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A Novel
by John Boyne
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by Daniel Kraus
Published May 2026
Read ReviewsThe critically acclaimed author of the "crazily enjoyable" (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that could hold the key to ending the war.
by Alice Winn
Published Mar 2024
Read ReviewsWinner: BookBrowse Debut Book Award 2023
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I.
by Philip Gray
Published Mar 2022
Read ReviewsThree months after the end of the Great War, a young woman sets out across the wastelands of the Western Front to learn the fate of the man she loved.
The Cartographer of No Man's Land
by P.S. Duffy
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsThe Cartographer of No Man's Land offers a soulful portrayal of World War I and the lives that were forever changed by it, both on the battlefield and at home.
by Mary-Rose MacColl
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsA bestselling Australian writer's American debut and a heart-wrenching novel of World War I, painting a portrait of the changing role of women in medicine and the powerful legacy of love.
by Alan Hollinghurst
Published Aug 2012
Read ReviewsA magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
by Ian McEwan
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsBrilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class. At its center this is a profoundand profoundly movingexploration of shame, forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.
by John Keegan
Published May 2000
Read ReviewsJohn Keegan, one of our most eminent military historians, fulfills a lifelong ambition to write the definitive account of the Great War for our generation.
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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