Favourite Books on WWI

Morlar

I read this book recently,

Irish Regiments in the World Wars (Elite) (Paperback)
David Murphy (Author) Gerry Embleton (Illustrator)

http://www.ospreypublishing.com/store/Irish-Regiments-in-the-World-Wars_9781846030154/


it's quite short (about 70 pages well illustrated throughout) and I have to say it's highly recommended to anyone curious about Irish men who fought in WWI or WWII. It lists through each war down to the major battle and who fought where, even listing off VC winners throughout. In particular the WWI section is amazing, for example I never knew there was a London Irish, Liverpool Irish, Austrailia or Canadian Irish either. Very interesting and highly recommended


Another one is this one

World War One in Photographs by
J. H. J. Andriessen

http://www.amazon.com/World-War-Photographs-J-Andriessen/dp/9036618711

You can probably pick it up in Easons for under a tenner, a large format hardback book with many rare and fantastic full page battle field photographs many of which were unpublished and cover all aspects of the war. There is a brief accompanying text to give an outline of events and the chronology of the war.

gitane007

Kipling's book on the Irish gaurds is a must , vol 1 and 2.

"The first day on the somme" is excellent aswell.

Also "Storm of steel" by Ernst Juger is a great account from the German Perspective. .


http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/IrishGuardsv1/index.html

enfield

Deaths Men by Henry Winter.

Balaclava1991

David Stevenson's 1914-1918: The History Of The First World War which is one of the best most comprehensive single volumes on the conflict.