Description
The planet hadn’t seen a major war between all the Great Powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora’s Box of violence engulfs the planet.
Dan’s research and book list
1. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
2. The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
3. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 by G. J. Meyer
4. The First World War by John Keegan
5. Germany’s Aims in the First World War by Fritz Fischer
6. The Lessons of History by Michael Howard
7. 1914 by Lyn Macdonald
8. Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy by David Stevenson
9. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War by Peter Hart
10. A History of the Great War: World War One and the International Crisis of the Early Twentieth Century by Eric Dorn Brose
11. War by Gwynne Dyer
12. Delbruck’s Modern Military History by Hans Delbruck and Arden Bucholz
13. The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon by Gunther E. Rothenberg
14. The Art of War in Western World by Archer Jones
15. The Outline of History: The Whole Story of Man (Vol 2) by H. G. WELLS
16. Eyewitness to History by John Carey
17. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
18. The Shield of Achilles by Phillip Bobbitt
19. On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan
20. The Clash of Nations, Its Causes and Consequences by Rossiter Johnson
21. The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918 by Holger H. Herwig