WWI, First World War books

1st 4 books from French veterans and show disorganized French Army.

Poilu: The WWI notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrel Maker

Under Fire: The story of a squad, Henri Barbusse

Fear, Gabriel Chevallier

A French Soldier’s War Diary 1914-1918, Henri Desagneaux

Death of a Hero, Richard Aldington novel

 Covenant with Death, John Harris  novel

There’s a Devil in the Drum John F Lucy narrative

Copse 125, Ernst Junger narrative

Storm of Steel, Ernst Junger

All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

The Road Back, E. Remarque

Three Comrades, E. Remarque

*The Black Obelisk, E. Remarque (interwar yrs Weimar Germany, hyperinflation)

No Man’s Land, John Toland

Sagittarius Rising, Cecil Lewis

Her Privates We (The Middle Parts of Glory), Frederic Manning

Three Soldiers, John Dos Passos

Now it can be Told, Philip Gibbs

The Soul of War, Philip Gibbs

Experiences of a Dug-Out, Sir C E Callwell

Attack, An Infantry Subaltern’s impression of July 1st 1916, Edward G D Living

From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917, Philip Gibbs narrative

Mr Britling Sees it Through, HG Wells novel

The Good Soldier Schweik, Jaroslav Hasek novel

The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West novel

Parade’s End, Ford Maddox Ford novel

Regeneration, Pat Barker novel

The Ghost Road, Pat Barker novel

No Graves as Yet, Anne Perry novel

Subaltern on the Somme, Max Plowman narrative

To End All Wars, Adam Hochchild narrative

Memories of an Infantry Officer, Siegfried Sassoon

Memories of a Fox Hunting Man, Siegfried Sassoon

Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves

The General, C S Forester novel

Passchendaele, The Untold Story Robin Prior Trevor Wilson

Forgotten Victory, Gary Sheffield

The Sleepwalkers, Chris Clark

Iron Kingdom, Chris Clark

Breaking Point of the French Army, David Murphy

Wilhelm II, John C G Rohl

The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman

The Zimmerman Telegram, Barb Tuchman

Verdun, The longest battle of the Great War, Paul Jankowski

War by Timetable, AJP Taylor

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm, Miranda Carter

A World Undone, GJ Meyer

1914, Paul Ham

Verdun, John Mosier

The Somme, Peter Hart

Fire and Movement, Peter Hart

Castles of Steel, Robert K Massie

The Romanovs, Rob Massie

Passchendaele, Paul Ham

The White War, Mark Thompson

The Eastern Front 1914-1917 Norman Stone

War of Attrition, Wm Philpott

The Vanquished, Robert Gerwarth

The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson

The Deluge, Adam Tooze

Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan

The Marne, Holger H Herwig

The First World War, Martin Gilbert

Three Armies on the Somme, Wm Philpott

Catastrophe, 1914, Europe Goes to War, Max Hastings

November, 1918, Rob Gerwarth

The Second Battle of the Marne, Michael Neiberg

The Great War, Peter Hart

The First World War John Keegan

* When Money Dies, Adam Fergusson, interwar Wiemar hyperinflation

* Weimar Germany, Promise and Tragedy, Eric D Weitz, interwar Germany

July 1914: Countdown to War    Sean Mcmeekin

A Storm in Flanders  Winston Groom

Europe’s Last Summer   David Fromkin

The Secret Battle, A Herbert novel

 Ashenden, or The British Agent, W Somerset Maugham novel

*Germany, 1923 Volker Ulrich

The Kaiser’s Battle, Martin Middlebrook

* A Small Circus, (1931) Hans Fallada, Set during Weimar Republic

* Berlin Alexanderplatz, (1929) Alfred Düblin Set during Weimar Republic

Journey’s End, R C Sherriff

Kingdoms Fall: The Laxenburg Message, Edward Parr

With the German Guns: Four years on the Western Front, Herbert Sulzberg diary

* The Spider’s Web, Joseph Roth (Weimar)

The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, Margaret MacMillan

Bretherton: Khaki or Field Grey, W F Morris novel

Aces Falling: War above the trenches, 1918. Peter Hart

The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, Siegfried Sassoon

Dead Wake: The last crossing of the Lusitania, Eric Larson

The Proud Tower: A portrait of the world before the war, Barbara Tuchman

The Romanovs: The final chapter, Robert Massie

Winged Victory, V M Yeates

The Price of Glory, Alistair Horn

Testament of Youth, Vera Briton

Roads to Glory, Richard Aldington

The First World War Peace Settlements 1919-1925, Erik Goldstein, Pearson Edu Ltd

* The Lost Revolution: Germany 1918 to 1923, Chris Harman

They Called It Passchendaele: The story of the 3rd battle of Ypres…, Lyn MacDonald

1914, Lyn MacDonald

* A People Betrayed, Alfred Doblin (German Revolution Nov 1918, novel)

Iron Gustov, Hans Fallada, novel

Wooden Crosses (Les Croix de Bois) Roland Dorgeles, 1919 novel

*The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic, nonfiction H Friederichs, C Waight

*Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany, Harald Jahner

*What I saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933

The Plan that Broke the World: The Schlieffen Plan & WWI, Wm D O’Neil

* Wolf Among Wolves, Hans Fallada

1915, Lyn MacDonald

*Stresemann and the Politics of the Weimar Republic

1918: To the Last Man, Lyn MacDonald

Rudetsky March, Joseph Roth, novel