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2004., Goose Lane Editions and the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project Call No: 940.481 J72r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: New Brunswick military heritage series Volume: 4.
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2018., Adult, 99, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Call No: DVD 940.3 J14t Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colourized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail.
![They shall not grow old [DVD] (2018). Directed by Peter Jackson.](/Library/images/~imageCT100758.JPG "They shall not grow old [DVD] (2018). Directed by Peter Jackson.")
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By Grout, Derek2015., Dundurn Call No: QWF 940.4 G882t Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "What was it like to be a field gunner in the Great War? Thunder in the Skies details the daily life of Canadian artillerymen fighting in WWI, in a way no other book has before. Posted just behind the front lines, field gunners spent grueling months supporting the infantry in the trenches. Theirs was a very different war, as dangerous or more at times as the one on the front lines. Drawing on the unpublished letters and diary of field gunner Lt. Bert Sargent and his fellow soldiers, Thunder in the Skies takes the reader from enlistment in late 1914, through training camp, to the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, the Hundred Days Offensive, and home again with peace. An ordinary Canadian writing home to ordinary people, Sargent gives a wrenching, insightful account of his tight-knit band of soldiers swept up in some of the most important battles of the war that shaped the twentieth century."--
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-- World War One and America :2017., The Library of America Call No: 940.41 B493w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Library of America Volume: 289.Summary Note: "The world must be made safe for democracy," Woodrow Wilson declared a century ago, as he led the nation into war. [This collection] brings together 127 pieces that tell the vivid story of battlefront and homefront from Sarajevo and the invasion of Belgium through the sinking of the Lusitania, the Armenian genocide, the controversy over intervention, and the terrible ferocity of Belleau Wood and the Meuse-Argonne, to the League of Nations debate and the racial violence and political repression that divided postwar America. The writing gathered here illuminates, as no retrospective history can, how Americans perceived and felt about the war, why they supported or opposed intervention, how they endured the nightmarish reality of modern industrial warfare, and how they experienced the uncertainty and contingency of unfolding events. And it shows how World War I framed issues that still haunt us: what role should America play in the world? Are our claims to moral leadership abroad undercut by racial injustice at home? What does our nation owe those who fight on its behalf? Among the writers: war correspondent Richard Harding Davis Witnesses the burning of Louvain; Edith Wharton tours the war zones in the Argonne and Flanders; John Reed records the devastation in Serbia and Galicia; diplomats Henry Morgenthau and Leslie Davis report on the extermination of the Armenians; Jane Addams and Emma Goldman warn against militarism; pilots Victor Chapman and Edmond Genet describe flying with the Lafayette Escadrille; infantry officer Hervey Allen recalls the hellish fighting at Fismette; nurses Ellen N. La Motte and Mary Borden depict the "human wreckage" brought into military hospitals; suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt connects the war with the struggle for women's rights; and justice Oliver Wendell Holmes considers the limits of free speech in wartime. W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and Jessie Redmon Fauset expose the contradiction between the nation's claim to be fighting for democracy abroad and its brutal treatment of African Americans at home. The international role of the United States is debated in strikingly contemporary terms by Wilson and his critics, as the nation grapples with its emergence as a leading world power. A coda presents three iconic literary works by Ernest Hemingway, E. E. Cummings, and John Dos Passos that capture the postwar disillusionment felt by many Americans. Includes headnotes, a chronology of events, biographical and explanatory endnotes, and an index"--Dust jacket.
