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The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front

Ernst Jünger

A German officer's unflinching, almost ecstatic account of trench fighting that offers a stark counterpoint to the disillusioned tone of All Quiet on the Western Front.

Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918

Louis Barthas · 2014

A French corporal's vivid, wry, and deeply human diaries that bring the French soldier's war to life with the immediacy of first-hand testimony.

A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918

G. J. Meyer · 2006

A single-volume narrative history that gives the Eastern, Italian, Balkan and Middle Eastern fronts the same vivid storytelling attention the Western Front usually gets, making it an ideal next step for a reader raised on the British classics.

The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

Eugene Rogan · 2015

A narrative history that gives the Ottoman and Middle Eastern theatres the same human scale and moral seriousness as the Western Front classics the reader knows.

A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighters' Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home

Peter N. Nelson · 2009

A vivid, character-driven account of the 369th Infantry Regiment, the most decorated American unit in the war, that captures both the combat experience and the bitter irony of fighting for democracy abroad while facing Jim Crow at home.

The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War

Peter Englund · 2011

Follows twenty ordinary people from many nations through the war and its aftermath, giving the home front and the political reckoning the same human immediacy as the trenches.

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