If you are interested in how people at home coped during WWI, try the last Anne of Green Gables book Rilla of Ingleside

It's a different type of novel than most recommended here, but it covers the full span of the war, how it impacted families, rationing, suffrage, wartime elections, war weddings, war babies etc.

There's a great bit where one family locks their uncle in a barn and won't let him out until he promises to vote for a particular party