the Great War" is about a young law student who was drafted to serve as a platoon commander in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps sent to Flanders in 1917. What happened to him...

Three Cheers for Me

de Donald Jack

The year is 1916 and subversive young Bartholomew Bandy is leaving behind hearth & home, religion & boiled cabbage, to fight in the Great War, where the blank, expressionless face he developed for annoying the...

Redemption

de Leon Uris

Master storyteller Leon Uris, internationally acclaimedauthor of such bestsellers as Exodus, Topaz, QB VII,Trinity, the Haj and Mitla Pass,continues the epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom inRedemption...

The Wild Rose

de Jennifer Donnelly

Includes a Reading Group Guide and Author Q&A

The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with The Tea Rose and continued with The Winter Rose. It is London, 1914. World War I...