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All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 536,287 ratings — published 1928
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,079 ratings — published 1962
Goodbye to All That (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,995 ratings — published 1929
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,135 ratings — published 1999
Birdsong (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 85,243 ratings — published 1993
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,654 ratings — published 1991
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,770 ratings — published 2012
Testament of Youth (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,663 ratings — published 1933
Storm of Steel (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,089 ratings — published 1920
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 364,440 ratings — published 1929
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,711 ratings — published 2013
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,645 ratings — published 2013
The Great War and Modern Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,241 ratings — published 1975
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,389 ratings — published 2001
Undertones of War (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 15 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,040 ratings — published 1928
The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,589 ratings — published 1995
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,138 ratings — published 1962
Under Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,483 ratings — published 1916
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,900 ratings — published
In Memoriam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.49 — 87,899 ratings — published 2023
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,755 ratings — published 2003
The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,069 ratings — published 1993
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,043 ratings — published 2014
The Return of the Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,601 ratings — published 1918
Private Peaceful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 32,031 ratings — published 2003
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,001 ratings — published 1989
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,184 ratings — published 2008
The First World War: A Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,873 ratings — published 1994
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 9,303 ratings — published 2011
A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,971 ratings — published 2005
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,301 ratings — published 2006
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,044 ratings — published 1992
War Horse (War Horse, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 60,751 ratings — published 1982
The Pity of War: Explaining World War I (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,197 ratings — published 1998
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,858 ratings — published 2015
Parade's End (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,911 ratings — published 1928
1915: The Death Of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 553 ratings — published 1993
The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.80 — 231 ratings — published 1998
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,874 ratings — published 1982
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 166,645 ratings — published 2015
Journey's End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,792 ratings — published 1928
July 1914: Countdown to War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,287 ratings — published 2013
1914-1918: The History of the First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 838 ratings — published 2004
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,907 ratings — published 1965
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 353,943 ratings — published 2005
The Good Soldier Švejk (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,643 ratings — published 1921
Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War (The Making of the Modern World)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.81 — 67 ratings — published 2007
Sagittarius Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 932 ratings — published 1936
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,700 ratings — published 2003
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as first-world-war)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,757 ratings — published 1928
“A French officer . . . felt that there was a reverse correlation between xenophobia and proximity to the enemy:
Hatred of the enemy diminished as one passed from the interior to the front, where it tapered still more as one went from staffs to field headquarters, from headquarters to batteries, from batteries to the battalion command post, and finally from there to the infantryman in the trench and observation sap, where it reached its lowest ebb.
Or, as C.E. Mentague put it, rather more tersely: "War hath no fury like a noncombatant.”
― Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I
Hatred of the enemy diminished as one passed from the interior to the front, where it tapered still more as one went from staffs to field headquarters, from headquarters to batteries, from batteries to the battalion command post, and finally from there to the infantryman in the trench and observation sap, where it reached its lowest ebb.
Or, as C.E. Mentague put it, rather more tersely: "War hath no fury like a noncombatant.”
― Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I
“Had Britain not declared war on Germany in 1914, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and India would not have followed the Mother Country in. Nor would Britain’s ally Japan. Nor would Italy, which London lured in with secret bribes of territory from the Habsburg and Ottoman empires. Nor would America have gone to war had Britain stayed out. Germany would have been victorious, perhaps in months. There would have been no Lenin, no Stalin, no Versailles, no Hitler, no Holocaust.”
― Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War" Publisher: Three Rivers Press; Reprint edition
― Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War" Publisher: Three Rivers Press; Reprint edition
