(Part 2) Best world war i history books according to redditors
We found 286 Reddit comments discussing the best world war i history books. We ranked the 97 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Hi, could someone help me get in touch with whoever created this resource? Several of the images, if not most, of the images in the Imperial Russian Army section are stolen directly from my Dad's book (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russian-Army-1914-18-Men-at-Arms/dp/1841763039/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8). I would imagine it's the similar for the other armies too.
The images themselves were illustrated by a very good friend of his (https://ospreypublishing.com/andrei-karachtchouk). I've tried looking up the company but am not sure I am viewing the correct source. Cheers!
search for maritime history, merchant navy or merchant marine rather than "naval", "naval" implies military.
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https://www.amazon.com/History-British-Merchant-Navy-Omnibus-ebook/dp/B07D5G7YP7/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=merchant+navy&qid=1563643354&s=books&sr=1-2
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https://www.amazon.com/Maritime-Logistics-Complete-Effective-Management/dp/0749463694/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?keywords=commercial+maritime+logistics&qid=1563643641&s=books&sr=1-2-fkmr1
Yes and no. The scholarly community usually recognizes the 2 together, such as this example, or this one, even this ancient account of the time by an officer who was there.
So at least the historiography is inclusive, although both are under-represented in the larger scene of WW1 literature IMO.
Any particular theatre/focus? I've got at least 30 on the shelf next to me, though a lot are Ballantine's Histories, so that's kind of cheating. The classic intro narrative has to be Tuchman's Guns of August
Some of the other ones I refer to a lot are
Liddell Hart: The Real War 1914-1918
Richard Holmes: First World War in Photographs
Malcolm Brown: The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front
Martin Gilbert: Atlas of World War One
Philip Haythornthwaite: Photohistory of World War One
Rod Paschall: The Defeat of Imperial Germany
I particularly like books that collect diary excerpts/memoirs from all theatres/nationalities.
Soissons 1918 was a good overview of the AEF entering the Hundred Days. From there you'll want to pick up a second book but you'll at least know who the players are better than you would jumping to the July 1918 timeframe.
https://www.amazon.com/Soissons-1918-Douglas-V-Johnson/dp/0890968934
Most of the books about the Hundred Days offensives cover the AEF but focus tends to stick to the battles in the north by the "combined arms" forces centering around Amiens. This one is concise and very inexpensive:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VATUH12/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
If you don't mind a dead-tree-edition book, Philip J Haythornthwaite's The World War I Source Book is exhaustively, not to say exhaustingly, detailed on uniforms.
I require book suggestions and/or author criticism! I plan on ordering sometime next week about POW life and treatment in the First World War. I've got a few books lined up but I don't know the integrity of the authors in the historical community so just posting them here to see if there's any red flags from our local WWI experts.
Violence against Prisoners of War in the First World War: Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1920 by Heather Jones
Behind the Wire: Prisoners of War 1914-18 by Robert Jackson
Barbed Wire Disease: British and German Prisoners of War 1914-1919 by John Yarnall
POWs and the Great War: Captivity on the Eastern Front (Legacy of the Great War) by Alon Rachamimov
Also hoping that said WWI experts might have some recommendations as well!
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If you'd like to read a primary source, you can get this collection of The Wipers Times, which was a humorous British trench newspaper.
This isn't really in any particular order, but here you go:
The Navy, ed. Rear-Admiral W.J. Holland
Battleships, by Paul Stillwell
US Navy in World War II, by Ronald Heiferman
History of the US Navy, by James Morris
The World's Great Battleships, by Robert Jackson
World War II US Naval Air Combat, by Robert Lawson & Barrett Tillman
US Battleships in Action: Part 1, by Robert Stern
US Battleships in Action: Part 2, by Robert Stern
US Aircraft Carriers in Action: Part 1, by Robert Stern
US Heavy Cruisers in Action: Part 1, by Al Adcock
US Heavy Cruisers in Action: Part 2, by Al Adcock
US Light Cruisers in Action, by Al Adcock
US Destroyers in Action: Part 3, by Al Adcock
US Destroyer Escorts in Action, by Al Adcock
U-Boats in Action, by Robert Stern
Ship's Data: USS Massachusetts (BB 59), by Norman Friedman
Regia Marina: Italian Battleships of World War Two, by Erminio Bagnasco
Italian Battleships of World War, by Mark Stille
Jutland 1916: Clash of the Dreadnoughts, by Charles London
Coronel and Falklands 1914: Duel in the South Atlantic, by Michael McNally
The Naval Battles for Guadalcanal 1942: Clash for Supremacy in the Pacific, by Mark Stille
British Battlecruisers: 1939-1945, by Angus Konstam
German Battleships:1939-1945, by Gordon Williamson
German Pocket Battleships: 1939-1945, by Gordon Williamson
German Heavy Cruisers: 1939-1945, by Gordon Williamson
German E-Boats: 1939-1945
Coronel and the Falklands, by Geoffrey Bennett
Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World: Naval Campaigns that shaped the Modern World, by Peter Padfield
These are some other books I have but my brother is borrowing them lol:
Fletcher DD's in Action, by Jerry Scutts
US Destroyers in Action: Part 4, by Al Adcock
I think that's all the ones I showed. Enjoy!
Ok, hast natürlich Recht. Dann mein Vorschlag:
https://www.amazon.de/August-1914-Barbara-Tuchman/dp/3596197341/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=august+1914&qid=1565556968&s=books&sr=1-1
Deutsche Geschichte, kurz vor der Urkatastrophe des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sehr interessant, anspruchsvoll.
Da du aber 1984 zu schwierig fandest, weiss ich nicht ob mein Vorschlag tatsächlich gut ist oder ob es nicht dann doch zu schwierig ist...
The First World War by John Keegan https://www.amazon.com/dp/0375700455/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_RKNLxbX912QTD
I also have this absolutely monstrous six volume set: The Great War: The Illustrated History of the First World War: 6 Volume Set https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OTDY5A/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_YMNLxbPYYR9FQ
That one might be a little more than you're looking for though.
https://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Warrior-Field-Marshal-Viscount-1861-1936-ebook/dp/B018G8MR8U/ref=pd_sim_351_1/142-2647184-5250620?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B018G8MR8U&pd_rd_r=603bf07b-9b97-4b9b-95a9-5b281cf8549b&pd_rd_w=Mg1AI&pd_rd_wg=LFqpT&pf_rd_p=04d27813-a1f2-4e7b-a32b-b5ab374ce3f9&pf_rd_r=2YN8EZ02W6Q3GF4JXYAF&psc=1&refRID=2YN8EZ02W6Q3GF4JXYAF
Martin Middlebrook - First Day On The Somme
Sorry, war is not always negative...there's a good argument to be made for many positives.
https://www.amazon.com/War-What-Good-Conflict-Civilization-ebook/dp/B00FOB3IU4
This book is a good source for all things related to ground forces on the Western Front, covering the war as far back as early 1914.
The Carpathian Winter War of 1915 is also a fascinating read that's probably a bit overlooked.
My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing. Available on Amazon. $50 for hardcover, $40 for paperback.