Reading material on the First World War

[grant]

Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, 1975. Multi-award winning publication, providing a cultural and literary analysis of the impact of the Great War on modern literature, literary conventions, and so much more, by a serving and decorated veteran of WWII.

Have to check out that one.

[Suetonius Paullinus]

Bit of a late reply but I really have to add some more!

Any book by Lyn Macdonald, start with '1914'.
All based on Soldier's stories. Absorbing!!
And in particular Peter Barton's 'Somme', my guide through the trenches last year.
Totally and utterly awesome!

Cheers

SP

[Dave Blue Team]

I've been reading Walter Bloem's "Advance From Mons 1914-1915".

Walter was a novelist prior to the war and he records the action in a pleaseing manner. Many funny parts and many very very sad.
And it's written from the German perspective.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Advance-Mon ... 938&sr=8-1

It's a bit slow to start off with, but the way it's written you can feel the pace of the action being reflected in the place of the writing.
I'm only about half way through, ut am enjoying it none the less.

Such was the quality of Bloem's writing, that J.E. Edmonds, the British official historian of the Great War commented: ""Some of the scenes are so truly and vividly depicted that I gave translations of them in the Official History, feeling that they could not be bettered."

[Correus]

Another late response...

Might I suggest 'The Storm of Steel' by Ernst Jünger, it was required reading in ROTC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_of_Steel

http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Steel-Penguin-Classics-J%C3%BCnger/dp/0142437905

[janner]

For Imperial Russia, I'd suggest Manning, B.W., Bayonets Before Bullets: The Imperial Russian Army, 1861-1914 (Indianapolis, 1992)

[grant]

I have a list for the Russian Civil War, but not much on the Great War.