World War I Past Readings
2023
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
- Margaret MacMillan, The War to End All Peace: The Road to 1914
- Dominic Lieven, The End of Tsarist Russia
- David Fromkin, The Peace to End All Peace
2022
- 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
2021
- F. W. Beckett, The Making of the First World War
- Laurence LaFore, The Long Fuse
- Robert Gerwarth, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
2020
- Jack Beatty, The Lost History of 1914
- Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans
- Nigel Jones, The Birth of the Nazis
2019
- 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
2018
- 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
2017
- 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
2016
- 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
2015
- 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
2014
- 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
2013
- Tuchman, The Proud Tower
- Norman Stone, World War One: A Short History
- Robert Graves, Good-Bye to All That
- Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth