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• The Trigger

  Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

  Butcher, Tim, 1967-

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  Tim Butcher's book is a great detective story into the event that sparked the whole war in 1914. Princip himself was quickly forgotten, dying in an Austro-Hungarian prison apart from the war he had helped spark, but his story of how and why he ended…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Western Front

  a History of the First World War

  Lloyd, Nick

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  This is a solid summary of the war on the Western Front, covering from 1914 to 1918, and going beyond the tropes of "lions led by donkeys" to show the experience of the Western Front was a messy experience of trial and error between two forces…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Johnny Enzed

  the New Zealand Soldier in the First World War, 1914-1918

  Harper, Glyn, 1958-

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  This book tells the military history of New Zealand during WW1, but also a social history of New Zealand soldiers drawn from their own diaries, letters, and memoirs from the experience of enlistment and training, through to the Middle East and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When We Dead Awaken

  Australia, New Zealand, and the Armenian Genocide

  Robins, James

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  At the same time as the landings at Gallipoli in 1915, the Ottoman state began to enact its plans to deport and kill Armenian and other minorities in the empire. This book talks about the thousands of New Zealanders and Australians bore witness as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The World's War

  Olusoga, David, 1970-

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  As a truly world war, the war was not only fought all across the world but involved participants (soldiers and civilians) from all over the globe. All the combatant powers sought to make use of the people and resources of their colonial empires,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• At Night All Blood Is Black

  Diop, David, 1966-

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  This was originally published in French in 2018, translated into English in 2020 and won the International Booker Prize in 2021. It's a story of Senegalese soldiers who fought for their French imperial masters on the Western Front during the war,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Shall Not Grow Old

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  I remember going to see this in a movie theatre in Brisbane in 2019, and being amazed at the transitions from old to remastered footage, and how the remastering and addition of sound to WW1 footage completely changed the experience. Peter Jackson is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ring of Steel

  Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918

  Watson, Alexander, 1979-

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  Watson's book looks at the 'other side' - the two main Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary and their experiences of WW1, both on the front and at home. Germany's failure to avoid the two-front war in 1914 meant it was forced into a long…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Quiet on the Western Front

  Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-1970

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  This is a classic German novel about the frontline experience during the war. Remarque spent only 3 weeks on the frontline in 1917, but wrote one of the most moving visions of the experience of the frontline soldier, the quick breakdown of any…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Battle

  Victory, Defeat, and the End of World War I

  Hart, Peter, 1955-

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  By 1918, all the combatant powers (other than the United States) were exhausted, and there still seemed to be no end. Yet by November 1918, the war had been won with the Central Powers collapsing or making peace (often both!) with the war decisively…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A World on Edge

  the End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age

  Schönpflug, Daniel, 1969-

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  The Armistice on 11 November 1918 and even the final peace treaties starting in 1919 did not mean a sudden end to the impact of WW1. While the guns fell silent, soldiers went home, and people began to rebuild their countries and lives (or new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Facemaker

  One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

  Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982-

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  The scale of the war and changes in medicine meant that soldiers could survive what might have killed them before, but left scarred and damaged. This is a fascinating book about the beginnings of modern plastic and rehabilitative surgery, and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Path of Peace

  Walking the Western Front Way

  Seldon, Anthony, 1953-

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  Seldon is an author and academic, who inspired by a letter from a soldier to his family about creating a commemorative pathway along the front from the sea to Switzerland, set out to make this 'Western Front Way' a reality and to walk this path…Read moreRead more of this annotation