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Post by privatepyle01 on May 13, 2012 3:11:13 GMT -8
Who is the authority when it comes to WWI books and articles?
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1886lebel
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Post by 1886lebel on May 13, 2012 6:11:39 GMT -8
Depends on what the book or article is about ?
Are you asking who on this forum is the authority or which authors are ?
Patrick
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Post by privatepyle01 on May 13, 2012 7:30:01 GMT -8
Hello:
Which authors are the authority when it comes to WWI.
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1886lebel
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Post by 1886lebel on May 13, 2012 8:25:59 GMT -8
Are you looking at general overall WWI, specific topics such as aviation, naval, battles, campaigns, equipment and weapons, etc., etc.
There is so much to be covered that some are in different languages such as in my related field WWI French the best are in this language.
Patrick
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Post by privatepyle01 on May 13, 2012 11:17:23 GMT -8
Hi Patrick:
Are there any French books that have been translated to English? I am interested in the naval battles and campaigns as well as the war from the perspective of the Germans, but in English. Also, the U-boat wars and the RN's role in WWI. ANything you can suggest would be appreciated. Thanks.
Bill
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Post by 1886lebel on May 13, 2012 12:47:20 GMT -8
Very few have been translated as there is really no interest in them other than a select small collectors and reenactors in the French Army of the period. If you want a good books in English on the Battle of Verdun, it would have to be The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Sir Alistair Allan Horne and The Road to Verdun: World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism by Ian Ousby. Another good book is Henri Barbusse's, Under Fire: The Story of a Squad original written in French as 'Le Feu' as he saw the war first-hand in the trenches. and wrote of the experiences in them.
As to Naval Books, that is something I do not have a interest in, German ones I am sure others will know of these.
Patrick
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Post by kingkaiser on May 15, 2012 18:52:56 GMT -8
Two excellent memoirs from the German perspective are Fritz Nagel's Fritz: The World War I Memoir of a German Lieutenant and Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel
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Post by qms on May 19, 2012 18:01:35 GMT -8
Not an account, but, if you can find a copy, a useful reference work for Great War period naval warfare is
"Jane's Fighting Ships of World War 1" - Originally published 1919 - Reprint- Studio Editions Ltd. (London 1990) - ISBN: 1 85170 378 0
The book is heavily illustrated with statistics for most classes of naval craft, photographs of most and exterior plans for the major craft, with notes on losses.
Any help?
Tom
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Post by kingkaiser on May 20, 2012 8:03:32 GMT -8
A few more accounts from the German perspective are Ernst Rosenhainer's Forward, March!: Memoirs of a German Officer , Erwin Rommel's Infantry Attacks, and Richard Baumgartner's This Carnival of Hell: German Combat Experience on the Somme, July-November 1916. Baumgartner's book is a compilation of translated regimental histories and memoirs, as well as interviews conducted in the late 1970s and early 1980s of surviving German WWI veterans.
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