The most popular French world War I books

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. Only books in French are listed.

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Guerre
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Guerre

Richard Cork, Sebastian Junger

2009 · 2011 edition

316 pages

Orages d'acier
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Orages d'acier

Ernst Jünger

1974 · 2002 edition

379 pages

L'Inconsolé
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L'Inconsolé

Kazuo Ishiguro, 石黑一雄

1988 · 2002 edition

606 pages

Le Livre des enfants
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Le Livre des enfants

A. S. Byatt, Antonia Susan Byatt

1998 · 2012 edition

689 pages