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All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 537,227 ratings — published 1928
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,207 ratings — published 1962
Goodbye to All That (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,030 ratings — published 1929
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,147 ratings — published 1999
Birdsong (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 85,330 ratings — published 1993
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,722 ratings — published 1991
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,803 ratings — published 2012
Testament of Youth (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,685 ratings — published 1933
Storm of Steel (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,160 ratings — published 1920
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 365,109 ratings — published 1929
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,724 ratings — published 2013
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,655 ratings — published 2013
The Great War and Modern Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,244 ratings — published 1975
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,405 ratings — published 2001
Undertones of War (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 15 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,041 ratings — published 1928
The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,604 ratings — published 1995
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,140 ratings — published 1962
Under Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,484 ratings — published 1916
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,903 ratings — published
In Memoriam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.49 — 88,829 ratings — published 2023
The Return of the Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,618 ratings — published 1918
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,759 ratings — published 2003
The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,081 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 — 1,043 ratings — published 2014
Private Peaceful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 32,076 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 — 3,003 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 4.00 — 1,188 ratings — published 2008
The First World War: A Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,879 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 4.15 — 9,306 ratings — published 2011
A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,984 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 4.38 — 9,316 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 — 7,050 ratings — published 1992
War Horse (War Horse, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 60,864 ratings — published 1982
The Pity of War: Explaining World War I (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,198 ratings — published 1998
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,871 ratings — published 2015
Parade's End (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,915 ratings — published 1928
1915: The Death Of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 554 ratings — published 1993
The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.80 — 232 ratings — published 1998
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,879 ratings — published 1982
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 166,921 ratings — published 2015
Journey's End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,806 ratings — published 1928
July 1914: Countdown to War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,292 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 — 838 ratings — published 2004
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,919 ratings — published 1965
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 354,348 ratings — published 2005
The Good Soldier Švejk (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,664 ratings — published 1921
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 3.81 — 67 ratings — published 2007
Sagittarius Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 934 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 4.42 — 3,707 ratings — published 2003
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,760 ratings — published 1928
“But sometimes it feels as if we comfortable people are walking on a flowery meadow that is really a great quaking morass, and underneath there is black slime full of unimagined horrors. A photograph in the newspaper makes a crack and you see down. The War made a tremendous crack. It seemed then as if we were all to be drawn into the slime, as if cruelty had got its fangs into the heart of the world.”
― Penny Plain
― Penny Plain
“Unknown to the Cabinet and Parliament, a tiny cabal had made a decision fateful for Britain, the empire, and the world. Under the guidance of Edward Grey, the foreign secretary from 1905 to 1916, British and French officers plotted Britain’s entry into a Franco-German war from the first shot. And these secret war plans were being formulated by Liberals voted into power in public revulsion against the Boer War on a platform of “Peace, Retrenchment, and Reform.”
― Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
― Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
