 | The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War
Buy new: £11.18 / Used from: £9.37 A light read - one of the better introductions.
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 | The Guns of August by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £4.05 A timeless description of the start of the war.
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 | The First World War by Hew Strachan
Buy used from: £6.50 Good Overview
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 | Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy by David Stevenson
Buy new: £20.99 / Used from: £9.96 Politics of the war - why it started.
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 | The First World War, Volume One: To Arms by Hew Strachan
Buy new: £24.56 / Used from: £20.00 Volume I of a new three part series from an Oxford expert.
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 | The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front (Pan Grand Strategy Series) by Malcolm Brown
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A story of the war, mainly the British side told by the dead from their letters home with the author's comments and background.
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 | The First World War by John Keegan
Buy new: £10.34 / Used from: £7.79 A popular and well written overview of the war.
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 | The Kaiser's Army: Technological, Tactical and Operational Dilemmas in Germany During the Machine Age 1870-1918 by Eric Dorn Brose
Buy used from: £29.95 The German army and their men with some politics.
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 | The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £5.34 Literature and the soldiers, writings by the soldiers, some famous.
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 | The Pity of War: Explaining World War I by Niall Ferguson
Buy used from: £17.38 An economic study of the impact of the war, with the author's ideas.
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 | Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? by David Fromkin
Buy used from: £12.64 A modern overview, but a bit on the light side.
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 | An Illustrated History of the First World War by John Keegan
Buy used from: £11.19 Well know illustrated guide.
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 | First World War in Photographs by Richard Holmes
Buy new: £21.25 / Used from: £10.15 An excellent collection of photos.
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 | World War I by H. P. Willmott
Buy used from: £14.88 A war book published by a travel guide book company - the war described in a travel guide format. Lots of photos.
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 | World War I: Day by Day by Ian Westwell
Buy used from: £19.93 If you want more details - day by day.
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 | Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie
Buy used from: £5.30 A popular navy book on the big ships and their battles.
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 | The Longman Companion to the First World War (Longman Companions To History) by Colin Nicolson
Buy used from: £36.56 Keeps track of battles, troop movements and people in tables and lists.
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 | The Great War (The West Point military history series) by William R. Griffiths
Buy used from: £16.24 Soldiers guide to the action and the people.
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 | West Point Atlas for the Great War (West Point Military History) (West Point Military History) by Thomas E. Greiss
Buy new: £21.24 / Used from: £16.00 Companion to the text version - this book is just battle maps.
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 | World War I: A Visual Encyclopedia by Simon Forty
Buy used from: £7.34 A general guide.
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| Historical Maps of World War I by Simon Forty
Buy used from: £22.22 Reproduction of battlefield maps - from the originals - plus many aerial photos and similar.
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 | Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme (Pan grand strategy series) by Malcolm Brown
Buy used from: £0.05 I like the Brown books.
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 | The First World War: Western Front 1914-1916 (Essential Histories) by Peter Simkins
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £3.05 Part of an excellent series on the war. I just show one book here. Not enough space.
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 | The First World War by Martin Gilbert
Buy used from: £4.20 600 page summary.
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| Eastern Front, 1914-17 by Norman Stone
Buy used from: £8.47 Best book out on the Eastern Front - great book.
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