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Historical books online
====Historical books online====
*''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Military Operations''. See the various '''Fronts''' mentioned below.
*Medical Services:''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
:Other books in this series: ''Medical Services: Diseases of the War'' [https://archive.org/details/medicalservicesd01macpuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/medicalservicesd02macp Volume II]; ''Medical Services: Surgery of the War'' [https://archive.org/details/medicalservicess01macpuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/medicalservicess02macpiala Volume II]; [https://archive.org/details/191418medicalserv00macpuoft Medical Services: Pathology] 1922-1923 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/medicalservices00macpuoft ''Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War 1914-19 : The Medical Services''] by Sir Andrew MacPhail 1925 Archive.org. Includes page 295 [https://archive.org/stream/medicalservices00macpuoft#page/n315/mode/2up “In Foreign Parts”]
:[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069748/ ''Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 1914–1918''] in three volumes. Australian War Memorial. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211415 ''Volume III''] ''Special Problems and Services'' 1943. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/memorandaonsomem00greauoft ''Memoranda on some medical diseases in the Mediterranean war area, with some sanitary notes''] HMSO 1916
:''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744277?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 Medical Services: Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War''] by Major T. J. Mitchell and Miss G. M. Smith. 1931 Hathi Trust Digital Library
:Books by E. Keble Chatterton, late Lieutenant-Commander RNVR : [https://archive.org/details/qshipstheirstory00chatter ''Q-Ships and their Story''] 1923 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship Q-ship] Wikipedia. Q-Ships were armed ships, originally merchant ships, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015074797567?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Danger Zone; the Story of the Queenstown Command''] 1934 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$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://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[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://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
:There are additional online Tank books linked on the page [[Western Front]].
*[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069749/ ''Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918'']. 12 Volumes include Gallipoli, France, Sinai and Palestine. Australian War Memorial.
*[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.
*''The Empire at War'' edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas, in five volumes, with a [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1003532 catalogue contents description]. ([http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022549242.0x000002 Volume 1] British Library Digital file; Volume 4 Africa Google Books North America region only, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DicFAAAAIAAJ A] and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NdBmAAAAMAAJ B]). Volume 5, 1926, covers WW1 The Mediterranean colonies ; Egypt and Palestine ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Malaya ; China. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Volume 5], British Library Digital file, [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Contents] Also available as a pdf download from the Digital Library of India [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284274 Vol-vth], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Archive.org version].
**[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
*''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/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.177667 Archive.org version].
*''The Empire at War'' edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas, in five volumes, with a [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1003532 catalogue contents description]. ([http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022549242.0x000002 Volume 1] British Library Digital file; Volume 4 Africa Google Books North America region only, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DicFAAAAIAAJ A] and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NdBmAAAAMAAJ B]). Volume 5, 1926, covers WW1 The Mediterranean colonies ; Egypt and Palestine ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Malaya ; China. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Volume 5], British Library Digital file, [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Contents] Also available as a pdf download from the Digital Library of India [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284274 Vol-vth], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Archive.org version].
**[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
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx The British Library digitised manuscripts] include some India Office Records relating to the First World War. A search using the key word India, and adjustment of the dates will locate the documents , or the direct links include
**IOR/L/MIL /17/5/2383 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Ior/l/mil/17/5/2383 ''India’s Contribution to the Great War''] published by authority of the Government of India 1923. [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=ior!l!mil!17!5!2383_f004r Contents]. Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/32085 pdf download, Digital Library of India], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32085 Archive.org version].
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