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FIRST WORLD WAR
Battled Hardened
Histories based around specific battlefields and engagements.
Cassar, George H. Hell in Flanders Fields: Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2010).
Gilbert, Martin. The Battle of the Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006).
Granatstein, J. L. The Greatest Victory: Canada's One Hundred Days, 1918. (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2014).
Greenfield, Nathan M. Baptism Of Fire. (New York: Harper Collins, 2007).
Hickey, Michael. Gallipoli. 1981. Reprint. (London: John Murray Publishers, 1998.)
Isitt, Benjamin. From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-19. Studies in Canadian Military History series. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010).
* Middlebrook, Martin. The First Day on the Somme. Norton, 1971. Reprint. (Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books, 2003).
Beginnings and Endings
Books dealing with pre-war issues, the opening months, the closing days, and the aftermath of the war.
MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World. (New York: Random House, 2002).
MacMillan, Margaret. The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914. (New York: Random House, 2013).
Tuchman, Barbara W. The Guns of August. MacMillan, 1962. Reprint. (New York: Ballatine, 2004). (rereading)
Miscellaneous Topics
Books that revolve around topics which don't fit any other category (at the moment).
Arthur, Max. Faces of World War I. (London: Cassell, 2006).
photographic collection
Clarke, David. The Angel of Mons: Phantom Soldiers and Ghostly Guardians. (Etobicoke, ON.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004).
superstitions and beliefs
Ferguson, Niall. The Pity of War: Explaining World War I. (New York: Basic Books, 1999).
revisionists' history?
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. Oxford University Press USA, 1977. Reprint. (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2000).
impact on society beyond the war
✔ Holmes, Richard. Imperial War Museum: The First World War in Photographs. (London: Carlton Books, 2001). 26 Mar 2016
photographic collection
* Holmes, Richard. Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914-1918. (New York: Harper Collins, 2004).
history of the British soldier
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Translated by A. W. Wheen. 1928. Reprint. (New York: Random House, 1996).
fiction
Regimental Histories
Individual histories of regiments who took part in the First World War.
Bick, Major Arthur H. The Diary of an Artillery Officer: The First Canadian Divisional Artillery on the Western Front. Edited by Peter H. Bick. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2011).
Clements, Captain Robert N. Merry Hell: The Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919. Edited by Brian D. Tennyson. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012).
Fetherstonhaugh, R. C. The 13th Battalion Royal Highlanders of Canada, 1914-1919. [Online Text]. (Montreal: The 13th Battalion, Royal Highlanders of Canada, 1925).
Shackleton, Kevin R. Second to None: The Fighting 58th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2002).
Zeuhlke, Mark. Brave Battalion: The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War. (Etobicoke, ON.: John Wiley and Sons, 2008).
Specialty Units
Trench warfare, gas attacks, medical corps, horses ... books have been written discussing these specialty topics as well as others.
Cook, Tim. No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001).
Ellis, John. Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I. Pantheon Books 1976. Reprint. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1989). (rereading)
Mann, Susan, editor. The War Diary of Clare Gass. McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society series, no. 9. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000). (rereading)
* McKenzie, Andrea. War-Torn Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes. Studies in Canadian Military History series. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016).
Quinn, Shawna. New Brunswick's Nursing Sisters in the Great War. New Brunswick Military Heritage series, no. 15. (Frederickton. N.B.: Goose Lane Editions and New Brunswick Military Heritage Project, 2010).
* Toman, Cynthia. Sister Soldiers of the Great War: The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Studies in Canadian Military History series. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016).
War 101
The basics of the Great War: who fought who, how, with what and where. Sometimes even why.
✔ Cook, Tim. At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1914-1916, Volume 1. (Toronto: Viking, 2007). 23 Mar 2016
✔ Cook, Tim. Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting The Great War 1917-1918 Volume Two. (Toronto: Viking, 2008). 19 Apr 2016
* Gilbert, Martin. The First World War: A Complete History. Henry Holt & Co., 1994. 2nd edition. (New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2004).
Keegan, John. The First World War. (New York: Knopf, 1999).
✔ Meyer, G. J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918. (New York: Delacorte Press, 2006). 2010
FIRST WORLD WAR
Canadians: Shock Troops
Because I am Canadian, the bulk of my interest lies with the Canadian experience in the Great War. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it's a start!
As a side note, even if an author is Canadian, I have not included them here if they have not written from a Canadian perspective.
Bennett, Y. A., editor. Kiss the Kids for Dad, Don't Forget to Write: The Wartime Letters of George Timmins, 1916-18. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009).
