Nigel Jones

Nigel Jones On Five Books On The Great War

Michael Burleigh

His Glory Remains

Warlord: Churchill at War, 1874–1945

By Carlo D’Este

Jane Ridley

Winds of Change

The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West, 1900–1914

By Philipp Blom

Nikolai Tolstoy

Tale of the Tsars

The Romanovs: Ruling Russia 1613–1917

By Lindsey Hughes

M R D Foot

Silence at the Front

The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War Really Ended

By Nicholas Best

Max Egremont

Terror of the Trenches

World War One: A Short History

By Norman Stone

Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West

By Arthur Graeme West (Introduction by Nigel Jones)

Norman Stone

Another Fine Mess

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By Scott Anderson

Adam LeBor

Report from Sarajevo

The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

By Tim Butcher

Brendan Simms

Dire Straits

The Russian Origins of the First World War

By Sean McMeekin

Norman Stone

Timetables May Change

The Lost History of 1914: Why the Great War Was Not Inevitable

By Jack Beatty

Richard Holmes

Two Teutonic Titans

The Warlords: The Campaigns of Hindenburg and Ludendorff

By John Lee

Norman Stone

The Hour of Their Death

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By Christopher Clark

Jane Ridley

‘The Eve of Horrible Things’

By Mark Bostridge

John Gray

After the Fire

The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century

By David Reynolds

Jane Ridley

On the Precipice

1913: The World before the Great War

By Charles Emmerson