What to Read After First Day on the Somme
Readers who loved First Day on the Somme by Martin Middlebrook keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where First Day on the Somme is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after First Day on the Somme
The First World War
The Face of Battle
Good-Bye to All That
The Great War and Modern Memory
Catastrophe
The Somme
The Roses of No Man's Land
Eye-deep in Hell
Rites of Spring
To End All Wars
World War I
Dreadnought
Vimy
The fall of the Ottomans
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Forgotten Voices of the Great War
Goodbye to All That
Redcoats & Rebels
Europe's Last Summer
Gallipoli
A World Undone
The Beauty and the Sorrow
No Man's Land
In Flanders fields