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:[https://archive.org/details/historyofsixteen00grah/page/n5/mode/2up ''History of the Sixteenth, the Queen's Light Dragoons (Lancers) 1912-1925''] by Colonel Henry Graham 1926. Archive.org.
:Transcribed editions by OCR, (optical character recognition) so subject to inaccuracies and without the original illustrations: [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-I/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Volume I], [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-II/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Volume II] of the two volume set. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Although some pages are acceptable, many are not, but they give an indication of the content of the book. :Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000891226 and in a reprint edition<ref name=DTE/>, which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/publication/985/uk-wwi-stories-of-heroism-1914-1918 ''UK, WWI, Stories of Heroism, 1914-1918''] (located in International/scroll down to letter U, or in World War I/United Kingdom).
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*[https://archive.org/details/warbookscritical0000fall/page/n5 ''War Books : a Critical Guide''] by Cyril Falls 1930. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/britishautobiogr0000matt/page/n5/mode/2up ''British Autobiographies : an annotated bibliography of British autobiographies published or written before 1951''] by William Matthews. [https://archive.org/details/britishautobiogr0000matt/page/372/mode/2up Index page 372: World War I]. 1984 reprint edition, first published 1955. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HY_4aH5ihhUC&pg=PR3 Sample pages Google Books]
:[https://archive.org/details/britishdiariesan0000matt/page/n7/mode/2up ''British Diaries: an annotated bibliography of British diaries written between 1442 and 1942''] by William Matthews 1950. Archive.org Texts to Borrow.
:[https://archive.org/details/subjectbibliogra0000ense_i7a5/page/n5 ''A subject bibliography of the First World War : books in English, 1914-1978''] by A. G. S. Enser 1979. [https://archive.org/details/subjectbibliogra0000ense_w9o4/page/n5 1990 revised edition including title wording ''1914-1987''] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:A later book is ''World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919'' by Edward G. Lengel 2004, available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01013277719 . Lengel has a [http://www.edwardlengel.com website] which includes information about WW1 books.
:[https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/bibliography/ "Bibliography"] encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net. There are filtering options available, by language, geographical regions and by themes.
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====Official Histories and Battles====
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Military Operations: France and Belgium'' by Brigadier-General J E Edmonds
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents'' [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b633844?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Transportation on the Western Front, 1914-1918''] compiled by Colonel AM Henniker, R E (ret) 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84806 Archive.org mirror version], originally from Digital Library of India.
:[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn6454756 Volume of 14 Maps] National Library of Australia, with a description in the [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6454756 catalogue entry].
*''The War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force''. Volume I by Walter Raleigh 1922. Volumes II-VI by H A Jones 1928-1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingst01rale Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto02rale Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto04rale Volume IV], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI], [https://archive.org/details/war-air-v7/page/n7/mode/2up ''Appendices'' [Volume VII<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Archive.org. :[https://archive.org/details/germanairforcein00gurduoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The German Air Force in the Great War''] by Major Georg Paul Neumann (late of the German Air Force) abridged and translated by J E Gurdon (John Everard), c 1921 Archive.org from the original which was approximately three times larger: [http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN363178236 ''Die deutschen Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege''] 1920. Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.
*[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069749/ ''Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918'']. The twelve volumes include France, four volumes. Australian War Memorial website.
:''Volume III'' [https://archive.org/details/australianimperi00cewb/page/n3 ''The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916''] by C E W Bean 1929 Archive.org
:Both series of digitisations lack the 2010 publication ''Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918 : die militärischen Operationen zu Lande / Bd. 2 ; Das deutsche Feldeisenbahnwesen ; Die Eisenbahnen von Oktober 1914 bis zum Kriegsende'' / hrsg. von Horst Rohde / bearb. im früheren Reichsarchiv. Published: Hamburg [u.a.]: Mittler ; 2010
:''Germany's Western Front : Translations from the German Official History of the Great War'' edited by Mark Osborne Humphries and John Maker. ''Volume 1 1914'' published 2013, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3hPaAgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages] Google Books, ''Volume 2 1915'' published 2010, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yvJ0CwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages] Google Books. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01016765118 and UIN: BLL01014837141 .
*[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 available [https://archive.org/details/frothingham-thomas-g.-a-guide-to-the-millitary-history-of-the-world-war/page/n3/mode/1up Archive.org] (different file). 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], [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo02howl/mode/2up Vol. II 2nd file] Archive.org.
