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Memoirs
The British Library has the book, in five volumes, covering the First World War, ''Alphabetical list giving particulars of officers of the Indian Army Reserve of Officers / [issued by] Army Headquarters, India, Military Secretary’s Branch''. The catalogue entry states "Contents: [v.1]. 26th June 1916 _ v.2. 24th January 1917 _ v.3. 31st December 1917 _ v.4. 30th June 1918 _ v.5. 31st December 1918". The shelfmark is OIR 355.37 Open Access. There are also the records, Applications for appointments to the India Army Reserve of Officers ‎ (1916-1918) IOR/L/MIL/9/552 to IOR/L/MIL/9/552. Search by name, in the [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1486166294496 British Library's Archives and Manuscripts] catalogue.
:[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1039&s_id=176# FIBIS database: A List of Officers (I.A.R.O.) recruited to or Re-engaged during the Year 1916 and up to the middle of January 1917]
[http://www.fibis.org/membership-2 Fibis members] can contact [http://www.fibis.org/research Fibis research] should they wish to access further detail from these records. [mailto:research@fibis.org research@fibis.org]
:The entries which include War Diary in the individual entry are from IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3001. War diary, Army Headquarters India, Indian Expeditionary Force 'A' [France]. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3086-3149; IE Force 'B' and ‘C’ [East Africa] IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3150-3222; IE Force 'D' [Mesopotamia] IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3223-3892, including IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3788 A table of the contents of the war diaries of the Mesopotamian Campaign; IE Force 'E'/'E' & 'G'/Egypt and F. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3893-3950; IE Force 'G' [Mediterranean] IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3951- 3953; Aden Force IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3954-4056; India, Afghan War IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4057-4065; India, Frontier Operations IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4066-4121; Persia IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4122-4223.
:Some of these volumes are Indian Army Casualty Returns, explained in the British Library article [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/09/finding-indian-soldiers-who-served-in-world-war-one.html "Finding Indian soldiers who served in World War One"]
*The Military Department Library also contains items relating to the First World War catalogued according to regions including [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/2c7b217f2049d30b-78021c3f-4c2d4f8e-b617bedb-e55a03fd22c6 '''917bda536a22 Mesopotamian Campaign] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/65 to IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41-138'''] Iraq ‎ (1914-1944).
*''History of the Great War based on official documents by direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence''. Consists of 108 volumes published 1920-1949. For details of the different volumes, refer External links below, Some volumes are available online, refer Historical books online below.
*''An account of the operations of the 18th (Indian) Division in Mesopotamia, December 1917 to December 1918, with the names of all the units which served with the division and a nominal roll of all the officers'' by Walter Edward Wilson-Johnston 1919.
*''The Railway Gazette Special War Transportation Number'', originally published in September 1920, as part of ''The Railway Gazette and Railway News''. Described at the time as ‘the first connected account’ of the role of railways and inland water transport in supporting the British military campaign during the Great War of 1914-18. Contains a wealth of detail on operations on most Fronts inc. the organisation of wartime transportation; statistics and Fronts, including Railway Operations in Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Palestine & East Africa. Available at the British Library as part of UIN: BLL01013904893 or in a 2013 reprint edition UIN: BLL01016871224. Also available in a reprint edition<ref> [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/railway-gazette-special-great-war-transportation-number/ ''Railway Gazette – Special Great War Transportation Number''] Naval & Military Press.</ref>.
*See also Temporary Commissions & Indian Army Reserve of Officers 1917-1921, above
*See also [[Indian Army]]
Some War Diaries, many of which are '''handwritten''', have been digitised and are available (on a pay basis) online from various sources: from the National Archives through the Discovery catalogue<ref>[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk Discovery catalogue]</ref> (download as one file, rather than page by page); from Naval and Military Archive (Western Front only)<ref>[http://www.nmarchive.com/search-the-war-diaries Naval and Military Archive]</ref>, part of Naval & Military Press, which also publishes print and DVD-ROM versions; and through Ancestry which contains two databases "UK, WWI War Diaries (France, Belgium and Germany), 1914-1920" and "UK, WWI War Diaries (Gallipoli and Dardanelles), 1914-1916", containing selected, and at times part, war diaries only.<ref>[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60779 UK, WWI War Diaries (France, Belgium and Germany), 1914-1920] consisting of WO 95/1096–3948 records. However, within this series, there appears to be a further selection of diaries available - not all are included. Also [http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60380 UK, WWI War Diaries (Gallipoli and Dardanelles), 1914-1916] consisting of WO 95/4263-4359 records. Similarly, not all diaries within this range may have been included. Ancestry.</ref><ref> stiletto_33853
[httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.com/forumsorg/topic/257648-ancestry-vs-national-archives/?do=findComment&amp;comment=2606479 Ancestry vs National Archives] ''Great War Forum'' 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 201828 November 2020. Ancestry diaries may have large parts (many months) missingcompared to TNA files</ref> (Download page by page). The Ancestry databases also contain War Diaries for some Indian, Australian, New Zealand, and other regiments. (Ancestry search hints.<ref>MrSwan. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201225230124/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AGdDPF0FbnwMJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.greatwarforum.org%2Ftopic%2F256132-ancestry-war-diaries%2F+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk Ancestry war diaries] ''Great War Forum'' 17 December 2017. Google cache version, archived.</ref><ref>Guest. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/257685-finding-war-diaries-beating-ancestrys-poor-indexing/ Finding War Diaries: Beating Ancestry's Poor Indexing] ''Great War Forum'' 27 January 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2020.</ref>) <br>'''Transcribed''' (the handwriting has been deciphered for you!) (series title) ''Gallipoli Diaries'' edited by Martin Gillott, publisher Great War Diaries and some Western Front (series title) ''Great War Diaries'' from the same editor/publisher, both series for British and some Indian Army regiments, are available through Amazon.co.uk <ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Diaries++Adjutant+Gillott&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ADiaries++Adjutant+Gillott ''Gallipoli Diaries'' and ''Great War Diaries''] and [https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=%22Gallipoli+Diaries%22+Gillott&i=digital-text&qid=1608931914&ref=sr_pg_1 ''Gallipoli Diaries''] with overlap. amazon.co.uk</ref> in Kindle editions which have a Search facility (anyone with Kindle Unlimited can read them for free). (Download of a free Kindle App is available onto a PC, Mac or tablet - you don't need Kindle).
*The TNA downloads include for "other" (non infantry/cavalry) units the very informative "List of Royal Artillery, Army Service Corps, Machine Gun Corps and Medical Units" '''WO 95/5494'''. Includes Tank Corps.<ref>[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4558646 WO 95/5494] List of Royal Artillery, Army Service Corps, Machine Gun Corps and Medical Units with the Division, Corps or Army they fought with. The National Archives.</ref>
The Australian War Memorial website<ref>[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/ Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914-18 War]</ref> contains Australian and New Zealand Army War diaries (available for free).
