Mimi and Toutou’s Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika

Mimi and Toutou’s Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake TanganyikaMimi and Toutou's Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden
ISBN: 1400075262
Published by Vintage on March 14th 2006
Pages: 272

Len's Summary: The Royal Navy attacks Germany in Central Africa, the events that inspired C. S. Forester's The African Queen.

Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War

Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World WarUnknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War by Neil Hanson
ISBN: 0307276546
Published by Vintage on May 8th 2007
Genres: Military
Pages: 512

Len's Summary: Focuses on four soldiers (American, British, French and German) three of whom disappeared without a trace to explain how the Western world honors its battle dead.

The Vintage Book of War Stories

The Vintage Book of War StoriesThe Vintage Book of War Stories by Sebastian Faulks
ISBN: 9780099483465
Published by Vintage on 2005
Pages: 416

Len's Summary: Includes WWI short stories and excerpts from novels by Eric Maria Remarque, Siegfried Sassoon, Wm. Boyd and Pat Barker.

The Stranger’s Child

The Stranger’s ChildThe Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
ISBN: 0307474348
Published by Vintage on September 4th 2012
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Pages: 435

Len's Summary: A novel of British morals and manners spanning the lives of two families from 1913 through the First World War and across the century. The author is a winner of the Man Booker Prize.