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Best WWI books? I've been thinking about reading All Quiet on the Western Front, but I've only heard of people having to read it in high school.

>> No.9615814
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Storm of Steel By Ernest Junger

>> No.9615822

>>9615662
Ich hatte einen Kameraden
Im Westen nichts Neues

>> No.9615860

>>9615814
Seconded

>> No.9615895

A Farewell to Arms
Johnny Got His Gun
Storm of Steel

>> No.9615910

>>9615662
We read excerpts from The Things They Carried in highschool and I picked it up because it seemed interesting. I don't remember it being too bad but it's also been a while since I've read it.

>> No.9615929

>>9615910
I'm an idiot. Ignore this post please.

>> No.9615946

>>9615662
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Sassoon (and the Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man, kind of)
The Good Soldier Schwejk isn't really about the front but about mobilization
With a Machine Gun to Cambrai
August 1914
Other than that you could find a couple of the books published during the Great War about it. There's loads in Canada, and I'd guess there are plenty elsewhere in the Commonwealth or Europe.

>> No.9615996

>>9615662

Myths and Legends of the First World War.

Really kills those "WW1 WAS HELL IN THE TRENCHES 24/7 BOMBING TRENCH FOOT TRENCH FOOT WORST NIGHTMARE -COW MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS BLACK AND WHITE FOOTAGE-" bullshit.

>> No.9616164

>>9615662
A collection of WW1 poems by unnamed soldiers is always worth finding.

>> No.9616189

>>9615662

Its still good thou.

>> No.9616194

>>9615662

Also, look at paintings from Otto Dix.

>> No.9616279

>>9615814
>>9615860
Which translation of this should I get?

>> No.9616371

I know Reddit isn't precisely popular here, but the books referenced here are great.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/wwi

>> No.9616386

REGENERATION BY PAT BARKER

OFTEN OVERLOOKED

CONSUMMATE BOOK