World War I Titles

2014 marks the centenary of the start of World War I – ‘The Great War’ – when many readers will be turning their thoughts to the literature of that catastrophic period of history. Ahead of the centenary Real Reads is publishing retellings of some of the key works of the period, texts which will be high on many young people’s reading lists – John Buchan’s stirring The Thirty-nine Steps, Erskine Childers’ gripping spy story The Riddle of the Sands, and Erich Remarque’s first-hand battlefield experiences in All Quiet on the Western Front. Watch this space …