Bick, Major Arthur H. The Diary of an Artillery Officer: The First Canadian Divisional Artillery on the Western Front. Edited by Peter H. Bick. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2011).
✔ Black, Dan and John Boileau, forward by Romeo Dallaire. Old Enough to Fight: Canada's Boy Soldiers in the First World War. (Toronto: Lorimer, 2013). 2014
* Cane, Bruce. It Made You Think of Home. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2004).
Cassar, George H. Hell in Flanders Fields: Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2010).
Chartrand, Rene. The Canadian Corps in World War I. Men-at-arms series, no. 439. (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2007).
* Clarke, Nic. Unwanted Warriors: The Rejected Volunteers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Studies in Canadian Military History series. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015).
Clements, Captain Robert N. Merry Hell: The Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919. Edited by Brian D. Tennyson. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012).
Cook, Tim. No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001).
✔ Cook, Tim. At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1914-1916, Volume 1. (Toronto: Viking, 2007). 23 Mar 2016
✔ Cook, Tim. Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting The Great War 1917-1918 Volume Two. (Toronto: Viking, 2008). 19 Apr 2016
Cook, Tim. The Madman and the Butcher: the Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie. (Toronto: Allen Lane, 2010).
Cowley, Deborah, editor. Georges Vanier: Soldier: The Wartime Letters and Diaries, 1915-1919. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2000).
Gilbert, Martin. The Battle of the Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006).
* Glassford, Sarah and Amy Shaw. A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the First World War. Studies in Canadian Military History series. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012).
Gliddon, Gerald. For Valour: Canadians and the Victoria Cross in the Great War. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2015).
Godefroy, Andrew B. For Freedom and Honour?: The Story of the 25 Canadian Volunteers Executed in the First World War. (Ottawa: CEF Books, 2007).
Granatstein, J. L. Hell's Corner: An Illustrated History of Canada in the First World War. (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2004). (rereading)
Granatstein, J. L. The Greatest Victory: Canada's One Hundred Days, 1918. (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2014).
Greenfield, Nathan M. Baptism Of Fire. (New York: Harper Collins, 2007).
Grescoe, Paul and Audrey Grescoe. The Book of War Letters. (Toronto: Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 2003). (rereading)
Grout, Derek. Thunder in the Skies: A Canadian Gunner in the Great War. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2015).
Gwyn, Sandra. Tapestry Of War. (Toronto: Harper Collins, 1992).
Hustak, Alan. Faith Under Fire: Fredrick G. Scott, Canada's Extraordinary Chaplain of the Great War. (Montreal: Vehicule Press, 2015).
* Iacobelli, Teresa. Death or Deliverance: Canadian Courts Martial in the Great War. Studies in Canadian Military History series. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013).
Isitt, Benjamin. From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-19. Studies in Canadian Military History series. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010).
MacDonald, Laura M. Curse Of The Narrows. (London: Walker Books, 2005).
Mann, Susan, editor. The War Diary of Clare Gass. McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society series, no. 9. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000). (rereading)
* McKenzie, Andrea. War-Torn Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes. Studies in Canadian Military History series. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016).
Millar, W. C. From Thunder Bay Through Ypres with the Fighting Fifty-Second. Self-published, 1919. Reprint. (Thunder Bay, ON.: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2010).
Morton, Desmond. When Your Number's Up: The Canadian Soldier in the First World War. (Toronto: Random House, 1993).
Morton, Desmond. Fight or Pay: Soldiers' Families in the Great War. Studies in Canadian Military History series. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004).
Nicholson, G. W. L. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919: Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War. Department of National Defence, 1962. Reprint. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015).
Quinn, Shawna. New Brunswick's Nursing Sisters in the Great War. New Brunswick Military Heritage series, no. 15. (Frederickton. N.B.: Goose Lane Editions and New Brunswick Military Heritage Project, 2010).
Reid, Mark, editor. Canada's Great War Album. (Toronto: HarperCollins, 2014).
Shackleton, Kevin R. Second to None: The Fighting 58th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2002).
* Shaw, Amy J. Crisis of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in Canada During the First World War. Studies in Canadian Military History series. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008).
* Toman, Cynthia. Sister Soldiers of the Great War: The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Studies in Canadian Military History series. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016).
Winegard, Timothy C. For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War. (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2012).
Zeuhlke, Mark. Brave Battalion: The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War. (Etobicoke, ON.: John Wiley and Sons, 2008).
FIRST WORLD WAR
Witnesses to History
Lettes, diaries, and written accounts which were published in the years after the war, as well as a few more recently published biographies.
* Arthur, Max. Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A New History of WWI in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There. (London: Ebury Press, 2002).
