Listmania!
World War One Lit, A2 or otherwise
Up the Line to Death: War Poets, 1914-18Up the Line to Death: War Poets, 1914-18
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £3.50
Essential poetry.
Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (New Directions Books)Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (New Directions Books) by W Owen
Buy new: £6.27 / Used from: £5.00
The War PoemsThe War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.13
The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost RoadThe Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Buy new: £17.00 / Used from: £7.18
The two poets above meet in Barker's modern novel. (Much more intelligent book than Birdsong). DOn't feel you need the trilogy but it's an easy-going read, as war lit goes.
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Faber Fiction Classics)Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Faber Fiction Classics) by Siegfried Sassoon
Buy used from: £2.99
What happened to the Fox-Hunting Man, 1914-18.
Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin)Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin) by Robert Graves
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.33
First ww1 thing I read, and loved it. Graves is the salt-of-the-earth.
Undertones of War (Penguin Modern Classics)Undertones of War (Penguin Modern Classics) by Edmund Blunden
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.00
More challenging memoirs.
Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World WarScars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War
Buy used from: £2.10
Anthology of women's poetry.
Journey's End (Penguin Modern Classics)Journey's End (Penguin Modern Classics) by Robert Cedric Sherriff
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £2.50
"Oh What a Lovely War" (Modern Classics)"Oh What a Lovely War" (Modern Classics) by "Theatre Workshop"
Buy new: £7.42 / Used from: £4.00
Heartbreak House (Penguin plays & screenplays)Heartbreak House (Penguin plays & screenplays) by George Bernard Shaw
Buy used from: £0.01
Not so much war lit, as concentrating on the impact of the war on the upper classes at the time. Shocking stuff.