Here is the Reading List, Hope to hear soon if I get on the course this year MA in the History of Britain in the First World War Recommended preliminary reading * denotes particularly useful texts NB: You are not expected to have read everything on this list by the time the course starts! General texts J.M. Bourne, Britain and the First World War (1989)* Cyril Falls, The First World War (1960) Adrian Gregory, A War of Peoples (2014) John Horne, A Companion to World War I (Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)* Michael Howard, The First World War (2002) Lawrence Sondhaus, World War One: The Global Revolution ( 2011) Gary Sheffield, Forgotten Victory (2001 – e-book August 2014)* David Stevenson, 1914-18 (2004)* Hew Strachan (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of the First world War, new edition (2014) Matthias Strohn, (ed.), World War I Companion (Osprey, 2013). Specialist studies Holger Afflerbach and David Stevenson, (eds.) An Improbable War? The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture Before 1914 (2007) Stephen Badsey, The British Army in Battle and its Image (2009) Ian Beckett & Keith Simpson, A Nation in Arms (1985) Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison, The Economics of World War I (2005) Hugh Cecil and Peter Liddle (eds.), Facing Armageddon (1996) Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, (eds.), Great War, Total War: Combat and Motivation on the Western Front, 1914–1918 (2000) Andrew Gordon, The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command (1996) Susan R. Grayzel, Women and the First World War (2002). Adrian Gregory, The Last Great War (2008) Paul G. Halpern, A Naval History of World War I (London: UCL Press, 1994) Richard F. Hamilton and Herger H. Herwig, Decisions for War, 1914-1917 (2004) E.R. Hooton, War over the Trenches (2009) Alan Kramer, Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War (2007) Spencer Jones, From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902-1914 (2012) Annika Mombauer, The Origins of the First World War: Diplomatic and Military Documents (2013) John H. Morrow, Jr The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921 (1993) William Philpott, Bloody Victory (2009) Robin Prior, Gallipoli: The End of the Myth (2009) Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson, Command on the Western Front (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), David Reynolds, The Long Shadow (2013) Gary Sheffield, Forgotten Victory (2001 – e-book August 2014) Gary Sheffield & Dan Todman (eds.) Command and Control on the Western Front (2004) Gary Sheffield, The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army (2011) Peter Simkins, Kitcheners Army (1988) Alan G.V. Simmonds, Britain and World War One (2012), David Stevenson, With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 (2011) John Terraine, Douglas Haig the Educated Soldier (1963) Dan Todman in the Great War: Myth and Memory (2005). Charles Townshend, When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914–1921, (2011) Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel (2014) J.M. Winter, The Great War and the British People (1986) Have three
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