/lit/ - Literature

>>13669948
I saw pic related recommended on here a while ago and it looks really interesting, though I haven't read it yet. Very long single-volume history of the war from a German historian with a supposedly neutral perspective.
The Guns of August is a very engaging book and doesn't feel like it was written by a woman, but it is definitely pop-history and glosses over a lot of stuff for the sake of keeping the narrative tight and fast-paced. Not a bad place to start, but you're going to have to read other books to make up for its failings. Just off the top of my head - there's A World Undone and Catastrophe 1914 if you want accessible single volumes, The Great War and Modern Memory and Rites of Spring if you're interested in the cultural side of things, and Storm of Steel and Poilu for first-hand accounts.

Best one-volume history of WWI, but still quite on the long side to get all the autistic details you need AND being written by a German and written far enough in the future he doesn't show much bias either way.

If you want to leave the Anglosphere-version of history, this is it. That said I hear Churchill's history if quite good but most people can't be assed to read 6 volumes of it