18 books like The Burning Shore

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Endurance Alfred Lansing · 1959 · ★ 4.5 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England, in August 1914. The ship became locked inside an island of ice, and was later crushed. This tale of survival by Shackleton and all 27 of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctice seas defined heroism. Shares: Community pick

The appetite of tyranny Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1915 · 46p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The mere facts of the story are about the present European conflagration, includes other short works and essays. Shares: World War I, World War

In Secret Robert W. Chambers · 1919 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The case in question concerned a letter in a yellow envelope, which was dumped along with other incoming mail upon one of the many long tables where hundreds of women and scores of men sat opening and reading thousands of letters for the Bureau of P. C. - whatever that may mean. Shares: World War I, World War

The dark forest Hugh Walpole · 1916 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Challenging John Durward and John Trenchard are two Englishmen who join a company of Russian doctors, nurses, and orderlies working on the Russian side of the Eastern Front at the height of World War I. Durward, the primary narrator, is a detached and seemingly-objective observer of events; his friend Trenchard is a dreamy, clumsy, and naive man whose fiancee, Marie Ivanova, is serving alongside him as a… Shares: World War I, World War

The Great War Michael Morpurgo · 2014 · ★ 3.5 · 303p · ≈ 10h · Moderate An anthology of stories inspired by objects from the First World War. It is a collection of stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War. Each object illuminates an aspect of life during the war, and each story reminds us of the millions of individual lives that were changed forever by the fighting. Shares: World War I, World War

The Runagates Club John Buchan · 1928 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Challenging John Buchan’s The Runagates Club is a classic of British interwar short fiction. These twelve stories appeared from 1913 to 1927, when he was at the peak of his powers, and feature Richard Hannay, Edward Leithen, and many newcomers to the Buchan canon. John Buchan designed The Runagates Club as a showcase for the best of his 1920s magazine fiction. He repurposed these stories with new… Shares: World War I, World War

The Alice Network Kate Quinn · 2017 · ★ 4.5 · 503p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of,… Shares: World War I, World War

Among the Mad Jacqueline Winspear · 2009 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate It’s Christmas Eve 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the prime minister’s office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met—and the writer mentions Maisie by name. After being questioned and cleared by Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane of Scotland Yard’s… Shares: World War I, World War

Ungeduld des Herzens Stefan Zweig · 1927 · ★ 4.4 · 435p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Der junge Leutnant Anton Hofmiller lernt die gelähmte Adelstochter Edith kennen und entwickelt Gefühle für sie – aber er weiß nicht, ob es sich dabei um Liebe oder Mitleid handelt. Hofmiller macht ihr Hoffnungen auf Liebe und Genesung. Aber aus Angst vor gesellschaftlichem Spott verleugnet er schließlich seine wahren Gefühle, bis die Katastrophe unausweichlich ist.Zweig, der Meister der Novelle,… Shares: World War I, World War

The African Queen C. S. Forester · 1935 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Challenging English missionary's sister enlists aid of mechanic in blowing up German gunboat on African lake. Shares: World War I, World War

Maisie Dobbs Jacqueline Winspear · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 294p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Maisie Dobbs isn’t just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence—and the patronage of her benevolent employers—she works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse. It is there that she learns that coincidences are meaningful and the truth elusive. After the War, Maisie sets up on her own as a private investigator. But her… Shares: World War I, World War

The Winter Soldier Daniel Mason · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives--at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains--he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other… Shares: World War I, World War

Those Across the River Christopher Buehlman · 2011 · ★ 4.3 · 354p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Moving to rural Georgia, a failed academic plans to write a history of his family's old plantation and the horrors that occurred there but instead discovers a sense of unspoken dread among the townspeople and a long-standing debt of blood. Shares: World War I, World War

Enormous Room E. E. Cummings · 1949 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), famously known as E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, essayist, painter, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous paintings and drawings. He is remembered as an unsurpassed voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular, even today.… Shares: World War I, World War

To the Last Man Jeff Shaara · 2004 · ★ 4.5 · 636p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate on Europe's western front. France and Great Britain… Shares: World War I, World War

Private Peaceful Michael Morpurgo · 1962 · ★ 4.1 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself. Shares: World War I, World War

Waiting for sunrise William Boyd · 2012 · ★ 3.5 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Vienna, 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. She is clearly in distress, but Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and… Shares: World War I, World War

Moments of vision Thomas Hardy · 1889 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging ix, 443 p. ; 23 cm Shares: World War I, World War

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