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*[https://archive.org/details/retreatfrommons00daviuoft/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Retreat from Mons''] by H W C Davis (Henry William Carless) 3rd impression [1914] Archive.org. Part of the series ''Oxford Pamphlets 1914''.
*[https://archive.org/details/retreatfrommons01gord/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Retreat from Mons''] 1917. Catalogued author George Stuart Gordon. Elsewhere noted "London edition (Constable) published in 1918 under title: ''Mons and the retreat''".
*[https://archive.org/details/monsretreattovic0000terr/page/n3/mode/2up ''Mons : the Retreat to Victory''] by John Terraine. 2002 reprint edition, first published 1960. [https://archive.org/details/monsretreattovic0000terr_e7d7/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd file, 1972 reprint]. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990055782080203941/catalog ''The victory of the Marne : the enemy's onslaught, order to stand firm, the battle, immediate results, historic consequences''] by Louis Madelin ; translated from the original French by Lilly M. Grove 1917. Part of the series ''Studies and documents on the war''. Harvard University Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/victoryofmarneth00made/mode/2up Archive.org]. [September 1914]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523396/page/n5/mode/2up ''Liaison, 1914. A Narrative of the Great Retreat''] by Brigadier-General E L Spears (Late 11th Hussars) 1930 Archive.org. The author was then "the Liaison Officer between the British Army, and the Fifth, or most Northerly of the whole line of French Armies". Also his book below under [[Western Front#Cavalry|Cavalry]].
*[https://archive.org/details/westernfront191400terr/page/n7 ''The Western Front, 1914-1918''] by John Terraine 1965. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/towinwar191800terr ''To Win a War : 1918, the Year of Victory''] by John Terraine 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
: See above for his ''Mons'' book, and further below for an additional book by John Terraine about Douglas Haig. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Terraine John Terraine] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/hundreddayscampa0000lloy/mode/2up ''Hundred days : the campaign that ended World War I''] by Nick Lloyd 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/y00timo_0 ''The Killing Ground : the British Army, the Western Front, and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-1918''] by Timothy Travers 1987. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/500ofbestcockney00lond ''500 of the Best Cockney War Stories''] Reprinted from the London ''Evening News''. 1920 Archive.org
*''Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War'' edited by C. B. Purdom 1930. Accounts were submitted after a request by the editor of ''Everyman'' magazine. Later reprinted under the title [https://archive.org/details/onfrontlinetruew0000unse/mode/2up '' True World War I Stories''] with an Introduction by Jon E Lewis 1999, and still later as [https://archive.org/details/onfrontlinetruew0000unse_r2k6/page/n3/mode/2up ''On the Front Line : True World War I Stories''] with a Foreword by Malcolm Brown 2009. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:A number of the accounts have been transcribed on [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm Memoirs & Diaries] firstworldwar.com including [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/firstgasattack.htm "The First Gas Attack"] by Anthony R. Hossack, Queen Victoria Rifles [9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment]. To locate other entries, either scroll through all entries in the Memoirs & Diaries category or use your Search engine, with terms "Everyman at War" firstworldwar.com/diaries . Available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006523443 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University Library access. Also available on the Library subscription website "The First World War" by Adam Matthew Digital, module "Personal Experiences", see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#First World War databases| Subscription websites - First World War databases]] for details of this database. To locate this publication, it is classified as a "Printed Book". The [[British Library]] is listed on the database website as a Participating Library. Card holders of the State Library of NSW can access The First World War: Personal Experiences module on their home computers.
*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersoffall00emil/page/n5 ''War Letters of Fallen Englishmen''] edited by Laurence Housman [1930] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176613/page/n1/mode/2up ''Vain Glory. A miscellany of the Great War 1914-1918 written by those who fought in it on each side and on all fronts''] edited, and with an Introduction, by Guy Chapman 1937 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n149/mode/2up WW1 period] page 139 ''Clouds That Flee'' by Colonel Montague Cooke 1935. Archive.org. Born 1877, a career soldier, Cooke was in France two periods 1914-1916 and 1918, initially with the 5th Royal Horse Artillery Artillery Brigade as a Battery Commander.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209654/page/n249 WW1 period] page 241 ''Sword And Stirrup'' by Hervey De Montmorency 1936 Archive.org. Initially the author commanded D Battery, 75th Brigade Royal Field Artillery. After the war he worked as an Intelligence Officer in Ireland.
*[https://archive.org/details/blastingbombardi0000unse/page/n3/mode/2up ''Blasting & Bombardiering''] by Wyndham Lewis 1937. [https://archive.org/details/blastingbombardi0000lewi/page/n5/mode/2up 1967 reprint] Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis Wyndham Lewis] Wikipedia. Writer and artist. He served as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, with much of his time spent in Forward Observation Posts .
*[https://archive.org/details/momentsofmemoryr011518mbp/page/n9 ''Moments of Memory: Recollections and Impressions''] by Herbert Asquith 1938. Archive.org. The author was the son of H H Asquith who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the commencement of the war until December 1916, and an officer in the Royal Marine Artillery. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Asquith_(poet) Herbert Asquith (poet)]
*[https://archive.org/details/ebbflowofbattle0000camp/mode/2up ''The Ebb and Flow of Battle''] by P. J. Campbell (Patrick James) 1977. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He also wrote [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000694479 ''In the Cannon's Mouth''] by P. J. Campbell 1979 (146 pages), available to those with suitable University access at HathiTrust Digital Library. There was also an edition with the latter title published containing both volumes (317 pages), published 1986.
