Goodbye To All That
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT is the author's autobiographical statement about WW I and the disillusionment that set in afterward. Graves went to Oxford, knew T. E. Lawrence and the Bloomsbury set, and lived at the artistic center as one of the reigning spirits. But in 1929 he abdicated and went to Majorca,...

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
An irreverent look at British military leaders during WW1, written by the Hawthornden-Prize winning author

1915: The Death of Innocence
To distinguish one corpse-clogged sea of mud from another on the western front, place-names like the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele took hold on British minds wishing to believe that something militarily significant was being achieved in those spots. In reality, those interchangeable names referred...

The First World War
Despite the avalanche of books written about the First World War in recent years, there have been comparatively few books that deliver a comprehensive account of the war and its campaigns from start to finish. The First World War fills the gap superbly. As readers familiar with Keegan's previous...

The First World War: A Complete History
The Great War achieved little but changed everything in every country, having destroyed four empires and millions of lives. Causes and effects, however, are beyond Gilbert's intended ken; instead, he addresses the relentless, despairing character of the military actions. A veteran historian,...

The Imperial War Museum Book of 1918 - Year of Victory
This latest book by Malcolm Brown covers the final year of the Great War in a similar style to Lyn MacDonald's great books on World War One. Once again the author uses first-hand accounts of the participants of this dreadful conflict to reveal to the reader the horror of this conflict as seen through the eyes and experiences of the soldiers.

The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme

To the Last Man: Spring 1918
Beautifully written, spectacularly researched account of the almost end of the Great War by the author of 1915: The Death of Innocence (1995). Macdonald, who has written six other books on aspects of WWI, weaves together the forgotten voices of the war to create a comprehensive picture that offers a...