Covers major figures and events in Europe from 1914 to 1919. Includes the causes of World War I, Germany's offensives in Europe, the air war and war at sea, the war in the Near East and Russia, trench warfare in Europe, the U.S. entrance into the war, the armistice, and the Treaty of Versailles.
Dorothy L. Sayers - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
90-year-old General Fendman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died - and the time of death was the determining factor in a half-million-pound inheritance. Lord Peter Wimsey would need every bit of his amazing skills to unravel the mysteries of why the General's lapel was without a red poppy on Armistice Day, how the club's telephone was fixed without a repairman, and, most puzzling of all, why the great man's knee swung freely when the rest of him was stiff with rigor mortis.
