World War I Past Readings

2023

Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion 1914–1918
Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Scott Anderson, Lawrence In Arabia
Sean McMeekin, The Russian Origins of the First World War
Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans
Jack Beatty, The Lost History of 1914
Mark Arsenault, The Imposter’s War: The Press, Propaganda, and the Battle for the Minds of America
Gordon Martel, The Month That Changed the World
Stephen Broadberry, The Economics of World War I
Elizabeth Cobbs, Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers

Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order 1916–1931
George F. Kennan, The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia and the Coming of the First World War
Jonathan Steinberg, Bismarck: A Life
Geoffrey Wawro, The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870–71
T. G. Otte, July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914
Jörn Leonhard, Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War
E. R. Hooten, Prelude to the First World War: The Balkan Wars 1912–1913
Robert K. Massie, Dreadnaught: Great Britain, Germany and the Coming of the First World War
Fritz Fischer, Germany’s Aims in the First World War
Philipp Blom, The Vertigo Years
Steven Beller, The Habsburg Monarchy 1815–1918
Geoffrey Wawro, Sons of Freedom: The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I

Xu Guoqi, Asia and the Great War
Sean McMeekin, The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908–1923
Orlando Figes, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891–1924
Hew Strachan, The First World War
G. J. Meyer, The World Remade: America in World War
David Stevenson, The First World War and International Politics
Christopher Capozzola, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
David Stevenson, 1917: War, Peace, & Revolution
Jonathan Boff, Haig’s Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany’s War on the Western Front
George F. Kennan, The Decline of Bismarck’s European Order: Franco-Russian Relations 1875–1890
Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order 1916–1931
George F. Kennan, The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia and the Coming of the First World War
Jonathan Steinberg, Bismarck: A Life

John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequence of the Peace
David Reynolds, The Long Shadow: The Legacy of the Great War on the Twentieth Century
G. J. Meyer, A World Undone
Robert Gerwarth, The Vanquished
Richard M. Watt, The Kings Depart: The Tragedy of Germany—Versailles and the German Revolution
Richard M. Watt, Dare Call It Treason
Andrew Carroll, My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War

Mark Thompson, The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915–1919
Harold Nicholson, Peacemaking 1919
Dominic Lieven, The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
Peter Hart, The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front
Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern
Winston Churchill, The Aftermath
Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order 1916–1931
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919

David From, A Peace to End All Peace
Ian F. W. Beckett, The Making of the First World War
Louis Barthas, Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914–1918
Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War
A.J.P. Taylor, War By Timetable
Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
David Stevenson, Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy
Ross Anderson, The Forgotten Front: The East African Campaign, 1914–1918

Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Margaret MacMillan, The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
G. Irving Root, Battles East
Norman Stone, The Eastern Front 1914 – 1917
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
Paul Jankowski, Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War
Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War (Chapters 1-7)
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, The First World War in the Middle East
David Fromkin, Peace to End all Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922