Young Indiana Jones, Vol. 2, Paramount, 2007. Joins the earlier Young Indiana Jones, Part I. Seven feature-length films starring Jean Patrick Flanery recounting the fictional adventures of the young Indiana Jones during WWI. The nine-DVD set retails at $129.99, but is available at a discount from several outlets including Overstock.com. The set includes a documentary, Trenches of Hell, a lecture on WWI, an interactive timeline and a game.

A Very Long Engagement, starring Audrey Tautou with Jody Foster, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Warner Bros.-Tapioca Films, 2003, color. 127 minutes in French with English subtitles. From the prize-winning 1993 novel of the same title by Sabastien Japrisot, this is the story of a young French woman's search for her fiance soldier missing in World War I. It is a combination of war fiction, love story and detective novel which won a 2004 Edgar for its film plot and was nominated for an Academy Award for cinematography. Available on DVD from Barnes & Noble. The paperback translation of the novel, as well as on tape or cassette is also available from Barnes & Novel and other booksellers.

Random Harvest, MGM, 1942, b&w, produced and directed by Mervin LeRoy, starring Ronald Coleman and Greer Garson, released on DVD (Region 1) by Turner Entertainment in 2004, $14.98 from Barnes & Noble. Melodrama about a shell shocked British WWI officer (Coleman) who loses his memory and the loyalty of his wife (Garson). Based on a novel by James Hilton (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon). Nominated for seven academy awards including best picture and best actor (Coleman). This movie came hard on the heels of Miss Garson's Academy Award for her 1942 performance as Mrs. Miniver, and at the height of her popularity and success in Hollywood.

A new video, produced by Alison Davis Wood examines the Pilgrimage of Remembrance, the series of federal government funded trips for American mothers to visit their sons buried in France and Flanders after the Great War. WFA members will recall Lisa Budreau's talk on this subject at our September 2002 Seminar at the Liberty Memorial. The one-hour documentary to be shown on PBS is now available for purchase [$29.95] from WILL-TV; 300 North Goodwin Avenue; Urbana IL 61801-2316; (800) 528-7980.



The 1998 novel The Officers' Ward (La Chambre des Officiers), French with subtitles, in color, 138 minutes, directed by Francois Dupeyron, released by Optimum, 2002.

Adapted from the novel by Marc Dugain (in English translation from Soho Press, NY, 2001), the film tells the story of the recovery of French engineer lieutenant Adrien Fournier who is badly disfigured in World War One. Fournier is assigned to a hospital ward with other officers suffering from facial wounds, les guelles casses. Here, treated by skilled and sympathetic medical staff they slowly recover over many months their sense of identity and self-esteem. First class acting and direction from a master of French film making.

Available from Amazon.co.uk on Region 2 DVD for £15.95 plus postage. Most American PCs with DVD capability will play Region 2 format (PAL).

Two World War I filmographies are available on line:

Bierhous: Classic films available on video

From Trenches on the Web

Commericial Films and Documentaries on the Doughboys and the AEF

From the Doughboy Center

Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War I, written and produced by Marty Callaghan, 112 minutes, $24.95 from Amazon.com in December 2006. Documentary focussing on the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. Go to www.inecom.com for a trailer and details.

The Return of Paul Jarrett, Clark Jarrett, director and producer, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, 74 minutes, color, full screen, ISBN 0 8026 0139 1, $29.95. A 93-year-old veteran of the Rainbow Division returns to the 1917-1918 battlefields of his youth in France. Originally produced on tape and now available on DVD.

World War One: American Legacy, documentary directed by Mark Bussler. Available from Amazon.com in December 2006 for $22.95. Go to www.inecom.com for details and a trailer.

World War I: The Great War, Vejus Gabriel Liulevicius, The Teaching Company, 2006, available on DVD, videotape, audio CD or audiotape at prices ranging from $49.95 to $99.95 plus shipping. Thirty six half-hour lectures by the author of Land War on the Eastern Front. Dr. Liulevicius teaches at the University of Tennessee and spoke at a WFA regional seminar there. This is a survey history. Look for my review of this lecture series on DVD (which has maps and other visual aids) in a future edition Camaraderie.

World War I: the Great War and the World it Made, John Ramsden, The Modern Scholar, Recorded Books Direct, 270 Skipjack Road, Prince Frederick, MD 20768. A survey course in fourteen lectures on CD or cassette, $39.99. Dr. Ramsden teaches at Queen Mary University of London. Order on line from www.modernscholar.com or call (800) 636-3399, fax (419) 535-5499.

--Ypres British Mapping 1914-1918, Imperial War Museum and The Western Front Association, two DVDs, £25 plus postage for non members, £20 plus postage for WFA members. These are the first in a new series produced by WFA-UK and the Imperial War Museum.

--General Haig's Artillery Maps and The Official History Maps of the War, two DVDs, £25 each plus postage for non members, £20 each plus postage for WFA members.

Lt. James Reese Europe

Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th US Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band, The Compete Recordings, Memphis Archives, 1996, P. O. Box 171282, Memphis, TN 38187.

World War 1 Songs Early Recordings from 1918 Victrola 2 CD Set [Tapes available] Produced by Mark Best Order at: http://www.besmark.com/ww1.html

Voie Sacree Marker

A Glint in the Sky: German First World War Air Attacks on Folkestone, Dover, Ramsgate, Margate and other Kentish Towns, Martin Easdown with Thomas Genth, Pen and Sword Military Books, 160 pages, photos, maps, ISBN 1-84415-119-0, $25.99 soft cover. Heavily illustrated with descriptions of the German bombing aircraft and crews, the damage inflicted and the British victims. Similar to the Pen & Sword Battlefield Europe Series; not a guide book, but rather an illustrated historical essay.

Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors 2114 Darby Road, 2nd Floor Havertown, PA 19083 Tel: (610) 853-9131 Fax: (610) 853-9146 Email: casemate@casematepublishing.com

Casemate distributes in America all Pen & Sword, Leo Cooper titles including the Battlefield Europe Series of guides.

CD-ROM On American Casualties in WWI World War One United States Army and Navy Casualties, a CD-ROM containing over 73,000 names of Army and Navy dead and wounded from all the states, including over 9,000 individual photographs. Also includes research guide for additional WWI records.

Contact: Bruce Cramer, Box 2062, Provo, Utah 84603, (801) 373-5711, e-mail b.cramer.com@juno.com

The United States Army in World War I, The United States Army Center for Military History, available on CD-ROM from the US Government Printing Office in Washington, DC on three discs. Includes the Order of Battle of United States Land Forces in the World War, American Armies and Battlefields in Europe (a battlefield guide), Learning Lessons in the American Expeditionary Forces, and Army Art of WWI (with prints). For Windows, Macintosh or Unix.

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