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: 1917
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 …
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 …
Sep 27
1917: Books and Literature
The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in 1917. One of the first prizes awarded was for editorial writing, and the first winner was an editorial about the war and the anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania. This editorial by Frank J. Simonds appeared in the New York Tribune on the first anniversary of the …
Sep 20
Reading about World War I
Nonfiction for children and young adults: Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting by Jim Murphy. World War I and the Christmas Eve, 1914 spontaneous cease-fire. Reviewed by Betsy at Fuse #8. The War to End All Wars: World War I by Russell Freedman. Reviewed at Bookish Blather. Primary Source Accounts of World War I …
Aug 20
To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild. Mr. Hochschild also wrote Bury the Chains, a history of the British campaign against the African slave trade that I read and found fascinating in 2007, about the same time the movie Amazing Grace came out. Of course, I was drawn …
Aug 22
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine
Moundville, Alabama. 1917. Harry Otis Sims, nickname Dit: “I’ve been wrong before. Oh, heck, if I’m being real honest, I’ve been wrong a lot. But I ain’t never been so wrong as I was about Emma Walker. When she first came to town, I thought she was the worst piece of bad luck I’d had …
Sep 20
Born September 20th
Upton Sinclair, b. 1878, socialist author of The Jungle, a novel about the meat-packing industry that resulted in passage of The Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) and The Meat Inspection Act (1906)). Upton Sinclair, letter of resignation from the Socialist Party (September, 1917) I have lived in Germany and know its language and literature, …
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