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Without Warning: Ellen's Story, 1914-1918
After World War I calls her brother to the front lines, a young woman sets out to make a difference in this powerful historical novel.
"I don’t know much about wars except soldiers and sailors get killed and Jack might get killed with them. But grown-up people say . . . they’re a chance for young men to go off to foreign parts and be brave and come home heroes."
England, 191...more
"I don’t know much about wars except soldiers and sailors get killed and Jack might get killed with them. But grown-up people say . . . they’re a chance for young men to go off to foreign parts and be brave and come home heroes."
England, 191...more
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
October 9th 2007
by Candlewick Press
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This book told me about how a war can affect people in many ways- and from the eyes of Ellen, a girl who witnesses her side of the war. The thing that I liked from this book was that it described the way how people felt in a certain state realisticly and vividly. I personally like the character of Ellen's brother Jack, who apparently lost his leg in the army while attacking the germans. At first, he is devastated by himself being a burden to the family, and tries to commit suicide in a lake clos...more
I felt that the book was a bit slow at the start, but I ended up really liking it. I haven't actually read that much about WWI, so that was interesting. I also liked the realistic portrayal of a young woman becoming a nurse and ending up near the front lines. There was some romance, but very little and I appreciated that. It was the natural flow of the story, and I also liked the ending a lot. Great book.
Good historical, youth fiction revolving around WWI in England and how it effects a little village and one family as they suffer when Ellen's brother comes back from the was with his leg amputated.
I felt more disappointed in this book than it maybe deserves, perhaps because the cover makes it sound as though much of the action takes place at the front when in fact most of the book deals with her growing up until she leaves, and then her time at the front is pretty skimpily-described. I also wanted her to grow into a little more self-awareness, such that her ongoing employment woes might cause her to reflect on her behavior rather than simply bemoaning things happening to her afterwards. D...more
Wow. Other than being rather depressing this was really good.
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This book was a nice story, but long and slow going. If you have a lot of spare time, go ahead and read it. I didn't find anything spectacular about it, but it was tepidly 'nice'.
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Dennis Hamley was born in Kent in 1935 and lived in southern England throughout the war. After attending Cambridge University and completing a PHD at Leicester, Dennis went on to teach English and work in Education as a tutor and advisor.
He began writing in the 1970s and quickly showed his versatility. From the supernatural, to football to wartime novels, Dennis’s beautifully simple p...more
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He began writing in the 1970s and quickly showed his versatility. From the supernatural, to football to wartime novels, Dennis’s beautifully simple p...more
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