
ISBN: 9780813929712
Published by University of Virginia Press on June 2nd 2010
Genres: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Historical
Pages: 103
Len's Summary: Dubbed by the publisher as the only WWI novel written by an African-American, Daly examines the impact of the Jim Crow color line on black officers in the segregated military. The reprint included three short stories by Daly.
The Kaiser’s Yanks

ISBN: 1935683098
Published by Richardson Publishing on June 28th 2011
Pages: 288
Len's Summary: A fanciful tale of a group of American of German ancestry who travel to Germany to join the Kaisers forces ending up in the air force.
A Lonely Death: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

ISBN: 9780062034687
Published by Harper Collins on January 4th 2011
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, General
Pages: 368
Len's Summary: Shell shocked Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge returns to solve a triple homicide. Charles Todd is a pseudonym for the mother-son writing team of Charles and Caroline Todd.
The Platoon: An Infantryman on the Western Front 1916-1918

ISBN: 9781848843615
on 2011
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, General, History, Military, World War I
Pages: 200
Len's Summary: A fictionalized account of John Joseph Steward’s wartime career published here for the first time.
The Return of Captain John Emmett

ISBN: 9780547737409
on 2011
Genres: Fiction, Literary, Mystery & Detective, Traditional, Historical
Pages: 442
Len's Summary: The investigation of suicide by a British war veteran in 1920 reveals a tangled web of secrets.
Soldier of the Horse

ISBN: 9781926741246
Published by TouchWood Editions on 2011
Genres: Fiction, Historical, War & Military
Pages: 234
Len's Summary: Novel of the Canadian cavalry in WWI including an informative account of the Battle of Moreuil Wood. Available from www.touchwoodeditions.com.
Strange Meeting

ISBN: 9780140036954
Published by Penguin Books on 2011
Pages: 184
Len's Summary: First published by Nonpariel in 1992, this is story of friendship in wartime. Also available used from Barnes & Noble.
Fall of Giants

ISBN: 9781101543559
Published by Penguin on August 30th 2011
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Pages: 960
Len's Summary: First book of The Century Trilogy published by Dutton in 2010. This novel by the author of Eye of the Needle follows the lives of fictional characters from five countries from 1911 to 1924 putting them into genuine historical situations involving WWI combat on two fronts, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for workers’ rights and women’s suffrage.
The Dead of Mametz

ISBN: 9781847713155
Published by Y Lolfa on April 9th 2011
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical
Pages: 332
Len's Summary: A fictional account of the adventures of a former Welsh policeman serving as an officer of the BEF Military Foot Police. Apparently the first in a planned series.
The Blasphemer

ISBN: 9780307717047
Published by Broadway Paperbacks on August 23rd 2011
Genres: Fiction, Historical, Thrillers, General
Pages: 371
Len's Summary: A novel of the Ypres front of 1917 and 1918 with superb detail on life in the mud and trenches.
The Bootlace Boys

ISBN: 9780956342676
Published by Tommies Guides on October 1st 2011
Pages: 392
Len's Summary: A novel based on the Great War letters of a Durham coal hewer.
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You: A Novel

ISBN: 0061997153
Published by Harper Perennial on June 26th 2012
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: Centered on a patient with disfiguring facial war wounds being treated the renowned Queen’s Hospital Sidcup.
Coming Home

ISBN: 9781781590713
Published by Claymore on 2012
Genres: Fiction, General, Historical, War & Military
Pages: 376
Len's Summary: Story of a 15-year-old British volunteer seeking a glorious death in his slain brother’s name. A first novel short listed for the 1910 BritAwards for unpublished fiction.
On Dangerous Ground: A Gallipoli Story

ISBN: 1742583938
Published by University of Western Australia Press on September 15th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: A novel of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign mixing fact and fiction written by a leading Australian historian; featuring a selection of paintings by Australian artist George Lambert.
Park Lane

ISBN: 9780345803283
Published by Vintage Books on June 12th 2012
Genres: Fiction, Sagas, Historical, War & Military
Pages: 322
Len's Summary: The outbreak of WWI forever changes the British social order; in the genre of Up Upstairs, Down Stairs & Downton Abby.
The Somme Stations

ISBN: 0571249647
Published by Faber & Faber on February 1st 2012
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: Number seven in the Jim Stringer Steam Detective series finds Jim investigating a murder in a British railway pioneer battalion on the Western Front. // Enlisted British Army railwayman Jim Stronger finds himself falsely accused of murder during the 1916 Somme Campaign. Winner of the British Dagger Award for Best Historical Mystery.
The Baghdad Railway Club

ISBN: 9780571249619
Published by Faber & Faber on 2012
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: Another Jim Stringer Railway Cop novel finds our hero invalided from the Western front and in Mesopotamia seeking a British traitor.
The Daughters of Mars: A Novel

ISBN: 9781476734613
Published by Simon and Schuster on August 20th 2013
Pages: 517
Len's Summary: Two Australian girls leave their farming community to serve as nurses first at the Dardanelles, then behind the Western Front where they find both horror and romance.
Harvard 1914: A War Romanc

ISBN: 9780988203105
Published by Gold Gable Press on November 1st 2012
Pages: 330
Len's Summary: Set in Boston and Flanders this is a love story involving an American woman and a German nobleman, both students at Harvard. Things get complicated when he is called home for military service.
The Stranger’s Child

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.
The Cocaine Salesman

ISBN: 1907822054
Published by Haus Publishing on June 19th 2012
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Pages: 450
Len's Summary: Traces the lives during and after WWI of two men — one a disfigured British soldier, one a Dutch drug dealer — impacted by the war-time trade in cocaine based in the Netherlands.
The Absolutist

