Not a recommended reading list, this is just a list of reviews of books I’ve read and exhibitions I’ve visited on the subject of the First World War.
History
- The Eastern Front 1914 to 1918: The Suicide of Empires by Alan Clark (1971)
- The Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867 to 1918 by John W. Mason (1985)
- The Last Years of Austria-Hungary edited by Mark Cornwall (1989)
- The Imperial War Museum Book of 1918: Year of Victory by Malcolm Brown (1999)
- Forgotten Victory: the First World War Myths and Realities by Gary Sheffield (2001)
- The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power, 1898 to 1918 by Sean McMeekin (2010)
- Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (2010)
- A Line In The Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East by James Barr (2011)
- Ring of Steel by Alexander Watson (2014)
- Ring of Steel by Alexander Watson and multi-ethnic societies
- Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven (2015) – 1
- Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven (2015) – 2
- The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 to 1923 by Sean McMeekin (2015)
- The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917 to 1923 by Robert Gerwarth (2016)
- Lenin on The Train by Catherine Merridale (2016)
Fiction and memoirs
- Under Fire by Henri Barbusse (1917)
- Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (1920)
- England, My England by D.H. Lawrence (1922)
- In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway (1925)
- Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden (1928)
- Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (1929)
- The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme And Ancre, 1916 by Frederic Manning (1929)
- All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
- The Realist by Hermann Broch (1931)
- Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis (1936)
- Complete Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon (1936)
- A Small Yes and a Big No by George Grosz (1946)
The Good Soldier Švejk
- The Good Soldier Švejk, the Life of Jaroslav Hašek
- The Good Soldier Švejk, Volume One: Behind the Lines (1921)
- The Good Soldier Švejk, Epilogue to Volume One (1921)
- The Good Soldier Švejk, Volume Two: At the Front (1922)
- The Good Soldier Švejk, Volume Three: The Glorious Licking (1922)
- The Good Soldier Švejk, Volume Four: The Glorious Licking Continues (1923)
Exhibitions
- The Great War in Portraits @ National Portrait Gallery (March 2014)
- Frank Brangwyn and the First World War @ William Morris Gallery (July 2014)
- Truth and Memory @ Imperial War Museum (September 2014)
- Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One @ Tate Britain (September 2018)
- Heath Robinson’s War Effort @ the Heath Robinson Museum (November 2018)
- Renewal: Life after the First World War in photographs @ the Imperial War Museum London (March 2019)
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