Recommended books / reading on WWI...

[Artos]

any M4 member history buffs??

I've suddenly found myself intrigued & would like to narrow my search.

Any direction would be helpful.

Thanks!!

[DJK]

WWI must read: A Rifleman Went To War by Herbert McBride. WWI history plus this book became to basis of the USMC sniper program in Vietnam. Pick up this new reprint from Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Rifleman-Went-...0288807&sr=8-2

[DJK]

Another good read is - WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier. http://wwar1.blogspot.com/ I followed the blog from the beginning and sometimes it is difficult to follow. But, I found it well worth the effort to get an understanding of the war from a British Private's standpoint.

[DeltaSierra]

This might be a good book to start out with: http://www.amazon.com/Guns-August-Ba...dp/0345476093/

[a0cake]

any M4 member history buffs??

I've suddenly found myself intrigued & would like to narrow my search.

Any direction would be helpful.

Thanks!!

I've studied WWI in the context of Middle Eastern history pretty extensively. It's a very interesting angle (which is often inexplicably glossed over) that explains a lot of today's issues. WWI cannot be fully understood without knowing the history of the Ottoman Empire and looking carefully at the McMahon - Husayn correspondence of 1915. Those letters should be read alongside the Sykes-Picot agreement. Doing so will give you a first hand insight into the issue of who is the rightful proprietor of the Palestinian lands, or at least insight into that debate.

If the modern Middle East as well as WWI interest you, I highly suggest digging deeper into the Ottoman Empire's involvement, as well as how the borders of the new nation states that replaced the Ottoman Empire affected the geopolitical climate of the region after WWI.

[DeltaSierra]

I've studied WWI in the context of Middle Eastern history pretty extensively. It's a very interesting angle (which is often inexplicably glossed over) that explains a lot of today's issues. WWI cannot be fully understood without knowing the history of the Ottoman Empire and looking carefully at the McMahon - Husayn correspondence of 1915. Those letters should be read alongside the Sykes-Picot agreement. Doing so will give you a first hand insight into the issue of who is the rightful proprietor of the Palestinian lands, or at least insight into that debate.

If the modern Middle East as well as WWI interest you, I highly suggest digging deeper into the Ottoman Empire's involvement, as well as how the borders of the new nation states that replaced the Ottoman Empire affected the geopolitical climate of the region after WWI.

I hadn't thought much about this aspect before, but now that I read what you wrote here it makes perfect sense. I'd be interested in any reading suggestions that you might have that would address this angle...

[Artos]

It's not really the middle east but Germany's quest for domination that struck a chord...history & military channels spend a lot of time on the wwii era & I happened to catch the Red Barron the other night.

Not sure why I'm eat'n up with this stuff all the sudden but can't seem to get enough.

They made mention that Hitler was an errand boy during wwi & realized I needed a refresher in history.

Thanks for suggestions!! Any and all are welcomed...

[LHS]

WWI must read: A Rifleman Went To War by Herbert McBride. WWI history plus this book became to basis of the USMC sniper program in Vietnam. Pick up this new reprint from Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Rifleman-Went-...0288807&sr=8-2

Can't agree more. McBride has a number of interesting anecdotes that shed some light on the situation at the time.

From a weapons perspective, Bruce Canfield's "U.S. Infantry Weapons of the First World War" has some neat stuff, including weapons you wouldn't think of like the 37mm infantry gun. Robert Bruce's "Machine Guns of WWI" has some rather epic gun-pr0n over which to drool.

[DeltaSierra]

It's not really the middle east but Germany's quest for domination that struck a chord...

Then you should study a different topic....

Once you start to dig into this subject, you will find out that there is so much more to this discussion than the generally accepted version of events that the Hitler Channel and other shows of that nature would suggest.

[Artos]

Then you should study a different topic....

Once you start to dig into this subject, you will find out that there is so much more to this discussion than the generally accepted version of events that the Hitler Channel and other shows of that nature would suggest.

Then learn me...need to start somewhere.

bring it...