 
====Other====
*The National Archives also holds many maps relating to operations during the War, which however have not been digitised. For more details, see the Research Guide [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/military-maps-first-world-war/ Military maps of the First World War]. As an example, military maps for Mesopotamia are to be found in WO 302.
*[http://indiaww1.in/Indian-Artillery-in-World-War-1-by-Maj-Gen-Rajendra-Prakash-VSM-(Retd).pdf "Indian Artillery In World War 1"] by Major General Rajendra Prakash, Indian Army (Retd). indiaww1.in
*[http://www.indiaww1.in India and the Great War] A Joint USI (United Service Institution of India)-MEA (Ministry of External Affairs, India) Commemorative Project
**Details of [https://web.archive.org/web/20180723212618/http://www.usiofindia.org/Projects/View/?pid=72 India and the Great War Project]. Centre for Armed Forces Historical Research, USI , now archived . Contains photographs
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150821220440/http://www.cwgc.org/foreverindia/memorials/1st-world-war.php Memorials to Indian soldiers and sailors - First World War] cwgc.org, now an archived webpage.
*[http://www.empirefaithwar.com Empire, Faith & War: The Sikhs and World War One] Includes categories Tell their Story/Research Your Soldier. A project of the United Kingdom Punjab Heritage Association.
*[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/09/finding-indian-soldiers-who-served-in-world-war-one.html "Finding Indian soldiers who served in World War One": Casualty Appendices to the War Diaries] by Dorota Walker 09 September 2014. British Library Untold lives blog. Retrieved 11 September 2014
*[http://www.researchingww1.co.uk/indianarmyww1 Researching a Soldier who served in the Indian Army in the First World War] Includes much regimental information. researchingww1.co.uk
*[http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/indiaatlse/2014/08/20/india-and-wwi-balancing-the-demands-of-war-with-the-defence-of-empire/ "India and WWI: balancing demands of war with defence of Empire"] by Adam Prime, 20 August 2014 “India at LSE” London School of Economics. Retrieved 26 August 2014
*[http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/PunjabBlogs/India-s-contribution-to-First-World-War/Article1-1077126.aspx India's contribution to First World War] by Mandeep Singh Bajwa, ''Hindustan Times'' June 16, 2013
:[http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/indian_labour_corps "Indian Labour Corps"] by Radhika Singha. encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net.
:[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-labor-and-working-class-history/article/short-career-of-the-indian-labour-corps-in-france-19171919-1/A1D30F4C6D231414D68D07FD09728821 "The Short Career of the Indian Labour Corps in France, 1917–1919"] by Radhika Singha. Abstract of an article, with footnotes. Also with a link to "supplementary materials", containing downloads of photographs. ''International Labor and Working-Class History'' Volume 87 Spring 2015 , pp. 27-62. cambridge.org
:Radhika Singha is the (later) author of ''The Coolie’s Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914–1921''.
:[http://hiddenhistorieswwi.ac.uk/uncategorized/2016/02/north-east-india-and-the-first-world-war/ "North East India and the First World War"] by Pratap Chhetri February 4, 2016. The Indian Labour Corps: Lushai Labour Corps, Khasi Labour Corps, Garo Labour Corps, Naga Labour Corps, Manipur Labour Corps and enlistments from Tripura. These men served on the Western Front, in Mesopotamia and in Egypt. "The Centre for Hidden Histories" [WW1]
*[http://www.france24.com/en/20140225-world-war-one-bengal-india-bangladesh-france "Remembering the Bengalis who fought for France in WWI"] by Stéphanie Trouillard 2014-02-25 france24.com
====Official histories, political memoirs, etc.====
*''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Military Operations''. See the various '''Fronts''' mentioned above.
:''Official History of the Great War'': ''The Occupation of the Rhineland 1918-1929'' by Brig-Gen Sir JE Edmonds, first published originally written 1944, is available in a reprint edition<ref> [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/the-occupation-of-the-rhineland-1918-1929official-history-of-the-great-war/ ''The Occupation of the Rhineland 1918-1929''] Naval & Military Press. </ref>, which in turn is available on the Ancestry owned [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8KO82s1roGLP6hQIy pay website fold3], located in International/Military Books(locate through the Search)/Germany. Also includes some information about return of POWs, see pages 30 (digital page 61) and 48 (digital page 79).
:Some other volumes in the ''Official History'' series appear below in following sections.
*''The London Gazette'' [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/awards-and-accreditation/content/100079 World War 1 despatches]. Links to all the military despatches from commanders-in-chief. thegazette.co.uk.
*[http://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/WWI.html#tab_1 US Army Centre of Military History online books] ''Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War'' (5 Volumes) and ''United States Army In The World War'' (17 Volumes). Links to Pdf downloads.
: ''Order of Battle'' (4 volumes) are available to read online at [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000440953 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[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. Volumes III-VIII are available on Archive.org, see the various Fronts for details.
*[http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/index-eng.asp ''Official History of The Canadian Forces in the Great War, 1914-1919''] Scroll to various volumes. Canadian Forces website.
*[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.
*For French, German etc Official Histories see [[Western Front#Official Histories and Battles|Western Front-Historical books online-Official Histories and Battles]], and also [[First World War#External links 2|External links]] above.
*[https://archive.org/details/genesisofwar00asquuoft/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Genesis of the War''] by The Right Hon. H H Asquith MP. 1923 Archive.org
:''Memories And Reflections (1852-1927)'' by The Earl of Oxford and Asquith 1928. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208575 Vol 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207079 Vol 2]. 2nd files: [https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_s2i0/page/n9/mode/2up Volume One], [https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_x2f8/page/n7/mode/2up Volume Two] Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
:''Life of Herbert Henry Asquith Lord Oxford and Asquith'' by J A Spender and Cyril Asquith 1932. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211264/page/n7/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210619 Volume II] Archive.org
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Asquith H. H. Asquith] Wikipedia. UK Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916.
*[https://archive.org/details/momentsofmemoryr011518mbp/page/n9 ''Moments of Memory: Recollections and Impressions''] by Herbert Asquith 1938. Archive.org. The author was the son of H H Asquith who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the commencement of the war until December 1916. Contains chapters about the beginning of the war. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Asquith_(poet) Herbert Asquith (poet)] Wikipedia
*''Twenty Five Years 1892-1916'' by Viscount Grey of Fallodon 1925 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.524506 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.536984/page/n3/mode/2up Volume II] Archive.org
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Grey,_1st_Viscount_Grey_of_Fallodon Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon] Wikipedia. He was UK Foreign Secreary 1905 to 1916.
