ejcmartin Posted 15 May , 2007 Share Posted 15 May , 2007 I am looking to read a good book on the 100 Days. My preference is for something of the "big picture". Suggestions most welcome. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Henschke Posted 15 May , 2007 Share Posted 15 May , 2007 Amiens to the Armistice ISNB 1 85753 149 3 By Dr. Paul Harris and Dr. Niall Barr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 15 May , 2007 Share Posted 15 May , 2007 "To win a war" John Terraine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 15 May , 2007 Share Posted 15 May , 2007 1918 The Unexpected Victory - Gary Sheffield IIRC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul guthrie Posted 15 May , 2007 Share Posted 15 May , 2007 I concur on the Sheffield and Terraine books and have not read the other. Soissons 1918 would give you more about what French and Americans were doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cahoehler Posted 15 May , 2007 Share Posted 15 May , 2007 . . . Unexpected Victory - Gary Sheffield. Forgotten Victory Carl Hoehler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halder Posted 16 May , 2007 Share Posted 16 May , 2007 John Toland's Last 100 Days is very good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul guthrie Posted 16 May , 2007 Share Posted 16 May , 2007 Amiens 1918 McWilliams & Steele is very good but may not be as broad as you want and if not neither would be Soissons 1918. That attack July 15? by Foch after failure of for the Gremans their last offensive was when the Germans began to lose the war, not the later Amiens battle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cahoehler Posted 16 May , 2007 Share Posted 16 May , 2007 John Toland's Last 100 Days is very good too. Guys WW2 - you need his No Man's Land. Covers 1918 but is americentric. Books on the actual last 100 days are by their very nature focused (often on the colonials eg Schreiber's Shock Army of the British Empire). I would suggest looking at the whole of 1918 on all the fronts 'for the big picture' by reading in addition eg Palmer's Victory 1918, Brook-Shepherd's November 1918, Watt's The Kings depart which goes beyond Versailles. Not yet read but often bibliography-ed (?) are Blaxland's Amiens 1918, Pitt's 1918:The Last Act or the Official History which is maybe too BIG. Carl Hoehler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejcmartin Posted 16 May , 2007 Author Share Posted 16 May , 2007 Thank you for all your suggestions. With two young children I could be reading these books for a few years! Time to do some ordering from the web! Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Haslock Posted 26 May , 2007 Share Posted 26 May , 2007 The Last Four Months - The End of the War in the West by Major General Sir F Maurice. Published 1919, gives a contemporary view. Interesting to compare/balance the more modern accounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Take on me Posted 2 June , 2007 Share Posted 2 June , 2007 To get a combatants perspective Malcolm Brown's Imperial War Museum Book of 1918: Year of Victory is a good read. Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halder Posted 3 June , 2007 Share Posted 3 June , 2007 Guys WW2 - you need his No Man's Land. Covers 1918 but is americentric. Oops. Hic semper erro. Getting my world wars mixed up No Man's Land is a far superior book to Last 100 Days... as well as being about WW1, not WW2! For Germanophones, Wolfgang Foerster's book on the mental collapse of Ludendorff is fascinating. So too the diaries of Thaer, who was on Ludendorff's staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Moretti Posted 6 June , 2007 Share Posted 6 June , 2007 I'll second Pitt and Terraine, having read them both. Terraine of course takes a very anglocentric and anglophilic view, and while his attitude was necessary to counter the mud-blood-and-bull**** brigade who'd preached to me in school history classes, in the broader picture I've got now, he is perhaps even a little jingoistic. Still, you can't judge this too harshly; he was fighting against some entrenched myths, and it is in large part due to his efforts that there is a more balanced view today. I was disappointed in McWilliams and Steele. I don't know why... there just seems something about it. I won't argue with those who liked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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