WW1 book recommendations please

As I am sure many of you know (that regularly recommend such books), I am an avid war history reader. Currently I am back on WW1 (re-reading The Unreturning Army by Huntley Gordon) and one bit has popped up that has caught my attention this time around – the German ‘Big Push’ in the spring of 1918 and the fact they very nearly managed to win the war. Can anyone recommend any books that focus around this event and how they were eventually overcome? Ideally books that include first-person accounts if possible.

Thank you!

Butchers and Bunglers of World War One – John Laffin

these are the book references for the wiki page, might be something there…

Baldwin, Hanson (1962). World War I: An Outline History. London: Hutchinson. OCLC 988365.
Brown, Ian.(1998) British Logistics on the Western Front: 1914–1919. Praeger Publishers, 1998. ISBN 978-0-275-95894-7
Blaxland, Gregory (1981) [1968]. Amiens 1918. War in the Twentieth Century. London: W. H. Allen. ISBN 0-352-30833-8.
Edmonds, J. E.; Davies, H. R.; Maxwell-Hyslop, R. G. B. (1995) [1937]. Military Operations France and Belgium: 1918 March–April: Continuation of the German Offensives. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. II (Imperial War Museum & Battery Press ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-89839-223-4.
Edmonds, J. E. (1994) [1939]. Military Operations France and Belgium, 1918 May–July: The German Diversion Offensives and the First Allied Counter-Offensive. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. III (Imperial War Museum & Battery Press ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-89839-211-1.
Gray, Randal (1991) Kaiserschlacht, 1918: The Final German Offensive, Osprey Campaign Series 11, London: Osprey, ISBN 1-85532-157-2
Hart, Peter (2008). 1918: A Very British Victory, Phoenix Books, London. ISBN 978-0-7538-2689-8
Herwig, Holger H. (2014). The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918. A&C Black. ISBN 9781472508850.
Gerhard Hirschfeld, Gerd Krumeich and Irina Renz (2018). 1918. Die Deutschen zwischen Weltkrieg und Revolution, Chr. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86153-990-2. (in German)
Kitchen, Martin. The German Offensive of 1918 (2001)
Marix Evans, Martin (2002) 1918: The Year of Victories, Arcturus Military History Series, London: Arcturus, ISBN 0-572-02838-5
Middlebrook, Martin. The Kaiser’s Battle: 21 March 1918: The First Day of the German Spring Offensive. Penguin. 1983. ISBN 0-14-017135-5
Zabecki, David T. (2006) The German 1918 Offensives. A Case Study in the Operational Level of War, London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-35600-8

Lyn Macdonald – weaves in lots of first hand accounts – not sure her books cover 1918 – certainly 1917

Tommy – by Richard Holmes covers the whole period and there is certainly stuff on 1918 with lots of first hand accounts – it will however make you cry.

1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers’ Own Words and Photographs by Richard van Emden

I keep going back to these two

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_(book)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castles_of_Steel

by Robert K Massie

1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers’ Own Words and Photographs by Richard van Emden

Cheers- that one looks like it is just what I am looking for – ordered, thank you.

I thought Somme mud by Edward lynch was one of the best books I’ve read on ww1

SOMME MUD tells of the devastating experiences of Edward Lynch, a young Australian private soldier (18 when he enlisted) during the First World War when he served with the 45th battalion of the Australian Infantry Forces on the Western Front at the Somme, which saw the most bloody and costly fighting of the war. In just eight weeks, there were 23,000 Australian casualties. The original book of twenty chapters, was written in pencil in twenty school exercise books in 1921, probably to help exorcise the horrendous experiences he had witnessed during his three years at war from mid-1916 until his repatriation home in mid-1919. Lynch had been wounded three times, once seriously and spent over six months in hospital in England. Published here for the first time, and to the great excitement of historians at the War Memorial SOMME MUD is a precious find, a discovered treasure that vividly captures the magnitude of war through the day-to-day. experiences of an ordinary infantryman – and this is a rare book for that reason, as most of the war memoirs have been written by officers. From his first day setting sail for France as the band played ‘Boys of the Dardanelles’ and the crowd proudly waved their fresh-faced boys off, to the harsh reality of the trenches of France and its pale-faced weary men, Lynch captures the essence and contradictions of war. SOMME MUD is Australia’s version of All Quiet on the Western Front. Told with dignity, candour and surprising wit, it is a testament to the power of the human spirit, a moving true story of humanity and friendship. It will cause a sensation when it is

Mud, blood and poppycock by Gordon Corrigan is really good.
There is a level of revisionism based on a lot of research, that counters some of the butcher general history that came about following liddell hart etc