what's a good book about WW1

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>>8810000
I read The Age of Revolution and found the author thorough and engaging at the same time.

>>8810187
That does look like a cool book, but I'd have to read Age of Revolution, Age of Capital, and Age of Empire before I could read Age of Extremes, and that covers 1914 all the fucking way to 1991 so there's a lot of non-WW1 stuff in there too

>>8810000
Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington is good. I read it once in a modernist literature course.

>>8810000
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>>8810225
I'm not requesting a torrent or anything, I'd go buy it at the book store.

>>8810204
No you wouldn't, they're standalone. That said I don't recommend Hobsbawm for an overview of WWI.

I would say first read Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman, which covers the outbreak to the first month of the war. The thing about WWI is that it's too big a conflict for there to be a single good overview written about it.

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>>8810204
Forgot the year the war started. (and haven't read the book)
It would make a good prelude. No you don't necessarily have to read the ones that came before.

How about Tuchman's The Guns of August

>>8810326
>>8810340
>Guns of August
Cool, I'll add that to my list

I hear Company K is good