*[https://www.army.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/a_record_of_the_battles_and_engagements_of_the_british_armies_1914-1918_0.pdf ''A Record of the Battles and Engagements of the British Armies in France and Flanders 1914-1918''] by Captain E A James 48th (South Midland) Divisional Signals T A 1924. army.gov.au (Located in Our Heritage/History/Primary materials/1914 to 1918 - World War One/Documents). [https://archive.org/details/record-battles Archive.org mirror version]
**[https://archive.org/details/germansonsommeby00gibb ''The Germans on the Somme''] 1917
**[https://archive.org/details/frombapaumetopas01gibb ''From Bapaume to Passchendaele: on the Western Front, 1917''] 1918 . Reprinted as [https://archive.org/details/struggleinflande00gibb ''The Struggle in Flanders: on the Western Front, 1917''] with a new introduction.
**[https://archive.org/details/openwarfaregibbs/page/n7/mode/2up ''Open Warfare - the Way to Victory''] by Philip Gibbs. Archive.org. The UK title, being one volume of 552 pages. *:''The Way to Victory'', published 1919. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924088058908?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Volume 1: The Menace''] HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/waytovictor02gibb ''Volume 2 The Repulse''] 1919. USA editions. Published in the UK in 1919 in one volume (552 p) [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2058622/object_Future_Library_18671078.html ''Open Warfare : the Way to Victory''] europeana.eu with link to a pdf from Future Library (Greece); note however digital pages contain a watermark., published as two separate books
**[https://archive.org/details/realitiesofwar00gibbuoft ''Realities of War''] by Philip Gibbs 1920. Also published under the title [https://archive.org/details/nowitcanbetold00gibb ''Now It Can Be Told''] 1920. [https://archive.org/details/nowitcanbetold_1406_librivox ''Now It Can Be Told'' Librivox audio version]. This book was written after the war, and not subject to the censorship restrictions applying during the war. All Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/morethatmustbet03gibbgoog ''More That Must Be Told''] by Philip Gibbs 1921 Archive.org
**[https://dspacearchive.gipe.ac.inorg/details/adventuresinjour0000phil/xmluipage/handlen11/10973mode/37015 2up ''Adventures in Journalism''] by Philip Gibbs. 1923. Autobiographical. Page 193 190 onward covers the years from 1912. Link to pdf download, Digital Repository of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune IndiaArchive. org
*''The British Campaign in France and Flanders'' by Arthur Conan Doyle. Mainly Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni01doyl ''1914 Volume I''] 2nd Edition 1916; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni02doyluoft ''1915 Volume II''] 2nd Edition 1917; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign03doyl ''1916 Volume III''] 1918; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni04doyluoft ''1917 Volume IV''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni05doyl ''January to July 1918 Volume V''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/cihm_76792 ''July to November 1918 Volume VI''] 1920, [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks12/1202601h.html ''Volume VI'' Project Gutenberg Australia transcribed version] where maps may be clearer.
*[https://archive.org/details/gunsofaugust00tuch_gaq ''The Guns of August''] by Barbara Tuchman 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. A narrative of the earliest stages of World War I, from the decisions to go to war, up until the battles of the first month. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_August About the book] Wikipedia. Article [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/03/guns-of-august-barbara-tuchman "''The Guns of August'' showed me how history could bring the past to life"] by Margaret MacMillan ''The Guardian'' 4 August 2014.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromelles19160000cobb/page/n3/mode/2up ''Fromelles 1916''] by Paul Cobb 2010 edition, first published 2007. Attack at Fromelles 19-20 July, 1916, subsidiary to the Battle of the Somme, by both British and Australian troops, the début of the AIF on the Western Front. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/inflandersfields00wolf/page/n5 ''In Flanders Fields: the 1917 Campaign''] by Leon Wolff 1958. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/battlesofridges00foxf/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Battles of the Ridges: Arras, Messines, March-June, 1917''] by Frank Fox RFA 1918. Archive.org. See also two further books in the section [[Western Front#Generals and Army Headquarters|Generals and Army Headquarters]] following.
*[https://archive.org/details/cheerfulsacrific0000nich ''Cheerful Sacrifice : the Battle of Arras, 1917''] by Jonathan Nicholls 1990. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. April-May 1917.
*[https://archive.org/details/pillarsoffirebat0000pass ''Pillars of Fire : the Battle of Messines Ridge, June 1917''] by Ian Passingham 1998. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41362/page/n9 ''G.H.Q. (Montreuil-Sur-Mer)''] by “G.S.O”. [Sir Frank Fox] 1920 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fox_(author) Frank Fox (author)]. He served as Staff Captain at the Quartermaster General's branch, General Headquarters, in France. He had previously been an officer in the Royal Field Artillery, and pre-war a journalist.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174265/page/n5/mode/2up ''At G.H.Q''] by Brigadier-General John Charteris 1931 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charteris John Charteris] (Wikipedia) was the Chief of Intelligence at the British Expeditionary Force General Headquarters from 1915 to 1918. Also see his books on Field-Marshal Haig, above.
*[http://digitallibrepository.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1647 ''Reputations, Ten Years After''] by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart 1928. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". [https://archive.org/details/reputations-liddell-hart/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org] mirror version. An examination of 10 leading personalities of WWI, including Joffre, Foch, Petain, Lundendorff, Pershing, and others.
====Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general====
**[http://archive.org/stream/withindiansinfra00will#page/346/mode/2up List of 'Promotions and Rewards'] page 347-382
*[https://archive.org/details/record-58th-rifles-f-f-great-war/page/n1/mode/2up ''A Record of the 58th Rifles F. F. in the Great War 1914-1919''] by Colonel A G Lind DSO 1933. Archive.org. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Wikimedia Commons] - Direct [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf pdf link], [https://web.archive.org/web/20170727020015/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Archive.org pdf]. The latter links may be slow to open. Includes France 1914-1915.
*For Indian Army regimental histories, see [[1st Bengal Lancers (Skinner's Horse)]]; [[2nd Bengal Lancers (Gardner's Horse)|2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse)]]; [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[20th Deccan Horse]]; [[29th Lancers (Deccan Horse)]]; [[38th Central India Horse]]; [[Bhopal Battalion|9th Bhopal Infantry]]; [[39th (The Garhwal Rifle) Regiment of Bengal Infantry|Garhwal Rifles]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[127th Baluch Light Infantry|127th Baluchis]]; the histories being on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website).:Other regimental histories, see [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[41st Regiment of Dogra Infantry|41st Dogras]], [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)]]; [[44th Gurkha Rifles| 8th Gurkha Rifles]]- the 2/8th Gurkha Rifles had many deaths on the Western Front; [[9th Gurkha Rifles]]; [[2nd Bombay Pioneers]]; [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Bengal]], [[Madras Sappers and Miners|Madras]], [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012679548 ''The Post Office of India in the Great War''] edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. Officers and men of the [[Post and Telegraphs Department|Post and Telegraphs Department]] in India who became the military postal service of the Indian Army. Includes chapters on the Western Front.
**[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi197edinuoft#page/538/mode/2up "From an Indian Post Office in France"] page 538 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 197 January- June 1915. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/fifeforfar00ogiluoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F.& F. Yeo) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919''] [R. H. = Royal Highlanders] by Major D D Ogilvie 1921 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/moralestudyofmen00bayn/page/n5 ''Morale: a study of men and courage; the Second Scottish Rifles at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 1915''] by John Baynes 1967 Archive.org Lending Library
:[https://archive.org/details/10thpworoyalhuss00whit/page/n3 ''The 10th (Psearch?query=title%3A%28Hussars+War%29&sort=-date Archive. W. O.) Royal org titles using keywords, Hussars and the Essex Yeomanry during the European War, 1914-1918''] by Lt.-Col. F H D C Whitmore 1920 Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/thirteenthhussar00dura historyofsixteen00grah/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Thirteenth Hussars in History of the Sixteenth, the Great WarQueen's Light Dragoons (Lancers) 1912-1925''] by Sir H Mortimer Durand 1921 Colonel Henry Graham 1926. Archive.org.
:Pdf downloads available from the [http://www.lightdragoons.org.uk/downloads.html Light Dragoons Regimental Association]. WW1 period also appear to be available Archive.org
* ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org mirror version] from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with chapters on the British Expeditionary Force.
:[https://archive.org/details/canteensbritisharmy/page/n13/mode/2up ''A Short Account of Canteens in the British Army''] by John Fortescue 1928 Archive.org. Includes WW1, when the organisation was known as the Expeditionary Force Canteen, EFC. It appears that at least in the later years of WW1, Canteen personnel were either Army Service Corps personnel, or were administered by the ASC. Medals awarded were inscribed Canteens.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofriflema0000crum/mode/2up ''Memoirs of a Rifleman Scout''] by Major F M Crum 2014 reprint edition, first published 1950. WW1 period commences [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofriflema0000crum/page/182/mode/2up page 183]. Archive.org Texts to Borrow. Major Crum of 8th KRRC became interested in sniping techniques and in May 1916 established a sniper school at Acq. This book incorporates an edited version of his earlier book [https://archive.org/details/riflemenscoutssnipers/page/n7/mode/2up ''With Rifleman, Scouts and Snipers from 1914 to 1919''] (1921, Private Circulation) 217 digital pages including appendices and photographs. Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100000050752.0x000002 ''Strategic Camouflage''] by Solomon J. Solomon 1920. British Library Digital file, where pages are rotatable. [https://archive.org/details/StrategicCamouflage1920/page/n7 Archive.org version].
*[http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5801 ''The Pill-boxes of Flanders''] by Col. E. G. L. Thurlow 1933. "The Great War Archive", a part of ''The First World War Poetry Digital Archive'', University of Oxford. The pages of this short book have been listed out of order. To read in book order, select the following document pages 26, 11, 15 (Title page); 27, 23 Contents; 13, 2, 18, 4, 14, 24, 16, 3, 17, 25, 7, 19, 8, 21, 28, 1, 12, 5, 22, 9, 6, 10, 20. [https://archive.org/details/pill-boxes-flanders-image-01 pillboxesflandersimages/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version], with pages in the correct order.
:Later books are ''Pill Boxes on the Western Front: A Guide to the Design, Construction and Use of Concrete Pill Boxes, 1914-1918'' by Peter Oldham published 1995. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DN6kAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA5 Sample pages] Google Books 2011 reprint edition; ''Armageddon's Walls: British Pill Boxes 1914-1918'' by Peter Oldham 2014. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nmRtBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR3 Sample pages] Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/poisonwar00robeuoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Poison War''] by A A Roberts 1915 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/geniusfordecepti0000rank/mode/2up ''A genius for deception : how cunning helped the British win two world wars''] by Nicholas Rankin 2009. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. First published in Great Britain as ''Churchill's Wizards : the British genius for deception, 1914-1945'' in 2008.
*[https://archive.org/details/greatwarhandbook0000brid_k1j2/mode/2up ''The Great War Handbook''] by Geoff Bridger 2013, first published 2009. Cover additional wording ''A Guide for Family Historians and Students of the Conflict''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://digitallibrepository.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/2661 ''The Sad Adventures of Big and Little Willie, during the First Six Months of the Great War, August 1914--January 1915''] by W K Haselden (William Kerridge) 1915. Satirical caricature cartoons of the German Kaiser Wilhelm and his son, The Crown Prince. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. [https://archive.org/details/sad-advent-haselden/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Raemaekers%27+cartoon+history+of+the+war++%29&sort=-date ''Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War''] in three volumes. 1918 Archive.org. Louis Raemaekers was a Dutch cartoonist, whose influential work was first published in the ''Amsterdam Telegraaf''.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211311/page/n5/mode/2up/ ''Punch: Vol. CLIII July- December 1917'']. Archive.org
*''True Stories of the Great War. Tales of Adventure-Heroic Deeds-Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses''. Edited by Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917. In six volumes: [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre01mill/page/n6 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre0000unse/page/n3 Vol. II], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre03mill/page/n6 Vol. III], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre04mill/page/n6 Vol. IV], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre05mill/page/n6 Vol. V], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre06mill/page/n5 Vol. VI]. All Archive.org
*''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''. Originally published in 1916 in fortnightly editions, then published c 1917 as a two volume set, c 900 pages in total, and also published as a five volume set. Information about the contents<ref name=DTE>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/deeds-that-thrill-the-empiretrue-stories-of-the-most-glorious-acts-of-heroism-of-the-empires-soldiers-and-sailors-during-the-great-war/ ''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''] naval-military-press.com</ref> advises 56 VCs are covered. Contain many specially commissioned illustrations- some [https://www.military-prints.com/great_war1.htm samples]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nvUgVYY3ew YouTube video] about the books and their illustrations.
