John, I’ll follow your advice on that one. For the view from the trenches,

however, I’d recommend reading almost anything by Lynn Macdonald and, if

you can find it, The Long Trail: Soldiers’ Songs and Slang 1914-18 by Brody & Partridge. Taking a slightly broader approach, Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory remains, more than 25 years after its publication, an astonishingly original survey of the war’s cultural impact.