WWI READING LIST
Contemporary with or soon after the War
Fiction
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
- W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden, or: The British Agent 1928
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front 1929
Drama
- R. C. Sherriff, R.C. Journey's End, a Play in Three Acts (1929)
Poetry
- Anthem for Doomed Youth: Poets of the Great War (2000)
- Rupert Brooke, 1914 & other poems (Originally 1915)
- Robert Graves, Fairies and Fusiliers (1918)
- Wilfred Owen, The Complete Poems and Fragments, two volumes (Originally written during war)
- Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems (1918)
- Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War (2009)
- Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man (1916)
Memoir
- Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Originally 1930)
- Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That (1957)
- Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Man (1930)
Post-WWI interpretations
Fiction
- Pat Barker, Regeneration Trilogy:
- Regeneration (1992)
- The Eye in the Door (1994)
- The Ghost Road (1996)
- Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong (1997)
- Susan Hill, Strange Meeting (1989)
Further suggested reading lists can be found here:
https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/jul/03/top-ten-childrens-books-first-world-war
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