Military History of the First World War

1.
The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,591 ratings
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The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 4.30 avg rating — 2,995 ratings
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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 4.25 avg rating — 7,236 ratings
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The First World War
The First World War 4.04 avg rating — 15,645 ratings
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Storm of Steel
Storm of Steel 4.15 avg rating — 20,486 ratings
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Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War 4.31 avg rating — 6,885 ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World 4.13 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme 4.13 avg rating — 8,521 ratings
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War 4.06 avg rating — 6,278 ratings
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Somme
Somme 4.22 avg rating — 720 ratings
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Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea 4.41 avg rating — 3,586 ratings
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Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I 4.36 avg rating — 958 ratings
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The Zimmermann Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram 4.06 avg rating — 5,054 ratings
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A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 4.37 avg rating — 8,753 ratings
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph 3.91 avg rating — 11,815 ratings
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The Great War and Modern Memory
The Great War and Modern Memory 4.13 avg rating — 6,077 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 4.23 avg rating — 13,394 ratings
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 4.14 avg rating — 9,092 ratings
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East 4.08 avg rating — 16,523 ratings
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The First Day on the Somme
The First Day on the Somme 4.31 avg rating — 1,216 ratings
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The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War 4.19 avg rating — 1,794 ratings
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They Called It Passchendaele
They Called It Passchendaele 4.34 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Tannenberg: Clash of Empires 1914
Tannenberg: Clash of Empires 1914 3.98 avg rating — 87 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,015 ratings
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Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War
Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War 4.19 avg rating — 211 ratings
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The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919 3.99 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
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Gallipoli
Gallipoli 4.07 avg rating — 1,184 ratings
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The Real War 1914-1918
The Real War 1914-1918 4.02 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Over Here: The First World War and American Society
Over Here: The First World War and American Society 3.83 avg rating — 494 ratings
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The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War 4.31 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Bill the Bastard: The Story Of Australia's Greatest War Horse
Bill the Bastard: The Story Of Australia's Greatest War Horse 4.29 avg rating — 722 ratings
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The Old Contemptibles: The British Expeditionary Force, 1914
The Old Contemptibles: The British Expeditionary Force, 1914 3.96 avg rating — 207 ratings
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The Eastern Front, 1914-1917
The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 3.64 avg rating — 479 ratings
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The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I
The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I 3.81 avg rating — 403 ratings
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1914: The Days of Hope
1914: The Days of Hope 4.20 avg rating — 302 ratings
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Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy
Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy 4.13 avg rating — 428 ratings
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The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in the First World War
The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in the First World War 3.76 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Goodbye to All That
Goodbye to All That 3.93 avg rating — 15,315 ratings
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Horses Don't Fly: A Memoir of World War I
Horses Don't Fly: A Memoir of World War I 4.52 avg rating — 885 ratings
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The Kaiser's Battle
The Kaiser's Battle 4.09 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 4.13 avg rating — 157,293 ratings
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July Crisis: The World's Descent into War, Summer 1914
July Crisis: The World's Descent into War, Summer 1914
by: T.G. Otte
4.18 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914-1918
Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914-1918 4.26 avg rating — 600 ratings
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The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution 3.80 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort
Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort 3.42 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Undertones of War
Undertones of War 3.70 avg rating — 957 ratings
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The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I
The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I 3.74 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Cruise of the Sea Eagle: The Amazing True Story of Imperial Germany's Gentleman Pirate
The Cruise of the Sea Eagle: The Amazing True Story of Imperial Germany's Gentleman Pirate 4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World
The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World 3.84 avg rating — 707 ratings
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Infantry Attacks
Infantry Attacks 4.20 avg rating — 3,435 ratings
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A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare
A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare 3.77 avg rating — 208 ratings
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A Short History of World War I
A Short History of World War I 3.96 avg rating — 588 ratings
53.
The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme
The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme 4.05 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Fix Bayonets!
