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Historical books online
*[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.
*Books by Lyn Macdonald. Opinions about this author differ, but generally her books are considered to provide a good introduction to WW1, and to concentrate on the personal experience of the soldier, but lack the broader picture of the war. <ref> Saunders, Jonathan. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/30507-lyn-macdonald/ Lyn MacDonald] ''Great War Forum'' 10 April 2005. Retrieved 8 May 2019.</ref> [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/21/lyn-macdonald-obituary "Lyn Macdonald obituary"] by James Holland 21 April 2021 ''The Guardian''.
:[https://archive.org/details/191400macd/page/n7 ''1914''] by Lyn Macdonald 1988.
:[https://archive.org/details/1915deathofinnoc0000macd/mode/2up ''1915, the Death of Innocence''] by Lyn Macdonald 1995, first published 1993. [https://archive.org/details/1915deathofinnoc0000macd_h4v1/mode/2up File 2, 2000 edition].
:[https://archive.org/details/sommemacd00macd ''Somme''] by Lyn Macdonald 1983.
:[https://archive.org/details/theycalleditpass0000macd ''They called it Passchendaele : the story of the Battle of Ypres and of the men who fought in it''] by Lyn Macdonald 1993, first published 1978.:[https://archive.org/details/tolastmanspring100macd ''To the Last Man: Spring 1918''] by Lyn Macdonald 1998. :[https://archive.org/details/19141918voicesim0000macd ''1914-1918: Voices and Images of the Great War''] by Lyn Macdonald 1988. [https://archive.org/details/19141918voicesim0000macd_e2w1/mode/2up File 2, 1991 edition].: All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also see her book about nurses under [[Western Front#Medical Services including Veterinary|Medical Services]], below.
*[https://archive.org/details/vcsoffirstworldw0000glid ''VCs of the First World War: The Somme''] by Gerald Gliddon, first published 1991. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/legacyofsomme1910000glid ''Legacy of the Somme, 1916 : the battle in fact, film, and fiction''] by Gerald Gliddon 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/voicesfromfronto0000hart/mode/2up ''Voices from the Front : an Oral History of the Great War''] by Peter Hart 2015.
:All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/victoriacrossher0000ashc/mode/2up/ ''Victoria Cross Heroes''] by Michael Ashcroft 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes WW1.
 
====Generals and Army Headquarters====
*[https://archive.org/details/privatepapersofd0000haig ''The private papers of Douglas Haig, 1914-1919: being selections from the private diary and correspondence of Field-Marshal the Earl of Bemersyde''] edited by Robert Blake 1952 Archive.org. There was a subsequent selection of papers (with more emphasis on Haig’s military role), ''Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918'' edited by Gary Sheffield and John Bourne 2005, the latter book based on the manuscript version of the diaries (Blake’s used the typescript).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20181220103221/http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2018/01/haigs-unique-wwi-diaries.html Haig’s ‘unique’ WWI diaries] The Diary Review.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/womenasarmysurg00murr ''Women as Army Surgeons; being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919''] by Flora Murray 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/onbattlescarredf00luri ''On the Battle-Scarred Fields of France. A Physician's Impressions of the Medical Services of both French and German Armies''] by Adolfo Luria 1918 Archive.org
*''An Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War'' by Jessica Meyer 2019. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2X2IDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Google Books version], [https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1004364 ''Open Access'' oapen.org version].
*Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader as [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Hospitals%2C+charities%2C+etc%22&sort=-date World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals, charities, etc] and [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%221914-1918--Hospitals%22&sort=-date "1914-1918--Hospitals"], with some overlap. Many are about the Western Front. For accounts by nurses, also see the ''Great War Forum'' topic "Online books-accounts by nurses etc",<ref>Maureene. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/233174-online-books-accounts-by-nurses-etc/ Online books-accounts by nurses etc] ''Great War Forum'' 2 November, 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2018.</ref> with some overlap, some of whom are discussed in [https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=645349 ''Nurse Writers of the Great War''] by Christine E Hallett 2016. oapen.org
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000004064699?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 '' "Sister"; the War Diary of a Nurse''] [during 1918] by Helen Dore Boylston 1927 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Boylston was an American nurse who left for France with the Harvard Surgical Unit, where she worked at General Hospital No. 22, British Expeditionary Force at Étaples. [https://authorsreallives.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/helen-dore-boylston-1895-1984-part-ii/ Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984)- Part II: War Service] authorsreallives. She subsequently became a well known author of the ''Sue Barton, Nurse'' series of books for girls.
:[https://archive.org/stream/2englishreview25londuoft#page/n13/mode/2up "At the Somme" [War Poetry<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Mary Borden-Turner published in ''The English Review'', August 1917, page 97. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Borden Mary Borden] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/backwashofwar00lamoiala ''The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse''] by Ellen N. La Motte 1916. Archive.org. The author worked in a French military field hospital, situated ten kilometres behind the lines, in Belgium. The dedication in the book indicates the hospital was run by Mary Borden-Turner, see previous entry.
*[https://archive.org/details/rosesofnomanslan0000macd/mode/2up ''The Roses of No Man’s Land''] by Lyn Macdonald 1980. About nurses on the frontline. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also see [[Western Front#Official Histories and Battles|Official Histories and Battles]] above for further books by Macdonald.
*''An Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War'' by Jessica Meyer 2019. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2X2IDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Google Books version], [https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1004364 ''Open Access'' oapen.org version].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027887409 ''The Cellar-house of Pervyse : a tale of uncommon things from the journals and letters of the Baroness T'Serclaes and Mairi Chisholm''] by G E Mitton 1917 Archive.org. Volunteer ambulance drivers Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm in Belgium. [https://archive.org/details/cellarhouseofpervyse_1506_librivox Audio LibriVox recording] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/elsiemairigotowa00dian ''Elsie and Mairi Go To War : two extraordinary women on the Western Front''] by Diane Atkinson 2010 Archive.org Lending Library
*[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://archive.org/details/wonderfulstories00newy/page/n9/mode/2up ''Wonderful Stories. Winning the V. C. in the Great War''] catalogued 1918. Archive.org. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t5n87rf69?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 HathiTust Digital Library version] with rotatable pages.
:[https://archive.org/details/victoriacrossher0000ashc/mode/2up/ ''Victoria Cross Heroes''] by Michael Ashcroft 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes WW1.
*[https://archive.org/details/deedsofheroismbr00elwy/page/n7 ''Deeds of heroism and bravery : the book of heroes and personal daring''] edited by Elwyn A Barron 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/500ofbestcockney00lond ''500 of the Best Cockney War Stories''] Reprinted from the London ''Evening News''. 1920 Archive.org
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