Payday looms - recommendations sought!

[Rob Connolly]

As it says on the tin. I get paid on the 15th and wondered what books Forum Pals would recommend ordering. I can go up to £100 total before Lady Wife gets either suspicious or fatal .

FYI, what I already have:

1914

EDMONDS, J (Ed.); Official History of the War; Military Operations France & Belgium 1914; 1933

FARRAR-HOCKLEY, Anthony; Death of an Army; Wordsworth; 1967

LOMAS, David; Mons 1914; Osprey; 1997

1915

1916

BROWN, Malcolm; The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme; Pan; 1996

HART, Peter; The Somme; Cassell; 2005

HORNE, Alistair; The Price of Glory – Verdun 1916; Penguin; 1962

JUKES, G; Carpathian Disaster; Pan; 1971

LIDDLE, Peter; The 1916 battle of the Somme; Wordsworth; 2001

MCCARTHY, Chris; The Somme – the Day by Day Account; Brockhampton; 1993

MACDONALD, Lynn; Somme; Penguin; 1983

SHEFFIELD, Gary; The Somme; Cassell; 2003

1917

BERTON, Pierre; Vimy; Pen& Sword; 1986

LIDDLE, Peter (Ed.); Passchendaele in Perspective; Pen & Sword; 1997

STEEL, Nigel & HART, Peter; Passchendaele The Sacrificial Ground; Cassell; 2000

TERRAINE, JOHN; The Road to Passchendaele;

TERRAINE, JOHN; White Heat;

TURNER, Alexander; Vimy Ridge 1917; Osprey (Campaigns); 2005

1918

BROWN, Malcom; 1918 Year of Victory; Pan; 1998

EVANS, Martin Marix; 1918 The Year of Victories; Capella;

JOHNSON, J.H.; 1918 The Unexpected Victory; Cassell; 1997

MCWILLIAMS, J., & STEEL, R.; Amiens 1918; Tempus; 2007

GENERAL

ASHWORTH, Tony; Trench Warfare; Pan; 1980

BARNETT, Corelli; The Great War; St Michael; 1979

BROWN, Malcom; The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front; Pan; 2001

BULL, Dr. Steven; World War 1 Trench Warfare (2); Osprey (Elite) 2002

CARVER, Field Marshal Lord; The Turkish Front 1914 – 1918; Pan; 2003

CONGREVE, Billy; Armageddon Road; William Kimber; 1982

CONNAUGHTON, Richard; The War of the Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear; Routledge; 1988

CRON, Hermann; Imperial German Army 1914-1918; Helion; 2001

DARMAN, Peter (Ed.); World War 1 Day by Day; Grange; 2004

DUNN, Captain J. C.; The War The Infantry Knew; Abacus; 1987

EVANS, Martin Marix; Forgotten Battlefronts of the First World War; Sutton; 2003

EVANS, Martin Marix; Over The Top; Arcturus; 2003

FERGUSSON, Niall; The Pity of War; Penguin; 1998

FLETCHER, David; Tanks & Trenches; Allan Sutton; 1994

FOSTEN, D, & MARRION, R; The British Army 1914-1918; Osprey (Men-at-Arms) 1978

FOSTEN, D, & MARRION, R; The German Army 1914-1918; Osprey (Men-at-Arms) 1978

GRAVES, Robert; Goodbye to All That; Penguin; 1929

GRIFFITHS, Paddy; Battle Tactics of the Western Front; Yale; 1994

JOHNSON, J; Stalemate! Great Trench Warfare Battles; Cassell; 1995

KEEGAN, John; The First World War; Pimlico; 1998

LIDDELL-HART, Basil; History of the First World War; Papermac; 1934

LIVESEY, Anthony; Great Battles of World War 1; Marshall; 1989

LLOYD, Alan; The War In The Trenches; Book Club Associates; 1976

MOOREHOUSE, Brendan; Forged By Fire; Pen & Sword; 2003

MUMBY, Frank (Ed.); The Great World War: Volume VI

MUMBY, Frank (Ed.); The Great World War: Volume VII

MUMBY, Frank (Ed.); The Great World War: Volume VIII

PRIOR, R., & WILSON, T.; Command on the Western Front; Pen & Sword; 1992

RAY, David; The Western Front – A Pictorial History; Caxton; 2001

SHEFFIELD, Gary; Forgotten Victory; Review; 2001

STEVENS, F. & MADDOCKS, G; The Imperial German Army 1900-1918; Almark; 1975

STONE, Norman; The Eastern Front 1914 – 1917; Penguin; 1975

STRACHAN, Hew; The First World War; Simon & Schuster; 2003

TERRAINE, John; General Jack’s Diary; Cassell; 1964

TERRAINE, John; To Win A War; Cassell; 1978

TERRAINE, John; Douglas Haig, The Educated Soldier; Hutchinson; 1963

TERRAINE, JOHN; The Smoke & The Fire; Book Club Associates; 1980

[4thGordons]

So many suggestions....

