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*[https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar00keeg_0 ''The First World War''] by John Keegan 1999. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Considered to be a "good" [overview].<ref name=Cru/> [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/90863/the-first-world-war-by-john-keegan/9780375700453/ About the book] penguinrandomhouse.com which says "The definitive account of the Great War and national bestseller".
*[https://archive.org/details/pityofwar00ferg ''The Pity of War''] by Niall Ferguson 1999. Cover page has additional wording ''Explaining World War I''. [https://archive.org/details/pityofwarexplain00ferg/page/n5 File 2] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/72 Review of the book] by Professor Jay Winter May 1999 reviews.history.ac.uk.
→General history of the war, including origins
:[https://archive.org/details/roleofbritishstr035460mbp ''The Role Of British Strategy In The Great War''] by CRMF Cruttwell 1936 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar00tayl/page/n1 ''The First World War : an Illustrated History''] by A J P Taylor. 1980? edition, originally published 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''The First World War : a Complete History'' by Martin Gilbert 1994 [https://archive.org/details/isbn_2900805047348/page/n5/mode/2up File 1], [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwarcom00gilb File 2], [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwarsec00mart/mode/2up File 3] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gilbert Martin Gilbert] Wikipedia. British historian.
*[https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar00keeg_0 ''The First World War''] by John Keegan 1999. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Considered to be a "good" [overview].<ref name=Cru/> [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/90863/the-first-world-war-by-john-keegan/9780375700453/ About the book] penguinrandomhouse.com which says "The definitive account of the Great War and national bestseller". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keegan John Keegan] Wikipedia. Military historian.
*[https://archive.org/details/pityofwar00ferg ''The Pity of War''] by Niall Ferguson 1999. Cover page has additional wording ''Explaining World War I''. [https://archive.org/details/pityofwarexplain00ferg/page/n5 File 2] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/72 Review of the book] by Professor Jay Winter May 1999 reviews.history.ac.uk.
*[https://archive.org/details/worldundonestory00gjme/mode/2up ''A World Undone : the Story of the Great War, 1914-1918''] by G J Meyer 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. A popular history (712 digital pages) whose objectives were to weave together all of the story’s most compelling elements “in the most readable form possible…”.
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Seaborne Trade'' by C. Ernest Fayle 1920 -1924. [https://archive.org/details/seabornetrade01char ''Volume I : The Cruiser Period'']; [https://archive.org/details/seabornetrade02char ''Volume II: From the Opening of the Submarine Campaign to the Appointment of the Shipping Controller'']; [https://archive.org/details/seabornetrade03char ''Volume III: The Period of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare''] Archive.org.
*''Official History of the War: History of the Great War based on Official Documents''. [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/24853 ''History of the Blockade of Germany and of the countries associated with her in the Great War: Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, 1914-1918''] by A C Bell 1961 HMSO. Reprint of 1937 original edition, which was for official purposes only and was not generally released. Pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India]. Note, there are two downloads. The first download is an extract of 149 pages , consisting of Contents etc and Appendices, out of a total of 845 pages. The second download is the entire book.