:4 of the 5 volume editions, being Volumes I, II, III and V are available for free, provided you register, on the otherwise pay website forces-war-records.co.uk in the [https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/documents/search?searchQuery=D&page=2 Historic Document Library]. Select Browse and Type "Other", then scroll down to letter D.
*[https://archive.org/details/postofhonour00wils/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Post of Honour : Stories of Daring Deeds done by Men of the British Empire in the Great War''] by Richard Wilson 1917. Archive.org. The Author’s Note suggests the book was written for school children.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120825165603/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/NewsMedia/I_Was_There_01.htm ''The Great War…I Was There! Undying Memories of 1914-1918''] (a description greatwardifferent.com, archived) edited by Sir John Hammerton originally published in 51 weekly parts 1938-39, (first appearing around the 20th anniversary of the end of the war), and also published 1938-39 in a three volume edition, 2060 pages (V.1. August 4, 1914, to July 1, 1916; V.2. July 4, 1916, to October 22, 1917; V.3. Oct. 25, 1917 to Jan. 1919 (with pages V1 1-696, V2 697-1376, V3 1377-2060)(Amalgamated Press)), the latter available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01001581634 . There was also a four volume publication (1930s) by Waverley (with pages V1 1-496, V2 497-1016, V3 1017-1536, V4 1537-2056 with Supplement and General Index).
:Contents sample, pages 1545 to 1734<ref>stiletto_33853 . [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/301821-i-was-there-volumes/?do=findComment&comment=3174496 I Was There Volumes] ''Great War Forum'' 26 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.</ref>, which indicates that the majority of the accounts were extracts from previously published books.
:The weekly issues are being uploaded to the Patreon.com platform by the Vickers MG Collection and Research Association, and at 19 December 2023 27 May 2024 [https://www.patreon.com/vickersmg/posts?filters%5Btag%5D=%23IWasThere Issues 1-3244] were available to download as pdfs for free, and more uploads were expected.
:The weekly magazines are available as a database on the pay website [[findmypast]], titled [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-the-great-war-i-was-there Britain, The Great War, I Was There] located in Armed Forces & Conflict/First World War, which advises the 51 editions ran from 29 September 1938 to 19 September 1939. To browse the pages, do not use a Search term but click on the Search icon, when a series of 1186 pdf images, (each of two pages), will be displayed in image order. From any image you can navigate to the next image, or the previous image. (This function is located near the top of the findmypast webpage, not near the actual image). Part 1 consists of 29 images, perhaps larger than the average, if in fact all issues are included.
:Some of the weekly issues (Parts 1-41, (for the period to 23 April 1918) and Part 46 (Sept-Oct 1918) are 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" and it appears in five separate listings, the editions to Part 41 in four listings and Part 46 as a separate listing. 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.
:A similar type of publication was ''Great War Adventures'', with the first two issues titled ''War Adventures'' and ''More War Adventures'', and some of the later editions also titled ''War Adventures'', with the earlier issues called Series. The catalogue of Oxford University Library indicates it holds volumes 1-34 and v36, published 1932-1942. The British Library seems to hold 8 volumes, details not known. A description of the Seventh Series [issue/volume] indicates it consisted of 128 pages presenting 10 true stories. Covers may be seen at [http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page36.html greatwardustjackets.co.uk] and [http://www.philsp.com/mags/mens_g-l.html philsp.com]
*[https://archive.org/details/onwesternfrontso0000laff/mode/2up ''On the Western Front : Soldiers' Stories from France and Flanders 1914-1918''] by John Laffin 2004 reprint, first published 1985. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/oxfordbookofmili00cdot/page/322/mode/2up First World War extracts] pages 323-381 ''The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes'' edited by Max Hastings, 1985. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
==== In the Air====
*''The War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force'' (in seven volumes). Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. See :''The German Air Force in the Great War'' by Major Georg Paul Neumann c 1921:For both these titles see [[Western Front#Official Histories and Battles|Official Histories and Battles]] above.
