The Fateful Year: England 1914

Mark Bostridge

There are, quite rightly, going to be endless books about the First World War this centenary year — so how do you chose which ones you should spend your time and money reading? The Fateful Year: England 1914 seems like a good place to start.

The elusive “history book that doesn’t read like a history book”, it tells what England was like in that pivotal year, without ever trying to lecture.