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First World War Books
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 525,370 ratings — published 1928
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 85,499 ratings — published 1962
Goodbye to All That (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,696 ratings — published 1929
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,004 ratings — published 1999
Birdsong (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 84,439 ratings — published 1993
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,058 ratings — published 1991
Testament of Youth (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,527 ratings — published 1933
Storm of Steel (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 22,131 ratings — published 1920
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,349 ratings — published 2012
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 357,196 ratings — published 1929
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,493 ratings — published 2013
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,611 ratings — published 2013
The Great War and Modern Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,210 ratings — published 1975
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 15,233 ratings — published 2001
Undertones of War (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 15 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,015 ratings — published 1928
The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,434 ratings — published 1995
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,105 ratings — published 1962
Under Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,422 ratings — published 1916
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,880 ratings — published
In Memoriam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.50 — 79,477 ratings — published 2023
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,728 ratings — published 2003
The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,919 ratings — published 1993
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,015 ratings — published 2014
The Return of the Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,424 ratings — published 1918
Private Peaceful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 31,550 ratings — published 2003
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,971 ratings — published 1989
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,144 ratings — published 2008
The First World War: A Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,797 ratings — published 1994
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,251 ratings — published 2011
A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,852 ratings — published 2005
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,144 ratings — published 2006
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,000 ratings — published 1992
War Horse (War Horse, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 59,800 ratings — published 1982
The Pity of War: Explaining World War I (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,170 ratings — published 1998
Parade's End (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,878 ratings — published 1928
1915: The Death Of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 550 ratings — published 1993
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,841 ratings — published 1982
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,765 ratings — published 2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 163,458 ratings — published 2015
July 1914: Countdown to War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,265 ratings — published 2013
1914-1918: The History of the First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 811 ratings — published 2004
Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War (The Making of the Modern World)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.80 — 66 ratings — published 2007
Sagittarius Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 915 ratings — published 1936
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,674 ratings — published 2003
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,736 ratings — published 1928
The War Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,903 ratings — published 1919
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,638 ratings — published 1979
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 194,305 ratings — published 2020
The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.79 — 225 ratings — published 1998
Journey's End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,703 ratings — published 1928
“The Armless Tics by Stewart Stafford
Never again, the blustering brass said,
Inked in blood, my generation dead,
Human meat carved with lunatic aplomb,
No cowering allowed from gun or bomb.
Lice, rats, and mud—war zeal’s reality.
Trench foot and poisoned-gas lethality,
Churned hellscape, where no man can be,
Scribbling letters home to preserve sanity.
The artillery’s heartbeat, now silent, aghast,
Shells raining on future, present, and past,
On a last keepsake bullet, I etched “11-11”,
Through influenza, faint prayers to Heaven.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Never again, the blustering brass said,
Inked in blood, my generation dead,
Human meat carved with lunatic aplomb,
No cowering allowed from gun or bomb.
Lice, rats, and mud—war zeal’s reality.
Trench foot and poisoned-gas lethality,
Churned hellscape, where no man can be,
Scribbling letters home to preserve sanity.
The artillery’s heartbeat, now silent, aghast,
Shells raining on future, present, and past,
On a last keepsake bullet, I etched “11-11”,
Through influenza, faint prayers to Heaven.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“... your father and I were in the trenches together, in the Great War. That was a war all right. Oh I know there have been other wars since, better-publicized ones, more expensive ones perhaps, but our war is the one I'll always remember. Our war is the one that means war to me.”
― Snow White
― Snow White
