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Through the story of George Winterbourne, a young soldier disillusioned by the horrors of World War I, The Death of a Hero offers a raw and unflinching look at the realities of combat and the emotional scars it leaves behind. With vivid prose and an unrelenting perspective, Aldington challenges the myths of heroism and the price of sacrifice.

On the run from the ruthless Bolshevik regime, Alexei and his comrades, Reggie and Eli, have narrowly escaped certain death. But their journey is far from over. Desperate to evade capture, they embark on a daring mission to reach their next destination and seek the king's aid. Time is running out, and danger lurks around every corner. Even if they manage to secure an audience with the king, there’s no guarantee he will offer the protection Alexei so desperately needs.

Janvier 1917. Cinq soldats français condamnés à mort en conseil de guerre, aux bras liés dans le dos. Toute une nuit et tout un jour, ils ont tenté de survivre. Le plus jeune était un Bleuet, il n'avait pas vingt ans. A l'autre bout de la France, Mathilde, vingt ans elle aussi, plus désarmée que quiconque, aimait un Bleuet d'un amour à l'épreuve de tout. La paix venue, elle va se battre pour connaître la vérité et le retrouver, mort ou vivant, dans le labyrinthe où elle l'a perdu.

Facing the birth of her child, and single motherhood, Jo Devereux has spent the last six months in Mucknamore, the Irish village she fled 20 years ago. A trunk of letters and diaries left by her grandmother and great-aunt has revealed a heartbreaking legacy of bitter secrets that have haunted the women of her family for four generations. Now she must find out the ultimate truth: What other secrets and lies lie under her mother’s and grandmother’s unshakeable silence? How does it connect with her failed life as a gender-bending agony aunt in San Franciso?

A dazzling novel set during the Great War and postwar Prohibition about a young nurse, a soldier, and a family secret that binds them together for generations to come—from USA TODAY and repeat #1 bestselling author Genevieve Graham. Present day Cassie Simmons, a museum curator, is enthusiastic...

In the middle of the First World War, and sweltering in the heat of a nominally neutral country in South-eastern Europe, disillusioned Naval Intelligence officer Roger Waterlow seeks to make sense of scraps of information gathered by his agents, in the face of indifference or outright hostility from most of his colleagues at the British Legation. But when word reaches him that a German officer visiting from Berlin for talks with the country’s pro-German king is to be picked up by submarine, violating the country’s ‘neutrality,’ he sees the chance to finally make a real difference in the war…

Paris, 1924. The Olympics. Lucy Morton, an ambitious Blackpool swimmer waits to find out if she’s won against her American rival. If she has, she’ll be the first British woman to win Gold in an individual event. If she has, it’ll upset the apple cart. The Americans have been sweeping the boards and, at 26, she’s a veteran in the sport. If she has, it’ll be despite the car accident she was in just 48 hours before, which saw her lose five teeth, crack a rib and be out cold until the morning of the biggest race of her life.

May, 1915. Nineteen-year-old Isle Marie Stahl experiences tragedy travelling on board the RMS Lusitania with her parents from New York to a new life in England, when the ship is sunk by a German U-boat. Isle survives but is all alone. She distracts herself from the pain by becoming a nurse tending to the casualties on the front line at Ypres.

Leutnant Trotta rettet dem Kaiser in der Schlacht bei Solferino das Leben und wird zum Dank in den Adelsstand erhoben. Sein Sohn dient als Bezirkshauptmann in der Provinz, dessen Sohn - der Enkel des 'Helden von Solferino' - versucht erfolglos, Karriere beim Militär zu machen. Dann beginnt der Krieg.

Brought up in Cornwall by her grandparents, Aster thinks often of her parents, who were taken from her at a tragically early age. The only thing she has to remember her mother by is her Flower Book, a journal of pressed flowers that charts Violet’s life and dreams – and keeps all her secrets...On her 21st birthday, Aster receives devastating news that turns everything she knew about herself upside down. Will she finally discover what really happened to her parents?

