I finally watched All Quiet On The Western Front which was brutal and fantastic but it strikes me that I don’t know as much as I would like about this conflict.
What are some good sources for analysis and historical perspectives?
Edit: thank you all for your recommendations and perspectives 
That is always the tricky thing about large scale events because there are so many threads and people. I think the interesting part for me was the very end of the movie with the final attack on French held trenches right before the armistice went into effect. The German general gave a speech about preserving “honor” and I want to know about this aspect and how it laid the groundwork for what came next.
Storm of Steel the memoirs of Ernst Junger are very highly recommended. I never got around to buying a copy but I have had it recommended so many times. The guy became a Nazi then turned on them but not for a grand moral reason so much as they killed his son. However his contradictory pov that has been described as both glorifying war and anti-war, and his being a young man who was exactly the Prussian archetype make him a perfect case-study. The Russian wikipedia article gives some good analysis if you want https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%85 https://politosophia.org/page/ernst-yunger-v-stalnyh-grozah-mirovoy-voyny.html https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143108255/?coliid=I178UE3BU40311&colid=1JEGNQDCXXPVB&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Good article on the mindset of that general and honor https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/wartime_emotions_honour_shame_and_the_ecstasy_of_sacrifice
Origins and meaning of WWI is a brief anarchist rundown of a lot of that officer mindset and what we should take away from the war https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-zerzan-elements-of-refusal#toc12
For an in depth critical view of WW1 and why it happened Mccullough's work seems interesting https://www.amazon.com/How-First-World-War-Began/dp/1551641402
This whole reading list is leftist and seems amazing
https://network23.org/realww1/2014/03/03/ww1-reading-list/