1917

A year in the 20th century.

The outbreak of war at sea between the German and British navies extended the conflict to yet another front, where in February 1917 a critical escalation was brought about by Germany’s declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare. All merchant ships in the northern Atlantic – whether carrying military or civilian cargoes – were declared to be targets of the German submarine squadrons. The purpose of this offensive was to paralyse Atlantic shipping and to isolate Great Britain economically by cutting off its inexhaustible supply of commodities from over the seas. Th
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Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917
Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
The State and Revolution
His Family
Growth of the Soil
Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus, #1)
The Russian Revolution, 1917 (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 32)
Mujong
1917: Да здравствует Император! (Новый Михаил, #1)
Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte
Lovely War
Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge
As Bright as Heaven by Susan MeissnerIn the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat WintersThe Pull of the Stars by Emma DonoghueA Death-Struck Year by Makiia LucierThe Birth House by Ami McKay
1918 Flu Pandemic
98 books — 66 voters

No Safe Harbour by Julie LawsonTides of Honour by Genevieve GrahamBarometer Rising by Hugh MacLennanWho's a Scaredy-Cat! by Joan PayzantThe Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Halifax Explosion Fiction
34 books — 25 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieHowards End by E.M. ForsterMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
534 books — 778 voters



Edward Lear
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.
Edward Lear, Nonsense

We dined at a vegetarian restaurant with the enticing name ‘I Eat Nobody,’ and Tolstoy's picture prominent on the walls, and then sallied out into the streets. ...more
John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World

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