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Given that today is Remembrance Day, which commemorates the end of World War I and is also known is Armistice Day or Veterans Day depending on which country you live in, I will be sharing ten books about this war in my post. I tried to pick books about this subject that aren’t as well known.
War isn’t something I like to read about, so this still fits the original “books outside of my comfort zone” theme as well!
1. The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War by Chad L. Williams
2. The First World War in Posters, from the Imperial War Museum, London by Joseph Darracott
3. Chronicle of Youth: The War Diary, 1913-1917 by Vera Brittain
4. Falsehood in Wartime: Propaganda Lies of the First World War by Arthur Ponsonby
5. The Forbidden Zone: A Nurse’s Impressions of the First World War by Mary Borden
6. The Poems of Wilfred Owen by Jon Stallworthy
7. Love Letters of the Great War by Mandy Kirkby
8. 1915: The Death Of Innocence by Lyn Macdonald
9. Bill the Bastard: The Story Of Australia’s Greatest War Horse by Roland Perry
10. Sword and Blossom: A British Officer’s Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman by Peter Pagnamenta
May we someday live in a world where war is nothing but a distant memory.
I’ve read a good book or two set during the first and second wars. It’s been a while now though. Like you, I don’t like to read about this historical period a lot but there are some great stories in the era. 🙂