*''The Supreme Command, 1914-1918'' by Lord Hankey 1961. [https://archive.org/details/supremecommand190001hank/page/n9/mode/2up Volume One], [https://archive.org/details/supremecommand190002hank/page/n9/mode/2up Volume Two] Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
:''Hankey: Man of Secrets'' by Stephen Roskill 1970. [https://archive.org/details/hankeymanofsecre0001rosk/page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume I 1877-1918''], [https://archive.org/details/hankeymanofsecre0002rosk/page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume II 1919-1931''], [https://archive.org/details/hankeymanofsecre0003rosk/page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume III 1931-1963''] Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Hankey,_1st_Baron_Hankey Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey] Wikipedia. “He is best known as the highly-efficient top aide to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the War Cabinet, which directed Britain during the First World War”.
*''Life of Lord Kitchener'' by Sir Arthur George 1920. ([https://archive.org/details/lifeoflordkitche01arthuoft/page/n6 Volume I]; [https://archive.org/details/lifeoflordkitche02arthuoft/page/n8 Volume II]); [https://archive.org/details/lifeoflordkitche03arthrich/page/n8 Volume III] Archive.org. He was appointed Secretary of State for War in August 1914 and died in 1916 when the ship HMS Hampshire struck a German mine.
:[https://archive.org/details/tragedyoflordkit00eshe/page/n7 ''The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener''] by Reginald Viscount Esher 1921 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/kitchener00balliala/page/n5 ''Kitchener''] by Brig.-General C R Ballard. A book in the series ''Private Lives Library''. Probably a 1936 reprint, originally published 1930. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/momentsofmemoryr011518mbp/page/n9 ''Moments of Memory: Recollections and Impressions''] by Herbert Asquith 1938. Archive.org. The author was the son of H H Asquith who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the commencement of the war until December 1916. Contains chapters about the beginning of the war. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Asquith_(poet) Herbert Asquith (poet)]
*''War Memoirs of David Lloyd George''. New edition 1938. [https://archive.org/details/warmemoirsvolume035284mbp Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527708 Volume II] Archive.org. Originally published in 6 volumes 1933-1937. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.172878 I]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.172812 II]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80059 III]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80060 IV]; V not available online; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.459578 VI]. Archive.org. USA edition (volumes split slightly differently) [https://archive.org/details/warmemoirsofdavi00lloy/page/n7 1914-1915], [https://archive.org/details/warmemoirsofdavi00lloy_0/page/n7 1915-1916], [https://archive.org/details/warmemoirsofdavi00lloy_1/page/n7 1916-1917], [https://archive.org/details/warmemoirsofdavi00lloy_2/page/n7 1917], [https://archive.org/details/warmemoirsofdavi00lloy_3/page/n7 1917-1918], [https://archive.org/details/warmemoirsofdavi00lloy_4/page/n5 1918] Archive.org. It is stated elsewhere that the new edition is complete and unabridged apart from essential revisions. David Lloyd George was Prime Minister of the UK 1916-1922.
: See below for a book by Lord Beaverbrook about events in 1921-22.
*''The World Crisis'' publications by The Rt. Hon. Winston S Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty 1911-1915. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.216183 ''The World Crisis 1911-1914''] First published 1923; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.186806 ''The World Crisis 1915''] F. p. 1923; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81663 ''The World Crisis 1916-1918 Part I''] F. p. 1927; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206774 ''The World Crisis 1916-1918 Part II''] F. p. 1927; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209928 ''The World Crisis The Aftermath''] F. p. 1929; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209929 ''The World Crisis The Eastern Front''] F.p. 1931
:''The World Crisis 1911-1918'' Revised edition 1938. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523355 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523358 Volume II]
:Documents published as companion volumes to ''Winston S. Churchill Vol.3. 1914-1916 The Challenge of War'' and ''Vol.4 1916-1922 The Stricken World'' by Martin Gilbert. The following all contain ''Winston S. Churchill'' in the title, and are by Martin Gilbert. [https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchilp1v3unse ''Companion Vol.3 Pt.1, July 1914 - April 1915''] 1972, [https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchil0003chur/page/n5/mode/2up 2nd file], [https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchil03mart/page/n5/mode/2up 3rd file] 1973. [https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchilp203unse ''Companion Vol. 3 Pt. 2, May 1915 - Dec. 1916''] 1972. [https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchilV3P2chur_z6u3/page/n5/mode/2up 2nd file]. [https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchil0000chur_k9q6/mode/2up ''Companion Vol.4 Pt.1, Jan. 1917-June 1919''] 1978. [https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchil0000chur_o4h1 ''Companion Vol.4 Pt.2, July 1919-March 1921''] 1978; [https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchilv4p3chur/page/n7/mode/2up ''Companion Vol.4 , Pt. 3, April 1921- November 1922''] 1977. For later editions, see [[Second World War#Historical books online|Second World War]], scroll down. (Earlier editions by Randolph S Churchill all containing ''Winston S. Churchill'' in the title [https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchil0001chur/page/n7/mode/2up ''Companion Vol.I Pt.I 1874-1896''] 1967; [https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchil02chur/page/n7/mode/2up ''Vol.II 1901-1914 Young Statesman''] 1967; [https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchil0002chur_d5n2/mode/2up ''Companion Vol.II Pt.1 1901-1907''] 1969; [https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchilV2P2chur_k5h8/page/n5/mode/2up ''Companion Vol.II Pt. 2, 1907-1911''] 1969; [https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchilV2P3chur_t6x1/page/n5/mode/2up ''Companion Vol.II Pt.3 1911-1914''] 1969) All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''The London Gazette'' [https://wwwarchive.thegazette.co.ukorg/details/politicianswar190000beav_z6x9/page/awards-and-accreditationn7/contentmode/100079 World 2up ''Politicians and the War 1 despatches, 1914-1916'']by The Rt. Links to all the military despatches from commanders-in-chiefHon. Lord Beaverbrook 1960. thegazetteArchive.coorg Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.ukA reprint of two volumes first published 1928 and 1932.*[httphttps://wwwen.historywikipedia.army.milorg/htmlwiki/bookshelves/resmat/WWIMax_Aitken,_1st_Baron_Beaverbrook Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook] Wikipedia.html#tab_1 US Army Centre Newspaper proprietor and Member of Military History online books] ''Order Parliament who became Minister of Battle of the United States Land Forces Information in the World War'' (5 Volumes) and ''United States Army In The World War'' (17 Volumes). Links to Pdf downloadsFebruary 1918 responsible for propaganda.: [https://archive.org/details/declineandfallof006894mbp/page/n9/mode/2up ''Order The Decline and Fall of BattleLloyd George'' (4 volumes) are available to read online at ] by Lord Beaverbrook 1963 Archive.org. [https://catalogarchive.hathitrustorg/details/declinefallofllo0000beav/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.orgBooks to Borrow/Record/000440953 HathiTrust Digital Lending Libraryversion]with better illustrations. Events in 1921-22.*''The Intimate Papers Of Colonel House'' arranged as a narrative by Charles Seymour. [https://wwwarchive.awm.gov.auorg/collection/RCDIG1069749details/ TheIntimatePapersOfColonelHouseVolI ''Official History of Australia in Volume I Behind the War of 1914–1918Political Curtain 1912-1915'']1926; [https://archive. 12 Volumes include Gallipoli, France, Sinai and Palestineorg/details/in. Australian War Memorialernet. Volumes III-VIII are available on Archivedli.org, see the various Fronts for details2015.*151598 ''Volume II From Neutrality to War 1915-1917''] 1926; [httphttps://wwwarchive.org/details/in.cmp-cpmernet.forcesdli.gc2015.ca172880 ''Volume III Into the World War April 1917-June 1918''] 1928; [https:/dhh-dhp/hisarchive.org/oh-hodetails/index-eng.asp TheIntimatePapersOfColonelHouseVolIV ''Official History of Volume IV The Ending Of The Canadian Forces in the Great War, 1914June 1918-November 1919''] Scroll to various volumes. Canadian Forces website1928 Archive.org*:[httphttps://nzetcen.victoriawikipedia.ac.nzorg/tmwiki/scholarly/subject-000003Edward_M._House Edward M. House] Wikipedia.html New Zealand An American diplomat, he was President Woodrow Wilson's chief advisor on European politics and diplomacy during World War I History]. Links to transcribed histories from New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University (1914–18) and at the Paris Peace Conference of Wellington Library1919.
