It was the Big One. The Great War. The War to End All Wars. Here's Military.com's picks for the top 10 books written about World War I.

World War I at 100: New books examine the battle of beliefs behind the 'Great War' (RNS) “If you do not understand the messianic and apocalyptic imagery used by all sides, and how wide ...

World War II movies can recreate the sight and sound of battle, but books let you sit inside a character's head and feel the slow, terrifying crawl of history. With this in mind, the following ten ...

Yesterday, I recommended several great books on the origins of World War I. I’m a history buff, so books about what world leaders said and did are my thing. But friends who prefer novels to ...

Five Books on World War I Military history, memoir, and even a novelized series make this list of can’t-miss books about the Great War. Megan Gambino - Senior Editor. November 10, 2011.

Really, you could read any Pat Barker novel (Life Class, Toby's Room, Another World) for a moving evocation of the travails of the men and women coming of age during the Great War.But her Man ...

Max Hastings begins his magisterial history of World War II with the simple declaration, "This is a book chiefly about human experience." Nearly 500 pages later he expands upon that: "Historians ...

After his liberation from a prison camp in Manchuria at the end of World War II, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV returned to the U.S. and commenced work on a series of newspaper articles that would ...

In a strong new volume, A MACHINE GUNNER’S WAR: From Normandy to Victory With the 1st Infantry Division in World War II (Casemate, $34.95), one of them, Ernest Andrews Jr., tells the tale of his ...

The types of books she often writes—historical novels about bombings, spies and young resistance fighters in World War II—have become some of the hottest novels with young readers starting ...