The Great War

Need help with that square? Historical Fiction
Summer Reading Program 2016 Read for the Win! 

Now over 100 years ago, the struggle and loss of World War I still seems modern and provides a haunting backdrop for stories both tragic and hopeful.

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 

The intertwining of two stories, that of British soldier Stephen Wraysford, remembering his liaison with a French woman before the war, and that of his granddaughter sixty years later. Strong and poetic.

Regeneration by Pat Barker

Set in a psychiatric hospital in Scotland, Dr. William Rivers treats soldiers devastated by the war, including poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Their discussions examine the costs of war. Is it moral to “cure” men only to return them to the horrors of trench warfare?

A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd

British army nurse, Bess Crawford keeps her promise to a dying soldier and delivers a message to his family. When she stays on to help provide nursing care to his ailing brother, she finds herself enmeshed in family secrets. First mystery in a series.