2014 begins, as everybody knows (right?), the 100th anniversary of World War I

Now Online, Diaries of British Soldiers Detail Horrors of World War I - NYTimes.com

"There have also been a spate of books on the outbreak and causes of the war, followed by opinion pieces in the newspapers. The three most prominent books so far have been by Christopher Clark, ‘The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914,’ which was quoted at a summit meeting by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany; Margaret MacMillan, ‘The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914’; and Max Hastings, ‘Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War.’ But this is just an early skirmish: Publishers plan many more, including novels and the reissuing of classics like Barbara Tuchman’s ‘The Guns of August’ and Erich Maria Remarque’s ‘All Quiet on the Western Front.’"

(The British National Archives page is here.)