Happy Almost New Year! I'm looking for a non fiction about WW1. I tried The First World War: An Illustrated History by A.J.P. Taylor but became bored when the play-by-play of each battle started. I'd like a rec for a book that talks more about the why and who and effects of the war during and after. I would like to know about the battles, but I don't want that to dominate the book.
Thanks!
by josephinesparrows
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I’ve heard a lot of good things about Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark but it’s a huge book so I haven’t gotten to it yet. Might be a good pick if you want to read about what started the war.
Highly recommend storm of steel by Ernst junger, memoir of a German officer in the trenches
*Technically* it’s fiction, but it’s fiction in the way that it’s real events told through fictional people. Kinda like when you watch a crime documentary and for privacy reasons everyone’s names are changed.
*All Quiet on the Western Front* by Erich Maria Remarque.