It is easy with WW1 to just think of the western front, as down the years so much has been said about trench warfare, the Somme, Ypres etc, and overlook all the other aspects. Strachan's book explains how the war extended to Africa and the middle east, and he also describes the eastern front. Never having been much of a student of history, my awareness of those things was pretty thin. I have developed an interest in WW1 and am really enjoying reading about it. I have already read Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark and have Max Hastings' Catastrophe lined up as well as a few others. It has also led me to read some fiction I probably wouldn't have tried otherwise, Greenmantle by John Buchan is my latest fiction novel, I got the idea when it was briefly mentioned in Strachan's book, and as I was aware that the central character was the same guy from 39 steps, which is set a couple of years earlier, I read that first. There are quite a few other suggestions in this thread........should keep me out of mischief for a while.