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World War I Book Options


 * Your book must be at least 150 pages. If your book has more than 150 pages, you will only be required to read portions of the book, so don't be scared away by longer books. Please be sure that your book focuses on __**//America's involvement//**__ in World War I.


 * You may select biographies, non-fiction, or historical fiction/novels. However, if your choice is not on this list, I would suggest bringing it for approval a day or two ahead since your final choice is due Tuesday, February 14

//Origins of American Intervention in the First World War// Ross Gregory

//Selling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda// Alan Axelrod (ocpl.org)

//For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front// Celia Kingsbury

//Doughboy War: the American Expeditionary Force in World War I// James Hallas (ocpl.org)

//Over Here: the First World War and American Society// David Kennedy (ocpl.org)

//War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America// Beth Linker

//Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the US Army during World War I// Carol Byerly

//Doughboys, the Great War, and The Remaking of America// Jennifer D. Keene

//Over There: the United States in the Great War// Byron Farewell (ocpl.org)

//No Greater Sacrifice, No Greater Love: a son’s journey to Normandy// Walter Ford Carter (ocpl.org)

The letters, excerpted here--from an American soldier who died at Normandy--are filled with candid, innocent, and at times wrenching expressions of love for family, the anguish and agony of war, and unshakable faith in a country's noble cause.

// The Millionaires’ Unit: the aristocratic flyboys who fought the Great War and invented Americas airpower //

Marc Wortman (ocpl.org) // The Millionaires' Unit // is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockefeller, the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad, several who counted friends and relatives among presidents and statesmen of the day. They had it all and, remarkably by modern standards, they were prepared to risk it all to fight a distant war in France.

//Lusitania: saga and myth// David Ramsay (ocpl.org)

//Gentlemen volunteers: the story of American ambulance drivers in the Great War// Arlen Hansen

//The Long War home: and American journey from Ellis Island to the Great War// David Laskin (ocpl.org)

//An American Soldier In World War I// George Browne

Biographies for:

General John Pershing Eddie Rickenbacker – //Fighting the Flying Circus// Alvin York Anne Howard Shaw

//The Unknown Soldiers: Black American Troops in World War I// Arthur Barbeau

//“Out Here at the Front”: the World War I Letters of Nora Saltonstall//

//Nurses at the Front – Writing the Wounds of the Great War// Margaret Higonnet

//Great Gatsby// Fitzgerald