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All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 541,243 ratings — published 1928
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,788 ratings — published 1962
Goodbye to All That (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,175 ratings — published 1929
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 14,971 ratings — published 2012
Storm of Steel (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,534 ratings — published 1920
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,206 ratings — published 1999
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,917 ratings — published 1991
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 9,317 ratings — published 2011
The Great War and Modern Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,265 ratings — published 1975
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,022 ratings — published 2015
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,770 ratings — published 2013
Testament of Youth (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,760 ratings — published 1933
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 367,612 ratings — published 1929
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,459 ratings — published 2001
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 9,381 ratings — published 2006
The Zimmermann Telegram (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,335 ratings — published 1958
Birdsong (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 85,679 ratings — published 1993
The First World War: A Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,903 ratings — published 1994
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,159 ratings — published 1962
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,711 ratings — published 2013
The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,656 ratings — published 2008
The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,526 ratings — published 2013
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,980 ratings — published 1965
The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,141 ratings — published 1993
The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,669 ratings — published 1995
The Somme (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,643 ratings — published 2005
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,019 ratings — published 1989
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,099 ratings — published 1989
The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,263 ratings — published 2021
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,061 ratings — published 2014
Journey's End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,838 ratings — published 1928
The Summer Before the War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 3.79 — 45,330 ratings — published 2016
Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 797 ratings — published 1999
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,208 ratings — published 2008
Under Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,505 ratings — published 1916
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,897 ratings — published 1976
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,409 ratings — published 2009
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,897 ratings — published 1982
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,611 ratings — published 2015
Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,572 ratings — published 2004
Somme Mud: The war experiences of an Australian infantryman in France, 1916–1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 953 ratings — published 2006
The Road Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,889 ratings — published 1931
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,901 ratings — published 2015
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,886 ratings — published 2013
The Good Soldier Švejk (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,806 ratings — published 1923
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,771 ratings — published 2003
Life Class (Life Class, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 3.63 — 5,582 ratings — published 2007
The Absolutist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 24,966 ratings — published 2011
Undertones of War (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,050 ratings — published 1928
The Return of the Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-great-war)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,700 ratings — published 1918
“O Slovensku samostatném se nemohlo vůbec jednat vážně; zbývala by možnost, aby se stalo autonomním v Uhersku. Ani to nebylo možné podle daných okolností, a tudíž nezbávalo než sjednocení. Malí národové všichni za světové války žádali svobodu a sjenocení. Slovaci a Češi věděli, že sám jsem byl vždy pro Slovensko; svým původem a svými tradicem Slovák, cítím slovensky a pro Slovensko jsem vždy nejen horoval, ale pracoval. (..) Vím dobře jak i rusofil Vajanský, když se jednalo doopravdy, byl pro jednotu, nejinak, jak jeho otec, před tím už Kollár a j. Ale vím také, jak se mnozí Slováci ve svém národním a politickém ponížení utěšovali vidinami bez činů a práce. (..) Za války obživl slovenský romantism mezi Slováky v Rusku. (..) někteří slovenští pracovníci snili o Slovensku samostatném nebo spojeném s Ruskem; ale vyskytli se i lidé, kteří hlásali spojení Slovenska s Polskem a dokonce s Maďarskem. V Moskvě se ustavil hned roku 1915 'Slovensko-ruský spolek paměti Štúra' a v něm se tvorřili pod vedením několika politicky naivních Rusů rozmanité protičeské iluse nejasného a nezralého panslavismu a panrusismu.”
― Světová revoluce za války a ve válce 1914-1918
― Světová revoluce za války a ve válce 1914-1918
“There were thousands of young men, as padres at the front would testify, in whom belief in God was an unshakeable conviction, and who in danger, in bodily agony and in death found peace and consolation in their undimmed faith. There were thousands upon thousands again for whom religion had always been a matter of indifference, and to whom it remained so. But there were also those, not negligible in point of numbers, and far from negligible in point of intelligence, who quietly thought about it all, and found that the faith in which they had been brought up was not reconcilable with the horrors that were their daily bread. About the reality of them there was no doubt: to see your friend turned to tripe or a dish of brains before your eyes was actual, and they threw over the other not with indifference, but with the savage contempt of those who have been fooled. It was childish to talk of loving your enemies when you were going through hell yourself for the sake of maiming or killing them as profusely as possible. And what price Divine Protection for non-combatants? There was that padre (bloody fool) who ran out across a shell-swept area to administer the sacrament to a man who lay mortally wounded in front of a trench, and who was like to die before they could bring him in. A shell hit him directly as he ran: he vanished like a property in a conjuring trick, and one couldn't help laughing and was sick afterwards.”
― As We Are
― As We Are
