This is a list of the WWI books we own or have come across in our travels. We are continually adding to this page. If you’d like us to add a book, please e-mail us at warthroughgenerations AT gmail DOT com. Thanks! (**We are constantly adding to this page**)
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The Absolutist by John Boyne
The African Queen by C. S. Forester
After the Armistice Ball by Catriona McPherson
After the Dancing Days by Margaret Rostkowski
Alfred & Emily by Doris Lessing
All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Ambassador’s Daughter by Pam Jenoff
Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
Ancasta, Guide Me Swiftly Home by Diana Jackson
And the Soldiers Sang by J. Patrick Lewis and illustrated by Gary Kelley
Angels in the Gloom by Anne Perry
Another World by Pat Barker
Archie’s War: My Scrapbook of the First World War by Marcia Williams
Artillery in the Great War by Paul Strong and Sanders Marble
At Some Disputed Barricade by Anne Perry
August 1914 by Alexandr Solzhenitsin
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Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I by Stephen O’Shea
Bad Characters – Sex, Crime, Mutiny and Murder in the Australian Imperial Force by Peter Stanley
The Balkans, Italy & Africa 1914-1918 by David Jordan
The Battle for Flanders by Chris Baker
The Battle of Bellicourt Tunnel by Dale Blair
The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War by Peter Englund, translated by Peter Graves
Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
Beneath Hill 60 by Will Davies
Bereft by Chris Womersley
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine
Betsy and the Great World by Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy’s Wedding by Maud Hart Lovelace
Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
Birdsong by Sebastion Faulks
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd
The Blasphemer by Nigel Farnsdale
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 by Sally M. Walker
Blood and Iron by Hugh Montagu Butterwerth
Blow on a Dead Man’s Embers by Mari Strachan
Bonds of Earth by G.N. Chevalier
The Bonus by Georgia Lowe
The Bowmen by Arthur Machen-Machen
Britannia’s Daughters by Ursula Stuart Mason
Broken Music by Marjorie Eccles
The Broken Years by Bill Gammage
Brothers Far From Home: The World War I Diary of Eliza Bates, Uxbridge, Ontario 1916 (Dear Canada) by Jean Little
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Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign: The Italian Front 1915-1918 by John Macdonald and Zeljko Cimpric
Carnage: The German Front in World War One by Jon Sutherland and Diane Canwell
The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie
A Century of November by WD Wetherell
Cher Ami: WWI Homing Pigeon by Joeming Dunn and Ben Dunn
Chronicle of Youth by Vera Brittain
Clerambault by Romain Rolland
A Cold Treachery by Charles Todd
The Confession by Charles Todd
The Conjurer’s Boy by Michael Raleigh
The Crimson Rooms by Katharine McMahon
Crossing Stones by Helen Frost
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Day of the Assassins (Jack Christie #1) by Johnny O’Brien
The Day the Red Baron Died by Dale Milton Titler
Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington
Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie by Edward Streeter
A Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold
The Double Traitor by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Dreadnought by Robert K. Massie
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd
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The Eastern Front 1914-1920 by Michael S. Neiberg and David Jordan
Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
The Englishman’s Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I by Ben Macintyre
The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
Eunice Fleet by Lily Tobias
Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? by David Fromkin
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
Eyes Like Willy’s by Juanita Havill
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The Faces of World War I by Max Arthur
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
A False Mirror by Charles Todd
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Fearsome Doubt by Charles Todd
Fifteen Rounds a Minute: The Grenadiers at War, August to December 1914 edited from the diaries of Major ‘Ma’ Jeffreys and others by Michael Craster
The First World War by John Keegan
The First World War by Michael Howard
Flanders by Patricia Anthony
5516606::Company K by William March
Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
Fly, Cher Ami, Fly!: The Pigeon Who Saved the Lost Battalion by Robert Burleigh
The Forbidden Zone by Mary Borden
Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arthur
The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgewick
Fort Vaux: Battleground Verdun by Christina Holstein
Fritz: The World War I Memoirs of a German Lieutenant by Fritz Nagel
Fromelles 1916 by Michael Senior
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Gallipoli & The Middle East 1914-1918 by Edward J. Erickson
The Gendarme by Mark T. Mustian
The General by C.S. Forester
Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison
The George and the Crown by Sheila Kaye-Smith
George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I by Miranda Carter
The Germans in Flanders 1914-1915 by David Bilton
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
The Girl on the Cliff by Lucinda Riley
Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek and Cecil Parrott
