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Originally Posted by HarryT
What would you recommend as a good history of WWI?
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I'm not the person to ask, Harry, and it would have been a good question for me to ask others. I am coming across books serendipidously, but none are a complete history. I just bought
The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army by Gary Sheffield after listening to the author on an Australian Great War series (link to be found in the literary book club's Testament of Youth thread).
I have read these books in the last few months:
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain - highly recommended
All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque - MR book club selection. A must-read.
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett is a gripping fictional story of the war from several perspectives. Excellent.
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins is the current MR book club selection. I am nearing the end and it is a worthwhile read.
It is these books that interested me to the point of setting the Great War reading challenge. Suggestions are welcome by me, but maybe not by others in the bargain mystery thread.
Edit: Although I chose to answer your question seriously, I do get the irony of
fun and
WWI in the same paragraph. Hence, my yearning for mysteries which
are generally fun to read.