Following 100th Anniversary Events of WWI (1 Viewer)

[SGT Rock]

As the 100th anniversary of WWI quickly approaches, I would like to follow the events as they occurred 100 years ago starting with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28. Can anyone recommend a book, app, and/or website that provides such daily content? Thanks in advance.

 

[jazzeum]

I'm sure that Lancer can suggest something but to understand the outbreak of WW I you need to understand the events that led to 1914. I suggest Margaret Macmillan's The War That Ended Peace or Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers or both.

 

[johnnybach]

As the 100th anniversary of WWI quickly approaches, I would like to follow the events as they occurred 100 years ago starting with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28. Can anyone recommend a book, app, and/or website that provides such daily content? Thanks in advance.

Try the book - "World War 1, Day by Day" by Alex Hook. Published in 2004 by Grange Books ( enquiries by e-mail............info@grangebooks.co.uk).Lots of pictures too on each page - so a good book for me! jb

P.S. Just had a look on Amazon Books.UK - and there are lots of used copies available at very low prices ( plus the usual postage). Good luck.

 

[lancer]

I would certainly second Brad's and Johnnybach's suggestions. From there it is a matter of how much detail, how deep one wants to get. A new work that I enjoyed is Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings. If you really get into it, don't overlook the older classics such as Sidney Fay's The Origins of the World War or the very detailed Luigi Albertini's The Origins of the War. -- Al

 

[trooper]

If you are going to use figures to illustrate the major events Yeomanry miniatures produce the assasination of the Archduke and his wife in their car. Trooper

 

[SGT Rock]

Try the book - "World War 1, Day by Day" by Alex Hook. Published in 2004 by Grange Books ( enquiries by e-mail............info@grangebooks.co.uk).Lots of pictures too on each page - so a good book for me! jb

P.S. Just had a look on Amazon Books.UK - and there are lots of used copies available at very low prices ( plus the usual postage). Good luck.

Thanks gentlemen. Great suggestions all around. I went ahead and bought "World War 1, Day by Day" by Alex Hook as an ebook. It was just the type of thing I was looking for. Thanks again.

 

[Poppo]

The best is " A history of the world war ( 1914-1918)" by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart.

This masterpiece made by a journalist-historian-searcher-theorist of war is still modern today and has the advantage of being written not long after ww1 with fresh documents, witnesses, in 1930. The writer is a real historian searching the historic truth of facts, he states :"my quest for the truth has not been hampered by scruples to disguise with that hypocrite paint who is improperly defined "good taste" ....We would call it today not " politically correct".