Academic Reading for A level students | The Western Front Association

Here you will find appropriate articles for your students. This will support students with knowledge and understanding to work they cover in class and also give them an introduction into the standard for university study.

The following books are mixture of fiction and nonfiction. It is important to understand a breadth of the topics studied and not just the course content. This list will grow over time.

Non-fiction

· Clark, L, World War I: An Illustrated History.

· De Groot, G.J, Blighty: British Society in the

Era of the Great War.

· De Groot, G.J, The First World War.

· Keegan, J, The First World War.

· Wolf, L, In Flanders Fields – Passchendaele

1917

· Lynch, E.P.F, Somme Mud

· Middlebrook, M, First day on the Somme

· Paxman, J, Great Britain’s Great War

Fiction

· Barker, P, Regeneration (first of a trilogy).

· Brooke, Sassoon, Owen, Thomas etc., First World War Poetry

· Faulks, S, Birdsong.

· Graves, R, Goodbye to All That.

· Sassoon, S, Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man (vol.2).

· Remarque, E.M, All Quiet on the Western Front.

· Junger, E, Storm of Steel

· Brittain, V, Testament of Youth

Film and DVD

· All Quiet on the Western Front (Film).

· Regeneration (Film).

· The Great War (DVD).

· The Last Voices of World War One

(DVD).

· The Somme: from Defeat to Victory

(DVD).

· The Trench (Film).