*[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28%22The%20Great%20War%20in%20the%20Air%22%29%20AND%20creator%3A%28Middleton%29 ''The Great War in the Air Volumes 1-4''] by Edgar Middleton 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/inroyalnavalairs00roshiala ''In the Royal Naval Air Service. Being the War Letters of the late Harold Rocher to his Family''] 1916 Archive.org
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b283017?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''On the road from Mons with an Army Service Corps Train''] by its commander (Capt. A. Clifton-Shelton, A.S.C.) 2nd edition 1917, first published 1916. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/roadmons/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org version].
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46283 ''The Motor-Bus in War: Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half
Years at the Front''] by A. M. Beatson (Temp. Lieut. A.S.C.) 1918 Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/motorbuswar/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org version]. The author was an Army Service Corps officer in the Mechanical Transport Supply Column of an Indian Cavalry Division. Elsewhere, the ASC company is recorded as being the 1st Indian Cavalry Division Supply Column which was 89 Coy ASC.<ref>Larkin, Roy. [http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?48009-The-Motor-Bus-in-War-A-M-Beatson-1918&p=434811#post434811 The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918] ''Historic Military Vehicle Forum'' 8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersofpubl00jone/page/n7/mode/2up ''War Letters of a Public-School Boy''] by Paul Jones 1918. Archive.org. He was killed in action 31 July 1917 when a Lieutenant in the Tank Corps, but prior to February 1917 was in the Army Service Corps, performing duties such as Brigade Supply Officer, Brigade Requisitioning Officer and Divisional Forage Purchasing Officer for a Cavalry Brigade and Division.
*[https://archive.org/details/truckingtotrench00kautrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Trucking to the Trenches; Letters from France, June-November 1917''] by John Iden Kautz 1918 Archive.org. An American, he volunteered with a group of American University volunteers to drive ambulances, but drove instead munition transport trucks, officially part of the French Army. The service was eventually taken over by the American Army, and he transferred to the Quartermaster Corps (transport division). This book also appears on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200122162718/http://www.ourstory.info/library/catalog.html American Field Service/Library] website, now archived, under the heading "Réserve Mallet truck transport units", [https://web.archive.org/web/20081201233711/http://www.ourstory.info/2/c/Mallet.html more details], archived.
:''History of the American Field Service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917,'' told by its members. With illustrations. [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica03unse/page/n9/mode/2up ''Vol. III''] Contains “The Camion Section” Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/amateurgunnersgr0000thor/mode/2up ''Amateur Gunners : the Great War adventures, letters and observations of Alexander Douglas Thorburn''] edited by Ian Ronayne 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Revised, expanded edition of [https://archive.org/details/amateurgunners/page/n5/mode/2up ''Amateur Gunners''] published 1933, additional title ''Recording some of the exploits of the 2/22nd County of London Howitzer Battery RFA on active service.'' Archive.org. Western Front, [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]], [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Palestine]].
*The Royal Marine Artillery was part of the Royal Marines. For chapters in a history, see [[Western Front#Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general|Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general, above]].
*[https://archive.org/details/navalgunsinflanders/page/n9/mode/2up ''Naval Guns in Flanders 1914-1915''] by L. F. R. (Lt. Lionel F Robinson RN) 1920 Archive.org. In October 1914 the author, a naval Gunnery Officer, was ordered to Belgium to command a unit of naval guns on railway mountings, HM Armoured Train 'Jellicoe', one of three armoured trains in operation until the spring of 1915. This unusual unit moved around Flanders giving invaluable artillery support. The trains were under the command of the RNAS.
*Also see In The Air, below, for letters of George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., attached R.F.C.
*Also see German Army below, for ''With the German guns : four years on the Western front, 1914-1918'' by Herbert Sulzbach
*''"Gas!" The Story of the Special Brigade'' by Maj-Gen C.H Foulkes 1934 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/gas-the-story-of-the-special-brigade/ ''"Gas!" The Story of the Special Brigade''] Naval & Military Press</ref>, which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19TF4S_XPP online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in International/Military Books/Britain (scroll to letter G)
:[https://archive.org/details/chemicalsoldiers0000rich/mode/2up ''Chemical Soldiers : British Gas Warfare in World War I''] by Donald Richter 1992. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The role of the British Special Brigade.
*[https://archive.org/details/asoldiersdiary00scotuoft ''A Soldier's Diary''] by Ralph Scott [George Scott Atkinson, Royal Engineers] 1923. Archive.org. Sapper officer’s day-to-day diary with 2nd Army in the Ypres Salient, April- Nov. 1918. He was an officer in 237th F. Coy R.E, born 1899.
