Jennifer Robson Recommends WW1 Reading
Bestselling Author Jennifer Robson's latest is Goodnight From London, which takes place in 1940, but a few years back she shared this list of WW1 Reads with us. She first learned about the Great War from her father, acclaimed historian Stuart Robson, and later served as an official guide at the Canadian National War Memorial at Vimy Ridge, France. A former copy editor, she holds a doctorate in British economic and social history from the University of Oxford. She lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband and young children. **** "Although the characters in my debut novel, Somewhere in France, are all British, and the events I depict take place entirely in England and France, my earliest encounters with the Great War took place almost entirely through the pages of Canadian novels and the work of Canadian historians. The following is a short and by no means exhaustive list of some of the books that have influenced me and continue to sustain my interest in the First World War."
Rilla of Ingleside
The Stone Carvers
Three Day Road
At the Sharp End Volume One
Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914-1916
Shock Troops
Canadians Fighting The Great War 1917-1918 Volume Two
What's Bred in the Bone
Goodnight from London
A Novel
After the War Is Over
A Novel
Somewhere in France
A Novel of the Great War
Moonlight Over Paris
A Novel