WW1 book recommendations

Golipili is probably the most well known

The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell. It is not a chronological history of WWI, but puts it in perspective and is a great book. Fussell was a professor at Penn and a decorated infantryman in France in WWII. No Man’s Land by John Toland. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings. The World Crisis, by Winston Churchill (only if you have little else to do for the next two months).

Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918

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I was going to recommend Keegan. How were the other two you read?

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Each book I've read has been from a different angle. Keegan gets into the details of battle, Storm of Steel is a firsthand account of the war, and July 1914 so far has been about the politics leading up to war after the assassination. I prefer the latter.

I'm really looking for something that discusses how the outcome of war shaped the world and contributed to WW2.

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if you want a diversion from the non-fiction.

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Three Day Road, by Joseph Boyden

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I'm really looking for something that discusses how the outcome of war shaped the world and contributed to WW2.

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Check out Paris 1919

The long leadup as to why it happened? Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark
Makes you realize how effin crazy the Serbian Nationalists were



More immediate leadup?- Guns of August by Tuchman


There are several books that focus on American involvement that are good, but can't remember at the moment.

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WW1 books

I just finished Sleepealkers, it’s fantastic. I’m currently read The First World War by Keegan, next up The Marne 1914 by Holger Herwig

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july 1914 is good book

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It is really well written non-fiction.