Bennett, Y. A., editor. Kiss the Kids for Dad, Don't Forget to Write: The Wartime Letters of George Timmins, 1916-18. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009).
Bick, Major Arthur H. The Diary of an Artillery Officer: The First Canadian Divisional Artillery on the Western Front. Edited by Peter H. Bick. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2011).
* Cane, Bruce. It Made You Think of Home. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2004).
Cook, Tim. The Madman and the Butcher: the Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie. (Toronto: Allen Lane, 2010).
Cowley, Deborah, editor. Georges Vanier: Soldier: The Wartime Letters and Diaries, 1915-1919. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2000).
Englund, Peter. The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War. Translated by Peter Graves. 2008. Reprint. (London: Profile Books, 2011).
Grescoe, Paul and Audrey Grescoe. The Book of War Letters. (Toronto: Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 2003). (rereading)
Grout, Derek. Thunder in the Skies: A Canadian Gunner in the Great War. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2015).
Gwyn, Sandra. Tapestry Of War. (Toronto: Harper Collins, 1992).
Hustak, Alan. Faith Under Fire: Fredrick G. Scott, Canada's Extraordinary Chaplain of the Great War. (Montreal: Vehicule Press, 2015).
Kirkby, Mandy, editor. Love Letters of the Great War. (London: MacMillan, 2014).
Mann, Susan, editor. The War Diary of Clare Gass. McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society series, no. 9. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000). (rereading)
* McKenzie, Andrea. War-Torn Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes. Studies in Canadian Military History series. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016).
Millar, W. C. From Thunder Bay Through Ypres with the Fighting Fifty-Second. Self-published, 1919. Reprint. (Thunder Bay, ON.: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2010).
✔ Palmer, Svetlana and Sarah Wallis, editors. Intimate Voices from the First World War. (London: Simon and Schuster, 2003). 29 Mar 2016
✔ Roberts, Andrew. Love, Tommy: War Letters from the Frontline 1914-2010. (Long Island City, N.Y.: Osprey Publishing, 2012). 19 Mar 2016
Everest/mountain climbing reading list - reserved
Everest/mountain climbing reading list - reserved
Everest/mountain climbing reading list - reserved
Everest/mountain climbing reading list - reserved
Everest/mountain climbing reading list - reserved
Everest/mountain climbing reading list - reserved
Paranormal
Boyle, Terry. Haunted Ontario 4: Ghostly Estates, Museums, and Other Sightings. (Toronto: Dundurn, 2015). 3 Apr 2016
Clarke, David. The Angel of Mons: Phantom Soldiers and Ghostly Guardians. (Etobicoke, ON.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004).
Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend by Mark Collins Jenkins 6 May 2016
The Dead Roam the Earth: True Stories of the Paranormal from Around the World by Alaisdair Wickham 14 Apr 2016
Pagan/Wiccan
Dugan, Ellen. The Enchanted Cat: Feline Fascinations, Spells & Magick. (Woodbury, MN.: Llewellyn Publications, 2006). 10 Apr 2016
The Kitchen Witch Guide to the Timeless Art of Herbal Tea by Mimi Riser 14 Apr 2016
100 Wiccan and Pagan Writing Prompts and Inspirations: Ideas for Blogs, Articles, and Books by Liz Yetter 7 May 2016
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The Kitchen Witch Guide to the Timeless Art of Herbal Tea (other topics)
The Dead Roam the Earth: True Stories of the Paranormal from Around the World (other topics)
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Challenge Type: perpetual
Duration: Beginning 1 March 2016
Post: n/a
Status:
Everest/Mountain Climbing - ??/??
First World War - 7
Forensics - ??/??
Paranormal/Pagan - 2
The Victorians - ??/??
This is a fairly laid-back challenge: read books (mainly non-fiction, though there may be a smattering of fiction) based around a certain subject.
Though I consider myself a fairly broad based non-fiction reader, I do have a certain number of (sometimes admittedly odd) subjects that I tend to "collect." Thus, this challenge - and an attempt to wrangle countless haphazard lists into one location.
Reading Lists:
• Everest/Mountain Climbing
• First World War (1)
• First World War (2)
• First World War (3)
• Forensics
• Paranormal
• The Victorians
Note: Books are listed alphabetically by author/editor/contributor or by title if none of these are present. For multiple books written by the same author, titles are organized by date published.
I currently have access to a copy of all these titles listed, either through my personal collection or via my local library (this does not include interlibrary loan). Any titles marked by a * indicates I do not have access to a copy at this time (but I would still like to read it!)