Death of a hero: A Novel

That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day

Richard Dehan

Richard Dehan’s novel, set against the backdrop of the First World War, opens in a lavish dining room where a…

A farewell to arms

Ernest Hemingway

The novel opens on a summer‑time front line where a house overlooks a river, a plain of crops, and distant…

The Girl Philippa

Robert W. Chambers

The novel is a wartime melodrama set against the looming conflict of World War I, as indicated by its subject…

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan

John Buchan’s The Thirty‑Nine Steps is a wartime spy story that begins in the summer of 1915, when a weary,…

Mr. Standfast

John Buchan

The novel opens on a weary British officer returning from the Western Front, his mind a tangle of medals,…

The Zeppelin's Passenger

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a World‑War‑I era historical novel that opens with a leisurely autumn walk…