 | The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History by Brian Bond
Buy new: £25.65 / Used from: £8.96 Explodes some of the myths rampant in British culture.
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 | The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939 (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series) by Mark Connelly
Buy new: £38.00 / Used from: £41.01 Walks you through London's mourning and memorialisation.
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 | THE MISSING OF THE SOMME by Geoff Dyer
Buy used from: £9.99 Masterpiece. Thought provoking.
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 | Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the First World War (Cassell military trade books) by Gordon Corrigan
Buy used from: £10.16 No-nonsence pomposity-busting myth-breaker.
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 | A War Imagined: First World War and English Culture by Samuel Hynes
Buy used from: £24.00 Fantastic - why on earth is it out of print?
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 | The Trench by Richard Van Emden
Buy used from: £2.30 Fascinating account of the controversial series.
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 | The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £5.34 A must-read if only to see how wrong he is - well-written researched but quite rediculous in places!
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 | 1914-1918: Understanding the Great War by Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau
Buy new: £12.75 / Used from: £9.49 Strikingly argumentative from a refreshingly different perspective.
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 | Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Canto) by Jay Winter
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £8.93 Brilliant insights into the mourning process all over Europe.
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 | The Price of Pity: v. 1 by Martin Stephen
Buy used from: £10.80 A good place to start for anyone trapped between literature and history.
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