Over 600 readers have voted on the 50+ books on Best Novels About World War 1. Current Top 3: All Quiet on the Western Front, A Farewell to Arms, The four ...
The responsible people in army have honored Anton Myrer’s novel Once An Eagle. It is on many army professionals’ list of recommendations as being one of the best novels written about war. The novel is a bit tricky as it takes the readers to not only the war but two wars actually, an...
Happy Veterans Day, formerly called Armistice Day since it marked the end of World War One on “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918. Here are six books on that often neglected conflict. (I will omit Barbara Tuchman’sGuns of Augustbecause of how well-kn...
So this was an unknown quantity — but then, so was the very first neglected book I ever discovered, which was also a novel about World War One: W. V. Tilsley’s Other Ranks. Like Other Ranks, Soul Wounds opens in media res. Hagen, an infantryman, is slogging through the mud and t...
The Gown:This is a marvelous and moving novel and shows the portrait of self- reliance in a world racked by war. This novel is one of the bestselling authors of France about one of the most wedding dresses of the twentieth century. London witnesses the harshest winter in living memory, ...
A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara “As life on Earth is rocked by conflict and environmental crisis, these serene little scientific emissaries remind us of how different it can be when we collaborate selflessly in the getting of knowledge.”...
While well intentioned, the program had some problems. First, about one-third of the donated books were unusable—worn-out books, children’s books, or titles of little interest to young men. Second, the typical hardback book was heavy and large. Shipping was expensive and used valuable cargo...
The Eastern Front is the second book in British military historian Nick Lloyd's trilogy about the First World War (the first book was about the Western Front). The book is around 500 pages long but it's highly readable. In it, Lloyd looks at the 'greater' Eastern front: from Riga in...
By the close of World War II almost 1,000 Russian women had flown combat missions in every type of Soviet warplane.
Paul Strathern’s tour of 17th-century thinkers is ambitious — but does it answer his own question about our world’s future? Review The Chairman’s Lounge — Joe Aston on the downfall of Qantas The story of how the once loved Australian airline became a ‘national pariah’ ...