WORLD WAR I

World War I lasted from July 1914 - November 1918.  This means that we are in the middle of the 100th anniversary of the war!  This global conflict, pinned the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire) against the Allied forces (Great Britain, United States, France, Russia, Italy, and Japan).

On Thursday, September 29th we will have a special presentation on World War I.  Historian Jim Gibbons will be here to give his presentation entitled A World Gone Mad: World War I.  This presentation will highlight significant events that brought the United States into the war.  It will also go over new weapons that were introduced during this time.

For more background information on World War I, you can visit these websites:

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i
https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

Want to read more about World War I?  Here are a couple of book lists to get you started.

Nonfiction:
Poets of World War I edited by Rupert Smith
World War I by Stewart Ross
World War I: the Definitive Visual Guide: From Sarajevo to Versailles edited by R.G. Grant
Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics by Kathryn J. Atwood
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I, the People's War by Alexander Watson
The War to End All Wars: World War I by Russell Freedman
The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport
Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
It Was the War of the Trenches by Jacques Tardi
Political Histories of America's Wars by Alan Axelrod


Fiction:
No Graves As Yet by Anne Perry

The Secret Language of Stones by M.J. Rose
A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith
Cavendon Hall by Barbara Taylor Bradford
No Man's Land: Fiction From a World at War: 1914-1918 edited by Pete Ayrton

TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
The First of July by Elizabeth Speller

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani
Remember Ben Clayton by Stephan Harrigan
My Dear I Wanted To Tell You by Louisa Young

The Absolutist by John Boyne


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