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The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo's stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that's as timely as ever....

In the midst of a nation reeling from WWI, two German orphans move from a wartime internment camp to a Pacific Northwest farming community where they find both support and hostility from others who have lost sons in the war.

The author revisits 1924-1918 to tell the story of WWI through 100 key events, developments and themes. Each one is crystallized through a particular object or artifact, most of them drawn from the unparalleled collections of the Imperial War Museums.

Inspector Rutledge goes to a small Dorset town to locate two missing children and finds the body of a woman, assumed to be their mother.

December 1917. As World War I rages in Europe, twenty-four-year-old Ruby Wagner, the jewel in a prominent Philadelphia family, prepares for her upcoming wedding to a society scion. Like her life so far, it’s all been carefully arranged. But when her beloved older brother is killed in combat, Ruby follows her heart and answers the Army Signal Corps’ call for women operators to help overseas. As one of the trailblazing “Hello Girls” deployed...