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Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Every decade has its share of important events. But in this completely engrossing series we bring you only the best, the most far-reaching, the most worldly, and the most consequential. You will see a unique clarity of history through the "most privy" in insider accounts and expert witnesses. Events include: Adolf Eichmann, The Berlin Wall, The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Assassination Of U.S. President Kennedy, The "Loudmouth": Cassius Clay, A Royal...
26) World War I
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This book details major events of World War I, as well as the war's cultural impact."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Unwillingly rendered an object of obsession by the Kommandant occupying her small French town in World War I, Sophie risks everything to reunite with her husband a century before a widowed Liv tests her resolve to claim ownership of Sophie's portrait.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the second film of his series on the Great War's impact, historian David Reynolds looks at how the conflict gave birth to an age of turbulent mass democracy. In the immediate aftermath of war, monarchies toppled, the people rose up, and three iconic leaders-Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson and Benito Mussolini-emerged with competing visions of power that polarized much of continental Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. In Britain, the socialist Labor...
Pub. Date
[1914]
Language
English
Description
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist. This was the event that ignited World War I. A month later, Austria-Hungary and its ally, Germany, had declared war on Serbia, in an effort to subdue insurgency in the Balkans. Russia then came to the aid of Serbia, provoking a long stalemate. The western front opened up in August, when Germany invaded Belgium, prompting Britain and to...
Pub. Date
[1914]
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War I, a failed offensive by the French enabled German forces to invade dangerously close to Paris. French general Joseph-Simon Gallieni employed all the city's resources to defend against the Germans. Taxicabs were used to shuttle supplies and troops from Paris to the front lines, where French troops successfully repelled the Germans along the Marne river.
Pub. Date
[1917]
Language
English
Description
Billy Sunday was one of the most well-known revivalist preachers of the early 20th century. Sunday, who gave up a career as a professional baseball player in order to preach around the country, attracted thousands of people to his sermons with his no-holds-barred language and theatrical style. (No audio)
Pub. Date
[1918]
Language
English
Description
War is often a catalyst for great technical innovation, and World War I was no exception. Phosphorescent grenades, poison gas, machine guns, and the use of tanks, planes, and zeppelins were a few among many new weapons and tactics developed during World War I. The discoveries and innovations of that war influenced the course of later military conflicts the world over.
37) War horse
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.
Author
Series
Caroline Ferriday volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I. "Not only a brilliant historical tale, but a love song to all the ways our friendships carry us through the worst of times."-Lisa Wingate, New...
Pub. Date
[2012], c1991
Language
English
Description
In 1914, the participants thought it would be a short war, to be fought on the order of Austerlitz with charging cavalry, the battle lasting an afternoon. But that's not the way it turned out, and when the war was over, so was the world from which it had sprung. Both sides were certain they knew what they were fighting for and that their side was right, but it is hard to see now what World War I achieved other than to destroy a whole generation of...
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This program explores our history and culture during the early 20th century, when a wave of reforms changed our political system and attempted to remedy the social and economic inequities arising from industrialization and urbanization. Progressive President Theodore Roosevelt helped set the tone of the era by supporting regulation of industry, initiating government reforms, and promoting conservation of public lands. The Progressive Era altered the...
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