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Robert Clemm

Grove City College history professor Robert Clemm recommends the following books for those interested in World War I:

• “The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914,” Christopher Clark, Harper, 2013

• “Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age,” Modris Eksteins, Houghton Mifflin, 2000

• “The Pity of War,” Niall Ferguson, Basic Books, 1999

• “The Great War and Modern Memory,” Paul Fussell, Oxford University Press, 2013

• “The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I,” Mark Grotelueschen, Cambridge University Press, 2010

• “July 1914: Countdown to War,” Sean McMeekin, Basic Books, 2013

• “Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I,” Michael Neiberg, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011

• “World War I: The African Front,” Edward Price, Pegasus Books, 2008

• “The First World War,” Hew Strachan, Penguin Books, 2005

• “The First World War in the Middle East,” Kristian Ulrichsen, Hurst, 2013

• “Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World,” (a look at the Treaty of Versailles), Margaret, Macmillan, Random House, 2002

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