A Crown of Stars
Shana Abé
Published 2026
352 pages
The most popular world War I books of 2026
Books about the First World War return to the trenches and the world they destroyed. Novels, poetry, letters and histories tell of mud, comradeship, loss and a generation changed for ever, from the outbreak in 1914 to the armistice in 1918 and the uneasy peace after. This list shows the ones first published in 2026.
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Italian MAS & MS Boats 1915–49
Enrico Cernuschi
Published 2026
48 pages
The War That Made the Middle East World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire
Mustafa Aksakal
Published 2026
264 pages
Churchill As Warlord in WWI The Admiralty, Tanks, Gallipoli and Munitions
Rex Bashford
Published 2026
224 pages
USS Nevada (BB-36) US Navy Super-Dreadnought in WWI and WWII
David Doyle
Published 2026
176 pages
Disabled Empire The Colonial Body in First World War Britain
Hilary R. Buxton
Published 2026
304 pages
Italian Adriatic Fleet 1915–18 The Fierce Naval War with Austria-Hungary
Enrico Cernuschi
Published 2026
80 pages
Battlefields The Chicago White Sox and the Great War
Jim Leeke
Published 2026
240 pages
The French on the Somme - North of the River The Battle of the Somme 1916
David O'Mara
Published 2026
224 pages
Fighting for Polish Independence The 100,000-Man Diasporic Army in World War I and the Conflicts of 1919-1921
James S. Pula
Published 2026
186 pages
Passchendaele
Bob Carruthers
Published 2026
196 pages
Somme Gunners The Royal Artillery on the First Day of the Somme
Frank Baldwin
Published 2026
176 pages
Journey to the Western Front Twenty Years After
R. H. Mottram
Published 2026
304 pages
Machine-Gun Tactics on the Western Front 1914–18
Greg O'Reilly
Published 2026
64 pages
The Passionate Spies How Gertrude Bell, St. John Philby, and Lawrence of Arabia Ignited the Arab Revolt
John Harte
Published 2026
264 pages
Military Transport The Definitive Visual History
Dorling Kindersley
Published 2026
320 pages
Unfit for Heroes The Post-War Struggles of Britain's Wwi Heroes
Roland Wales
Published 2026
232 pages
Escape Fever An Airman's Escape from the Kaiser's Germany
Geoffrey Harding
Published 2026
224 pages
Passchendaele
Bob Carruthers
Published 2026
128 pages
Cavalry Charges 1914-1918
Bob Carruthers
Published 2026
128 pages
The British on the Somme
Bob Carruthers
Published 2026
128 pages
A Very Dangerous Pursuit
Ben Miller
Published 2026
384 pages
Beyond the Clouds (The Women of Midtown)
Published 2026
368 pages
The Life and Times of Major Thomas Falcon Hazell DSO, MC, DFC and Bar Connemara's Fighting Ace of the First World War
Robert Jocelyn
Published 2026
128 pages