Fix Bayonets! 4.02 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Gentlemen of War: The Amazing Story of Captain Karl von Muller and the S.M.S. Emden
Gentlemen of War: The Amazing Story of Captain Karl von Muller and the S.M.S. Emden 4.20 avg rating — 49 ratings
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George W. Hamilton, USMC: America's Greatest World War I Hero
George W. Hamilton, USMC: America's Greatest World War I Hero 3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Suddenly We Didn't Want To Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine
Suddenly We Didn't Want To Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine 4.02 avg rating — 167 ratings
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry 4.19 avg rating — 1,608 ratings
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The World War Deception
The World War Deception 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War
For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War 4.18 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Roses of No Man's Land
The Roses of No Man's Land 4.29 avg rating — 455 ratings
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African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918
African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918 4.37 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Before Endeavours Fade: Guide to the Battlefields of the First World War
Before Endeavours Fade: Guide to the Battlefields of the First World War 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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My Experiences in the World War
My Experiences in the World War 4.12 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Social History of the Machine Gun
The Social History of the Machine Gun 3.98 avg rating — 160 ratings
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1918: A Very British Victory
1918: A Very British Victory 4.11 avg rating — 105 ratings
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With Lawrence in Arabia
With Lawrence in Arabia 3.81 avg rating — 378 ratings
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The Germans Who Never Lost: The story of the Konigsberg
The Germans Who Never Lost: The story of the Konigsberg 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I
Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I 4.03 avg rating — 624 ratings
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The Good Soldier: A Biography of Douglas Haig
The Good Soldier: A Biography of Douglas Haig
by: Gary Mead
3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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A Brass Hat in No Man's Land
A Brass Hat in No Man's Land 3.70 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Vimy
Vimy 4.33 avg rating — 1,617 ratings
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The Great War at Sea: 1914-1918
The Great War at Sea: 1914-1918 3.95 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Jutland 1916: Death in the Grey Wastes
Jutland 1916: Death in the Grey Wastes 4.25 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 4.45 avg rating — 1,019 ratings
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The Ship That Changed the World: The Escape of the Goeben to the Dardanelles in 1914
The Ship That Changed the World: The Escape of the Goeben to the Dardanelles in 1914 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War
Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War 3.91 avg rating — 222 ratings
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First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America's First Battle of World War I
First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America's First Battle of World War I 4.19 avg rating — 246 ratings
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World War One: A Short History
World War One: A Short History 3.48 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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Pershing: General of the Armies
Pershing: General of the Armies 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade
The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade 3.92 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Louis Botha's War: The Campaign in South West Africa, 1914 - 1915
Louis Botha's War: The Campaign in South West Africa, 1914 - 1915 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-18
Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-18 3.74 avg rating — 82 ratings
84.
Passchendaele: A New History
Passchendaele: A New History 4.17 avg rating — 549 ratings
85.
Devil Dogs Fighting Marines of World War I
Devil Dogs Fighting Marines of World War I 3.82 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Cambrai 1917: The Birth of Armoured Warfare
Cambrai 1917: The Birth of Armoured Warfare 3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings
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100 Days to Victory: How the Great War Was Fought and Won
100 Days to Victory: How the Great War Was Fought and Won 4.03 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End 4.17 avg rating — 1,736 ratings
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My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War 4.23 avg rating — 358 ratings
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The History Of The Cheshire Regiment In The Great War: History Of The Cheshire Regiment In The Great War
The History Of The Cheshire Regiment In The Great War: History Of The Cheshire Regiment In The Great War 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Great Promise
The Great Promise 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland and the Allied Triumph in the First World War
Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland and the Allied Triumph in the First World War 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Cambrai 1917: The Myth of the First Great Tank Battle
Cambrai 1917: The Myth of the First Great Tank Battle 3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force
Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force 3.47 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916
Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916 3.88 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Great War in Africa: 1914-1918
The Great War in Africa: 1914-1918 4.08 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Terror of the Autumn Skies: The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I
Terror of the Autumn Skies: The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I 4.04 avg rating — 180 ratings
98.
Verdun: The Lost History of the Most Important Battle of World War I, 1914-1918
Verdun: The Lost History of the Most Important Battle of World War I, 1914-1918 3.58 avg rating — 284 ratings
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The American Heritage History of World War I
The American Heritage History of World War I 3.85 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Passchendaele: The Sacrificial Ground
Passchendaele: The Sacrificial Ground 4.02 avg rating — 101 ratings
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