Flanders, 1915. Captain Robert Armstrong receives an unexpected parcel. So begins a chain of events that will reveal a hidden past, guilty secrets, and unwelcome enticements. Asked to defend a junior officer accused of cowardice, Armstrong fights his battles on more than one front, and against unexpected enemies.

A debut historical novel destined to become a classic like Little Women, this coming-of-age story records an upstate New York family’s suffering and growth through World War I and its aftermath through the eyes of a young woman. Eleanor Foerster, a bright and irreverent fourteen-year-old...

De Langres, un paysan soldat écrit à Hélène. Ses feuillets, passés à travers tant de lignes de feu et de sang, ont dormi des décennies, parfumés d’armoire de grand-mère, de paille et de lavande. Quand son petit-fils les déplie, la voix du grand-père se mêle à la sienne. Lettres et échos tressent un amour en temps de guerre, une mémoire vive où l’intime affronte l’Histoire. À mesure que la lecture avance, les générations se rejoignent: il parlait de moi, de nous. Un récit d’une simplicité bouleversante qui célèbre la force des mots, la tendresse et ces liens qui traversent le temps.

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ” A NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAGE, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS “Superb. . . . A celebration of a place and time when people held...

A Man Could Stand Up—is the third of four installments in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, which follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy British landowner and the last British Tory; his unfaithful wife, Sylvia; and his mistress, Valentine Wannop. Opening on Armistice Day (November 11, 1918), A Man Could Stand Up—serves as the climax of the series. Highlighting the tension between traditional values and a rapidly changing social order, the novel details Christopher and Valentine's trials as the post-war world takes shape around them.

Der faszinierende biografische Roman von Bestseller-Autorin Charlotte Roth erzählt von der großen, dramatischen Liebesgeschichte zwischen der Revolutionärin Rosa Luxemburg und Leo Jogiches. Rosa Luxemburg: Vordenkerin, Freiheitskämpferin und leidenschaftlich Liebende. Warschau, 1889. Von klein auf träumt das Mädchen Rosa von einer besseren, gerechteren Welt und ist entschlossen, dafür zu kämpfen. Sie ist erst siebzehn, als sie mutterseelenallein vor der Miliz des Zaren in die Schweiz fliehen muss.

WWI is now in full swing and with their brothers away fighting the Graham sisters have an increasingly important role to play at the family smock mill. But while Daisy and her cousin Olive are both nursing and Holly has taken on the role of a busy mother and wife, Cynthia is stretched to her ends trying to help her husband keep the business afloat. Violet, meanwhile, having lost interest in the bakery, is heavily involved in the suffragette movement, causing rifts among the family. But through the ups and downs of war, love could be blossoming.

Inspired by real events, a touching novel about a new class of courageous women who worked at London’s historic Kew Gardens during World War II. In the face of war, gardening is their duty…When Daisy Cooper’s new husband joins the RAF to fight the Battle of Britain, she’s terrified...

1913, un paquebot quitte l'Europe. À son bord, trois jeunes en quête d'une seconde chance. Rosetta, jeune femme indépendante et rebelle, fuit son village italien. À la mort de ses parents, harcelée et violentée par la pègre, ayant perdu son honneur, elle n'a eu d'autre choix que d'abandonner la ferme familiale. Rocco, fier et fougueux jeune homme, laisse derrière lui sa Sicile natale. Il cherche à échapper à la Mafia locale, à laquelle il a refusé de se soumettre.

Discover the story of Australia in the Great War through the eyes and stories of John Murray - a would-be journalist, aspiring artist, and young soldier. John’s dairies capture the history, events, and experiences of Australians, as each instalment builds to tell the story of Australia’s journey from peacetime through to the war’s end. Share a young Australian’s hopes, his insights, and his pain, as war changes the fabric of his world and his family.