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I am currently reading "The First World War Volume 1: To Arms" by Hew Strachan. Quite readable for something by an academic historian. This covers the beginning years of WW1. Very good coverage of non-Western Front activity (including the Eastern Front, early naval actions - pre-Jutland, Africa, Turkey's entry, German global strategy, financing the war, and the industrial buildup). This was published in 2001, and there were supposed to be two more volumes, but will they ever be available? A bit of a door-stop at over 1200 pages.
He also published "The First World War", a much shorter work.
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