A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd. In which we are introduced to nurse Bess Crawford as she becomes a survivor of the sinking of HMHS Britannic in the Kea Channel off the Greek island of Kea on the morning of November 21, 1916. Upon her return to England to convalesce, Bess carries a …
Category Archive: World War I
Jun 25
Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley
Charles Hamilton Sorley was a British soldier in the first part of World War I. He had been a student in Germany before the war and had some admiration for the German spirit and Kultur. He was killed in action at the battle of Loos on October 13, 1915. His father gathered and published Sorley’s …
Jun 21
The Summer of Katya by Trevanian
A couple of weeks ago when we played Book Tag with the theme of Summer Setting, Summer Reading, Debbie at ExUrbanis recommended this novel, saying that is was “part mystery and part love story.” So I borrowed a copy from the library. And it is part mystery and part love story with a bit of …
Jun 18
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
“The alleys, the houses, the palaces and mosques and the people who live among them are evoked as vividly in [Mahfouz's] work as the streets of London were conjured up by Dickens.” ~Newsweek I was struggling through Mr. Mahfouz’s epic novel, the first part of a trilogy set in modern Cairo, Egypt, and in the …
Jun 17
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
As I began reading this story, recently made into a Steven Spielberg movie by the same title, I immediately was reminded of one of my favorite horse stories, Black Beauty. Joey, the War Horse, and Black Beauty actually have a lot in common. Both horses tell their stories in first person from the point of …
May 25
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
“[S]he had forgotten that it is the first concern of love to safeguard the dignity of the beloved, so that neither God in his skies nor the boy peering through the hedge should find in all time one possibility for contempt . . .” I’m not sure what that statement means, to guard someone else’s …
Apr 30
World War One for Children and Young Adults
I read three novels in the past couple of weeks for children and young adults that were set before, during, and after World War I. I’ll have to say that each of the books was odd in its own way: odd prose style in the first, an unexpected twist that I almost didn’t see coming …
Jan 05
12 World War I Novels and Nonfiction Books I’d Like to Read in 2012
War Through the Generations is focusing on World War I this year. Here a few of the books I’d like to read for that project. Children’s and YA Fiction: War Horse by Michael Morpurgo. “Joey, the farm horse, is sold to the army and sent to the Western front.” I’d like to read the book, …
Oct 02
1919: Events and Inventions
January, 1919. British scientist Ernest Rutherford is the first scientist to split the atom. January 11-15, 1919. An uprising by German communists calling themselves the “Spartacists”is crushed by the German government. Karl Leibknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, the leaders of the revolt, are murdered and their bodies thrown into a canal in Berlin. March, 1919. Italian …
Sep 29
1917: Events and Inventions
February 1, 1917. Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare, announcing that any ships trading in Allied waters will be liable to be sunk without warning. February 26, 1917. U.S. Congress, still reluctant to go to war with Germany, agrees that U.S. ships can be armed to counter German submarine attacks. March, 1917. Food riots break out …
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