====Medical Services, including Veterinary====
*[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”]
*''The New Zealand Medical Service In The Great War 1914-1918'' by Lieut.-Col.A. D. Carbery N.Z.M.C. (Res.) 1924. [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Medi.html File 1], [https://viewer.waireto.victoria.ac.nz/client/viewer/IE708011/rep/REP709361/FL709362?dps_dvs=1577335379778~241 File 2] by Lieut.-Col.A. D. Carbery N.Z.M.C. (Res.) 1924. Both Victoria University of Wellington Library, New Zealand in the First World War 1914-1918 Collection. Both transcriptions.
*[https://archive.org/details/sanitationinware2lele/page/n7/mode/2up ''Sanitation in War''] by Major P S Lelean RAMC, 2nd edition 1917 ([https://archive.org/details/sanitationinwar00leleuoft 1915 edition]). Both Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/sanitationintren00mccu/page/n2/mode/1up ''Sanitation in the trenches''] by Champe Carter McCulloch MD 1917. Reprinted from articles in ''The Journal of the American Medical Association''. Archive.org
*[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
*[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.
*''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/fiftythousandmil00wall ''Fifty Thousand Miles on a Hospital Ship''] by “The Padre” [Charles Steel Wallis] 1917 Archive.org. The hospital ship that Padre Wallis joined in 1915 was most likely the 'Goorkha'.<ref>frev. [httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.com/forumsorg/topic/253987-norwegian-matron-on-indian-hospital-ship/?do=findComment&comment=2569706 Norwegian Matron on Indian Hospital Ship] ''Great War Forum'' 3 October 2017. Retrieved 4 October 201728 November 2020.</ref> She was then an Indian Hospital Ship staffed by doctors from the Indian Medical Service, although subsequently became a British Hospital Ship.
*[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/observationsofor00muir/page/n6 ''Observations of an Orderly; some glimpses of life and work in an English War Hospital''] [3rd London General Hospital] by L-Cpl Ward Muir, RAMC(T). 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/observations_of_an_orderly_0909_librivox Librivox audio version] 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/genesisofwar00asquuoft/page/n9 ''The Genesis of the War''] by The Right Hon. H H Asquith, MP. 1923 Archive.org. The author was British Prime Minister at the outbreak of war, until 1916.
*''The Origins of the World War'' by Sidney Bradshaw Fay. [https://archive.org/details/originsofworldwa01sidn/page/n9/mode/2up ''Volume I Before Sarajevo: Underlying Causes of the War''] 1930, first published 1928.[https://archive.org/details/originsofworldwa02sidn/page/n9/mode/2up ''Volume II After Sarajevo: Immediate Causes of the War''] 1928
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149904/mode/2up Second edition, revised 1930]. See the [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149904/page/n7/mode/2up "Preface"] for the types of revisions. Two volumes combined including [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149904/page/n611/mode/2up Volume II] digital page 612. Each volume is separately numbered. All Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.14089/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Coming of the First World War: A Study in the European Balance 1878-1914''] by Nicholas Mansergh 1949 Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/twelvedays24july00thom/page/n5 ''The Twelve Days : 24 July to 4 August 1914''] by George Malcolm Thomson 1964. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/warbytimetableho00tayl/page/n5 ''War by Time-Table: How the First World War Began''] by A J P Taylor 1969 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/europeslastsumm00from ''Europe's last summer : who started the Great War in 1914?''] by David Fromkin 2004 Archive.org Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780061146657 ''The Sleepwalkers : how Europe went to war in 1914''] by Christopher Clark 2013, first published 2012. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/july1914countdow0000mcme_v3d2/page/n5/mode/2up ''July 1914 : Countdown to War''] by Sean McMeekin 2013. [https://archive.org/details/july1914countdow0000mcme/mode/2up 2nd file] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[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. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190131182335/https://diplomatic-documents.org/editions/united-kingdom Details] of the volumes (diplomatic-documents.org, archived page). [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.
*[https://archive.org/details/worldwarshortacc00fieb ''The World War: a Short Account of the Principal Land Operations on the Belgian, French, Russian, Italian, Greek and Turkish Fronts''] by Colonel G J Fiebeger 1921 Archive.org.
:[http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll7/id/866 ''Atlas'' to accompany ''The World War: a Short Account...''] Link to pdf download, Combined Arms Research Library [CARL] Digital Library [USA].
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015013496032?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''A Guide to the Military History of the World War, 1914-1918''] by Thomas G Frothingham, Captain U. S. Reserves. 1921 HathiTrust Digital Library. Also see [[First World War#Naval|Naval]] below, for further books by this author, who was a Captain in the U.S. Army during WW1.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica20chic/page/957/mode/1up ''Who's Who in America 1938'' page 957]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.</ref>
*''A Military History of the World War'' by Colonel C R Howland, Infantry US Army. 1923. Volume I contains the Narrative. Volume II contains the Maps. Based on a series of lectures. [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl_1/page/n5 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl/page/n1 Volume II] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/militaryatlasoff00arth/page/n9 ''A Military Atlas of the First World War''] by Arthur Banks 1975 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458869 ''A History of the Great War 1914-1918''] by CRMF Cruttwell 1934 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81643 2nd Edition, with additions and corrections, 1940/(1936)] [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.81643/2015.81643.A-History-Of-The-Great-War-1914-1918-Edition-Ii#page/n673/mode/2up Index] Archive.org. Considered to provide "a good overview, although a little outdated".<ref name=Cru/>
:[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. Also see his book above ''War by Time-Table''.*[https://archive.org/details/myriadfacesofwar0000wils/mode/2up ''The Myriad Faces of War : Britain and the Great War, 1914-1918''] by Trevor Wilson 1986. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://www.adelaide.edu.au/lumen/issues/74802/news74902.html About the author] adelaide.edu.au.
