I would like some suggestions for WW1 history books

[Garbarsardar]

Yep, that's it. I am interested in all aspects of WW1, I have a $300 gift certificate from Amazon to spend and I would like your suggestions.

Fire away, please.

[Kara Kolyo]

The memoirs of Denikin. covers WW1 and partly the civil war in Russia, too bad that he died before completing them. I'm reading them in a russian site and the guy is very good writer.

[Garbarsardar]

The memoirs of Denikin. covers WW1 and partly the civil war in Russia, too bad that he died before completing them. I'm reading them in a russian site and the guy is very good writer.

Is that the Russian Turmoil, Memoirs: Military, Social & Political or the The career of a tsarist officer: Memoirs, 1872-1916 ?

[OTZ]

Well, you absolutely must get Paul Fussell's Great War and Modern Memory. Only buy this book to begin with, because you'll get an idea of what else you should buy from reading it.

[Kara Kolyo]

The Road of a Russian Officer (unfinished, published posthumously in 1953).
is what i'm reading atm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Ivanovich_Denikin
The russian turmoil is for the civil war, but i haven't read it yet
My next to read is Brusilov's A Soldier's Notebook, 1914–1918

[Hans Kloss]

Revisionist account of WW1 that asserts that all previous accounts were distorted by Allied propaganda, faulty historiography, bias and selective use of facts - many very valid points but not to be taken too seriously.Great read though


http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Great-War.../dp/0060084332

[joerd9]

An absolute must-read is Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August", although it covers only the road to war and the opening moves until the Marne battle. A fantastic read, thoroughly researched and it probably helped to prevent WW3 in 1962...

[Trax]

The First World War by John Keegan

[Garbarsardar]

Thanks for your suggestions; Guns of August was in my list already...

Has anyone read those books?
Pity of war
Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy
The First World War: Volume I: To Arms

[pannonian]

If you don't mind watching documentary series, try the following:

The Great War
The First World War

If you have money to spare, and if you don't mind another docuseries on WW2, try The Great War's followup:

The World At War

[s.rwitt]

I read General Pershings memoirs (My Experiences in the World War) which were very interesting to me, but I'm really into memoirs.

Here is a brief review:

http://www.jstor.org/view/0161391x/di952208/95p0037k/0

It gives a great idea of the organizational problems with getting the American military into the fight as well as problems with the French not wanting to allow our boys to fight under American command. It also talks alot about relations between the American military as well as high level relationships between Pershing and other notable World War One figures.

By the way, the best I have ever read was Albert Speers'.

[The White Knight]

Not exactly a history book, but worth its money and you seem to have plenty to spend . C'était la guerre des tranchées by the French 'graphic novellist' Jacques Tardi.

I couldn't find an English version, though I imagine it exists since I have a Dutch translation (there isn't much text anyway ...).

[Garbarsardar]

Not exactly a history book, but worth its money and you seem to have plenty to spend . C'était la guerre des tranchées by the French 'graphic novellist' Jacques Tardi.

I couldn't find an English version, though I imagine it exists since I have a Dutch translation (there isn't much text anyway ...).

I love Tardi and French is my second language (after Greek)

Mille Mercis!

[krips22]

s.rwitt : as well as problems with the French not wanting to allow our boys to fight under American command

Erm ... Is that really what you mean ? The French were the one agreeing to have the US fighting under their own command (that's how Joffre was seeing the thing). IIRC, That's the Brits that didn't want it ...
Have you some sources ?

PS : I'm surprised so many people know about J. Tardi

[s.rwitt]

Erm ... Is that really what you mean ? The French were the one agreeing to have the US fighting under their own command (that's how Joffre was seeing the thing). IIRC, That's the Brits that didn't want it ...
Have you some sources ?

Not according to Pershing (if I recall correctly, it has been a few years since I read it, but the way I remember niether really wanted it)

A quick wiki search showed this:

Pershing insisted that the AEF fight as units under American command rather than being split up by battalions to augment British and French regiments and brigades

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J....ng#World_War_I

I will try to look into it a bit more later on as I am kind of busy at the moment.