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*''Gazette of india'' and ''Calcutta Gazette'' - for editions published during the war period, see [[Gazette of India and Calcutta Gazette (First World War)|separate list]].
*[https://archive.org/details/motorcycle16lond_ ''The Motor Cycle'']. Link is to ''Volume 16'', January to June 1916. Archive.org. Other available online volumes, which for some reason do not appear when searching Archive.org may be seen under Reviews on the archive.org page. Mention of Despatch Riders and the Motor Machine Gun Service (MMGS).
*[https://archive.org/details/tanksbyrequestwi00swin_0 ''The "Tanks" : (by request, and with permission)''] by Colonel E.D. Swinton, Royal Engineers. 1918. Archive.org. Reprinted from ''The World’s Work'' (a monthly magazine, published in New York).
:[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015007039616;view=1up;seq=11 ''Eyewitness. Being Personal Reminiscences of Certain Phases of the Great War, Including the Genesis of the Tank''] by Major-General Sir Ernest D Swinton, R E (Retired) 1933 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*''History of the Great War: [https://archive.org/details/principalevents100grea Principal Events, 1914-1918''] compiled by the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/statisticsofmili00grea ''Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-1920''] The War Office HMSO 1922. [https://archive.org/stream/statisticsofmili00grea#page/n5/mode/2up Contents] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cradleofwar00wood ''The Cradle of the War: The Near East and Pan-Germanism''] by Henry Charles Woods 1918 Archive.org
*''British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914'' edited by G.P. Gooch and Harold Temperley. HMSO 1926-1938. A series of publications in 11 volumes, 2 with 2 parts, 13 in total. [http://diplomatic-documents.org/editions/united-kingdom#80 Details] of the volumes. [https://archive.org/details/britishdocuments00grea Volume 1]; [https://archive.org/details/britishdocuments00grea_0 Volume 2]; [https://archive.org/details/britishdocuments00grea_1 Volume 3]; [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28British+documents+on+the+origins+of+the+war%29&sort=-publicdate Volumes 4-11] All Archive.org.
→Historical books online
====Historical books online====
*''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Military Operations''. See the various '''Fronts''' mentioned below.
*''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services; General History'' by G W Macpherson [http://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesg01macpuoft#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesg02macp#page/n5/mode/2up Volume 2], [http://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesg03macp#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 3] includes Egypt and Palestine, [http://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesg04macp#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 4] includes Mesopotamia, Gallipoli, Salonika, East Africa. Published 1921-1924. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/militarypsychiat00read ''Military Psychiatry in Peace and War''] by C Stanford Reid 1920 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/surgeoninkhaki01mart ''A Surgeon in Khaki''] by Arthur Anderson Martin 1915 Archive.org. Includes the process of the author’s commission, description of a Field Ambulance structure.
*''History of the Great War: [https://archive.org/details/principalevents100grea Principal Events, 1914-1918''] compiled by the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/statisticsofmili00grea ''Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-1920''] The War Office HMSO 1922. [https://archive.org/stream/statisticsofmili00grea#page/n5/mode/2up Contents] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/originsofwar187100john ''The Origins of the War, 1871-1914''] by J Holland Rose, University of Cambridge. 1915 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cradleofwar00wood ''The Cradle of the War: The Near East and Pan-Germanism''] by Henry Charles Woods 1918 Archive.org
*''British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914'' edited by G.P. Gooch and Harold Temperley. HMSO 1926-1938. A series of publications in 11 volumes, 2 with 2 parts, 13 in total. [http://diplomatic-documents.org/editions/united-kingdom#80 Details] of the volumes. [https://archive.org/details/britishdocuments00grea Volume 1]; [https://archive.org/details/britishdocuments00grea_0 Volume 2]; [https://archive.org/details/britishdocuments00grea_1 Volume 3]; [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28British+documents+on+the+origins+of+the+war%29&sort=-publicdate Volumes 4-11] All Archive.org.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284463 ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II''] by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Link to an Adobe pdf download. Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with chapters on the British Expeditionary Force , [[Gallipoli]], [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|the Balkans]], [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt and Palestine]], [[Mesopotamia Campaign|Mesopotamia]], [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]], Italy, North Russia, England and India.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/274726 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War''] by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Includes chapters on the Western Front (Part I) and chapters on Other Arenas (Part II): The Home Base; the Base in the Levant and Mediterranean [Egypt]; Gallipoli; Salonika; Palestine; Mesopotamia; East Africa; Italy; Russia and Siberia.
:''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: The Merchant Navy'' by Archibald Hurd 1921-1929. [https://archive.org/details/merchantnav01hurd Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/merchantnavy02hurduoft Volume II], Archive.org. Volume III is available as a transcribed edition on [http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.net]
:Books by E. Keble Chatterton, late Lieutenant-Commander RNVR : [https://archive.org/details/qshipstheirstory00chatter ''Q-Ships and their Story''] 1923 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship Q-ship] Wikipedia. Q-Ships were armed ships, originally merchant ships, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015074797567?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Danger Zone; the Story of the Queenstown Command''] 1934 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b742756?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Seas of Adventures: the Story of the Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Aegean''] [1914-1918] 1936 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also see [[Gallipoli]] and [[East Africa (First World War)]].
*[http://www.greatwardiaries.co.uk/library Great War Online British Army Regimental Histories] "Great War Diaries". Links to many online regimental histories.
