Remembering WWI

Local Artifacts

The Crawfordsville District Public Library is currently displaying, on the second floor, WWI memorabilia as an homage to all who served in "The Great War" and especially to a few, heroic soldiers with Montgomery County roots.

There are many non-fiction books about WWI included with the display and available for check out. Below, is a supplemental list of other classic, non-fiction and fiction books and movies that tell both the tragic and victorious stories inherent in WWI history.

The African Queen by C. S. Forester

Two very different people find themselves thrown together in the war-torn African jungle in 1914 and together they embark on a dangerous mission to destroy a German gunboat.





All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

This classic anti-war drama details the horrific experiences of young German soldiers & the tough sergeant who helps them survive the brutalities of trench warfare during World War I.






The Blue Max by Jack D. Hunter

Bruno Stachel is a nobody, a newly recruited junior officer in a First World War German combat squadron. But he is determined not to remain a nobody for long. He has his sights on the Blue Max - the most coveted of all German decorations - and he will do anything to get it.




A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

This is the story of Lieutenant Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. The two meet in Italy, and almost immediately Hemingway sets up the central tension of the novel: the tenuous nature of love in a time of war.






Once An Eagle by Anton Myrer

The story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self interest. Massengale, however, brilliantly advances by making the right connections behind the lines and in Washington's corridors of power.



Sergeant York (based on the true story of Sergeant Alvin C. York)

During World War I, a man from Tennessee is torn between his pacifist principles and his patriotic duty. He goes on to become the most famous hero of that war, Alvin C. York.