WWI reading list for Hannibal (and anyone else)

Post by **Dave** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:53 am

Books I've read:
Bunch of People, Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300044291/qid%3D1122447179/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-5345709-6566512">Amazon</a> - Has a number of good essays on gender relations from 1914-1945. I've always found gender to be one of the more interesting subjects.

Erich Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0449911497/qid%3D1122445664/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-5345709-6566512">Amazon</a> - Needs no introduction, but shows the realities of trench warfare and the German starvation

Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/034538623X/qid%3D1122445784/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-5345709-6566512">Amazon</a> - Another classic. I only read the beginning, but it you get a sense of how interconnected the aristocracy is and the prewar atmosphere.

J.M. Winter, The Experience of World War I, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195207769/qid%3D1122445936/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-5345709-6566512">Amazon</a> - Big ass coffee table book with lots of pictures, biographies of the politicans and generals, and battle info.

Margaret MacMillain, Paris 1919, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375760520/qid%3D1122446143/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-5345709-6566512">Amazon</a> - Thick book about the Paris peace conference and Versailles Treaty that helped fuck over the rest of the 20th century. She has a hard-on for Wilson, but she seems pretty accurate and sincere.

Michael Lyons, World War I: A Short History, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130205516/qid%3D1122446306/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-5345709-6566512">Amazon</a> - Informative general war history, but dry academia. Makes a great textbook.

Col. Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, My Reminiscences of East Africa, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0898391547/qid=1122446461/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/102-5345709-6566512?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Amazon</a> - I mentioned this before, but it's a great story, and I understand its still required reading in military guerialla training over 90 years later.

Roger Chickering, Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/069105228X/qid=1122446582/sr=8-13/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i12_xgl14/102-5345709-6566512?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Amazon</a> - Has some good things about the prewar peace movements, which until 1915 almost completely broke down in the face of nationalism. He has a general German WWI book I flipped through and looked like it might be pretty good <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521547806/qid=1122446582/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-5345709-6566512?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">here</a>.

Books I haven't read, but mean too:

T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385418957/qid=1122447403/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-5345709-6566512?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Amazon</a> - Lawrence was the man

Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395937582/qid=1122446831/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-5345709-6566512?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Amazon</a> - I've only read the first 30 pages, but I think it's a social history of WWI. The first part is about some prewar plays that I think the author is trying to use in order to create an allegory for the war.

Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195133315/ref=ase_interactiveda254-20/102-5345709-6566512?v=glance&s=books">Amazon</a> - I bought this when a professor reccomended it to me when I was doing a research paper on prewar peace movements. I didn't get to read it.

Books I was supposed to read but found redundant so they're collecting dust:

Michael Howard, The First World War, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192804456/qid%3D1122445570/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-5345709-6566512">Amazon</a> - Short, to the point, good place to start if you don't have a lot of time.

Post by **Hannibal** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:03 am

Danke, herr Burgermeister Meisterburger!!

Post by **Dave** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:14 am

*salutes* ja!
I'll add more if I think of them, but the only other things I can think of are short articles that would take me forever to sort through and type up

Post by **Ryoki** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:01 am

Cool cool Dave, i shall be checking out the guerilla in Africa one i think…. I remember reading about this guy in some other WW1 book.

Oh yeah, i’m also gonna second the guns of August and all quiet on the western front, both excellent in very different ways.