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Forgotten Voices of the Great War

7 best books like Forgotten Voices of the Great War (Max Arthur): The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, The Great War and Modern Memory, The War Poems, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, Under Fire, Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy, The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
AuthorWilfred Owen
ISBN0811201325
Reposted November 4th, 2018 - in memory of November 4th, 1918, the poet's last battle!

I have been circling around World War I for a while now, reading novels that were published around 1915, such as The Voyage Out or Of Human Bondage, and poetry that referred back to that breaking point in history,...
The Great War and Modern Memory
AuthorPaul Fussell
ISBN0195133323
The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Fussell illuminates a war that changed a generation and revolutionised the way we see the world. He explores the British experience on the western Front from 1914 to 1918,...
The War Poems
AuthorSiegfried Sassoon
ISBN0571202659
Sassoon, who lived through World War One and who died in 1967, was, as the introduction to this book tells us, irritated in his later years at always being thought of as a "war poet". Understandable perhaps from the point of view of the poet: readers on the other hand might wish to demur. The poems gathered...
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
AuthorMatthew George Walter
ISBN0141180099
Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here...
Under Fire
AuthorHenri Barbusse
ISBN0143039040
Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one of the greatest horrors mankind has ever inflicted on itself.

For the group of ordinary men in the French Sixth Battalion, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply...
Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
AuthorNorman Lewis
ISBN0786714387
From the author Graham Greene called "one of our best writers, not of any particular decade but of our century," comes a masterpiece about a war-ravaged city under occupation
As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded...
The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War
AuthorPeter Hart
ISBN0199976279
Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by The Economist
World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared....
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