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61) 1917
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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English
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April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
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Why does Vimy matter? Tim Cook, Canada's foremost military historian and a Charles Taylor Prize winner, examines the battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and the way the memory of it has evolved over 100 years. Vimy is unlike any other battle in Canadian history: it has been described as the "birth of the nation." But the meaning of that phrase has never been explored, nor has any writer explained why the battle continues to resonate with Canadians....
66) A lonely furrow
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Linford
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English
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1917. When city-born Eva Harrington joins the Women's Land Army during the First Wold War, she is billeted at the Mallinders' isolated Four Wind Farm in Derbyshire. There, she must adapt to a very different way of life from that of her own comfortable home - not only labouring in the fields, but coping with an outdoor privy and tin bath! Then Charles Mallinder, invalided out of the army, comes home - and the two find themselves drawn to each other......
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Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.
Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate on Europe’s western front. France and Great Britain are on one side of the barbed wire,...
Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate on Europe’s western front. France and Great Britain are on one side of the barbed wire,...
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A Globe and Mail Bestseller! Clara Durling, a British widow of the First World War, arrives in Canada as the new superintendent of the Lethbridge Hospital just as wounded soldiers stream home. Lily Parsons is a young, widowed schoolteacher from Nova Scotia who ends up in the same city, managing a brothel called The Last Post. Set against the backdrop of love, union organizers, amorous bachelors, gamblers, drinkers, and prostitutes, the lives of these...
72) The confession
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 14
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English
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Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge investigates the sudden death of a man who recently confessed to having murdered his cousin years ago.
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English
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Have you ever wondered what happened to the Five Children and its characters when the First World War began? Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert is a Cambridge scholar and Jane is at high school. The Lamb is the grown up age of 11, and he has a little sister, Edith, in tow. The sand fairy has become a creature of stories ...until he suddenly reappears. The siblings are pleased to have something to take their minds off the war,...
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Many of the airmen of the First Word War who challenged both the enemy and death did not survive. These are their stories. In the clinging mud and trench warfare of WWI, it was soon clear that the cavalry - the elite of the elite - would be of little use. The dashing men and officers of the cavalry searched for a way to be front and center in the conflict, and found it in the new air forces being established on both sides of the Western Front. Soon...
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