Pocket Bear

Pocket BearDescription By Katherine Applegate Hardcover An instant New York Times Bestseller! Meet Pocket, created as a good luck charm for soldiers going into battle, whose bravery and loyalty lives on long after the war. From Katherine Applegate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Odder and The One and Only Ivan. Thimble born from tip to toe, Pocket Bear remembers every moment of his becoming: the glimmering needle, the silken thread, the tender hands as

Chemical Warfare Service in 1917 left an indelible imprint on World War I

But when Sofya’s letters suddenly stop coming

Geoff Dyer examines the way that photographs and film

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humanitarians

these words carried life or death meaning

as African Americans were integrated into the city’s war effort and cultural landscape even as Jim Crow was firmly established

Younger officers took for granted that war’s complexity required them to be trained to think and act alike—a notion that would have offended earlier generations

you might never want to leave

the conscription controversy

pushing the Germans back to the borders

it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets