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Kingdoms Fall: The Korniloff Affair

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Kingdoms Fall: The Korniloff AffairKingdoms Fall: The Korniloff Affair by Edward Parr
ISBN: 1494245930
Published by Createspace on December 1st 2014
Pages: 262

Len's Summary: Second volume in a tale of WWI espionage from the point of view of two British officers in the newly-created SIS.

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One Of Ours

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One Of OursOne Of Ours by Willa Cather
ISBN: 143828456X
on February 15th 2009
Pages: 352

Len's Summary: Reprint of a Pulitzer Prize-winning (1922) novel about a Nebraska farm boy who, alienated from his parents and rejected by his wife, finds his destiny on the Western Front. An American classic despite what have been described as stilted combat scenes.

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Wings of contrition: A tale of young men coming of age in the maelstrom and horror of the world’s first air war

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Wings of contrition: A tale of young men coming of age in the maelstrom and horror of the world’s first air warWings of contrition: A tale of young men coming of age in the maelstrom and horror of the world's first air war by Leon Hughes
ISBN: 1482590247
Published by Createspace on June 4th 2013
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Pages: 216

Len's Summary: A potboiler of a novel about a French secret agent sent to penetrate the Kaiser’s court.

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Kingdoms Fall: The Laxenburg Message

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Kingdoms Fall: The Laxenburg MessageKingdoms Fall: The Laxenburg Message by Edward Parr
ISBN: 9781484905531
on July 10th 2013
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Pages: 304

Len's Summary: The story of the First World War from the point of view of two fledgling British intelligence officers recruited into the new SIS. Part of The Kingdoms Fall series by the same author.

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Death at Sea: Graf Spee and the Flight of the German East Asiatic Naval Squadron in 1914

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Death at Sea: Graf Spee and the Flight of the German East Asiatic Naval Squadron in 1914Death at Sea: Graf Spee and the Flight of the German East Asiatic Naval Squadron in 1914 by Eric Dorn Brose
ISBN: 9781453738610
on September 30th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Naval
Pages: 302

Len's Summary: A new look at von Spee’s short-lived campaign in the Pacific through the eyes of his officers. Finely crafted history in the form of a novel, but good history nonetheless.

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Too Many Heroes, Volume 1: The Translated War Diaries of the 1er and 3e BMILA, From Mobilization to 2nd Ypres

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Too Many Heroes, Volume 1: The Translated War Diaries of the 1er and 3e BMILA, From Mobilization to 2nd YpresToo Many Heroes, Volume 1: The Translated War Diaries of the 1er and 3e BMILA, From Mobilization to 2nd Ypres by Allan D. Lougheed
ISBN: 1477467629
Published by Createspace on August 1st 2012
Pages: 234

Len's Summary: Part of the French Armée d’Afrique and made up of former military convicts, the African Light Infantry served in North Africa as disciplinary labor until sent to the front in early WWI. Available from Amazon Canada.

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