Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC)
And the soldiers sang
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
31 pages : ill ; 31 cm.
Production / Publication Information
Mankato, MN : Creative Editions, 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.
Call Number
J/COMIX/LEWIS
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
ISBN
9781568462202
Eyewitness to the western front
Format:
Books
Physical Description
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Production / Publication Information
Mankato, MN : The Child's World, [2018]
Summary
"Details the major battles on the western front as well as the dynamics of trench warfare from the perspectives of those involved. Additional features include a bullet-point summary of the events, compelling narrative descriptions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, questions to spark critical thinking, sources to guide further research, historical photographs, informative captions, a table of contents, an index, an introduction to the author, and a phonetic glossary"--Provided by the publisher.
Call Number
J 940.41 HEN
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781503816091
World War I :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
64 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Production / Publication Information
Mankato, Minn. : Smart Apple Media, 2003.
Summary
Discusses the principal causes and events of World War I and considers what the outcome might have been for the participants and subsequent history had different decisions been made at crucial times before, during, and after the war.
Call Number
J/940.3/BAR
Publication Date
2003
Language
English
ISBN
9781583402689
The eleventh hour
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Edition
[English edition]
Production / Publication Information
Toronto, ON : Owlkids Books, [2018]
Summary
"Jules and Jim are best friends. They play together. They go to school together. They grow up together. Through it all, Jim is always a little ahead of Jules-a little faster, a little stronger. So, when Canada goes to war against Germany in 1914, Jim is the first to volunteer, but Jules is right behind him. They fight together. They battle the cold and the mud of the trenches together. But in the end, only one of them will see the Armistice begin at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. A poignant tale of friendship, The Eleventh Hour is also a story about life, death, and the horrors and futility of war."--
Call Number
J 940.41/GOL
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781771473484
The Western Front :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xxiv, 657 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Summary
"A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of hardship and sacrifice, of young, mud-spattered men in water-logged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts by a few feet of dirt. Long considered the most futile arena of the First World War, the Western Front has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of life. In this epic narrative history, Nick Lloyd brings together the latest research from America, France, Britain, and Germany, telling the full story of the war in France and Belgium from the German invasion in 1914 to the armistice four years later. His sweeping chronicle reveals that the trenches were, as often as not, sites of dramatic technological and tactical advances, and that superior generalship helped determine the outcome of the war. Brimming with gripping descriptions and insight, The Western Front is a historical account in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman, John Keegan, and Antony Beevor: an authoritative, magisterial portrait of men at war"--
Call Number
940.4144 LLO
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
ISBN
9781631497940
Hundred days :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xxxiii, 350 pages, 16 un-numbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Production / Publication Information
New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
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" --
Call Number
940.434 LLO
Publication Date
2013-2014
Language
English
ISBN
9780465074921
The guns of August
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xvi, 511 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition
Book Club edition.
Production / Publication Information
[New York] : History Book Club, 2012 , c1962.
Call Number
940.414 TUCHMAN
Publication Date
2012, 1962
Language
English
ISBN
9781617939310
With our backs to the wall :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xxi, [21], 688 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Production / Publication Information
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2011.
Call Number
940.434 STE
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
ISBN
9780674062269
The guns of August
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
15 audio discs (19 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Retail edition; Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
[Old Saybrook, Ct.] : Tantor Media, [2011]
Summary
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events leading up to World War I in a narrative the Chicago Tribune praised as "more dramatic than fiction."
Call Number
BOOKS ON CD 940.3 TUC
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
ISBN
9781452601403
The guns of August. MP3
Format:
Audio disc
System details note
System requirements: CD/MP3 player or PC with MP3-capable software.
Physical Description
2 audio discs (19 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Production / Publication Information
[Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2011.
Summary
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events leading up to World War I in a narrative the Chicago Tribune praised as "more dramatic than fiction."
Call Number
MP-3-CD/ 940.3 TUCHMAN
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
ISBN
9781452651408
The guns of August
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
15 audio discs (19 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Production / Publication Information
Ashland, Or. : Blackstone Audiobooks, ℗2008.
Summary
Incorporating a captivating literary narrative, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, a self-trained historian, details the events leading up to as well as the first thirty days of World War One.
Call Number
BOOKS ON CD940
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
ISBN
9780786162956 9780786165759
The guns of August
Format:
Books
Physical Description
606 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Production / Publication Information
[New York] : Ballentine Books, [2004]
Call Number
941.4 TUC
Publication Date
2004, 2004 1962
Language
English
ISBN
9780345476098
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