Looking for a good book recommendation on WWI

4-15-2014 | Kosmickitty

[KosmicKitty]

After listening to one of my favorite podcaster, Dan Carlin & his Hardcore History, about the beginning of World War I, I would love to find out more about this time in history.

I know that Freepers are a well read bunch and I am asking for any recommendations you may care to make in a good book covering this time in history.

[KosmicKitty]

Many thanks!!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Fiction or Non?

[BenLurkin]

Guns of August

All Quiet Along the Western Front.

[henkster]

Dreadnought and Castles of Steel by Robert Massie

The Arming of Europe and the Making of World War 1 by David Herrman

Europe’s Last Summer by David Fromkin

These are the best books for understanding what led up to the war. I have more references for the actual war itself.

[KosmicKitty]

Non-fiction, preferably. Though a good fiction would also be welcome.

[1rudeboy]

Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August.

[nascarnation]

This is way out of the mainstream of WW1 books but I enjoyed it very much:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elsie-Mairi-Go-War-Extraordinary/dp/1848091354

[BenLurkin]

Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead

Revolt in the Desert by TE Lawrence

[Argus]

THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY by Paul Fussel impressed me.

[forgotten man]

“1918” by John Toland.

[KosmicKitty]

Thank you. Titles I have heard of but never knew were about WWI

[gorush]

“A World Undone” by G.J. Meyer
“Castles of Steel” by Robert K. Massie

[piroque]

All Quiet Along the Western Front.

[InkStone]

‘The First World War’ by Sir Martin Gilbert-

Few historians have the ability to write like Gilbert. He makes history come alive, by telling a series of ‘stories’ throughout his works.

[SkyDancer]

Right - as posted above. Barbara Tuchman “Guns Of August” is by far the best.

[Dogfaced Soldier]

I’d recommend the following:
1. All quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
2. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
3. The Sleepwalkers, How Europe went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

[Squawk 8888]

The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914 by Margaret Macmillan.

[gorush]

Have you read “A World Undone”?

[KosmicKitty]

Thank you. I am quite interested in what lead up to the war it well as the war itself

[the anti-mahdi]

Paul Johnson “Modern Times”