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/subject-000003.html New Zealand World War I History]. Links to transcribed histories from New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027871213 ''Indiscretions of the Naval Censor''] by Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas Brownrigg [1867-1939] 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/experiencesofdug00calluoft ''Experiences of a Dug-Out, 1914-1918''], by Major General Sir C E Callwell 1920 Archive.org. The author was appointed to the high ranking role of Director of Military Operations (DMO) at the War Office at the outbreak of the war. [Dug-Out: a retired officer, recalled to employment].
*[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://archive.org/details/motorcycle16lond_ ''The Motor Cycle'']. Link is to ''Volume 16'', January to June 1916. Archive.org. Other available online volumes, which for some reason do not appear when searching Archive.org may be seen under Reviews on the archive.org page. Mention of Despatch Riders and the Motor Machine Gun Service (MMGS). *[https://archive.org/details/tanksbyrequestwi00swin_0 ''The "Tanks" : (by request, and with permission)''] by Colonel E.D. Swinton, Royal Engineers. 1918. Archive.org. Reprinted from ''The World’s Work'' (a monthly magazine, published in New York).:[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015007039616;view=1up;seq=11 ''Eyewitness. Being Personal Reminiscences of Certain Phases of the Great War, Including the Genesis of the Tank''] by Major-General Sir Ernest D Swinton, R E (Retired) 1933 Hathi Trust Digital Library*''Gazette of india'' and ''Calcutta Gazette'' - for editions published during the war period, see [[Gazette of India and Calcutta Gazette (First World War)|separate list]].
*''Turmoil and Tragedy in India, 1914 and After'' by Lieut.-General Sir George MacMunn 1935 is available on the Digital Library of India catalogued as ''Turmoil The Tragedy In India 1914''. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/177667 Pdf download].
*[https://archive.org/stream/empireatwar035445mbp#page/n3/mode/2up ''The Empire at War Volume V Part IV: India''] by Sir Francis Younghusband Edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas 1926 [https://archive.org/stream/empireatwar035445mbp#page/n7/mode/2up Contents] Archive.org
:The final volume of the quarterly series of the same monthly magazines, Volume XX of the quarterly series, appears to be an update of the earlier periods and may include content which is not included in the half yearly volumes. The content for the quarterly series up to June 1919 appears to be identical to the half yearly volumes. [http://archive.org/stream/newyorktimescurr20newyuoft#page/n3/mode/2up Volume XX July 1919-October 1920], [http://archive.org/stream/newyorktimescurr20newyuoft#page/n431/mode/2up Cumulative Index of the quarterly series]. At least some of the quarterly editions are available on Archive.org
*''Source Records of the Great War'', edited by Charles F Horne 1923. Archive.org. Also published in a later edition as ''The Great Events of the Great War''. Seven volumes: [https://archive.org/details/sourcerecordsofg01char The Causes], [https://archive.org/details/sourcerecordsofg02char 1914], [https://archive.org/details/sourcerecordsofg03char 1915], [https://archive.org/details/sourcerecordsofg04char 1916], [https://archive.org/details/sourcerecordsofg05char 1917], [https://archive.org/details/sourcerecordsofg06char 1918], [https://archive.org/details/sourcerecordsofg07char 1918-1919]
*[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=browse&scope=FRUS.FRUS1 ''Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, Supplement, The World War''], a publication of the US Department of State, is available for the following years (scroll down): 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917, Supplement 1, Supplement 2, the latter Volumes I and II (total 3 Volumes for 1917); 1918, Supplement 1 (Volumes I and II), Supplement 2 (total 3 Volumes for 1918) digicoll.library.wisc.edu.
:A text version, which is searchable, is available on the US Department of State: Office of the Historian website, currently (April 2016) for [http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1914Supp 1914], [https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1915Supp 1915] and [https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1916Supp 1916] only, but the intention is to include all editions.
*''The Roll of Honour. A biographical record of all members of His Majesty's naval and military forces who have fallen in the war'' by the Marquis De Ruvigny. [https://archive.org/details/rollofhonourbiog01ruvi Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/rollofhonourbiog02ruvi Volume III]. Archive.org. Originally published in five volumes, the majority of the biographies relate to deaths in the early years of the war. All volumes are available on the pay websites Ancestry and [[findmypast]].
*[https://archive.org/details/fordauntlessfran00biny ''For Dauntless France: An Account of Britain's Aid to the French Wounded and Victims of the War. Compiled for the British Red Cross Societies and the British Committee of the French Red Cross''] by Lawrence Binyon [1918] Archive.org. Includes a [https://archive.org/stream/fordauntlessfran00biny#page/336/mode/2up List of British Subjects who went abroad on Red Cross and kindred war-work for the French up to December 31, 1917].
*[https://archive.org/details/atwarnortnew00nortuoft ''At the War''] by Lord Northcliffe 1917 Archive.org. Published for the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross
*[https://archive.org/details/IanHay1951ArmyNursing ''One Hundred Years of Army Nursing : The Story of the British Army Nursing Service from the time of Florence Nightingale to the present day''] by John Hay Beith 1953 Archive.org. Contains chapters on WW1
*[https://archive.org/details/thewarpensionsallow00hoggrich ''War pensions and allowances''] by J. M. Hogge and T. H. Garside 1918 Archive.org
