 | The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 (Penguin History) by Martin Middlebrook
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £2.90 If you only ever read one book about the Great War, read this. It is unsurpassed.
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 | Take these men by Cyril Joly
An astonishingly powerful first hand account by a tank commander who served throughout the North African campaign.
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| The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War, 1914-18 by WILSON
Buy used from: £28.32 Brilliant description of the British experience of the Great War.
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 | Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War by Gerard J. De Groot
Buy new: £24.69 / Used from: £17.54 Excellent description of British society and the Great War.
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 | Nothing of Importance: A Record of Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion October 1915 to June 1916 by Bernard Adams
Buy new: £10.76 / Used from: £16.28 Superb account of trench warfare by an unsung friend of Sassoon & Graves.
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 | The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918 (Modern Wars) by Holger Herwig
Buy new: £23.75 / Used from: £22.56 Very good counter to Anglo-centric accounts of the Great War.
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 | Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £1.55 A tragic story told with clear affection for the Polish people. Just wish the author had used real Polish names instead of English pseudonyms.
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| Who Won the Battle of Britain? by Hubert Raymond Allen
Buy used from: £34.65 Challenging history of the Battle of Britain by a British fighter pilot. Should be still in print!
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| Singapore: The inexcusable betrayal by George Chippington
Buy used from: £9.99 Superb first hand account by an officer captured at Singapore of the ill-fated Malayan campaign.
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 | The Battle of Tanga 1914 by Ross Anderson
Buy used from: £73.50 Very good account of a little known action, in which even bees were said to be combatants!
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 | Defeat at Gallipoli by Nigel Steel
Buy used from: £11.30 Very good account by an excellent partnership. Their other books are all recommended.
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 | The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £7.07 Disturbing but compelling description of the last days of the Third Reich by this ever-excellent author.
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 | Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front by Richard Holmes
Buy used from: £0.01 Brilliant tribute to the British soldier of the Great War.
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 | Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Faber Fiction Classics) by Siegfried Sassoon
Buy used from: £2.44 Classic account by the famous poet.
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 | Fighter Pilot (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Paul Richey
Buy new: £4.40 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent tale of a British Hurricane pilot during the 'Phoney War' and the Battle of France, 1939-40.
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| Gardeners of Salonika by Alan Palmer
Buy used from: £48.19 Classic history of the little known British campaign in Greece during the Great War.
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 | The Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916 (Penguin History) by Alistair Horne
Buy new: £7.64 / Used from: £3.99 Old but never bettered story of the battle for Verdun.
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 | The Advance from Mons 1914: The Experiences of a German Infantry Officer (Helion Library of the Great War) by Walter Bloem
Buy new: £18.66 / Used from: £17.00 Superb first hand account by a German officer of the first weeks of the Great War.
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 | There's a Devil in the Drum by John F. Lucy
Buy new: £12.71 / Used from: £5.25 Excellent account by an Irish soldier, best known for his description of the British army in 1914.
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 | A War in Words by Svetlana Palmer
Buy used from: £0.01 First class use of primary source material to tell the story of the Great War from the viewpoint of the ordinary individual.
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| The Kaiser's Battle: 21st March, 1918 - The First Day of the German Spring Offensive by Martin Middlebrook
Buy used from: £0.21 Excellent account of the lead up to and first day of the 'German Spring Offensive', 21st March 1918.
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 | The Manchester Pals by Michael Stedman
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £18.90 Outstanding book in an excellent series about the 'Pals Battalions'.
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 | The Bristol Blenheim: An Illustrated History by Graham Warner
Buy used from: £19.95 Definitive work on the 'Forgotten Bomber'.
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| The Pregnable Fortress - A Study in Deception, Discord and Desertion by Peter Elphick
Buy used from: £3.65 Fascinating and controversial telling of the Singapore debacle.
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 | Cassino: The Hollow Victory - The Battle for Rome, January-June, 1944 by John Ellis
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.30 Classic account of the terrible battle for Monte Cassino.
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