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Fictional books that are set in the time of WWI.

No Man's Land: Fiction from a World at War

Pete Ayrton - Pegasus
Format: Book

From the trenches to the home front, the most profound fiction inspired by World War I and a moving memorial to the twentieth century's most cataclysmic event.The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing from D. H. Lawrence to Siegfried...

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Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I

Hazel Gaynor - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War. August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes...

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The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War

Jacqueline Winspear - Harpercollins
Format: Book

"By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just...

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No Graves as Yet: A Novel of World War I, 1st Edition

Anne Perry - Ballantine Books
Format: Book

Through Anne Perry's magnificent Victorian novels, millions of readers have enjoyed the pleasures and intrigue of a bygone age. Now, with the debut of an extraordinary new series, this New York Times bestselling author sweeps us into the golden summer of 1914, a time of brief enchantment...

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The Sojourn

Andrew Krivak - Bellevue Literary Press; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

The Sojourn, finalist for the National Book Award and winner of both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and inaugural Chautauqua Prize, is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished...

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The First of July: A Novel

Elizabeth Speller - Pegasus
Format: Book

A captivating novel of the tragedies of war, as lives cross, dreams are shattered, and futures altered as the hours pass during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. On July 1st, 1913, four very different men are leading four very different lives. Exactly three years later, it is just...

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Mercy Road

Ann Howard Creel - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Paperback

Inspired by the true story of the World War I American Women's Hospital, Mercy Road is a novel about love, courage, and a female ambulance driver who risks everything. In 1917, after Arlene Favier's home burns to the ground, taking her father with it, she must find a way to support...

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Dear Miss Kopp

Amy Stewart - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

The U.S. has finally entered World War I and Constance is chasing down suspected German saboteurs and spies for the Bureau of Investigation while Fleurette is traveling across the country entertaining troops with song and dance. Meanwhile, at an undisclosed location in France, Norma...

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My Dear I Wanted to Tell You

Louisa Young - Harper; First American Edition edition
Format: Book

“My Dear I Wanted to Tell You is one of those books that doesn’t leave you, and probably never will.”—Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs novels. The onrush of World War I irrevocably intertwines the lives of two young couples...

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The Wild Rose (The Tea Rose Book 3)

Jennifer Donnelly - Hyperion; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with The Tea Rose and continued with The Winter Rose. It is London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are fighting for the right to vote, and explorers are pushing the limits of endurance in the most...

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A Test of Wills: The First Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

Charles Todd - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

"Todd has written a first novel that speaks out, urgently and compassionately, for a long-dead generation ... .A meticulously wrought puzzle." - New York Times Book Review. "An intricately plotted mystery. With this remarkable debut, Charles Todd breaks new ground in the historical...

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River of Darkness: A Novel of Suspense

Clive Barker - HarperCollins
Format: Book

In the tradition of The Alienist, a chilling thriller of murder and psychological detection. In rural England, in a landscape shadowed by the sorrow of World War I, the peace of a small Surrey village is shattered by a murderous attack, which leaves five butchered bodies and no motive...

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Lenin's Roller Coaster

David Downing - Soho Crime
Format: Book

In Russia, the Bolshevik revolution is in full-swing while the supposed Great War is destroying Europe in ways never before imagined. Fulltime lovers and part-time enemies, British spy Jack McColl and progressive American journalist Caitlin Hanley, have seen their relationship survive...

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