During the First World War, Polly Warden, a feminist and former pacifist, acts both as a nurse in a frontline French hospital and an ambulance driver on the British and American fronts, while friends and former lovers fight. 75,000 first ...
Arnold Bennett was a prolific British writer who penned dozens of works across all genres, from adventurous fiction to propaganda and nonfiction. He wrote plays like Judith and historical novels like Tales of the Five Towns.
Over There: Memoirs of WWII
A cast of characters play out their private dramas in a war that shaped our century.
Chronicles the rise of the American military and the role it played in winning World War I, from the declaration of war in 1917 to the social changes that occurred on the home front.
A collection of essays exploring the world-wide U.S. military base system and its interplay with social relations of gender and sexuality in the U.S. and foreign host nations. “Over Thereis a splendid book.
As we went back through the woods , a shell hit close , but we jumped behind a tree with our stretcher , and no one was hurt badly . Walker received a gash across the back of one hand from the flying shrapnel but kept carrying his end ...
Children express feelings about their father being away on deployment.
For one small group of unsuspecting American doughboys, however, "over there" becomes a place frighteningly different as they are suddenly transported back in time to the last days of the Civil War.
A very different kind of war memoir - a wry, sardonic and uncommonly funny account of one amateurish yet principled reporter's encounter with the absurdities of the second Iraq war Highly ambitious yet deeply ambivalent about the impending ...
Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front
Byron Farwell's informed, stirring account describes not only how the United States turned the tide of the war but also how the war served as a national coming-of-age experience, with all of the concomitant awkwardness and confusion.