Books to Read on WW1
Selections From Project Gutenberg and their WW1 Bookshelf (click the HTML version of the item you want to look at)
- Tanks in the Great War by JFC Fuller
- The Great War As I Saw It
by Frederick George Scott - Over the top with the 25th: Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette by R. Lewis
- Canada in Flanders, Volume I (of 3) by Baron Beaverbrook
- Canada in Flanders, Volume II (of 3) by Baron Beaverbrook
- Canada in Flanders, Volume III (of 3) by Sir Charles Roberts
- Over the Canadian Battlefields
Notes of a Little Journey in France, in March, 1919 by John Wesley Dafoe - An Onlooker in France by William Orpen
- (William Orpen is famous for painting British and CEF Generals)
- Bullets and Bayonets by Bruce Bairnsfather
- Fragments from France by Bruce Bairnsfather
- From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 2nd Cdn Bn, 1st Brigade by Frederic C. Curry, 2nd Bn CEF
BOOKS to get grounded in World War One from a general perspective (and suggested order of reading)
- The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
- Canadian Official History from Department of National Defence
- The CEF MATRIX by Richard Laughton and Team
- (endless detail down to individual units)
- Surviving Trench Warfare: Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918 by Bill Rawling.
- Canadian Military History Articles on WW1 from The Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies
- Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon (Part 1 of his WW1 Trilogy)
- Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon (Part 2 of his WW1 Trilogy)
- Sherston`s Progress by Siegfried Sassoon (Part 3 of his WW1 Trilogy)
- Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
- Tolkien and The Great War by John Garth
- Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden
- Only This by James Pedley – Norm Christie`s CEF Books
- Anything by Norm Christie`s CEF Books
- Death or Deliverance – Canadian Courts Martial in the Great War (2013) – by Teresa Iachobelli
- The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussel
- The Group of Seven and Canadian War Art Google Links
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