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Books
Call Number:
E LEW
Publication Date:
2011
Summary:
A young Welsh soldier fights along the Western Front during World War I, experiencing the horrors of trench warfare before participating in the famed Christmas Truce of 1914.
ISBN
9781568462202 1568462204
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Books
Call Number:
940.434 LLO
Publication Date:
2014 2013
Summary:
"In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Front erupted. The bitter four-month struggle that ensued--known as the Hundred Days Campaign--saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War, as the Allies grimly worked to break the stalemate in the west and end the conflict that had decimated Europe. In Hundred Days, acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd leads readers into the endgame of World War I, showing how the timely arrival of American men and materiel--as well as the bravery of French, British, and Commonwealth soldiers--helped to turn the tide on the Western Front. Many of these battle-hardened troops had endured years of terror in the trenches, clinging to their resolve through poison-gas attacks and fruitless assaults across no man's land. Finally, in July 1918, they and their American allies did the impossible: they returned movement to the western theater. Using surprise attacks, innovative artillery tactics, and swarms of tanks and aircraft, they pushed the Germans out of their trenches and forced them back to their final bastion: the Hindenburg Line, a formidable network of dugouts, barbed wire, and pillboxes. After a massive assault, the Allies broke through, racing toward the Rhine and forcing Kaiser Wilhelm II to sue for peace" --
ISBN
9780465074921 0465074928
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Books
Call Number:
940.41273 EIS
Publication Date:
2001
ISBN
0684863049 :
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Books
Call Number:
J 940.4 REE
Publication Date:
1997
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Summary:
Discusses reasons for Allied victories on the Western Front during 1914-1918; describes trench warfare, coping strategies, and the role of women; shows how these campaigns are remembered.
ISBN
1575722178
Format:
Books
Call Number:
940.4144 TUC
Publication Date:
1994
Lexile Measure:
1350
Summary:
"More dramtatic than fiction ... THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained ... The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.
ISBN
034538623X 9780345386236 9780613187176 0613187172 9780345476098
Format:
CD
Call Number:
CD-SPOKEN 940.421 TUC
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Summary:
The Guns of August focuses on the first months of World War I, culminating in the desperate Battle of the Marne. There, French and British troops finally managed to halt the massive German assault on France.
ISBN
1419325620 :
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DVD
Call Number:
DVD-VIDEO TELEVISION HIT
Publication Date:
2007 2003
Note
DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.77:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.
Summary:
Traces the mind of a madman as he begins his ruthless climb to power. From his emergence out of the ashes of World War I through the birth of the Nazi party.
ISBN
1417229772 : 9781417229772
UPC
741952645399
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
DVD-VIDEO FEATURE FILMS FIG
Publication Date:
2007
Note
DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 1.0 mono.; dual-layer.
Summary:
The Fighting 69th" is a World War I regiment consisting mostly of New York-Irish soldiers. Jerry Plunkett is the cockiest member of a cocky crew. Jerry is a scrappy fellow who looks out only for himself. The officers and enlisted of the regiment do their best to instill discipline in Plunkett, and the chaplain, Father Duffy, tries to make Plunkett see the greater good. None of them seem to succeed. In the trenches, Plunkett acts selfishly and cowardly, eventually costing the lives of many of his fellow soldiers. A final act of cowardice leads to terrible consequences, but Plunkett sees in them a chance to redeem himself.
ISBN
1419848305 9781419848308 1419848321 9781419848322
UPC
012569796584 012569796553 085391137009 888574105556
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Format:
Books
Call Number:
J 940.3 HAN
Publication Date:
2001
Accelerated Reader Level:
8.5
Accelerated Reader Points:
2.0
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ISBN
0739827529 :
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Format:
Books
Call Number:
J F ELD
Publication Date:
2008
Series:
ISBN
9781407103778 1407103776
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Format:
Books
Call Number:
940.44 HAR
Publication Date:
2007
ISBN
9780297846536 : 0297846531
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Format:
Books
Call Number:
F SPE
Publication Date:
2012
Series:
Summary:
To fulfill a debt, Blackstone travels to the Western Front to investigate the murder of a young lieutenant only to find officers resent his presence and enlisted men either refuse, or do not dare, talk to him.
ISBN
9780727881236 : 072788123X
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