Thread by @GrayConnolly

In terms of recent #GreatWar books, this is really good on the Central Powers at war. The chapters on Brest-Litovsk & the Germans, Austro-Hungarians, and Ukrainians, bear eerie resemblance to our own times. The 1918 collapses begin with shortages of food & basically everything

Also strongly recommend @20committee book on the fall of the Habsburg Army ... especially if you were or are in a wintry lockdown that is redolent of Przemysl in 1914-1915. It was stocked by the @HGM_Wien on my last visit (one of the best museums anywhere). Prost!

This by @DrAEFox on the British Army as a learning army in the Great War was/is very interesting and breaks new ground

This by Major Gordon Corrigan is the best single volume refutation of every zombie story about the British Army in WW1 and esp the Blackadder/“lions led by donkeys” myths

While it is obviously not new, i very much enjoyed reading and was influenced by Sir Basil Liddell Hart’s history of the Great War (which war BLH fought in)

While also not new, Sir Basil Liddell Hart’s two volume biography of Marshal Foch, for whom I have a very high regard, is also excellent and captures the uncertain days of 1917-1918 when the war’s end was in the balance. I own the Penguin editions which are worn now