World War 1 book recommendations

This should have been posted a few months back but for some reason didn't post here when I originally intended to send it so here's the second try. June 28, a week and half ago was the hundredth anniversary of the Sarajevo assassination of  Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, an event that had tremendous consequences, consequences that culminated in World War I and all that followed.  I posted on a forum that I frequent an answer to a question about some good books to read pertaining to the World Wars:

Quote: Originally Posted by SwishaSweet  question to the history buffs in here...what are some good books over WWI and II? Both wars have enormously vast quantity of books, but here are some to start with. WW 1 The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark, an excellent account of the origins of the war A Peace To End All Peace by David Fromkin, brilliantly sums up the consequences of the First World War for the Middle East Catastrophe 1914 by Max Hastings, Hastings is one of the best military writers, in my opinion and this is a comprehensive description on the first year of the war, you could substitute Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, which is considered the best on the beginning of the war. The Hastings gets my nod if you have to pick one, but you wouldn't be doing yourself a disservice to read both. As far as an overview of the war, there are so many to choose from. A World Undone: A Story of The Great War by G.J. Meyer, John Keegan's The First World War, Martin Gilbert The First World War and S.L.A. Marshall The First World War are all strong contenders. My advice would be to go to a bookstore and flip through them to get a feel for which one's writing style clicks with you and pick that. Or read them all. WW 2 The literature on WW 2 is even more than the First World War. My favorite overview of the war is A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard Weinberg. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock, a biography of both that covers a lot of aspects of the war, For the Pacific Theater, The Rising Sun:The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 by John Toland There are countless excellent books dealing with specific subjects and battles. Max Hastings has a few I recommend, one on D-Day and it's immediate aftermath, one dealing with the last year of the war against Germany and one dealing with the last year of the war against Japan. I am currently reading Guadalcanal:The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle by Richard B. Frank