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age by Juliet Nicolson
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussel
The Great War: Perspectives on the First World War edited by Robert Cowley
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
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Haking: A Dutiful Soldier by Michael Senior
A Hand for Each: Three Short Stories by J. Kathleen Cheney
The Harlem Hellfighters by Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
The Head Girl at the Gables by Angela Brazil
Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
Hill 60: Ypres by Nigel Cave
Holding the Line by Sergeant Harold Baldwin
Home by Morning by Alexis Harrington
Horsemen in No Man’s Land by David Kenyon
The Horse’s Mouth: Staging Morpurgo’s War Horse by Mervyn Millar
How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Elimination of German Surface Warships Around the World 1914-1915 by Bryan Perrett
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An Ice Cream War by William Boyd
If You’re Reading This…: Last Letters From the Front Line by Siân Price
An Impartial Witness by Charles Todd
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
Intimate Voices from the First World War by Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis
Into the Silence by Wade Davis
The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein
It Was the War of the Trenches by Jacques Tardi
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Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Journey’s End by R C Sheriff
Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
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Kipling’s Choice by Geert Spillebeen
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon
Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth
The Last of the Ebb by Sidney Rogerson
Last Post by Ford Madox Ford
The Last Summer by Judith Kinghorn
Legacy of the Dead by Charles Todd
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
Letters from the Front by J. Gresham Machen
Letters from a Lost Generation edited by Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Life in the Tomb by Strates Myriveles and Peter Bien
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine 1918 (Dear America) by Lois Lowry
Little England by Sheila Kaye-Smith
Lone Hawk: The Story of Air Ace Billy Bishop by John Lang
A Lonely Death by Charles Todd
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
A Long Shadow by Charles Todd
Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence
The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began by Jack Beatty
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy by Diana Preston
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Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear
A Man Could Stand Up by Ford Madox Ford
The March on Paris: The Memoirs of Alexander von Kluck, 1914-1918 by Alexander von Kluck
A Matter of Justice by Charles Todd
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Spear
The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederic Manning
Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps by Alan Axelrod
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
Mr. Darcy’s Angel of Mercy by Mary Lydon Simonsen
The Moonlight Mistress by Victoria Janssen
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Mopping Up! Through the Eyes of Bobbie Burns Regimental Mascot by Jack Munroe
My Brother’s Shadow by Monica Schroder
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
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Naval Warfare 1914-1918 by Tim Benbow
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty by Robert K. Massie
1918: Year of Victory by Malcolm Brown
No Graves as Yet by Anne Perry
No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford
Not So Quiet by Helen Zenna Smith
November 1916 by Alexandr Solzhenitsin
Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl by Kristin Alexandre and illustrated by Tom Loepp
Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War edited by Margaret R. Higonnet
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Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards
One Man’s Initiation: 1917 by John Dos Passos
One of Ours by Willa Cather
Other Kingdoms by Richard Matheson
Overseas by Beatriz Williams
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Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
A Pale Horse by Charles Todd
Parade’s End by Ford Maddox Ford
A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
In Parenthesis by David Jones
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
Passchendaele by Philip Warner
A Passionate Prodigality by Guy Chapman
The Passing Bells by Phillip Rock
Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb
The Patriot’s Progress by Henry Williamson
A Peace to End all Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
The Penguin Anthology of First World War Stories edited by Barbara Korte and Ann-Marie Einhaus
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry edited by George Walter
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry edited by Jon Silkin
The Penguin Book of First World War Prose edited by Jon Silkin
People Who Say Goodbye by P.Y. Betts
The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
Petrograd by Philip Gelatti with art from Tyler Crook
The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
The Platoon: An Infantryman on the Western Front 1916-1918 by Joseph Steward, edited by Andrew Robertshaw and Steve Roberts
The Poisonous Cloud by L.F. Haber
The Poppy Lady by Barbara Walsh
