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A fairly good one-volume book is "A Short History of the Great War", although it was published only a few years afterwards and is of course slanted towards the British side. Still, it covers not only the Western and Russian fronts, but Italy, the Balkans, and the Middle East. And being out of copyright, it's available as an e-book for the ideal price of free at:
http://manybooks.net/titles/pollardaetext04shogw10.html

I'm a huge WW1 fan. Never enough games on the subjet imho. I toured some Canadian Expeditionary Force battle locations back in 1991 with 3 friends. Best holiday I ever had.
Wodin I'm going to get a Jack Sheldon book on the subject, looking forward to the read.

Cheers

ORIGINAL: Kubel

I'm a huge WW1 fan. Never enough games on the subjet imho. I toured some Canadian Expeditionary Force battle locations back in 1991 with 3 friends. Best holiday I ever had.
Wodin I'm going to get a Jack Sheldon book on the subject, looking forward to the read.

Cheers

Rememebr to get one of the ones that says The German Army......their the ones to buy...I think you can get the Somme book in softback...but the whole series is fantastic...once you've bought one you will buy the lot...then wait with baited breath for Mr Sheldon to right more.

Peter Bartons Panaromic photo book on the war is amazing...they are the photos taken by the recon observers...well worth the money...its on sale reduced from £50 to £28..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Battlefields-Fi ... 375&sr=8-3

He also does seperate ones covering specific parts of the waestern front...I will buy those aswell.

I think that WWI would be much more popular if there would be more low-level wargames based on that period.

The Great War doesn't really lend itself to small scale games, otherwise we'd probably have seen more of them before.  It also seems to be a more sensative subject than WW2 until recently.

I suspect it's more because game developers don't research the small scale part of WWI.

And a lack of sexy large-scale armour battles. No panzers means no interest for a lot of people.

The fools.

WW1 would be great at squad\section level....its a misconception that it wouldn't. The reason not many games have been made for WW1 at this level is due to the misconception.

I think it's mainly because most of people think that WWI was all about marching into machinegun/artillery fire in a parade formation.

ORIGINAL: MikeBrough

And a lack of sexy large-scale armour battles. No panzers means no interest for a lot of people.

The fools.

Two words:
Land Ships