The Great War and Modern Memory
10 best books like The Great War and Modern Memory (Paul Fussell): To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, The Guns of August, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Goodbye to All That, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age, Dreadnought, The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919, The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
| Author | Adam Hochschild |
| ISBN | 0618758283 |
World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside...
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
| Author | William L. Shirer |
| ISBN | 0671728687 |
Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 years contained some of the most catastrophic events Western civilization has ever known.No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third...
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
| Author | Margaret MacMillan |
| ISBN | 0375760520 |
'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever written about those fateful months after World War I when the maps of Europe were redrawn. Brimming with lucid analysis, elegant character sketches, and geopolitical pathos, it is essential reading.'
Between...
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started,...
| Author | Siegfried Sassoon |
| ISBN | 1931313814 |
”I, single human being with my little stock of earthly experience in my head, was entering once again the veritable gloom and disaster of the thing called Armageddon. And I saw it then as I see it now---a dreadful place, a place of horror and desolation which no imagination could have invented. Also...
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...
| Author | Modris Eksteins |
| ISBN | 0395937582 |
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...
| Author | Robert K. Massie |
| ISBN | 0345375564 |
"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth...
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919
| Author | Mark Thompson |
| ISBN | 0571223338 |
On the hardcover version of Mark Thompson’s The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, there’s a remarkable picture of tiny soldiers jumping out of their snow packed trenches. In front of them is the steep side of a mountain. Talk about the Mountains of Madness! But that’s pretty much the...
The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
| Author | Eric Hobsbawm |
| ISBN | 0679721754 |
Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War.
Illustrations
Preface
Overture
The centenarian revolution
An economy changes gear
The age of empire
The...
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History
| Author | Jay Murray Winter |
| ISBN | 0521639883 |
Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective...
1861: The Civil War Awakening
| Author | Adam Goodheart |
| ISBN | 1400040159 |
As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began.
1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring...
