/lit/ - Literature

>>17518682
thanks for that, and I see where you are coming from, especially when there are multiple books of battles such as Verdun. The chart was created in response to various /his/ book threads where people would chime in and ask me to add this and that book, that in a way the chart is a dumping ground of recommended books. I also took some recommended books from the r/askhistorians sub about the topic. I haven't read all of the books in the chart either to be able to veto out what books are unnecessary and redundant since some subtopics can have varied analysis between different authors.

> I’m certain that you don’t need 16 different books on the origins of the war, especially when you have about 20 books giving a prehistory to the war.
this one I kinda disagree with. The century prior to the war is a series of events that the sum of the total results in the war itself. I think that I should make it obvious to users to start in a specific book (A World Undone) for the best overview of the war as an intro of what the War was before they can branch out into other topics related to the war.

Like for me, that's where I started when I got into the topic of WWI, with an overview, and found myself interested in the causes of the war, which are one and many, from wars, treaties, social-economical factors, etc. But reading a book on Napoleon by itself won't tell you why he was a reason for events a hundred years later.

But yeah, I appreciate your comments and I'll take a look at updating/cleaning up the chart to make it clear for beginners in the subject.