WWI reading list for Hannibal (and anyone else)
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:53 am
<b>Books I've read:</b>
Bunch of People, <i>Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars</i>, <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, <i>All Quiet on the Western Front</i>, <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, <i>The Guns of August</i>, <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, <i>The Experience of World War I</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, <i>Paris 1919</i>, <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, <i>World War I: A Short History</i>, <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, <i>My Reminiscences of East Africa</i>, <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, <i>Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914</i>, <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>.
<b>Books I haven't read, but mean too:</b>
T.E. Lawrence, <i>The Seven Pillars of Wisdom</i>, <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, <i>Rites of Spring</i>, <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, <i>The Great War and Modern Memory</i>, <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.
<b>Books I was supposed to read but found redundant so they're collecting dust:</b>
Michael Howard, <i>The First World War</i>, <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.
Bunch of People, <i>Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars</i>, <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, <i>All Quiet on the Western Front</i>, <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, <i>The Guns of August</i>, <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, <i>The Experience of World War I</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, <i>Paris 1919</i>, <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, <i>World War I: A Short History</i>, <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, <i>My Reminiscences of East Africa</i>, <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, <i>Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 1892-1914</i>, <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>.
<b>Books I haven't read, but mean too:</b>
T.E. Lawrence, <i>The Seven Pillars of Wisdom</i>, <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, <i>Rites of Spring</i>, <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, <i>The Great War and Modern Memory</i>, <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.
<b>Books I was supposed to read but found redundant so they're collecting dust:</b>
Michael Howard, <i>The First World War</i>, <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.
