Anne's youngest, Rilla, is about to turn 15, and all she can think of is her first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse. But her dreams are shattered with the announcement of war, for Canada gets involved in WWI that very night. Her brothers go off to fight, and Rilla brings home a war orphan in a soup tureen. The whole community is caught up in the agony of those terrible 4 years, but funny things still happen to lighten the days.

Traces the stories of three women--Eliza Ferriday and her close friend Sofya Streshnayva, a Romanov cousin, and Varinka, a fortune-teller's daughter--against the backdrop of World War I and the Russian revolution.

An anthology of writings by over eighty men and women describe their experiences during World War I and how the conflict changed American life.

A Nova Scotian pacifist, assured a job as a cartographer in London, joins the war effort in 1916 in search of his beloved missing brother-in-law, leaving his son to fend for himself in their grieving fishing village.

A narrative chronicle of World War I's Arab Revolt explores the pivotal roles of a small group of adventurers and low-level officers who orchestrated a secret effort to control the Middle East, demonstrating how they instigated jihad against British forces, built an elaborate intelligence ring and forged ties to gain valuable oil concessions.

Recounts the author's experiences as a field nurse in London, Malta, and the Western Front during World War I, exploring the politics, hopes, and fatal idealism of the British youth when war broke out.

"Ripped from the headlines of the turbulent era between the Great War and the Great Depression, this dynamic, nostalgia-tinged crime drama balances tommy-gun action with epic historical sweep. Legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart star as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect, first in a foxhole on the front lines of World War I, then in Manhattan's Prohibition-era underworld. Directed by Hollywood master Raoul Walsh...

A true-life tale of espionage and terror on American soil during World War I follows New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney's search for a team of German saboteurs who were planning a series of "accidents" using explosives and biological weapons.