Books like Paths of glory by Humphrey Cobb

A war novel that follows Union private Henry Fleming as he confronts fear and shame after fleeing battle, seeking a symbolic "red badge of courage" and ultimately taking on the role of standard-bearer.

Johnny Got His Gun is a harrowing anti‑war tale told through the eyes of a young American soldier who, after a brutal injury in World War I, is left with no limbs, eyes, or ears, forcing him into a claustrophobic refuge of memory and imagination.

Regeneration follows two real soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital during World War I, exploring their shell‑shock, rehabilitation, and the intellectual debates that shaped postwar Britain.

A 1933 historical novel by Franz Werfel that dramatizes the 1915 defense of Musa Dagh by Armenian villagers during the First World War.

John Buchan’s third Richard Hannay thriller follows the Scottish spy in a covert quest to unmask a German agent amid the final battles of World War I.

Ashenden follows a British agent in the early days of espionage during the First World War, exploring the thin line between duty and danger in the world of international intelligence.

In Douglas Reeman’s World War I novel, the third entry in the Blackwood saga, Jonathan Blackwood and his Royal Marine family confront the brutal realities of Gallipoli and Flanders, as the age of honor gives way to modern warfare.

This book explains why the British Army fought the way it did in the First World War. It integrates social and military history and the impact of ideas to tell the story of how the army, especially the senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare and asks: was the style of warfare on the Western Front inevitable? Using an extensive range of unpublished diaries, letters, memoirs and Cabinet and War Office files, Professor Travers explains how and why the ideas, tactics and strategies emerged. He emphasizes the influence of pre-war social and military attitudes, and examines the early life and career of Sir Douglas Haig. The author's analysis of the preparations for the Battles of the Somme and Passchendaele provide new interpretations of the role of Haig and his GHQ, and he explains the reasons for the unexpected British Withdrawal in March 1918. An appendix supplies short biographies of senior British officers. In general, historians of the First World war are in two hostile camps: those who see the futility of lions led by donkeys on the one hand and on the other the apologists for Haig and the conduct of the war. Professor Traver's immensely readable book provides a bridge between the two. (from Amazon)

Two young friends enlist in the British Army at the outbreak of World War I and must confront the horrors of the Flanders mud together, testing their bond against the brutal reality of war.

Three farmers depicted by August Sander in 1914 become the nexus of a 20‑century story, linking a young narrator in the present, a Boston computer writer, and the looming horrors of World War I.