*''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/greatworldwar19100pete/mode/2up ''The Great World War, 1914-45, Volume 1 Lightning strikes twice''] edited by Peter Liddle, John Bourne and Ian Whitehead. Multiple authors. 2000. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[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…”.
*[https://archive.org/details/greatwarhandbook0000brid_k1j2/mode/2up ''The Great War Handbook''] by Geoff Bridger 2013, first published 2009. Cover additional wording ''A Guide for Family Historians and Students of the Conflict''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/greatwarexplaine0000stev/mode/2up ''The Great War Explained : a simple story and guide''] by Philip Stevens 2012. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''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 and had title on spine ''The Blockade of the Central Empires, 1914-1918''. 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.
:Article [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1904539 "British Official Histories of the Blockade of the Central Powers during the First World War"] jstor.org
*[https://archive.org/details/triumphofunarmed00consuoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Triumph of Unarmed Forces (1914-1918) : an account of the transactions by which Germany during the Great War was able to obtain supplies prior to her collapse under the pressure of economic forces''] by Rear-Admiral M W W P Consett 1923 Archive.org.
 
*[https://archive.org/details/navalblockade00loui ''The Naval Blockade, 1914-1918''] by Lieut. Louis Guichard, French Navy. Translated and edited by Christopher R. Turner. 1930 Archive.org. The economic impact of the blockade.
*[https://archive.org/details/blockade191419190000arno/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Blockade, 1914-1919 : Before the Armistice - and After''] by W Arnold-Forster 1939. Series: ''Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs, No.17''. [https://archive.org/details/trent_0116403757614/page/n1/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/politicsofhunger00cpau_0/page/n5 ''The Politics of Hunger : the Allied Blockade of Germany, 1915-1919''] by C. Paul Vincent (Charles Paul) 1985 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/womanwar00warw/page/n3 ''A Woman and the War''] by the Countess of Warwick (Frances Evelyn Maynard Greville) 1916 Archive.org. The catalogue classifies this book as "Social Conditions".
*[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war Egypt, Salonika, East Africa, Italy and Northern Russia. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Great+Britain.+Munitions%2C+Ministry+of%22&sort=-publicdate ''History of the Ministry of Munitions''] Volumes 1-8, of a 12 volume series, published 1922 by HMSO. Archive.org. Note: Each Volume may consist of a number of different parts, separately numbered, each with its own Contents page. [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100684998 Volumes 10 and 12 ''The Supply of Munitions'', and additional restricted viewing editions] Hathi Trust Digital Library. ''Volume 10'' consists of [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014525z?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 Guns], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014525z?urlappend=%3Bseq=109 Gun Ammunition: General], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014525z?urlappend=%3Bseq=183 Gun Ammunition: Shell Manufacture], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014525z?urlappend=%3Bseq=311 Gun Ammunition: Explosives], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014525z?urlappend=%3Bseq=465 Gun Ammunition: Filling and Completing], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014525z?urlappend=%3Bseq=561 Anti-Aircraft Supplies]. ''Volume 12'' consists of [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014527v?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 Aircraft], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014527v?urlappend=%3Bseq=211 Aerial Bombs], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014527v?urlappend=%3Bseq=247 Tanks], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014527v?urlappend=%3Bseq=351 Mechanical Transport Vehicles], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014527v?urlappend=%3Bseq=419 Railway Materials and Ropeways], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014527v?urlappend=%3Bseq=477 Agricultural Machinery]. (Volume 9, ''Review of Munitions Supply'', Volume 11 ''The Supply of Munitions'' -Trench Warfare Supplies, Chemical Warfare Supplies, Optical Munitions and Glassware, Rifles, Machine Guns, Small Arms Ammunition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/official-history-of-the-ministry-of-munitionsvolume-xi-the-supply-of-munitions/ ''History of the Ministry of Munitions'' Volume XI] naval-military-press.com.</ref>, neither volume generally available online on a free basis.)
:All volumes have been reprinted by Naval & Military Press, which and it is believed that all are included in turn are available as the [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19lC7Nfqxf one online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] , of 7364 digital pages (located in World War II/Military Books/Britain).
:*[https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1918_Directory_of_Manufacturers_in_Engineering_and_Allied_Trades ''1918 Directory of Manufacturers in Engineering and Allied Trades''] from ''Grace's Guide to British Industrial History''. A list of manufacturers who had undertaken contracts and sub-contracts for the manufacture of munitions of war - compiled by the Department of Engineering, Ministry of Munitions. Includes [https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1918_Directory_of_Manufacturers_in_Engineering_and_Allied_Trades:_National_Factories ''National Factories'']. Also known as Government, or HM Factories.
:*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008895907 ''Technical records of explosives supply, 1915-1918 no.1-9''] Ministry of Munitions and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. HMSO 1920-1922. Hathi Trust Digital Library. No.9 is also available on Archive.org.
*Tanks
:[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.hathitrustarchive.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:[https:details/tankpioneers0000mack/archive.orgmode/details/tankslogbookofpi00ster 2up ''Tanks, 1914-1918; the Log-Book of a PioneerThe Tank Pioneers''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Albert G Stern 1919. Missing at least the first illustration. [https://archiveKenneth Macksey 1981 Archive.orgBooks to Borrow/details/cu31924027835176 2nd file] Both ArchiveLending Library.org:There are additional online Tank books linked on the page [[Western Front#Tanks|Western Front-Historical books online-Tanks]].
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b72677?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''A Short Account of Canteens in the British Army''] by John Fortescue 1928 HathiTrust Digital Library, (possibly not accessible in USA etc). Include WW1, when the organisation was known as the Expeditionary Force Canteen, EFC.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishrailwaysw00mcke ''British Railways and the War''], by F. A. McKenzie 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/waradministrati00parmgoog ''War administration of the railways in the United States and Great Britain''] by Frank Haigh Dixon and Julius H. Parmelee. 1918 Archive.org. A publication of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of Economics and History. A volume in the series ''Preliminary Economic Studies of the War''.
:Available at the British Library, not known to be available online, ''The Railway Gazette Special War Transportation Number'', originally published in September 1920. For more details see [[First World War#British Library holdings|British Library holdings]], above.
*''British Railways and the Great War ; organisation, efforts, difficulties and achievements'' by Edwin A Pratt 1921. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092566128/page/n5 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092566136/page/n5 Volume II] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/riseofrailpoweri00prat/page/n7 ''The rise of rail-power in war and conquest, 1833-1914, with a bibliography''] by Edwin A Pratt 1915 Archive.org
====In the Air====
*''The War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force''. Volume I by Walter Raleigh 1922. Volumes II-VI by H A Jones 1928-1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingst01rale Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto02rale Volume II] (including Gallipoli), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale Volume III] (inc East Africa), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto04rale Volume IV], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V] (inc Egypt/Palestine, Mesopotamia, Macedonia), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI] (inc Palestine, Mesopotamia, India) Archive.org. Includes Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS).
