War Through the Generations Challenge 2012 - FAILED

Hosted over at the War Through the Generations blog.

Here's the rundown:

War Through the Generation’s 2012 reading challenge will be World War I. The challenge will run from January 1, 2012, through December 31, 2012. 

Rules: 

This year you have options when reading your fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, etc. with the WWI as the primary or secondary theme. 

Books can take place before, during, or after the war, so long as the conflicts that led to the war or the war itself are important to the story. Books from other challenges count so long as they meet the above criteria. 

Dip: Read 1-3 books in any genre with WWI as a primary or secondary theme. 

Wade: Read 4-10 books in any genre with WWI as a primary or secondary theme. 

Swim: Read 11 or more books in any genre with WWI as a primary or secondary theme. 

Additionally, we’ve decided that since there are so many great movies out there about WWI, you can substitute or add a movie or two to your list this year and have it count toward your totals.

I picked the first level Dip, but I hope to read more than three books. This is my first year doing this challenge! The subject of WWI peeked my interests.

Possible candidates:

1. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
2. Regeneration by Pat Barker
3. The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund
4. The Boy I Love by Marion Husband
5. A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Louise Mack
6. William, an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton
7. Oh, That I Had Wings by Sarah Pawley
8. The War Workers by E.M. Delafield

List:

1. Bonds of Earth by G.N. Chevalier
2. The Absolutist by John Boyne