World War 1 - Book recommendations

History:

The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman

The First World War, John Keegan

The First World War, Hew Strachan (first volume of three)

Biography:

Old Soldiers Never Die, Frank Richards

The War The Infantry Knew, Captain J C Dunn

Storm of Steel, Ernst Junger

Bit of both:

Tommy, Richard Holmes

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goodbye to all that-robert graves
memoirs of an infantry officer-seigfried sassoon
storm of steel-ernst junger.

also pat barkers regeneration trilogy is a good read.

sassoon is a Hero of mine.
He wrote this in 1917.

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that the war upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation has now become a war of agression and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them and that had this been done the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops and I can no longer be a party to prolonging these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

On behalf of those who are suffering now, I make this protest against the deception which is being practised upon them; also I believe it may help to destroy the callous complacency with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share and which they have not have enough imagination to realise.

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way to blue

Cecil Slack and the Great War
This is good too

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way to blue