"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, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find...

An overview of World War I discusses the reasons behind the conflict, its effect on countries all over the world, the major battles fought, and the aftermath.

Focuses on three soldiers in World War I, a Harvard idealist, a working-class Italian American, and an Indiana farm boy, and portrays their disillusionment with the tyranny, red tape, and boredom of the military.

Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.

"By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come....