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WWI Curriculum Board

Now

  • The Guns of August — Barbara Tuchman
  • The First World War — John Keegan
  • The First World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert

Next

  • Ring of Steel — Alexander Watson
  • The Eastern Front — Nick Lloyd

Peace & Aftermath (Core)

  • Paris, 1919 — Margaret MacMillan
  • The Vanquished — Robert Gerwarth
  • The Deluge — Adam Tooze

Middle East Module

  • A Peace to End All Peace — David Fromkin
  • How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs — Elizabeth F. Thompson

Parallel Reads (Home Front / Society / Health)

  • The Great Influenza — John M. Barry
  • American Midnight — Adam Hochschild

Case Study (Optional)

  • Dead Wake — Erik Larson

Optional / Peripheral

  • Endurance — Alfred Lansing
  • A Fever in the Heartland — Tim Egan
  • The Devil Is Here in These Hills — James Green
  • 1929 — (interwar)
  • One Summer: America, 1927 — Bill Bryson
  • The Lost City of Z — David Grann
  • 1000 Years of Annoying the French — Stephen Clarke
  • The Pity of War: Explaining World War I by Niall Ferguson

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