By Erich Maria Remarque
With Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, July 8, 2014. 7:30 PM.

The testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I, illuminates the savagery and futility of war.

By Sebastian Faulks

A young English soldier finds a new love interest when he stays with a family in Northern France.

Became the TV Mini-Series: Birdsong

By Thomas Keneally

Joining the war effort as nurses in 1915, two spirited Australian sisters, carrying a guilty secret, become the friends they never were at home and find themselves courageous in the face of extreme danger as they serve alongside remarkable women during the First World War.

By William Faulkner

An allegorical story of World War I set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment.

By Ken Follett
Series Century Trilogy
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian, John Shea, Library Page

Follows the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

By Ernest Hemingway

An American's love for an English nurse during the First World War ends in tragedy.

Became the movie: A Farewell to Arms (original in 1932, remake in 1957)

Became the Mini-Series: A Farewell to Arms (1966)

By Gabriel Chevallier

After being wounded in the trenches of World War I, Jean Dartemont recovers but is sent back to the front lines, as he describes the horrors and futility of war.

By Catherine Banner
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Four generations of women on a Mediterranean island fight to safeguard their family against the forces of history and bitterness that divide them from World War I through the 2008 recession.

By Mary-Rose MacColl

Traveling to France during World War I to bring home her 15-year-old brother, who ran away to enlist, Iris, a young Australian nurse, decides to stay in Paris to help establish a field hospital staffed entirely by women.

By Chanel Cleeton

A Key West native, a bride fleeing the Cuban Revolution and a Wall Street crash victim meet at a Great War veteran camp before one of the most powerful hurricanes in history indelibly changes their lives.

By Julie Berry
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Meeting in a World War II-era Manhattan hotel for a forbidden tryst, immortals Ares and Aphrodite are caught by the latter's jealous husband before she defends her actions by imparting the tale of four young humans who became connected during World War I.

By Peter Behrens

A family saga spanning half a century in the lives of a restless and ambitious clan starts with the story of backwoods youth-turned-railroad magnate Joe O'Brien, who becomes the patriarch of a family that sees the first airplanes, two world wars, and the election of JFK.

By Erich Maria Remarque

In a sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, Ernst and the few survivors of his company return home after the war to find food in short supply and their families changed.

By Charles Todd
Series Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“ … The absorbing story of a young British WWI veteran returning from the war to his job as a Scotland Yard inspector (Publishers Weekly).”

By Daniel Mason
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

A young doctor and nurse fall in love while navigating the brutal realities of World War I at an underequipped and understaffed field hospital in the Carpathian Mountains.