Primary Source Accounts of World War I by Glenn Sherer and Marty Fletcher
Prisoners in the Promised Land: The Ukranian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk, Spirit Lake, Quebec, 1914 by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Private 12768: Memoir of a Tommy by John Jackson
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Promise Me This by Cathy Gohlke
The Proud Tower: A portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman
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Random Harvest by James Hilton
The Red Dancer by Richard Skinner
The Red Door by Charles Todd
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Remember the Lusitania! by Diana Preston
Retreat and Rearguard 1914: The BEF’s Actions From Mons to the Marne by Jerry Murland
The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
The Riddles of Wipers by John Ivelaw-Chapman
Rilla of Ingleside by L.M Montgomery
A Rose for the ANZAC Boys by Jackie French
The Roses of No Man’s Land by Lyn Macdonald
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Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
The Sardinian Brigade by Emilio Lussu
Sea Warfare by Rudyard Kipling
Search the Dark by Charles Todd
The Secret Battle by A.P. Herbert
September Evening: The Life and Final Combat of the German World War One Ace Werner Voss by Barry Diggens
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
Shadows Walking by Douglas Skopp
The Shell House by Linda Newbery
Sherston’s Progress by Siegfried Sassoon
The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
Shot at Dawn: World War I, Allan McBride, France, 1917 by John Wilson
Shoulder the Sky by Anne Perry
Siberian Prison by E.V. Enzmann
Silent Night by Stanley Weintraub
Silver Threads by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko
Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History by Jay Winter
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Some Do Not by Ford Madox Ford
Somme by Lyn Macdonald
Somme Mud by E.P.F. Lynch
The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin
Stalemate! by J.H. Johnson
Stolen Air by Osip Mandelstam, translated by Christian Wiman
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
Strange Meeting by Susan Hill
Strangers in a Strange Land by Michael Amara
Sulva: August Offensive — Gallipoli by Stephen Chambers
The Summer of Katya by Trevanian
The Sweetest Dark by Shana Abé
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Ten Years and Twenty Days: Memoirs by Karl Doenitz
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
A Test of Wills by Charles Todd
They Shall Not Pass: The French Army on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Ian Sumner
Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
Through the Wheat by Thomas Boyd
A Time of Angels by Karen Hesse
To Arras, 1917 by Walter Reid
Toby’s Room by Pat Barker
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild
To the Last Man by Jeff Shaara
To the Slaughterhouse by Jean Giono
Toward the Flame by Hervey Allen
Trench Art by Nicholas J. Saunders
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting by Jim Murphy
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Under the Devil’s Eye by Alan Wakefield and Simon Moody
Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden
Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
The Underground War by Phillip Robinson and Nigel Cave
An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd
Unraveling Freedom: The Battle for Democracy on the Home Front During World War I by Ann Bausum
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Valour in the Trenches: ‘Bombo’ Pollard VC MC DCM HAC in the Great War by N.S. Nash
A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien Japrisot
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Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
Walking the Somme by Paul Reed
The Walnut Tree by Charles Todd
The War to End All Wars: World War I by Russell Freedman
War Game: Village Green to No-Man’s Land by Michael Foreman
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
The Wars by Timothy Findley
War Surgery 1914-1918 edited by Thomas Scotland and Steven Heys
The War Workers by E.M. Delafield
Watchers of Time by Charles Todd
We Shall Not Sleep by Anne Perry
We That Were Young by Irene Rathbone
The Western Front 1914-1916 by Michael S. Neiberg
The Western Front 1917-1918 by Andrew Wiest
When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer, New York City to the Western Front, 1917 by Beth Seidel Levine
Why Did the Whole World Go to War by Martin W. Sandler
The Wild Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
William: An Englishman by Cicely Hamilton
William Orpen, An Onlooker in France: A Critical Edition of the Artist’s War Memoirs by Robert Upstone and Angela Weight
Wings of Fire by Charles Todd
Winnie’s War by Jennie Moss
The Winter of the World by Carol Ann Lee
The Winter of the World: The Definitive Collection of World War I Poetry by Dominic Hibberd and John Onions
The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
Wipers: A Soldier’s Tale from the Great War by Jeff Simmons
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G.J. Meyer
World War I: Scottish Tales of Adventure by Allan Burnett
World War One: History in an Hour by Rupert Colley
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The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey
Yesterday’s Dead by Pat Bourke
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The Zimmerman Telegram by Barbara Tuchman
Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore
