Now
- The Guns of August — Barbara Tuchman
- The First World War — John Keegan
- The First World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert
Next
- Ring of Steel — Alexander Watson
- The Eastern Front — Nick Lloyd
Peace & Aftermath (Core)
- Paris, 1919 — Margaret MacMillan
- The Vanquished — Robert Gerwarth
- The Deluge — Adam Tooze
Middle East Module
- A Peace to End All Peace — David Fromkin
- How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs — Elizabeth F. Thompson
Parallel Reads (Home Front / Society / Health)
- The Great Influenza — John M. Barry
- American Midnight — Adam Hochschild
Case Study (Optional)
- Dead Wake — Erik Larson
Optional / Peripheral
- Endurance — Alfred Lansing
- A Fever in the Heartland — Tim Egan
- The Devil Is Here in These Hills — James Green
- 1929 — (interwar)
- One Summer: America, 1927 — Bill Bryson
- The Lost City of Z — David Grann
- 1000 Years of Annoying the French — Stephen Clarke
- The Pity of War: Explaining World War I by Niall Ferguson
Video/Podcasts
- The World At War documentary (Plex)
- The Great War (Youtube Channel)
- The Great Courses - World War I - The Great War
- BBC World War One Podcast