recommend me a ww1 book

lizzylad84

Looking for recommendations on a ww1 book. I know there's so much that's written about ypres, verdun, paschendale the some etc but what's been the best book you guys red on ww1 in its totality

heathledgerlove

If it's novels, Birdsong, All Quiet on the Western Front, or I really liked Goodbye to All That which is a memoir. For history, the Oxford Companion to WW1 I used to refer to

NedLowry

1914-1918 by David Stevenson is a superb one-volume history.

holy guacamole

The Solider's War by Richard Van Emden.

Takes the form of letters and memoirs written by soldiers while on the front-line and contains some of the most complete accounts of what the war was really like by those who fought and died in it.

As mentioned above, Birdsong is easily the best WWI based fiction book, but in terms of factual work The Soldier's War is one of the best.

Joe_ Public

All Quiet on the Western Front and Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel are the two best books I've read on WW1, both written from the perspective of German soldiers. (AQOTWF may be a novel but it is true to the spirit of the conflict if not its every gory detail).

Manach

Echoing Storm of Steel, very much goes into the psyche of a soldier.

A rather old one, but an excellent read The Germans who never lost by Hoyt about the German campaign in Africa.

A recent book by Diana Preston A higher form of killing is an account of the Lusitania, Gas Attacks and Zeppelin Raids that occurred in 1915.

brownian

+1 for Goodbye to All That.

lizzylad84

Picked up the first world war by Martin Gilbert for a pittance on ebay

Arghus

A Farewell to Arms.

Harry Angstrom

The Ghost Road. Final part of the Pat Barker "Regeneration" Trilogy but easily the best of them and well worth reading as a stand-alone novel.

gigantic09

Fall Of Giants by Ken Follett.
Also part of a trilogy(part 1).
A mixture of fictitious characters blended with real historical figures,with the backdrop being the lead up to WW1 and the war itself, from different perspectives.

Arthur Daley

The first world war by Hew Stachan. Gives an overview of the war. Was a ten part tv programme originally shown on ch4 but it has been on bbc4 a fair bit lately. You may find the programme on youtube.

goose2005

Turtle Bunbury's book The Glorious Madness is a pretty interesting look at the Irish people and the war

diomed

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