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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Your recommendation of A Soldier on the Southern Front led me to purchase that during the 'Kobauchery'. I'm looking forward to that, as well as a reread of The Guns of August that I convinced my local book club to take on as a monthly read (not for August though). I plan to also included for my Great War reading on its centennial (or related reading) rereads of Nicholas and Alexandra, And Quiet Flows the Don, and Ten Days that Shook the World. It's been at least thirty years since I read any of these.
Not about WWI at all, but a great read about WWII and the Ukraine is Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel by Anatoli Kuznetsov.
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I'm ashamed that I've never read
And Quiet Flows the Don. I looked for it during the sale, but it doesn't seem to be available in ebook. It's on my list for the summer when I have a little more free time, although perhaps not as a beach read. With luck, the ebook situation will remedy itself by then.
I've got a lot of books on my Great War list for this year, but it could easily stretch out to the Armistice centenary at my current rate.
Thanks for the Babi Yar recommendation; I didn't know it and it's obviously both important and timely. And it's the 75th anniversary of the start of WWII at that.