From Print to Screen.
It’s a transition that many great books have made, resulting in a slew of award winning dramas, some great comedies, and several action-packed adventures.
Here is a round of up of some of great books
that have made it to the silver-screen:
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
Hardcover | 496 pages | Pantheon | Fiction - Science Fiction - Short Stories
978-0-375-42151-8 (0-375-42151-3)
November 5, 2002 | $40.00
Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next...
Hardcover | 496 pages | Pantheon | Fiction - Science Fiction - Short Stories
978-0-375-42151-8 (0-375-42151-3)
November 5, 2002 | $40.00
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Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next...
Also available as an
eBook.
Charlie St. Cloud
Paperback | 320 pages | Bantam | Fiction
978-0-553-58402-8 (0-553-58402-2)
June 22, 2010 | $8.99
Paperback | 320 pages | Bantam | Fiction
978-0-553-58402-8 (0-553-58402-2)
June 22, 2010 | $8.99
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In a snug New England fishing village, Charlie St. Cloud tends the lawns and monuments of an ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. After surviving the car accident that claimed his brother's life, Charlie is graced with an extraordinary gift: He can see, talk to, and even play...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Killer Inside Me
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-73397-3 (0-679-73397-3)
March 13, 1991 | $16.95
Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he's a little slow and a little boring. But, then, most people don't know about the sickness--the sickness that almost got Lou put away when he was younger. The sickness that...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-73397-3 (0-679-73397-3)
March 13, 1991 | $16.95
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Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he's a little slow and a little boring. But, then, most people don't know about the sickness--the sickness that almost got Lou put away when he was younger. The sickness that...
Barney's Version
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97174-3 (0-676-97174-1)
November 1, 1998 | $22.00
Ebullient and perverse, thrice married, Barney Panofsky has always clung to two cherished beliefs: life is absurd and nobody truly ever understands anybody else. But when his sworn enemy publicly states that Barney is a wife abuser, an intellectual fraud and probably a murderer, he is driven to write his own...
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97174-3 (0-676-97174-1)
November 1, 1998 | $22.00
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Ebullient and perverse, thrice married, Barney Panofsky has always clung to two cherished beliefs: life is absurd and nobody truly ever understands anybody else. But when his sworn enemy publicly states that Barney is a wife abuser, an intellectual fraud and probably a murderer, he is driven to write his own...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Hardcover | 336 pages | Everyman's Library | Juvenile Fiction - Classics
978-0-679-41795-8 (0-679-41795-8)
November 3, 1992 | $22.00
The two Alice books--Lewis Carroll's masterpieces--are ranked by many as peers of the great adult works of English literature. And despite their riches of "untranslatable" puns, nonsense, and parody, they have been happily translated around the world. The matchless original illustrations by Tenniel share with Carroll's text the glory of making...
Hardcover | 336 pages | Everyman's Library | Juvenile Fiction - Classics
978-0-679-41795-8 (0-679-41795-8)
November 3, 1992 | $22.00
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The two Alice books--Lewis Carroll's masterpieces--are ranked by many as peers of the great adult works of English literature. And despite their riches of "untranslatable" puns, nonsense, and parody, they have been happily translated around the world. The matchless original illustrations by Tenniel share with Carroll's text the glory of making...
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
The Ghost Writer
Paperback | 416 pages | Arrow | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-09-953852-3 (0-09-953852-0)
February 22, 2010 | $11.99
The stunning new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland; Enigma; Archangel; Pompeii and Imperium.
“The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now. I should have said, ‘Rick, I’m sorry, this isn’t for me, I don’t like the sound of...
Paperback | 416 pages | Arrow | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-09-953852-3 (0-09-953852-0)
February 22, 2010 | $11.99
The stunning new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland; Enigma; Archangel; Pompeii and Imperium.
“The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now. I should have said, ‘Rick, I’m sorry, this isn’t for me, I don’t like the sound of...
Green Zone (Imperial Life/Emerald City Movie Tie-In Edition)
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage | Political Science - International Security
978-0-307-47753-8 (0-307-47753-3)
February 23, 2010 | $18.95
The fullest, most intimate account of life in the Green Zone, the sheltered bubble where idealistic Americans planned the occupation while Iraq fell apart.
The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new...
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage | Political Science - International Security
978-0-307-47753-8 (0-307-47753-3)
February 23, 2010 | $18.95
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The fullest, most intimate account of life in the Green Zone, the sheltered bubble where idealistic Americans planned the occupation while Iraq fell apart.
The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new...
Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition)
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-307-47484-1 (0-307-47484-4)
October 20, 2009 | $16.00
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Includes a Reading Group Guide
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a...
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-307-47484-1 (0-307-47484-4)
October 20, 2009 | $16.00
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Includes a Reading Group Guide
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a...
Up in the Air (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor | Fiction
978-0-307-47629-6 (0-307-47629-4)
November 24, 2009 | $10.99
Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls “Airworld,” finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and a wardrobe of wrinkle-free slacks...
Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor | Fiction
978-0-307-47629-6 (0-307-47629-4)
November 24, 2009 | $10.99
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Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls “Airworld,” finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and a wardrobe of wrinkle-free slacks...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Youth in Revolt
Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Broadway | Fiction
978-0-7679-3124-3 (0-7679-3124-6)
November 3, 2009 | $22.99
The hilarious, take-no-prisoners novel about a cynical, sex-obsessed teenager's pining love for an intelligent girl– now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera
SIX MONTHS IN THE LIFE OF THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS TEENAGER
Youth in Revolt is the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles...
Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Broadway | Fiction
978-0-7679-3124-3 (0-7679-3124-6)
November 3, 2009 | $22.99
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The hilarious, take-no-prisoners novel about a cynical, sex-obsessed teenager's pining love for an intelligent girl– now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera
SIX MONTHS IN THE LIFE OF THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS TEENAGER
Youth in Revolt is the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
My Life in France (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-47485-8 (0-307-47485-2)
June 23, 2009 | $18.95
Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France.
Indeed, when she...
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-47485-8 (0-307-47485-2)
June 23, 2009 | $18.95
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Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France.
Indeed, when she...
Also available as a
paperback.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Hardcover | 96 pages | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction - Animals - Foxes
978-0-375-82207-0 (0-375-82207-0)
June 11, 2002 | $23.95
Fantastic Mr. Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, squat Bunce, and skinny Bean have joined forces, and they have Mr. Fox and his family surrounded. What they don’t know is that they’re not dealing with just any fox–Mr. Fox would...
Hardcover | 96 pages | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction - Animals - Foxes
978-0-375-82207-0 (0-375-82207-0)
June 11, 2002 | $23.95
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Fantastic Mr. Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, squat Bunce, and skinny Bean have joined forces, and they have Mr. Fox and his family surrounded. What they don’t know is that they’re not dealing with just any fox–Mr. Fox would...
The Time Traveler's Wife
Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97633-5 (0-676-97633-6)
June 15, 2004 | $22.00
New York Times Bestseller
Today Show Book Club Selection
Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry...
Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97633-5 (0-676-97633-6)
June 15, 2004 | $22.00
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New York Times Bestseller
Today Show Book Club Selection
Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry...
The Last Station (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-73964-3 (0-307-73964-3)
January 12, 2010 | $18.95
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Starring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, & James McAvoy
In 1910, Count Leo Tolstoy, the most famous writer in the world, is caught in the struggle between his devoted wife and an equally devoted acolyte over the master's legacy. Sofya Andreyevna fears that she and the children she has borne...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-73964-3 (0-307-73964-3)
January 12, 2010 | $18.95
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Starring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, & James McAvoy
In 1910, Count Leo Tolstoy, the most famous writer in the world, is caught in the struggle between his devoted wife and an equally devoted acolyte over the master's legacy. Sofya Andreyevna fears that she and the children she has borne...
The Boys Are Back (Movie Tie-in Edition
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-47627-2 (0-307-47627-8)
September 1, 2009 | $17.99
"So there we are, a father and two sons in a household without role models, males together in a home different from anything I'd known—an idyllic Lost Boys' world with a house full of children and as few rules as possible."
When Simon Carr's wife Susie lost her battle to cancer, Carr...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-47627-2 (0-307-47627-8)
September 1, 2009 | $17.99
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"So there we are, a father and two sons in a household without role models, males together in a home different from anything I'd known—an idyllic Lost Boys' world with a house full of children and as few rules as possible."
When Simon Carr's wife Susie lost her battle to cancer, Carr...
Thinking in Pictures (Expanded, Tie-in Edition)
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-73958-2 (0-307-73958-9)
January 26, 2010 | $18.95
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one-third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism--because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us.
In this...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-73958-2 (0-307-73958-9)
January 26, 2010 | $18.95
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Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one-third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism--because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us.
In this...
The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009)
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-307-47630-2 (0-307-47630-8)
November 3, 2009 | $18.95
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post
The searing...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-307-47630-2 (0-307-47630-8)
November 3, 2009 | $18.95
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post
The searing...
