Dan’s research and book list:
The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
The First World War
Germany’s Aims in the First World War
Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy
The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War
A History of the Great War: World War One and the International Crisis of the Early Twentieth Century
War: The New Edition
Delbrück’s Modern Military History
The Art of War in Western World
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Ancient Rome: The History of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire in the Words of Those Who Were There (Mammoth Books)
Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I
Storm of Steel: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Now It Can Be Told
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All the Kaiser’s Men: The Life and Death of the German Army on the Western Front 1914-1918
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Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition
Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present
History of the Russian Revolution
An English Wife in Berlin: A Private Memoir of Events, Politics, and Daily Life in Germany Throughout the War and the Social Revolution of 1918. Third Impression
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The Great War for Peace
The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
War of Attrition: Fighting the First World War
Suddenly We Didn’t Want to Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine
Kaiserschlacht 1918: The Final German Offensive (Campaign)
Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914–1918 (Cambridge Military Histories)
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Concise Ludendorff Memoirs 1914-1918
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A Soldier on the Southern Front: The Classic Italian Memoir of World War 1
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
Year of the Locust: A Soldier’s Diary and the Erasure of Palestine’s Ottoman Past
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
War Memories of David Lloyd George
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Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I
Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army`s Art of Attack, 1916-18
Tracy –
I’ve listened to this podcast 5 times and downloaded it onto my family members iPads. The human side Dan adds to history makes every time I listen to it feel different.
archiebunker –
World War I has held a special place in my heart and mind ever since being introduced to the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon in high school. The more I have read about it and studied it, the horrifying the entire event becomes.
It was hard not to tear up at certain moments during this pod cast: a last letter to his wife from a soldier about to go over the top, knowing certain death awaited; first hand descriptions of soldiers hearing their comrades crying for help out in the no-man’s-land; the sheer magnitude of casualties on a daily basis.
Without making light of the many horrible events that have befallen mankind, it seems to me that World War I may just be the worst of the lot. That is quite an ignoble list to be atop.
Dan seems to fully grasp the absolute horror show that was this war, and narrates with a sincerity and understanding befitting the subject matter. Hats off to you, sir. Well done.