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:[http://www.bnf.fr/en/collections_and_services/digital_libraries_gallica/a.gallica_digital_library.html Gallica – The BnF Digital Library] contains many publications, mostly French language. Use specific search terms, or the Advanced Search for Sujet search terms such as Guerre mondiale ( 1914 -1918) -- Histoire des unités or Guerre mondiale ( 1914 -1918) -- Campagnes et batailles.
*German Official, or semi Official Histories: [http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:at:AT-OOeLB-1155545 ''Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918: die militärischen Operationen zu Lande''] 16 Volumes. [http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:at:AT-OOeLB-1627302 ''Schlachten des Weltkrieges''] 22 Volumes. German language. Maps (Karten) are often at the back of individual volumes, and there may be photographs, all of which can be located by clicking on the Thumbnail gallery, and then selecting specific pages. The Digital State Library of Upper Austria.
:Also available from the Universty University of Hamburg Library as - read online or download a pdf downloads: [http://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/de/nc/detail.html?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=861&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1&cHash=e2e5e2c1505e3576fd826203f11deb50 ''Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918''] and [http://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/de/nc/detail.html?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1024&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1&cHash=8f77abe5beb92e8f5f3ce239b4855bc9 ''Schlachten des Weltkrieges''], and click on Bandliste, for a list of the volumes available, or if these URLs are not permanent, use [http://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche.html Recherche [Digitalisierte Bestände<nowiki>]</nowiki>].For one map seen, the University of Hamburg version was better, as it had colour, and could be enlarged, against black and white in the State Library of Upper Austria version.<ref>[https://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/de/nc/detail.html?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=5016&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=530&cHash=d1cff81788c09213fd347e1fd4ece382 University of Hamburg version] digital page 530; [https://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/image/AC03617667/527/ State Library of Upper Austria version].</ref>
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015013496032?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''A Guide to the Military History of the World War, 1914-1918''] by Thomas G Frothingham, Captain U. S. Reserves. 1921 HathiTrust Digital Library. Also see [[First World War#Naval|First World War-Naval]], for further books by this author, who was a Captain in the U.S. Army during WW1.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica20chic/page/957/mode/1up ''Who's Who in America 1938'' page 957]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.</ref>
*''A Military History of the World War'' by Colonel C R Howland, Infantry US Army. 1923. Volume I contains the Narrative. Volume II contains the Maps. Based on a series of lectures. [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl_1/page/n5 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl/page/n1 Volume II] Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/worldwaronebriti00ward/page/n1 ''World War One British poets : Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, and others''] Edited by Candace Ward 1997 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/whenthisbloodywa0000arth/mode/2up ''When this bloody war is over : soldiers' songs of the First World War''] by Max Arthur 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/deadofmametz0000hick ''The Dead of Mametz''] by Jonathan Hicks 2011. [https://archive.org/details/demonswalkamongu0000hick ''Demons Walk Among Us''] by Jonathan Hicks 2013. Murder investigations by Captain Thomas Oscendale of the Military Police, written by a military historian. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*A romantic novel: [https://archive.org/details/55230680R.nlm.nih.gov ''The Nurse's Story : In Which Reality Meets Romance''] by Adele Bleneau 1915 Archive.org. The hero of this romantic novel is a Captain in the Ludhiana Sikhs (page 97). There are suggestions that when it was published the book was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. The book is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic nursing background. For a [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19150807&id=YMUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h0kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4225,1611451&hl=en review of this novel] scroll if necessary to page 7, 5th column of the ''Pittsburgh Press'' (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.
*A novel: [https://archive.org/details/hirasinghwhenind00mund ''Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders''] by Talbot Mundy. Archive.org. Published in Britain as ''Hira Singh's Tale: When India Came to Fight in Flanders''. Serialized in ''Adventure'' magazine, October 18 - December 3, 1917. Published in book form 1918. A fictional account of a cavalry regiment taken prisoners of war by the Germans.
