- Toby’s Room by Pat Barker
- The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett
- Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
- Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
- The 39 Steps by John Buchan
- The Empire of Night by Robert Butler
- The Girl you Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
- The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go
- An Illustrated History of the First World War by John Keegan
- July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin
- A World Undone by G.J. Meyer
- World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone
- Silent Night: the Story of the World War I Christmas Truce by Stanley Weintraub
- America’s Great War: World War I and the American Experience by Robert H. Zieger
- Cataclysm: the First World War As Political History by David Stevenson
- The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century by J.M. Winter