The war to spawn a million books

Welcome to the new World War One discussion group. As the thread title implies, this first major industrialized conflict changed the world like no other war before or since, and millions of books have been written about it or its consequences, so there should be a lot to talk about.
Let the discussions begin!

I am looking for some key history books on this subject. Specifically any on the psychological effects. Already read some books on "the lost generation." But I'm more interested in specific historical writings. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

If you have not already read it, Lord Moran's
The Anatomy of Courage is a classic WW1 study of the psychological effects of War. Moran, who became Winston Churchill's private doctor in 1940, was a young medical officer in 1914 and researched the subject scientifically.

Sounds awesome. I'll seek it out. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

Mentioning W. Churchill I've always meant to seek out some of his writings. Do you know if WC did any writing about World War 1? I should think he would since his involvement in WW2 follows a similiar pattern to his involvement in WW1.

Churchill indeed wrote about the First World War: A five volume work called the World Crisis, to which he later added a sixth volume to cover the fighting in eastern Europe.
Here is the link: http://www.librarything.com/work/4706651

There is an abridged version in one volume, The World Crisis.

You might also be interested in the Winston Churchill Discussion Group:
http://www.librarything.com/groups/thewinstonchurchilld

Ted

Hmm, "The war to spawn a million books." Well, I'm not going to count them - apparently I have only 356 according to librarything - but there are equally countless sources to guide the avid reader. Just try googling WW1 Biliography to see what I mean.
The difficulty becomes deciding which ones are essential, just a good read or dross.
My main interests are, in no particular order, naval, aviation and sideshows. So, to start this ball rolling here are a couple of my recommendations from those three headings.
Naval: With The Battle Cruisers - Filson Young. Brings a journalists eye and craft to a story that disappointing ends before Jutland.
Two Lone Ships - George Kopp. Another 'I was there' account, this time of the Goeben and Breslau. Again this ends before the final denouement, but is highly recommended.
Aviation: Sagittarius Rising - Cecil Lewis. Undoubtedly one of the best aviation books ever written. If you read no other, read this.
The Royal Flying Corps in France (2 volumes) - Ralph Barker. Much more happened than the Red Baron, these two modern (1995) books tell the full story.
Side Shows: Oh, where to begin?
The Gardeners of Salonika - Alan Palmer. A classic account of the Macedonian campaign. Can be read in conjunction with the more recent Under The Devil's Eye which contains many personal accounts.
My Escape From Donnington Hall - Gunther Pluschow. Tsingtao, China and PoW, a fine read.
OK, I've stuck my neck out. Who's next for the chopping block?

I've already mentioned these in another WW1 related group, but worth mentioning again:

Goodbye to all that, by Robert Graves, and its companion piece Old Soldiers Never Die, by Frank Richards who was a private in Graves' platoon.

Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, by Siegfried Sassoon were fictionalised biographies of the immediate pre war and war period. Sassoon knew Graves and probably Richards as he was also an officer in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Sassoon subsequently published 3 volumes of genuine autobiography, none of which I have read (yet!)

This is all stream of consciousness, and probably not strictly relevant to the topic, but BBC Four has recently screened a number of series about early colour photography & film:

The Edwardians in colour
The twenties in colour
The thirties in colour

All very very interesting. Out of the early series came a programme on the colour photography of Albert Khan. He was a wealthy Frenchman who wanted to document in colour the different peoples of the world. As WWI began he sent photographers to capture images in France.

A book has recently followed and the colour photography really brings things to life. David Okuefuna, who has produced the book for BBC Books, under the title (touchstone not picking this up) The Wonderful World of Albert Khan.

Specialized Reading:
I only have a small WWI section in my collection BUT it does cover 2 small areas that some of you may find interesting; the campaigns in East Africa chasing Von Lettow-Vorbeck and the German surface raiding effort.
See my AFRICA and RAIDER tags.
Regards,
A

hey everyone. I love learning about WWI. I first started learning about the Third Reich and realized I was missing a large piece of history...the Great War. I don't know if this counts exactly as WWI but right now I am reading King, Kaiser, Tsar by Catrine Clay and it is pretty interesting.
Anyone else reading anything good?

I read Sepoys in the Trenches last week. An in depth look at the Indian Army during it's year on the western front 1914 - 1915.

At the moment I am half way through A Naval History of World War 1; this one is fascinating and exhausting