World War I

The global conflict that took place between July 28, 1914 and November 11, 1918. Also know as the First World War, or the Great War, it was a global war centered in Europe. More than 70 million military personnel were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history.

This category includes non-fiction books as well as historical novels that are set during World War I.

Angel Down
Precipice
Pocket Bear
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
Canary Girls
Lines of Courage
The Facemaker
When the World Goes Quiet
The Codebreaker's Daughter
Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
Guerre
The President’s Wife
Little Souls
The Hidden Letters
Hotel Portofino (Hotel Portofino, #1)
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Guns of August
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
The Alice Network
A Farewell to Arms
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Storm of Steel
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,126 books — 2,363 voters
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanA Town Like Alice by Nevil ShutePicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayThe Secret River by Kate GrenvilleThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Fictitious Australia
462 books — 115 voters

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassiePeter the Great by Robert K. MassieGulag by Anne Applebaum
Best Russian History Books
550 books — 385 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayGoodbye to All That by Robert Graves
The Great War
776 books — 599 voters



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Donald Barthelme
... your father and I were in the trenches together, in the Great War. That was a war all right. Oh I know there have been other wars since, better-publicized ones, more expensive ones perhaps, but our war is the one I'll always remember. Our war is the one that means war to me. ...more
Donald Barthelme, Snow White

In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the error. But the principles of warfare as I learned them at West Point remain unchanged.
John J. Pershing, My Experiences in the World War

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