I'm interested in later time periods and cultures from around the world and not just Europeans if you happen to know about them too.

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Hello r/AskHistorians. With the 100th anniversary of world war 1 coming up this Sunday (tomorrow) I wanted to brush up on my knowledge of this time. It has been a few years since I learned about it in school and the last thing I saw/read about it was the wonder woman movie. I wanted to ask if there are any documentaries or books you would recommend about the war. If You could also give a brief reason why you recommend that source would be awesome too.

Thank you guys for your time and suggestions.

Isn't it much more easier to take them as slave than to transport slave from across the ocean? Is there anything stop them from doing so?

Through google, I’ve found that more eastern areas would break for night and be more respectful, but I can’t really find something about individual warriors fighting continuously. Like for some of the better warriors, were they battling continuously from sun up to sun down? Did battles even last that long? Sorry if this seems super vague, I just can’t find much info online, and i just think it’s really interesting.

Before guerrilla warfare and trench warfare, people would just march at each other right? I don’t see how a battle like that could last a whole day. But even if it did, individual warriors would be pretty exhausted if they’d been fighting since sun up. And that’s only in the east where they apparently were nice enough to break for night and wait till sun up.

You couldn't really surround enemies, and I'd imagine that they'd much rather retreat to their friendly lines rather than their enemy's. So how were enemy soldiers captured in WW1 trench warfare?

I’ve read that the Hitler and his regime stole Countless pieces of art from all over Europe. Was most of it recovered? Did any famous pieces go missing? What impact did it have on the art community?

It seems a lot were made, but did they really make a difference in the battles? Wikipedia lists their top speed as 3.7mph, which seems rather slow. Were they effective even with this speed?

I was taught in class today about this theory and I could not understand it thoroughly. So, I seek help from this great subreddit topic.

PS. I'm not English native speaker. So, if there's anything wrong with my English, I do apologize in advances.

Now that the guns have just gone silent a moment ago, what is going to happen to me? Do i occupy enemy trenches? Have a big party? Occupy parts of Germany? How long before I go home? How am I likely to greet a fellow soldier from the german side?

I'm very interested in these topics, but considering the propagate wars that happened during the cold war, I'm looking for purely historical sources to learn more about these topics

‘Between 1939 and 1945 there were 26 stories about the mass murder of Jews in the New York Times. When the British first reported the “greatest known killing” in 1942, it only got a small column on the fifth page and was roundly ignored as a non story.’ It seems that people were aware Jews were being killed in large numbers, but no one was really interested or cared very much. People seemed to care about the atrocities committed by the Germans in Belgium in wwi. Was the lack of concern because of anti-semitism?

We can read a lot about feudal armies, raised by kings during wars, conflicts, etc. But I'm yet to find a reliable source that says about proper feudal fleet, that'd be useful in a proper war. Were those ever the case? Did those ever happen?

I have been reading quite a lot of books in libraries about japanese history, but they all have contradictions against one's idea and another, now I'm even more confused. Like in one book, it is said that the japanese's armor and weapons was pretty good for their time compared to other asian countries, while on another book, it is said that japanese weapons are not good compared to other asian countries because of their homogeneous war that broke out during the sengoku jidai.