Memoirs of WWI by those who "enjoyed" the experience

by smelllikespleensyrup

I'm curious what memoirs (other than Storm of Steel) have a different perspective than the meaningless tragedy.

DuxBelisarius

Fire-Eater by Alfred Pollard, VC, as well as the memoirs of Brig. General Adrian Carton de Wiart, VC, would be good places to start, as would be Warrior by Graham Seton Hutchison, MGC. Of course those are British ones; aside from Junger I'm unaware of comparable German and French memoirs, but it's very likely they exist. /u/NMW might be able to help as well, but those three should be a good place to start. John Buchan's writings on the Great War would also be of interest.

AreYouNotShpongled

Sniping in France: Winning the Sniping War in the Trenches by Major H. Hesketh-Prichard. It's more or less an account of hunting, written by a British officer who really enjoyed hunting, only the game is Germans.

Some of the happiest days of our lives were spent with the Ross telescope, either watching the German lines from the front trenches or from some observation post further back overlooking the wide areas that lay behind them. On many occasions one became so interested that meals were forgotten, as the telescope searched and waited for the artillery observers’ observation posts.

Making the hunting analogy a bit more explicit:

The idea of how to spot whether a German was hit or not was suggested by big-game shooting experiences. An animal which is fired at and missed always stands tense for the fraction of a second before it bounds away, but when an animal is struck by the bullet there is no pause. It bounds away at once on the impact, or falls. Thus, a stag shot through the heart commences his death rush at once, to fall dead within fifty yards, whereas a stag missed gives that tell-tale sudden start.