Also available as a
paperback.
The Reader (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-45489-8 (0-307-45489-4)
November 25, 2008 | $15.95
Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna...
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-45489-8 (0-307-45489-4)
November 25, 2008 | $15.95
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Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna...
Also available as a
paperback.
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Paperback | 384 pages | Dell | Fiction
978-0-440-24487-5 (0-440-24487-0)
January 20, 2009 | $10.99
Millions of readers have come to adore New York Times best-selling author Sophie Kinsella’s irrepressible heroine. Meet Becky Bloomwood, America’s favorite shopaholic—a young woman with a big heart, big dreams…and just one little weakness.
Becky has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet...
Paperback | 384 pages | Dell | Fiction
978-0-440-24487-5 (0-440-24487-0)
January 20, 2009 | $10.99
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Millions of readers have come to adore New York Times best-selling author Sophie Kinsella’s irrepressible heroine. Meet Becky Bloomwood, America’s favorite shopaholic—a young woman with a big heart, big dreams…and just one little weakness.
Becky has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Boy In the Striped Pajamas (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | David Fickling Books | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - Holocaust
978-0-385-75189-6 (0-385-75189-3)
October 28, 2008 | $9.99
Berlin 1942
When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | David Fickling Books | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - Holocaust
978-0-385-75189-6 (0-385-75189-3)
October 28, 2008 | $9.99
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Berlin 1942
When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to...
Atonement (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39678-5 (0-307-39678-9)
November 6, 2007 | $21.00
The novel opens on a sweltering summer day in 1935 at the Tallis family’s mansion in the Surrey countryside. Thirteen-year-old Briony has written a play in honor of the visit of her adored older brother Leon; other guests include her three young cousins -- refugees from their parent’s marital breakup --...
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39678-5 (0-307-39678-9)
November 6, 2007 | $21.00
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The novel opens on a sweltering summer day in 1935 at the Tallis family’s mansion in the Surrey countryside. Thirteen-year-old Briony has written a play in honor of the visit of her adored older brother Leon; other guests include her three young cousins -- refugees from their parent’s marital breakup --...
Revolutionary Road (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-307-45462-1 (0-307-45462-2)
November 25, 2008 | $16.95
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a...
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-307-45462-1 (0-307-45462-2)
November 25, 2008 | $16.95
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In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a...
Also available as a
paperback.
The Kite Runner (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66520-9 (0-385-66520-2)
October 16, 2007 | $21.00
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
Scheduled for theatre release in November 2007, “The Kite Runner” has a stellar team behind it: Golden Globe-nominated director Marc Forster (“Stranger Than Fiction,” “Finding Neverland,” “Monster’s Ball”) and screenplay writer David Benioff (“Troy”).
The Kite Runner is an unforgettable story of honour, courage and betrayal set in...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66520-9 (0-385-66520-2)
October 16, 2007 | $21.00
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
Scheduled for theatre release in November 2007, “The Kite Runner” has a stellar team behind it: Golden Globe-nominated director Marc Forster (“Stranger Than Fiction,” “Finding Neverland,” “Monster’s Ball”) and screenplay writer David Benioff (“Troy”).
The Kite Runner is an unforgettable story of honour, courage and betrayal set in...
Also available as a
paperback.
The Informant (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Trade Paperback | 656 pages | Broadway | Business & Economics
978-0-7679-3125-0 (0-7679-3125-4)
August 11, 2009 | $21.00
[National Bestseller]
Soon to be a major motion picture from Warner Bros., starring Matt Damon.
In The Informant, award-winning investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald tells the outrageously true story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy that left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man...
Trade Paperback | 656 pages | Broadway | Business & Economics
978-0-7679-3125-0 (0-7679-3125-4)
August 11, 2009 | $21.00
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[National Bestseller]
Soon to be a major motion picture from Warner Bros., starring Matt Damon.
In The Informant, award-winning investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald tells the outrageously true story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy that left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man...
Paris 1919
Trade Paperback | 624 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | History - Military - World War I
978-0-375-76052-5 (0-375-76052-0)
September 9, 2003 | $21.00
National Bestseller
New York Times Editors’ Choice
Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award
of the Council on Foreign Relations
Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
For six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end...
Trade Paperback | 624 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | History - Military - World War I
978-0-375-76052-5 (0-375-76052-0)
September 9, 2003 | $21.00
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National Bestseller
New York Times Editors’ Choice
Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award
of the Council on Foreign Relations
Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
For six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end...
Also available as an
eBook.
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