What is everyone reading on the First World War

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Re: What is everyone reading on the First World War

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Post by JeroenPollentier » 12 Feb 2015, 20:47

Storm of Steel, the (semi-) autobiographical account of Ernst Jünger's years in the trenches, very worthwile. Gives a good account of what it must have been living (and dying) in the trenches day after day.
Apart from that, I finally bought and started reading in John Keegan's book about WW1. Also very good, of course.

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Re: What is everyone reading on the First World War

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Post by AJFFM » 12 Feb 2015, 21:17

Tynge's "The Campaign of the Marne" and Zuber's "Inventing the Schlieffen Plan".

Reading Tynge (published in 1935) it is interesting to see how pop history that was debunked either during the war or immediately after it (e.g. the Paris Taxi myth) still survive despite the availability of authoritative histories like Tynge's.


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Re: What is everyone reading on the First World War

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Post by Ken S. » 19 Feb 2015, 19:55

Als Geisel nach Sibirien verschleppt
Philipp Menczel

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