ISBN: 1590515528
Published by Other Press on July 10th 2012
Pages: 309
Len's Summary: The life and death of a WWI conscientious objector by the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Tackles the post-1918 anti-war movement in the UK.
Waiting for Sunrise

ISBN: 9781410449009
Published by Thorndike Press on July 26th 2012
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Pages: 577
Len's Summary: World War I espionage novel set in Vienna, London and Geneva by the author of the memorable An Ice Cream War, a rollicking farce about chasing von Lettow Vorbeck around East Africa. Also available as a Nook Book.
The Chinese Attack

ISBN: 9781843869191
Published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers on January 1st 2012
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: A novel of the Chinese Labor Corps on the Western Front.
Toby’s Room

ISBN: 0385524366
Published by Doubleday on October 2nd 2012
Genres: Fiction, Historical, War & Military, Family Life
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: A British rehabilitation hospital treats facially disfigured WWI soldiers in a sequel to Ms. Barker’s 2008 Life Class. She won the 1995 Man Booker Prize for Ghost Road, third volume of her WWI Regeneration trilogy.
An Unmarked Grave

ISBN: 9780062015730
Published by HarperCollins on January 2nd 2013
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, General
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: It’s 1918 and nurse Bess Crawford is investigating the murder of a British officer on the Western Front and finds herself becoming a target of the murderer; second novel in the Bess Crawford series. The first Bess Crawford book: A Bitter Truth, a William Morrow reprint, 2012, is also available from Amazon.
Across the Blood-Red Skies

ISBN: 9780748129478
on February 17th 2011
Genres: Fiction, General
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: An unimaginative novel of WWI in the air panned by a reviewer in Stand To!, the UK journal of The Western Front Association.
Wings of contrition: A tale of young men coming of age in the maelstrom and horror of the world’s first air war

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.
Demons Walk Among Us

ISBN: 0956012590
Published by Lolfa on December 3rd 2013
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Pages: 333
Len's Summary: The second Thomas Oscendale mystery tells the tale of a French detective haunted by war seeking to unravel a series of murders. See also The Dead of Mametz by the same author and first book in this series.
A Very Profitable War

ISBN: 1612191843
Published by Melville International Crime on December 5th 2012
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-Boiled
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: Set in post WWI Paris, this noire detective novel delves into infidelity, war profiteering, anarchism, blackmail and murder impinging upon national security. Translation from the original French.
Paths of Glory

ISBN: 0143106112
Published by Penguin Classics on June 29th 2010
Genres: Fiction, Classics, Literary, War & Military
Pages: 190
Len's Summary: First published in 1935, this provocative novel was made into a 1957 motion picture directed by Stanley Kubrick. Kurt Douglas was nominated for an Academy Award for his leading role as a French infantry colonel ordered to take an impregnable hill. Cobb was war correspondent in France and Belgium and a witness to the German invasion. // Written in the 1930s, this classic WWI novel of the French Army was authored by an American veteran of the Canadian forces. The 1957 movie version directed by Stanley Kubrick and still available on VHS and DVD earned Kurt Douglas an academy award nomination.
The Star of Istanbul

ISBN: 0802121551
Published by Mysterious Press on October 7th 2013
Genres: Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense
Pages: 368
Len's Summary: Journalist and American spy Christopher Marlow Cobb pursues a German agent across the Atlantic and into war-torn Europe and the Middle East.
The Transylvanian Trilogy: They Were Counted, They Were found Wanting, They Were Divided

ISBN: 9780375712296
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on 2013
Genres: Fiction, Classics, Historical, Literary
Pages: 696
Len's Summary: Romantic fiction written by a Hungarian aristocrat and set in the years 1904-1914 examines the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Reprint of a 1990s translation by the author’s daughter and Patrick Thursfeld.
Kingdoms Fall: The Laxenburg Message

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.
Goshawk Squadron

ISBN: 0786715952
Published by Da Capo Press on October 13th 2005
Genres: World War I, Novel, Aviation, Youth-accessible
Pages: 288
Len's Summary: Exciting, myth-debunking aviation novel. // Novel by the author of Piece of Cake, published in 1971 and shortlisted for a Booker Prize. The cynical and often hilarious story of the misfortunes of an imaginary RAF pursuit squadron on the Western Front in 1918. A sort of WWI Catch 22.
The Cambridge Companion to Poetry of the First World War

ISBN: 1107692954
Published by Cambridge University Press on December 6th 2013
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: Leading scholars reexamine WWI poetry in English.
Mr. Standfast

ISBN: 1853262250
Published by Nelson on January 5th 2008
Pages: 288
Len's Summary: Third volume in the Richard Hannay series (The Thirty Nine Steps, Greenmantle). Intelligence officer Hannay‘s odyssey takes him from France to England and Scotland then back to the Western Front
Poems of the Great War: An Anthology, 1914-1918

ISBN: 0762450886
Published by Running Press on March 25th 2014
Genres: Poetry, Literary Collections
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: Nearly 50 poems from the best-known poets of the era.
The Care and Management of Lies

ISBN: 0062220500
Published by HarperCollins on July 1st 2014
Genres: Fiction, Romance, Historical, General, War & Military
Pages: 319
Len's Summary: Lives forever changed by war with a sub-theme on the importance of food to the fighting man.
Traitor

ISBN: 9781590177518
Published by New York Review of Books on March 18th 2014
Genres: Fiction, War & Military, Historical, Religious
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: A bond between an ANZAC soldier and a Turkish army doctor at Gallipoli leads to disgrace for the Aussie.