: There is also Volume VII ''Appendices'' which is appears to be included in the online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 [https://www.fold3.com/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19D4-PNLxP ''The War in the Air''] which appears to consist of all seven volumes, (located in Military Books/Britain). Volume VII is also available to those with suitable University access on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000440546 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022541482.0x000002 ''The Work and Training of the Royal Flying Corps''. [With illustrations<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. Published by authority of the Royal Flying Corps [1918]. British Library Digital collection. The images are rotatable.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022556809.0x000002 ''Royal Flying Corps ... Military Wing. Casualties and Honours during the war of 1914-17'']. Compiled by Captain G. L. Campbell ... assisted by R. H. Blinkhorn. 1917. British Library Digital collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/zeppelinspastfut00campuoft ''Zeppelins, the Past and Future''] by Edwin Campbell 1918 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/zeppelinsagainst00pool ''Zeppelins against London''] by Kenneth Poolman 1961. Archive.org Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/medicalproblemso00mediuoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The medical problems of flying, including reports nos. 1-7 of the Air Medical Investigation Committee''] Report 53 of the Medical Research Council (Great Britain) HMSO 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/aviationinpeacew00sykerich/page/n5 ''Aviation in Peace and War''] by Major-General Sir F H Sykes, late Chief of the Air Staff and Controller-General of Civil Aviation 1922 Archive.org. He was also the author of ''From Many Angles; an Autobiography'', by Major-General the Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Sykes 1942. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Sykes Wikipedia]
* Also see [[Western Front#In the Air|Western Front-Historical books online-In the Air]]
:For information about revised editions, including an online version on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see [[Royal Navy]].
:''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]
*''The Naval History of the World War'' by Thomas G Frothingham, Captain, U. S. Reserves.
:[Vol.1] [https://archive.org/details/navalhistoryofwo01thom/page/n7/mode/2up ''Offensive Operations 1914-1915''] 2nd printing 1925, first published 1924. [https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/30/2/366/38536?redirectedFrom=fulltext First page of a review] academic.oup.com.
:[Vol.2] [https://archive.org/details/navalhistoryofwo02thom/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Stress of Sea Power 1915-1916''] 1926
:[Vol.3] [https://archive.org/details/navalhistoryofwo03thom/page/n5/mode/2up ''The United States in the War 1917-1918''] 1926 All Archive.org.
:Also see [[First World War#General history of the war, including origins|General history of the war]] above for another book by this author. Although there are references elsewhere referring to him as a US Naval Captain, he was a Captain in the US Army.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176420 ''The Naval Memoirs of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes. The Narrow Seas to the Dardanelles 1910-1915''] 1934. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.524527 ''The Naval Memoirs of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes. Scarpa Flow to the Dover Straits 1916-1918''] 1935. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fightingatjutlan0000fawc/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Fighting at Jutland : the Personal Experiences of Sixty Officers and Men of the British Fleet''] April 1921. There was also an abridged edition with a similar title about [https://archive.org/details/fightingatjutlan0000fawc_a1w6/page/n5/mode/2up ''Forty-five Officers and Men''] published September 1921. Both Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/heroicrecordofbr00hurd ''The Heroic Record of the British Navy; a Short History of the Naval War, 1914-1918''] by Archibald Hurd and H H Bashford 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fleetfromwithinb00moserich/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Fleet from Within. Being the impressions of a R. N. V. R. officer''] by Sydney A Moseley 1919 Archive.org. Moseley was a journalist, (brief details<ref>[http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/12/saw-television.html "Saw television!"] by Paul K Lyons December 5, 2011 ''The Diary Review''</ref>), see his book on [[Gallipoli#General histories etc|Gallipoli]].
*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/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)]].
*[https://archive.org/details/submarineantisub00newbuoft/page/n9 ''Submarine and Anti-submarine''] by Henry Newbolt 1918 Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/paravaneadventur00corn/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Paravane Adventure''] by L. Cope Cornford [1919]. Archive.org. :[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paravane_(weapon) Paravane (weapon)] (Wikipedia) was an device used against naval mines and submarines . It was "essentially an aeroplane". The Paravane fitted to merchant vessels was called the Otter.
*[https://archive.org/details/pushingwater00dawsrich ''Pushing Water''] by Eric P Dawson, Lieutenant, RNVR. 1918 Archive.org. The Auxiliary Motor Boat Patrol, also known as the Mosquito Fleet.
*''The Dover Patrol, 1915-1917'' by Admiral Sir Reginal Bacon [1918] [https://archive.org/details/doverpatrol1915101baco Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/doverpatrol1915102baco Volume II]. Archive.org. A later edition was published 1932, which although titled ''The Concise Story of the Dover Patrol'', included much new and additional material.
*[https://archive.org/details/underblackensign00gwat/page/n7/mode/2up ''Under the Black Ensign''] by Captain R S Gwatkin-Williams (Rupert Stanley) 1922. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924027832421/page/n7/mode/1up Map: Murman Coast 1916-1917] [northwest Russia] from a 2nd file, rotated. Archive.org. "…all those little ships of the late war Navy - destroyers, tugs, trawlers, boarding steamers, and the like".
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210703/page/n3/mode/2up ''My Mystery Ships''] by Rear Admiral Gordon Campbell , illustrated by Lieutenant J E Broome, first published 1928 in London. [https://archive.org/details/mymysteryships00gord/page/n9/mode/2up American edition] 1929, with extra Foreword, and images appear to differ slightly. Both Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/mymysteryships0000camp/mode/2up Archive.org Lending Library version] (American edition), probably best digital file. Also known as Q Ships.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofroyalna0000bowe/page/n5/mode/2up ''History of the Royal Naval Reserve''] by Frank C Bowen 1926 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. WW1 period commences around [https://archive.org/details/historyofroyalna0000bowe/page/102/mode/2up page 104]. *[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. May be unavailable in USA etc. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19Nw8lk2wk online version] (located in World War II/Military Books/Britain, the first of two books with the same title) of a Naval & Military Press reprint. *[https://archive.org/details/brasshatsbellbot0000carr/page/n7/mode/2up ''Brass Hats and Bell-Bottomed Trousers; Unforgettable and Splendid Feats of the Harwich Patrol. Being Volume Two of 'By Guess and by God'''] by William Guy Carr 1939. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwich_Force Harwich Force] Wikipedia.*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b16218?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''We Dive at Dawn''] by Lt.-Com. Kenneth Edwards 1941. HathiTrust Digital Library. About Submarines. Missing Contents page, but includes a description of the Illustrations, which gives some idea of the Contents. (Gallipoli etc pages 110-182).
*[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/fromsnottytosub00foreiala/page/n5 ''From Snotty to Sub''] [by W. B. C. W. Forester, edited by E. L. Forester] 1918 Archive.org. For another book by this author, see [[Gallipoli]].
