ENGLISH LITERATURE AS LEVEL
READING LIST
Exam Texts:
Regeneration
Journey’s End
Pat Barker
R C Sherriff
Wider Reading:
Oxford Book of War Poetry
Poetry anthology
You need to have read at least 1 from each literary genre
Memoirs
Undertones of War
Goodbye to all That
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Letters from a Lost Generation
Testament of Experience
Storm of Steel
Old Soldiers Never Die
Soldier From the Wars Returning
Edmund Blunden
Robert Graves
Siegfried Sassoon
Vera Brittain
Vera Brittain
Ernst Junger [A German account]
Private Frank Richards
Charles Carrington
Non Fiction accounts [history]
Forgotten Victory: WW1 Myths
The Great War
1918 The Year of Victories
The Great War
A Foreign Field
Gary Sheffield
Paul Fussell
Martin Marix Evans
Dan Todman
Ben Mackintyre
Novels
Under Fire
Strange Meeting
Her Privates We
Birdsong
The Eye at the Door
The Ghost Road
Life Class
The First Casualty
A Long Long Way
Private Peaceful
War Horse
Lord of the Nutcracker Men
All Quiet on the Western Front
Not so Quiet
The Harrowing
This time of Dying
A Very Long Engagement
A Month in the Country
Henri Barbusse [French, written during WW1]
Susan Hill
Frederick Manning [written towards end of WW1]
Sebastian Faulks
Pat Barker [2nd in Regeneration trilogy]
Pat Barker [3rd in Regeneration trilogy]
Pat Barker
Ben Elton
Sebastian Barry
Michael Morpurgo
[KS3 easy text]
Michael Morpurgo
[KS3 easy text]
Iain Lawrence
[easy text]
Erich Maria Remarque
Helen Zenner Smith
Roberts Dinsdale
Reina James
Sebastien Japrisot
J L Carr
There are more emerging all the time, so ask the librarian or google WW1 Literature for
further titles
Key Poets
Siegfreid Sassoon
Robert Graves
Edmund Blunden
Wilfred Gibson
Isaac Rosenberg
Vera Brittain
Rupert Brooke
Jessie Pope
Drama
The Accrington Pals
Oh What a Lovely War
My Boy Jack
Blackadder
All Quiet on the Western Front
Peter Whelan
Company D/Black ‘Ell
Joan Littlewood
David Haig
Curtis/Elton
[drama adaptation of novel]
Films and television scripts also count for drama so dip in and out of texts such as:
Films and TV
“The Trench”
“A Farewell to Arms”
“Paths to Glory”
“All Quiet on the Western Front”
“Oh What a lovely war”
“My Boy Jack”
“Gallipoli”
“A very long engagement”
“Aces High”
“Passchendale”
“The Monacled Mutineer”
“All the Kings Men”
“The Blue Max”