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All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 541,980 ratings — published 1928
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,914 ratings — published 1962
Goodbye to All That (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,192 ratings — published 1929
The Great War and Modern Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,266 ratings — published 1975
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 368,027 ratings — published 1929
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,944 ratings — published 1991
Storm of Steel (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,610 ratings — published 1920
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,228 ratings — published 2015
Birdsong (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 85,725 ratings — published 1993
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,025 ratings — published 1989
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,775 ratings — published 2013
The Return of the Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,724 ratings — published 1918
The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,684 ratings — published 1995
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,218 ratings — published 1999
A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)
by (shelved 10 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,043 ratings — published 2005
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,159 ratings — published 1962
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,472 ratings — published 2001
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 15,003 ratings — published 2012
The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,156 ratings — published 1993
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 9,396 ratings — published 2006
Under Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,510 ratings — published 1916
A Month in the Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 34,774 ratings — published 1980
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 9,324 ratings — published 2011
Testament of Youth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,784 ratings — published 1933
A Very Long Engagement (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,956 ratings — published 1991
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,668 ratings — published 1979
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,913 ratings — published 2015
1914: The Days of Hope (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 316 ratings — published 1987
The Absolutist (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 25,022 ratings — published 2011
Strange Meeting (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,532 ratings — published 1971
A Duty to the Dead (Bess Crawford, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.92 — 21,319 ratings — published 2009
The First World War: A Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,910 ratings — published 1994
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,993 ratings — published 1965
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,774 ratings — published 2003
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,571 ratings — published 1926
Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.03 — 646 ratings — published 1976
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 640 ratings — published 2014
The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914 - 1918 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 107 ratings — published 1997
The Summer Before the War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.79 — 45,348 ratings — published 2016
The Lie (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,416 ratings — published 2014
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,725 ratings — published 2003
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,715 ratings — published 2013
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,212 ratings — published 2008
A Soldier of the Great War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 8,196 ratings — published 1991
No Graves As Yet (World War I, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,363 ratings — published 2003
Undertones of War (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,051 ratings — published 1928
The Zimmermann Telegram (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,340 ratings — published 1958
A Test of Wills (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as great-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 20,735 ratings — published 1994
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as great-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,922 ratings — published
“The soldiers fell into line on the platform and waited while their officers received instructions. It was the early hours of the morning and the air was cold. Michael thought that he could hear the distant rumble of thunder and when he looked in that direction he saw a faint orange glow of light on the horizon that seemed to pulse slowly. He felt sick in his stomach. Months of training had prepared him to be a soldier but until this moment war was just a concept, like a foreign country he had heard about but never visited. It was now a harsh reality, he had arrived on its angry shores. The men around him all face the same way, silently observing the false dawn, they knew that was where they were going.”
― Michael Sweeney
― Michael Sweeney
“The truth is, no study is possible on the battlefield. One does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows. Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal, and to know it well.”
― The Principles of War
― The Principles of War
