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From: Champ on 11 Nov 2009 18:48 Can anyone recommend a very good book on the First World War. I've been interested in it for some time (since reading Pat Barker's trilogy) and, having tonight watched Andrew Marr's "Making of Modern Britain", which covered it, I feel the need to read a good in depth history of the war. Anyone? -- Champ We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: JeremyR on 11 Nov 2009 19:52 Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote in news:m6jmf5pl5c6bf04rm7b20h3k9bo8bg8ijn(a)4ax.com: > Can anyone recommend a very good book on the First World War. > > I've been interested in it for some time (since reading Pat Barker's > trilogy) and, having tonight watched Andrew Marr's "Making of Modern > Britain", which covered it, I feel the need to read a good in depth > history of the war. > > Anyone? > > Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and Realities (Paperback) by Gary Sheffield (Author) Takes a slightly different look at it and tries to point out it was a genuine victory and not the catastrophic loss the war poets and blackadder and co would have you believe. I really liked it and it make me think quite differently about WW1 -- Jeremy Ireland FJR1300ABS GSX-R750K7
From: Kevin Lambert on 11 Nov 2009 20:36 JeremyR wrote: > Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote in > news:m6jmf5pl5c6bf04rm7b20h3k9bo8bg8ijn(a)4ax.com: > >> Can anyone recommend a very good book on the First World War. >> >> I've been interested in it for some time (since reading Pat Barker's >> trilogy) and, having tonight watched Andrew Marr's "Making of Modern >> Britain", which covered it, I feel the need to read a good in depth >> history of the war. >> >> Anyone? >> >> > > Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and Realities (Paperback) > by Gary Sheffield (Author) > > Takes a slightly different look at it and tries to point out it was a > genuine victory and not the catastrophic loss the war poets and > blackadder and co would have you believe. I really liked it and it make > me think quite differently about WW1 > Mud, Blood and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan is another in that vein. Debunks a lot of the urban myth about WW1. -- Kevin
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 11 Nov 2009 20:54 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> saying something like: >Can anyone recommend a very good book on the First World War. > >I've been interested in it for some time (since reading Pat Barker's >trilogy) and, having tonight watched Andrew Marr's "Making of Modern >Britain", which covered it, I feel the need to read a good in depth >history of the war. > >Anyone? Alan Clark's 'The Donkeys' is excellent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Clark#Historical_writing
From: darsy on 12 Nov 2009 02:35
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:48:44 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: >Can anyone recommend a very good book on the First World War. > >I've been interested in it for some time (since reading Pat Barker's >trilogy) and, having tonight watched Andrew Marr's "Making of Modern >Britain", which covered it, I feel the need to read a good in depth >history of the war. > >Anyone? not me, but if you want a /novel/ set in a bit of WW1 that's rarely discussed, try "An Ice-cream war", by William Boyd. -- d. |