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
Eye-deep in hell
The Roses of No Man's Land
The Somme
Gallipoli
A World Undone
To End All Wars
Dreadnought
The beauty and the sorrow
Ring of steel
Vimy
The fall of the Ottomans
Memoirs of an infantry officer
Rites of spring
Forgotten Voices of the Great War
Goodbye to All That
Europe's Last Summer
In Flanders fields
World War I
The First World War