Remembrance Day Reads

Take time to remember on November 11th.

Updated November 15, 2024
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Where poppies blow : the British soldier, nature, the Great War
Lewis-Stempel, John
Paper Book
War is over
Almond, David
Paper Book
From the bestselling, award-winning author of SKELLIG comes a vivid and moving story, beautifully illustrated, which commemorates the hundred-year anniversary of the end of the First World War. "I am just a child," says John. "How can I be at war?" It's...
Captain Rosalie
Fombelle, Timothée de
Paper Book
An evocative, beautifully imagined and heart-wrenching wartime story by celebrated author Timothée de Fombelle. In this astonishingly-drawn wartime story, a little girl called Rosalie is a captain on a very secret mission - a mission to learn how to read. Mother reads often to Rosalie, especially...
And no birds sang
Mowat, Farley
Paper Book
"In July 1942, Farley Mowat was an eager young infantryman bound for Europe and impatient for combat. This powerful, true account of the action he saw, fighting desperately to push the Nazis out of Italy, evokes the terrible reality of war with an honesty and clarity fiction can only imitate. In...
The longest day : A bridge too far ; other World War II writings
Ryan, Cornelius
Paper Book
For the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a deluxe collector's edition gathering two gripping masterpieces of military history. Library of America presents two of the best books ever written about World War II in a deluxe collector's edition featuring 88 pages of photographs, full-color...

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