*[https://archive.org/details/bysealandsomenav00kennrich/page/n7 ''By Sea and Land : Some Naval Doings''] by E Hilton Young, MP, Lieutenant Commander RNVR 1920 Archive.org . Book is catalogued under the surname Kennet - he became Lord Kennet from 1935. Includes a chapter on the British Naval Mission to Serbia in 1915, and a chapter on Archangel, northern Russia, from July 1918, where Young was appointed in command of an armoured train. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Young,_1st_Baron_Kennet Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/sailorswar1914180000lidd/mode/2up ''The Sailor's War, 1914-18''] by Peter H Liddle 1985. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth_b5n3/mode/2up ''The True Glory : the Royal Navy, 1914-1939''] by Max Arthur 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Personal accounts.
*[https://archive.org/details/fishermeninwarti00wood/page/n7 ''Fishermen in War Time''] by Walter Wood (catalogued [1918?]) Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/captiveongermanr00tray ''A Captive on a German Raider''] by F G Trayes 1918. Archive.org The author, who was retiring from [[Thailand|Siam]], was a passenger on a Japanese ship "Hitachi Maru" which was captured by the German "Wolf" on 26 September 1917, two days after leaving Colombo. For more about the "Wolf", see [[Royal Navy]].
*''My Memoirs'' by Grand-Admiral Von Tirpitz [German Navy] 1919. [https://archive.org/details/mymemoirs0000tirp/page/n5/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/mymemoirs0002tirp/page/n7/mode/2up Vol. II] Both Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/germanyshighseaf00sche/page/n9 ''Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War''] by Admiral Scheer [German Navy] 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/gunrunningforcas00spinuoft ''Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion 1916''] by Karl Spindler of the German Navy; translated by W Montgomery and E H McGrath 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/warmutinyrevolut00stum/page/n5/mode/2up ''War, Mutiny, and Revolution in the German Navy; the World War I Diary of Seaman Richard Stumpf''] edited and translated by Daniel Horn 1967. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Naval+operations%22&sort=-date&page=1 Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations]
*[http://www.motorlaunchpatrol.net/bibliography/index.php "Bibliography"]: ML, the RNVR, and/or the Motor Launch Patrol from [http://www.motorlaunchpatrol.net The "Movies": The Ships and Men of the Royal Navy Motor Launch Patrol, 1914-1919] motorlaunchpatrol.net
====Memoirs====
**[https://archive.org/details/fieldhosflyingcolumn00thuruoft/page/n5 ''Field hospital and flying column : being the journal of an English nursing sister in Belgium & Russia''] by Violetta Thurstan 1915 Archive.org. The author was with the Red Cross. Biographical details.<ref>Light, Sue. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/37002-violetta-thurstan/?tab=comments#comment-2818218 Violetta Thurstan] ''Great War Forum'' 23 August, 2005. Retrieved 8 November 2019.</ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violetta_Thurstan Violetta Thurstan] Wikipedia. Following the publication of her book, she was in charge of hospitals in Belgium, and Salonika, and was appointed to the Air Force. She helped in the civil war in Spain in 1937, and served during WW2.
**[https://archive.org/details/survival_through_war_and_revolution_in_russia/mode/2up ''Survival through War and Revolution in Russia''] by D Fedotoff White, [Dimitri] also written as Dmitry Nikolaevich Fedotov-White. 1939. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitrii_Fedotoff-White Dmitrii Fedotoff-White] (Wikipedia) Imperial Russian Navy officer who fought for the White forces during the Russian Civil War. ''Survival'' [https://archive.org/details/survival_through_war_and_revolution_in_russia/page/n201/mode/2up/ page 194] indicates he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. This appears to be from 22 June 1918, and he left in 1919, (demobilised by May). He was known as Daniel Fedotoff White, and was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the DSC. However his British Navy service is not detailed in the book.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofforeign00maur ''Memoirs of the Foreign Legion''] by M. M. [Maurice Magnus, an American who committed suicide in 1920, before the book was published]. With an introduction by D. H. Lawrence. 1925 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Magnus Maurice Magnus] Wikipedia. [https://archive.org/stream/americanfighters00paul#page/154/ Maurice Magnus] page 154 ''American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918'' by Paul Ayres Rockwell 1930 Archive.org. [http://www.booksandwriters.co.uk/F/books-about-the-french-foreign-legion.html Books About The French Foreign Legion] , noting some of the titles are fiction/adventure stories. booksandwriters.co.uk*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92147/page/n5/mode/2up ''A Roumanian Diary''] by Hans Carossa 1929. [https://archive.org/details/roumaniandiary00hans/page/n7/mode/2up 1930 USA version]. Translated by Agnes Neill Scott from the German ''Rumänisches Tagebuch'' (1923/4?). Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Carossa Hans Carossa] Wikipedia. German novelist and poet, WW1 German military doctor.
====Secret Service and Spies====
* ''Indias Services In The War'' by M BL Bhargava 1919 "Popular edition". [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.30918 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''India's Services In The War''. Printed by K D Seth at the Newul Kishore Press, Lucknow 1922.
** [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208554 Vol 1 General Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96290 Vol. 3 United Provinces Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96289 Vol. 4-5 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India, consisting of Vol.4 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96289/page/n5/mode/2up Bengal], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96289/page/n33/mode/2up Bombay], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96289/page/n191/mode/2up Madras], and Vol.5 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96289/page/n335/mode/2up Punjab ] and [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96289/page/n521/mode/2up Central Provinces], each section with separate numbering and indexes.
* ''Patiala and the Great War : a brief history of the services of the Premier Punjab State'' 1923. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34652 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023223906#page/n185/mode/2up Speech by Lord Chelmsford, Governor General of India] mentioning Anglo-Indian Force - Archive.org
**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29652/supplement/6695 To 9th March 1916] ''LGS'' 4 July 1916; [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30360/supplement/11269 To 31st March 1917] ''LGS'' 31 October 1917; [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31235/supplement/3585 To 31st May 1918] ''LGS'' 17 March 1919; [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32007/supplement/8157 To 30 April 1919] ''LGS'' 5 August 1920
* ''Compendium of the More Important Army Order'' 1919. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72295 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Compendium of the More Important Orders of the Government of India, Army Department and India Army Orders issued from the 1st August 1914, to the 31st December 1917''
* ''Deeds of Valour Performed by Indian Officers and Soldiers during the period from 1860 to 1925'' by P P Hypher, Army Department 1927 printed at Simla, is available on the [http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=708&s_id=213 FIBIS database] as a series of many pdf files to download. Depending on your browser, you may need to locate the files in your downloads folder. Contents: The Indian Order of Merit 1860-1913 pages 1-178; IOM 1914-1925 p 230-491; The Victoria Cross p 179; The Military Cross p 187; Foreign Decorations p 210. Includes details of the actions which led to the awards.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210111 ''List of Honors Awarded to the Indian Army''] Archive.org. Full title: ''List of Honors Awarded to the Indian Army August 1914 to August 1921.'' Published 1931. Issued 1930.
