LINES OF COURAGE
Thanks for the Saturday entries for THE SCOURGE! The winner is: LANYA!
Also, I know I missed Sunday’s post. That’s how life goes sometimes. Now, for LINES OF COURAGE!
I’ll be talking a lot about this book over the next few months.
LINES OF COURAGE will be released on March 1, 2022. It tells the story of World War One from the perspectives of five kids from five countries over the five years of the war.
I think World War One is fascinating, but it is a far lesser-known war than the Second World War.
A couple of facts I think are really interesting include this:
This is called a camouflage ship. Normally if you think of a camouflage ship, you’d think of one that fades into the background so it’s hard to see. This is the very opposite. All it needs are blinking lights to say ARE YOU NOTICING ME?
But the strange patterns and shapes confused the enemy torpedo operators, who weren’t entirely sure where to aim. These camouflage ships may have saved the lives of thousands of soldiers in the British Navy.
Also, World War 1 produced the single largest battle in world history, in Verdun, France. The battle lasted almost a full year and was so destructive that after the war, the area was declared a Red Zone, a place not safe for humans. We have been cleaning it up over the last hundred years but the area still is a Red Zone. At our current rate of clean-up, the estimation is that the Red Zone will not be entirely safe for another 300 years!
Now, to enter to win an ARC of this book, down in comments, can you leave me a favorite fact you know about World War One?
To preorder a copy (and I would love it if you did preorder!), links are here:
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My favourite WW1 fact would be that the assassination of Franz Ferdinand was the tipping point for the tension among the countries involved; the death of one man finally brought forth the war so many were afraid of. So excited to read your upcoming book!
My favorite WW1 fact has got to be that the youngest British soldier to fight was only 12 years old. Lots of young boys fought in the war for one of these two reasons: 1) To help their country 2) to get out of the poor living arrangements they had. It just shows how much courage they had!!!Also, I'm SO excited for this book. I'm a huge fan of all your historical fiction books, and have them all sitting on my bookshelf right now... I'd love to add this one to my collection!!
I don't know that much about World War One, (I know stuff about World War Two though)I fact I found that was interesting was that after the war Germany made bike tires out of metal springs because there wasn't enough rubber available.
I am not very knowledgeable in WWI, however I did find an interesting fact. In the later months of 1914 there had been many casualties, so the Germans and Allies called a ceasefire so they could take care of the deceased. A strange thing was seen on December 25th of that year. Around 100,000 German and British soldiers laid down their arms and exchanged gifts and food in a Christmas celebration! Unfortunately by 1915 no more truces were ever called and the brief comrade ship ended. I think it's important to remember that just because other people's views are different then ours' or they are fighting on the other side doesn't mean that we have to hate them. Even though they were fighting for different things, they still came together and set aside their differences to celebrate. Even if it was only for a short while.
Hi! This is more of a theory than a fact, but my favorite is that WW1 was caused by a sandwich. The shooting of Franz Ferdinand is what set off WW1. The theory is that Franz Ferdinand's killer, Gavrilo Princip, stopped for a sandwich. If Princip hadn't stopped for said sandwich, he never would've seen Ferdinand, and no one would've gotten shot. No sandwich, no war.
My favorite fact about World War I is that no country went into the war fighting about different things! I also thought it was interesting that this war was supposedly the "War to End All Wars" but it ended up planting the seeds for World War II to happen in the future.
