All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

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Fall of Giants - Ken Follett

With few exceptions, an accurate account of events of 1914 and the following decade interspersed with ridiculous coincidence and sex. I preferred The Guns of August.

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The King's General - Daphne du Maurier

some eighty ships or more, crowding together between Drake's Island and the Mount, the white sails bellying in the west wind, the coloured pennants streaming from the golden spars.

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The Zimmerman Telegram - Barbara W Tuchman

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The Guns of August - Barbara W Tuchman

'Had all six been present', he said with that marvelous incapacity to admit error that was to make him ultimately a field marshall, 'this retreat would have been an advance and defeat would have been a victory'

Wilson on the Battle of Mons

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