📚 The First World War

The first industrial war: trenches, the alliance trap, total mobilization, and the peace that did not hold.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject world war, 1914-1918 in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Twentieth-Century Classics)	John Maynard Keynes	1919	197
	Echoes of the war	J. M. Barrie	1918	67
	The Guns of August	Barbara Tuchman	1962	52
	The Zimmerman Telegram	Barbara Tuchman	1957	34
	The Origins of the First World War	James Joll	1984	26
	A history of the great war	John Buchan	1921	24
	Counter-attack, and other poems	Siegfried Sassoon	1918	22
	Testament of youth	Vera Brittain	1933	22
	Blasting & bombardiering	Wyndham Lewis	1937	20
	The First World War	John Keegan	1998	20
	In Stahlgewittern	Ernst Jünger	1922	18
	The Sleepwalkers	Christopher Clark	2013	18
	Gallipoli	Alan Moorehead	1956	14
	The Great War and Modern Memory	Paul Fussell	1975	13
	Europe's Last Summer	David Fromkin	2004	13
	Infantry attacks	Erwin Rommel	1990	11
	A foreign field	Ben Macintyre	2001	11
	Silent Night	Stanley Weintraub	2001	9
	Infanterie greift an	Erwin Rommel	1938	8
	The First World War	Hew Strachan	1993	8
	World War I	H. P. Willmott	2003	8
	Dead Wake	Erik Larson	2015	8
	The First World War	Taylor, A. J. P.	1963	7
	The radium girls	Kate Moore	2016	6
	War by time-table	Taylor, A. J. P.	1914	5
	The First World War	Martin Gilbert	1994	4
	A World Undone	G. J. Meyer	2006	4
	The War That Ended Peace	Margaret Olwen Macmillan	2013	4
	The Yanks are Coming	Albert Marrin	1986	3
	Where Poppies Grow	Linda Granfield	2001	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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