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Official Histories and Battles
:[https://archive.org/details/haig00andr ''Haig : the Evolution of a Commander''] by Andrew A West 2005. Archive.org Lending Library
*''Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson'' by Major-General Sir C E Callwell 1927. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206957/page/n5 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209304/page/n5 Volume II]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Henry_Wilson,_1st_Baronet Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet] Wikipedia
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211288/page/n9 ''Plumer Of Messines''] by General Sir Charles Harington 1935 Archive.org. General Herbert Plumer, Commander of the Second Army. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Plumer,_1st_Viscount_Plumer Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer] Wikipedia.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176573/page/n47 "The Great War"] page 41 ''Tim Harington Looks Back'' by General Sir Charles Harington 1941 reprint, first published 1940. [https://archive.org/details/TimHaringtonLooksBack/page/n1 2nd file, images slightly better] Both Archive.org. The author was Chief of Staff to General Herbert Plumer, Commander of the Second Army. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harington_Harington Charles Harington Harington] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38633/page/n7 ''The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent: from his journals and letters]'' edited by Major-Genersl Sir Frederick Maurice 1928 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rawlinson,_1st_Baron_Rawlinson Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson] Wikipedia. He commanded the Fourth Army of the British Expeditionary Force at the battles of the Somme (1916) and Amiens (1918).
*Books by two out of 25 volunteer members of the RAC [Royal Automobile Club] Contingent, who volunteered with their own car, who were sent officially by the War Office to drive officers of the General Headquarters Staff at the front. As a result, they were in constant contact with very senior officers, and personally observed the course of events over a wide field. It seems they officially joined the Army, and were given officer status.
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