*''My Story of the Great War'' by Captain O H Woodward [Oliver Holmes], 1st Tunnelling Company AIF. Published Adelaide SA 1932. 1933 title: ''The War Story of Oliver Holmes Woodward, Captain 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, Australian Imperial Force''. [https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/advanced/category/newspapers?keyword=%22MR%20WOODWARD%27S%20WAR%20BOOK%22&sortBy=dateAsc&startPos=0 A series of 17 extracts] appearing weekly in ''The Recorder'' Port Pirie, SA, 25 February 1933 to 17 June 1933, with [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/95991145 Introductory article] and [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/95991147 book review] both 13 February 1933, same newspaper. trove.nla.gov.au. Includes the firing of Hill 60 mines. Pre war, the author held a senior position in a mining company. [http://www.tunnellers.net/files/1stausttunnellingcoy.pdf Brief Chronology of the 1st Aust Tunnelling Coy, allocated to the Second Army] tunnellers.net
*''Tunnellers: The Story of the Tunnelling Companies, Royal Engineers, during the World War'' by W. Grant Grieve and Bernard Newman 1936 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/tunnellers/ ''Tunnellers''] Naval & Military Press</ref>, which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19ShKtXFUU online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books/Britain (scroll to Tu).
====Secret Service and Spies====
*[https://archive.org/details/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts''] by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org. Tuohy also wrote [https://archive.org/details/battleofbrains ''The Battle of Brains'' ] 1930, consisting of some true stories, some semi-fiction, about Secret Service/spies, much of which had appeared serially in the ''Graphic'', available at the British Library UIN: BLL01003689091 and also available [https://booksArchive.google.com.au/books/about/The_Battle_of_Brains.html?id=foLjjgEACAAJ Snippet Google Books] currently searchable, but not viewable, should become available to those in North America etc c 2026, and similarly on HathiTrust Digital Libraryorg. Another book about his war experiences is [https://archive.org/details/craterofmars ''The Crater of Mars'' ] 1929 available [https://booksArchive.google.com/books?id=dJhHAAAAIAAJ Snippet Google Books] currently searchable, but not viewable, should become available to those in North America etc c 2025org. Also see a [[Western Front#Post War including British Occupation of Germany|postwar book below]]. The author, 1891-1953<ref name=Tuohy> (James) Ferdinand Tuohy 1891-1953, born in Cork, Ireland and died 1953 Southwark London, was a journalist for a New York daily and then foreign correspondent in Europe for the ''Sphere'', see [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/c00/c00503.htm#A10 The FictionMags Index, Biographical Notes: Page 503]</ref> was/became a news reporter and post-war foreign correspondent. *[https://archive.org/details/pt-1-detective-secret-service-days/Pt1DetectiveSecretServiceP011-025/mode/2up ''Detective & Secret Service Days''] by Edwin T Woodhall 1929. Archive.org. Mirror from [https://digitallibrepository.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1704 STOU Digital Repository] Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. The 1937 edition was titled ''Detective and Secret Service Days''. The author chronicles his experiences beginning briefly with his early days in 1906 in the London Metropolitan Police Force, and then to when he subsequently became attached to the CID at Scotland Yard, the Special Political Department, the Secret Service Department and the Special Central Department. [http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rip-woodhall.html Details of the author] casebook.org. Elsewhere it is stated that Book II [digital Pt3] Chapter III "Military Ishmaels", page 143 is about Toplis who is discussed in an article<ref>[https://pixelsurgery.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/secret-service-days-woodhall/ "Monocled Mutineer, Percy Toplis"] pixelsurgery.com</ref>. Chapter IV, "A Charming Spy", page 156 relates to Mata Hari, see below. He was also the author of ''Spies of the Great War : adventures with the Allied Secret Service'' by Edwin T. Woodhall 1932. Extracts from the latter book are included in ''Fifty Amazing Secret Service Dramas'', available online, see below.
*[https://archive.org/details/secretservice00geor ''Secret Service''] by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063000031?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Intelligence Service within the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918''] by Major J E Hahn, James Emanuel late General staff, 4th Canadian Division CEF 1930 HathiTrust Digital Library.
