World War I
On the scale and legacy of the Great War, and why soldiers' memoirs reveal its essence better than the strategies of generals.
Essays
WWI
Essays and reviews on World War I origins, memory, literature, and historical interpretation.
Book Review - Herrmann
David Herrmann's The Arming of Europe on how shifting military balance and lesser-known crises helped make the First World War.
Book Review - Hamilton and Herwig
Hamilton and Herwig's Decisions for War, which traces the rush to battle in 1914 to the choices of a few influential leaders.
Book Review - Strachan
Why Hew Strachan's Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War held my attention more than other accounts of the war.
Book Review - Fleming
Thomas Fleming's The Illusion of Victory, a study of America in World War I that reads more as a biography of Woodrow Wilson.