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Saraband Call No: SC Fic Mur Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the small hours of January 1st, 1919, the cruellest twist of fate changed at a stroke the lives of an entire community. Tormod Morrison was there that terrible night. He was on board HMY Iolaire when it smashed into rocks and sank, killing some 200 servicemen on the very last leg of their long journey home from war. For Tormod - a man unlike others, with artistry in his fingertips - the disaster would mark him indelibly. Two decades later, Alasdair and Rachel are sent to the windswept Isle of Lewis to live with Tormod in his traditional blackhouse home, a world away from the Glasgow of their earliest years.
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2024., Anthony Kirby Publishing Call No: NEW Fic Kir Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Michael Sullivan and Virginia Martin are witnesses to the outbreak of WWI, the sinking of the Lusitania, the Easter Rising in 1916 Dublin, and the horrors of the Great War at the Front in Belgium, the Somme and Arras / Vimy Ridge. Twenty-four-year-old bank official Michael enlists in the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment, and joins the fighting in the trenches in Belgium. Virginia, a nursing student in Dublin, is asked to aid her fellow nurses in Cork to care for the survivors of the sinking of the Lusitania. Michael, lamed up with trench foot, returns to Ireland and is in Dublin when the Easter Rising occurs, in the difficult position as an Irish officer in the British Army as Irish Nationalists stage a rebellion. Michael rejoins the Leinster Regiment in time to fight in the Battle of the Somme, and in other offensives, including Arras / Vimy Ridge. Though disillusioned Michael Sullivan believes in the Dream of a Free Ireland. With Virginia at his side he looks towards a future there.
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-- From the Klondike to Berlin :2017., Adult, Lost Moose Call No: 940.37 G259f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Nearly a thousand Yukoners, a quarter of the population, enlisted before the end of the Great War. They were lawyers, bankers, piano tuners, dockworkers and miners who became soldiers, nurses and snipers; brave men and women who traded the isolated beauty of the north for the muddy, crowded horror of the battlefields. Those who stayed home were no less important to the war's outcome--by March of 1916, the Dawson Daily News estimated that Yukoners had donated often and generously at a rate of $12 per capita compared to the dollar per person donated elsewhere in the country. Historian Michael Gates tells us the stories of both those who left and those on the home front, including the adventures of Joe Boyle, who successfully escorted the Romanian crown jewels on a 1,300-kilometre journey through Russia in spite of robbers, ambushes, gunfire, explosions, fuel shortages and barricades. Gates also recounts the home-front efforts of Martha Black, who raised thousands of dollars and eventually travelled to Europe where she acted as an advocate for the Yukon boys. Stories of these heroes and many others are vividly recounted with impeccable research."--
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By Petrus, Ivan2017., Adult, Lannoo Publishers Call No: GN Fic Pet Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Vicky Braedy is the last descendant of a WW1 tank crew member: E.H. Braedy, who died exactly one hundred years ago in Passchendaele, near a legendary tank called 'Fray Bentos'. His body and the tank were never found. Vicky has inherited all his writings and memorabilia, and decides to travel to Flanders Fields with her husband, to look for clues and traces concerning her great-great grandfather. In fact, she is stepping into the footsteps of Braedy's wife, her great-great grandmother Victoria, in what will turn out to be a journey full of confrontations. When she finds out that Braedy's name tag was found in Cambrai, Vicky drives from Passchendaele to Cambrai, very much like the tanks in 1917. Same tanks, different battlefield. Vicky Braedy is an only child, looking into family secrets. She is the last Braedy. Or is she? And who is Deborah?.
