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Action and adventure films Films for the hearing impaired Military campaigns Television comedies Television programs World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns France World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Turkey Gallipoli Peninsula World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Turkey Gallipoli Peninsula Drama World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western FrontHenzel, Cynthia Kennedy
Summary: Details the major battles on the western front as well as the dynamics of trench warfare from the perspectives of those involved. Additional features include a bullet-point summary of the events, compelling narrative descriptions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, questions to spark critical thinking, sources to guide further research, historical photographs, informative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 HENRooney, Kathleen
Summary: "From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROOKorda, Michael
Summary: The acclaimed author of the "New York Times"-bestseller "Ike" returns with a definitive new biography of the legendary British scholar, adventurer, soldier, and hero who became a myth in his lifetime--T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LAWRENCE KORSummary: Recounts the story of Winston Churchill's challenges in World War I, especially how the disastrous Battle of Gallipoli leds to his disgrace and eventual resignation, and how he sought redemption by taking up active service in the British army; a story told through Churchill's own words in his letters to his wife Clementine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHUHart, Peter
Summary: One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to capture Constantinople, but this definitive new history explains that from the initial landings -- which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from airplanes overhead -- to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a tragic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.426 HARGroom, Winston
Summary: An analysis of a pivotal battle of World War I revisits the four-year-long Battle of Ypres, an engagement that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and forever changed the way war would be waged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4144 GROAsprey, Robert B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 ASPNelson, James Carl.
Summary: A compelling tale of battle rooted in one man's search for his grandfather's legacy, this work follows the members of Company D, 28th Infantry Regiment, United States First Division, from enlistment to combat to the effort to recover their remains, focusing on three major battles during World War I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 NELSON, JOHN NELMurphy, Jim
Summary: Describes the Christmas truce that occurred along Western Front trenches in 1914 and features quotations from young men on both sides, a timeline, and additional source material.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.421 MURSummary: Based on the true story of three armies in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOY RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JOYSummary: It's 1916 and British Captain Fred Roberts and his detachment of Sherwood Foresters discover an abandoned printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium. Roberts has an idea: he will produce a newspaper to raise the spirits of his soldiers, taking their minds off 'the attentions of Messrs Hun and Co.' They call it The Wipers Times, after the army slang for Ypres, and fill it with spoofs, jokes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WIPLowry, Chag
Summary: Based on the true-life story of Yurok men called to serve in World War I, this story follows three cousins as they struggle with being combat soldiers on the Western Front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Great Oak Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 LOWMacDonald, Lyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.42 MACWillmott, H. P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War WillmotVaughan, Edwin Campion
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.431 VAUMastriano, Douglas V.
Summary: Alvin C. York (1887--1964) -- devout Christian, conscientious objector, and reluctant hero of World War I -- is one of America's most famous and celebrated soldiers. Known to generations through Gary Cooper's Academy Award-winning portrayal in the 1941 film Sergeant York, York is credited with the capture of 132 German soldiers on October 8, 1918, in the Meuse-Argonne region of France -- a deed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B YORK MASSummary: Examines the devastating conflict and Western political intrigue that laid the foundation for wars, coups, revolts, and military interventions in the Middle East.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inecom Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BLOJankowski, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4272 JANSummary: Six episodes of the British comedy serial about Edmund Blackadder in the 20th century serving at the western front in World War I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2001
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BLASummary: In 1919, an Australian farmer travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons. With insurmountable obstacles he must travel across the battle-scarred Turkish landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WaterSummary: A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915. They are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GallipoliIrons, Jeremy
Summary: Chronicles the 1915 battle to control the Dardanelles Strait during World War I, told from both the British/Australian and Turkish sides of the conflict; with reenactments and archive footage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Epoch 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GALNorth, Jonathan
Summary: It examines the uniforms of the armed forces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 NORSummary: A collection of writings by the world's foremost military historians shed new light on the causes, events, campaigns, personalities, and repercussions of World War I, including essays by such authors as Thomas Fleming, Robert Wohl, and Sir Michael Howard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003