"Recommend two books about WWI" Topic

First -- the U.S. prior to entering WWI. Politics, factions, secrets, etc.

Second -- Harlem Hellfighters. Less at home; more about enlistment and battle action. Maybe "Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I" by Stephen Harris?

Thanks

A classic but still enjoyable, The Guns of August

Guns of August or Dreadnought for 1.
All Quiet on the Western Front for 2

The First World War by Hew Strachen 350pp, an illustrated history

I think Schogun was after books about his specific topics…

However, as we are nominating random WW1 books then:

i) 'The War the Infantry Knew' by JC Dunn
ii) 'Command or Control. Command, Training and Tactics in the British and German Armies 1888-198' by Samuels.

Here are a couple small, but enjoyable memoirs:

"Over the top" by Arthur Empy (?) – hard to find, but on the internet. An American who joined the Brits early to fight.

"Over There" – by Carl Brannen, an Marine in the first div., who fought in many on the earliest American actions.

Both short, but interesting views of the war by US participants.

'Battle Tactics of the Western Front, by Paddy Griffiths
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Overturned much of the 'lions led by donkeys' rubbish.

'Forgotten Victory' by Gary Sheffield
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For much the same reason as above but on an operational level.
I'd recommend both of these to any WWI novice. Both Anglo centric but as the Brits get all the stick for being idiiots courtesy of Blackadder Goes Forth this seems fair.
And I can be of no help whatsoever with the OP.