Showing posts with label World War I. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War I. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

F - 2219/1 | Jessie's Promise (Women at War #1) by Rosie Clarke

From the bestselling author of LIZZIE'S SECRET and LIZZIE'S WAR, a story about a resilient, strong woman surviving adversity post World War 1.
 
Devon 1918.


When Jessie Hale loses her nursing job at the end of the First World War, she leaves London to become the nurse maid to the Kendle family in Devon.

On arrival she finds the family in disarray.


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F - 2219/2 | The Runaway Wife (Women at War #2) by Rosie Clarke

Love, marriage, obsession, betrayal and treachery in 1920's London - a powerful and gritty saga perfect for fans of Kitty Neale, Josephine Cox and Rosie Goodwin.

The hedonism of London in the roaring 20's is a world away from Annabel Tarleton's ordinary country existence. Until a chance meeting with the charming Richard Hansen at a society ball changes her life for ever.


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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

N - 200 | The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher

On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Yet the events Princip triggered were so monumental that his own story has been largely overlooked, his role garbled and motivations misrepresented.


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Monday, March 16, 2020

F - 2089/1 | Regeneration (Regeneration #1) by Pat Barker

Regeneration, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, focuses on treatment methods during the war and the story of a decorated English officer sent to a military hospital after publicly declaring he will no longer fight. Yet the novel is much more. 


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