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In the Trenches: WW I

  1. Flanders
    Anthony, Patricia
    As a sharpshooter during WWI, Travis Lee spends his nights methodically killing enemy troops. As the number of his victims rises, Travis loses both his sensitivity and sanity, and is plagued by disturbing dreams and hallucinations. Despite the counsel of a priest, the young Texan is unable to escape the haunting visions.

  2. Regeneration
    Barker, Pat
    British officer Siegfried Sassoon, decorated war hero and poet, writes a public letter stating that the war is a senseless slaughter. Refusing to fight any longer, he is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital to have renowned psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers restore his sanity and enable him to return to the trenches. The series continues in The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road.

  3. Three Day Road
    Boyden, Joseph
    Xavier, a Cree reserve student, enlists in the military during WW1. Throughout the conflict, he and his friend, Elijah, are marginalized for their appearances, their culturally enhanced marksmanship, and their disparate views of the war.

  4. The Soujourn
    Cumyn, Alan
    This is the story of a Canadian soldier posted to the front lines of Ypres during WWI. When on leave he is confronted by his cousin, a conscientious objector, and he must sort out his own views on the war.

  5. The Wars
    Findley, Timothy
    The haunting story of Robert Ross, a sensitive, nineteen year old Canadian officer sent into the nightmare world of WWI. Reaching his breaking point, surrounded by the horror of war, he takes a last perilous step amidst the trenches and battlefields of France.

  6. Gifts of War: a novel
    Ford, Mackenzie
    During the Christmas Truce of 1914, a German gives a British soldier a photograph of his English girlfriend and asks him to contact her. After an injury, the British soldier is sent home and he succeeds in tracking down the woman, only to fall in love with her himself, but there is a complication; the woman has a newborn son fathered by her German lover.

  7. Random Harvest
    Hilton, James
    The wealthy industrialist Charles Rainer feels compelled to fill the amnesia gap between his departure from Cambridge to fight in the Great War and his discovery of himself on a parkbench in Liverpool.

  8. All Quiet on the Western Front
    Remarque, Erich Maria
    The effects of a war on its soldiers is told through the eyes of a German soldier, Paul Baumer, fighting on the Western front in 1917 and 1918. Shattered by the horror and violence of the war, he resolves to fight the principles of hatred that pit man against man - if he can survive.

  9. To the Last Man: a novel of the First World War
    Shaara, Jeff
    In the spring of 1918, when America enters WWI, the world waits to seeif the tide of the war can be turned with the renewed spirit and strength of the untested American Expeditionary Force under General John "Black Jack" Pershing.

  10. No Graves as Yet: a novel of World War I
    Perry, Anne
    In June 1914, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley learns that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph's brother, an officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en route to London to pass on a secret document to him - allegedly with the power to disgrace England. Now that paper has vanished and Joseph is burdened with a second tragedy, the murder of his most gifted student. The Reavleys' was experiences continue in this series with Shoulder the Sky, Angels in the Gloom, At Some Disputed Barricade and We Shall Not Sleep, as Joseph becomes a chaplain and faces the war at the front.