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Intimate Voices from the First World War

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Intimate Voices from the First World WarIntimate Voices from the First World War by Sarah Wallis, Svetlana Palmer
ISBN: 0060582596
Published by William Morrow on January 6th 2004
Pages: 400

Len's Summary: First published in 2004, this book contains first-person accounts, often in translation, from the diaries of men on both sides of the front. Available from Amazon.co.uk.

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A Duty to the Dead: A Bess Crawford Mystery

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A Duty to the Dead: A Bess Crawford MysteryA Duty to the Dead: A Bess Crawford Mystery by Charles Todd
ISBN: 9780061791765
Published by William Morrow on August 25th 2009
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical
Pages: 329

Len's Summary: First in a series of Bess Crawford novels in which, Bess, daughter of a distinguished army officer, volunteers to become a nurse in WWI.

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The Given Day

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The Given DayThe Given Day by Dennis Lehane
ISBN: 0688163181
Published by William Morrow on September 23rd 2008
Pages: 704

Len's Summary: A sprawling novel of post-World-War-One upheaval and uncertainty in Boston, by the author of Mystic River. A fictionalized account of events surrounding the Boston Police strike of 1919, racial and ethnic strife, anarchist and Bolshevik agitation, the catastrophic collapse of the North End molasses tank, the influenza pandemic, Irish politics, and Babe Ruth.

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An Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford Mystery

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An Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford MysteryAn Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford Mystery by Charles Todd
ISBN: 0061791784
Published by William Morrow on August 31st 2010
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical
Pages: 352

Len's Summary: A British nurse crisscrosses England investigating mysterious deaths during WWI. Recommended by Susan Hall-Balduf.

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Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari

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Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata HariFemme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari by Pat Shipman
ISBN: 0060817283
Published by William Morrow on July 31st 2007
Pages: 450

Len's Summary: A pot boiler about the much pawed over life and career of a WWI female double agent resurrecting the possibility that Mata was a victim.

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