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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

10 best books like Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Siegfried Sassoon): The Ghost Road, Company K, Goodbye to All That, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, The Great War and Modern Memory, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age, Journey's End, Fear: A Novel of World War I, Under Fire, Against Nature

The Ghost Road
AuthorPat Barker
ISBN0452276721
The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy, and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize
"The Ghost Road" is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions...
Company K
AuthorWilliam March
ISBN0817304800
With an Introduction by Philip D. Beidler

This book was originally published in 1933. It is the first novel by William March, pen name for William Edward Campbell. Stemming directly from the author's experiences with the US Marines in France during World War I, the book consists of 113 sketches,...
Goodbye to All That
AuthorRobert Graves
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

In 1929 Robert Graves went...
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,...
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
AuthorModris Eksteins
ISBN0395937582
A rare and remarkable cultural history of World War I that unearths the roots of modernism Dazzling in its originality, Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I, from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913, to the death of Hitler in 1945. Recognizing...
Journey's End
AuthorR.C. Sherriff
ISBN0435232908

Journey's End is considered a classic of First World War literature now, but at the time, it was rejected by almost every producer in the West End (‘How can I put on a play with no leading lady?’ one manager complained, providing Sherriff with the title to his future autobiography). It finally...
Fear: A Novel of World War I
AuthorGabriel Chevallier
ISBN1590177169
1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted “war to end all wars” seems like a war that will never end: whether mired in the trenches or going over the top, Jean finds himself caught in the midst of an unimaginable,...
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...
Against Nature
AuthorJoris-Karl Huysmans
ISBN0140447636
With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-siècle novel follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous...
Undertones of War
AuthorEdmund Blunden
ISBN0141184361
In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as...
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
AuthorGeorge Walter
ISBN0141181907
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...
We Are Displaced
AuthorMalala Yousafzai
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai will start with her own story of displacement as an Internally Displaced Person to show what it means to lose your home, your community, and the only world you've ever known. She will also share the personal stories of some of the girls she has met on her various...
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