OK one I reread recently and confirmed as a good'un (and I lent it to a student who also thoroughtly enjoyed it and bent my ear for a couple of hours talking about it) is

Nicholls, Johnathan. 2005 "Cheerful Sacrifice: Battle of Arras" (if you are buying it through the forum amazon link they have it on sale for 10.50 currently - a bargain!)

I also (for different reasons) like

Norman, Terry, 2003. "The Hell they called High Wood" (also on sale at amazon for 14.00)

You seem to be lacking in the 1915 dept... so when it is reissued Niall Cherry's "Loos- Most Unfavourable Ground" (preorderable on amazon too at a discount.....)

and for a picture book with some great images in, Cooksey, Jon "Images of War Flanders 1915" - not much text but GREAT early war images (13.00 on amazon)

couple of classics I don't see:

"The War the Infantry Knew" JC Dunn (11.00 on amazon)

"With a Machine Gun to Cambrai" - George Coppard (6.00 or less!)

"Stand To" F.C. Hitchcock

"12 days on the Somme" Sidney Rogerson (these two you may have to venture to Abe Books)

Another that I read recently and thought was a well researched well written account was Ian Beckett's "Ypres: The first battle 1914" (2006) again about 6.00 on amazon

and, given my current location - you don't seem to have anything on the US role:

"Soissons 1918" (2000) Johnson and Hillman (this is a bit more pricey at about 20.00) but given some of your other reading listed I think it might appeal.

and with some style caveats (see the reviews in this section of the forum) Lengel, Ed. "To Conquer Hell" 15.00 in hardback - half that later in paperback - maybe wait on this one.

So there's your ton, give or take the postage.

Chris

[Chris_Baker]

I'd add John Lucy's "There's a devil in the drum" and John Terraine's "To win a war".

[n cherry]

Rob and 4th Gordons....

Thank you very much for the totally unpaid endorsement if that is the correct word.....

I spoke with the MD of Helion this week and he tells me MuG will be out this month.....(no P&S lies here I hope!)

I will hopefully by the end of the month have a few signed copies for sale....in fact Duncan the MD said copies would be ready for my talk at Worcester WFA on the 26th......

I'd also suggest Martin Middlebrooks book on 1st July as a good purchase and then but a bit specialised the two books by Alan MacDonald on the 1st July attacks at Gommecourt by 46th and 56th Div's.....

[Staffsyeoman]

I would recommend Peter Hart's book on 1918 and Charles Messenger's on the Battle of Amiens "The Day We Won The War" - and certainly Charles' seminal "Call to Arms" - a must-have.

[squirrel]

Also Sidney Rogerson's The Last Ebb - German attack on the Chemin des Dames 1918.

[Rob Connolly]

Thanks for the suggestions, chaps. I've typed out the above - they need to average £6.42 with P&P to come in at less than £100! Now to sneakily order them one at a time ...

[centurion]

Pay day never looms but beckons seductively whilst being just our of reach - its bills day that looms.

[truthergw]

Impossible for me to make general recommendations but I like Battleground books. Any spare dosh or tokens can be spent on them. Personally, all my dosh and putative tokens are earmarked for the next three turns of the Great Wheel.

[paulgranger]

How about ' War Underground' by Alexander Barrie? A good history of Western front mine warfare, originally published in the early '60s, and reissued by Tom Donovan in the early '90s. If it's difficult to find, Peter Barton's 'Beneath Flanders Fields' on the same topic has first-diagrams and maps, and is more recent

[Rob Connolly]

Impossible for me to make general recommendations but I like Battleground books. Any spare dosh or tokens can be spent on them. Personally, all my dosh and putative tokens are earmarked for the next three turns of the Great Wheel.

Well, it's your money, truthergw, but I'd find punting my wages for the next three months on the Lottery wouldn't go down well with the rest of the family.