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Historical Fiction - World War I Genre

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Books in the Historical Fiction - World War I genre:

Anne of Avonlea (1909)

Anne is about to start her first term teaching at the Avonlea school, although she will still continue her studies at home with Gilbert. READ NOW.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): George Gibbs

The Turmoil (1915)

Two Midwestern families cope with the onset of industrialization. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Charles Bosseron Chambers

Penrod and Sam (1916)

Further adventures of Penrod Schofield and his friend Sam Williams, culminating in the dance party at Amy Rennsdale’s -- “Must ‘a’ got your bumpus!” Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Worth Brehm

The Magnificent Ambersons (1918)

The old aristocracy of a Midwestern town finds itself displaced by the new manufacturing money. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Arthur William Brown

Adventures Of Richard Hannay (1919)

Richard Hannay is an ordinary fellow caught up in extraordinary events in England and Scotland. This volume contains The Thirty-nine Steps, Greenmantle and Mr. Standfast. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): John Buchan
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

“Queen Lucia” (1920)

Mrs. Emmeline “Lucia” Lucas is the social leader of Riseholme, a quaint Tudor village. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): E. F. Benson
Illustrator(s): None

Rilla of Ingleside (1921)

The chaos of World War I engulfs peaceful Prince Edward Island and claims its victims. We see it all through the eyes of Anne’s youngest child. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): Maria L. Kirk

The Midlander (1924)

The conclusion of a trilogy about the industrialization of a Midwestern city. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Thelma C. Grosvenor

Growth (1927)

This collection of three novels, TheTurmoil, The Magnificent Ambersons, and The Midlander (National Avenue), chronicle the transformation of a Midwestern city by the industrial revolution.... View More

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Piano Movers (1927)

When the sergeant takes a shine to a piano, the batterymen are recruited to move it.

Author(s): William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

Me and Henry and the Artillery (1928)

An account of two artillery men in the closing days of the World War I on the western front.

Author(s): William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s): None

Brown on Resolution (1929)

On the desolate Galapagos island of Resolution, Leading Seaman Albert Brown ties down a German cruiser. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Ellis Silas

Livestock in Barracks (1929)

A collection of humorous sketches about army life in World War I, originally published in Punch.

Author(s): Anthony Armstrong
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Red Star in Samarkand (1929)

A boot licking paeon to the murderous communist takeover of Uzbekistan by one of the foremost American Communists.

Author(s): Anna Louise Strong
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Single-Handed (1929)

On the desolate Galapagos island of Resolution, Leading Seaman Albert Brown ties down a German cruiser.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): None

U 97 (1931)

At the time of the Cuxhaven mutiny, a German U-boat attempts to attack the British grand fleet at Scapa Flow. A play in three acts.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Lone Cowboy (1932)

This is a fictionalized autobiography by Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault, born in Saint-Nazaire-d’Acton, Quebec, who moved to the United States and changed his name to William Roderick James. He is best know as the author of Smoky the Cow Horse.... View More

Author(s): Will James
Illustrator(s): Will James

The Broken Song (1934)

The story of a family in the last days of Imperial Russia.

Author(s): Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1934

The Man with Four Lives (1934)

During World War I, while serving in France with the Canadian Army (as did the author), the protagonist of this tale has occasion to apparently kill the same German officer twice, and then to encounter him yet a third time, and witness his execution ... View More

Author(s): William Joyce Cowen
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

Ruth Visits Margot, A Little French Girl (1934)

Just after the end of World War I, an American girl visits France.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Roy A. Keech
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

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