*"British and Indian Officers of the Indian Army and Royal Indian Marine, and members of the civil and other Government services in India, who have served as officers in His Majesty’s Forces, and who died in the Great War"
*''The Times History of the War''. Illustrated. 22 Volumes including Index. Appears to be based on (but not a reprint of) the weekly publication by ''The Times'', London from August 25, 1914 to July 27, 1920; Title varied: pts. 64-273, ''The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War''.<ref>
[http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/untoldstories/2016/09/13/i-the-times-history-and-encyclopaedia-of-the-war-its-early-issues-and-ambition/ "I: ‘The Times’ History and Encyclopaedia of the War – its early issues and ambition"] libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk</ref> Individual volumes include Contents, Index (at the end) and alphabetical Index of Illustrations (at the end). '''[https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745814 Vol 22: Index]''' 1921. [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa00newyuoft Vol 1: The Battlefield of Europe] 1914. (This title appears to be the American edition); [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa02londuoft Vol 2], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa03lond Vol 3], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091746051 Vol 4], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa05londuoft Vol 5] all 1915; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091746077 Vol 6], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa07londuoft Vol 7], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa08lond Vol 8], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091746101 Vol 9] all 1916; [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa10lond Vol 10], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwo11unse Vol 11], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa12londuoft Vol 12], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa13londuoft Vol 13] all 1917; [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa14londuoft Vol 14], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa15londuoft Vol 15], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745756 Vol 16], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745764 Vol 17] all 1918; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745772 Vol 18], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745780 Vol 19], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745798 Vol 20] all 1919; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745806 Vol 21] 1920.
*''The "Manchester Guardian" History of the War''. In 9 volumes. [https://www.theguardian.com/gnmeducationcentre/first-world-war-history-teaching-resource-gnm-archive About this publication] theguardian.com. Available to those in North America etc.: [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VJMjAQAAMAAJ Vol. 1], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=r5MjAQAAMAAJ Vol. 2], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JZQjAQAAMAAJ Vol. 3], [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Manchester_Guardian_History_of_the_W.html?id=UJQjAQAAMAAJ Vol. 4] Google Books; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000484450 HathiTrust Vols 1-4]. The series is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002857927 .*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Nelson%27s+History+of+the+War+%29&sort=-date&page=1 ''Nelson’s History of the War''] by John Buchan Archive.org. Link to the 24 volumes in the series, published 1915-1919: ''Vol. 1, From the Beginning of the War to the Fall of Namur; Vol. 2, From the Battle of Mons to the German Retreat to the Aisne; Vol. 3, The Battle of the Aisne and the Events down to the Fall of Antwerp; Vol. 4, The Great Struggle in West Flanders; Vol. 5, The War of Attrition in the West; Vol. 6, The Campaign on the Niemen and the Narev; Vol. 7, From the Second Battle of Ypres to the Beginning of the Italian Campaign; Vol. 8, The Midsummer Campaigns, and the Battles on the Warsaw Salient; Vol. 9, The Italian War, the Campaign at Gallipoli; Vol. 10, The Russian Stand, and the Allied Offensive in the West; Vol. 11, The Struggle for the Dvina, and the Great Invasion of Serbia; Vol. 12, The Retreat from Bagdad, the Evacuation of Gallipoli, and the Derby Report; Vol. 13, The Position at Sea, the Fall of Erzerum, and the First Battle of Verdun; Vol. 14, From the Fall of Kut to the Second Battle of Verdun; Vol. 15, Brussilov’s Offensive and the Intervention of Rumania; Vol. 16, The Battle of the Somme; Vol. 17, From the Opening of the Rumanian Campaign to the Change of Government in Britain; Vol. 18, From the German Overtures for Peace to the American Declaration of War; 19, The Spring Campaigns of 1917; Vol. 20, The Summer Campaigns of 1917; Vol. 21, The Fourth Winter of War; Vol. 22, The Darkest Hour; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088057108 Vol. 23, The Dawn]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461263 Vol. 24, Victory]''.
:A revised, largely rewritten and condensed series was published in 1923 as ''A History of the Great War'' by John Buchan [https://archive.org/details/historyofgreatwa01buch Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/historyofgreatwar02buch Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/historyofgreatwar03buch Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/historyofgreatwa04buch Volume IV] Archive.org.
*''The Illustrated War News'', published weekly by the ''Illustrated London News''
*''The War illustrated Album de Luxe: The Story of the Great European War told by Camera, Pen and Pencil'' edited by J A Hammerton, published 1915-1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/warillustratedal01hammuoft Vol.1 ''The First Phase'']; [https://archive.org/details/warillustratedal02hammuoft Vol.2 ''The Winter Campaign 1914-1915'']; [https://archive.org/details/warillustratedal03hammuoft Vol.3 ''The Spring Campaign-1915'']; [https://archive.org/details/warillustratedal04hammuoft Vol.4 ''The Summer Campaign -1915'']; [https://archive.org/details/warillustratedal05hammuoft Vol.5 ''The Second Winter Campaign -1915-1916]''; [https://archive.org/details/warillustratedal06hammuoft Vol.6 ''The Spring and Summer Campaign of 1916'']; [https://archive.org/details/warillustratedal07hammuoft Vol.7 ''The Autumn Campaign of 1916'']; [https://archive.org/details/warillustratedal08hammuoft Vol.8 ''Ending the First Three Years'']; [https://archive.org/details/warillustratedal09hammuoft Vol.9 ''The Fourth Year, 1917-18'']; [https://archive.org/details/warillustratedal10hammuoft Vol.10 ''The Last Phase'']
:These volumes appear to have most, but not all, of the content of the weekly periodical [https://web.archive.org/web/20121004223948/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/NewsMedia/WarIllustrated.htm ''The War Illustrated''] (greatwardifferent.com, archived). The weekly magazine numbering system was that 26 weekly editions constituted a Volume (Volume 1 was 26 weekly editions 22 August 1914 to 13 February 1915), and the series continued for 234 issues, or nine volumes to 8 February 1919. It appears that there was republication of these nine volumes. The following is a collection of weekly magazines on a date, not volume, basis:[https://archive.org/details/TWI1914 Aug-Dec 1914], [https://archive.org/details/TWI1915pt1 1915:1], [https://archive.org/details/TWI1915pt2 1915:2], [https://archive.org/details/TWI1916pt1 1916:1], [https://archive.org/details/TWI1916pt2 1916:2], [https://archive.org/details/TWI1917pt1 1917:1], [https://archive.org/details/TWI1917pt2 1917:2], [https://archive.org/details/TWI1918pt1 1918:1], [https://archive.org/details/twi1918pt2 1918:2] (1919 not available online). Archive.org. Available at the [[British Library]] to 8 Feb. 1919, and also as Volumes 8 and 9 UIN: BLL01006815546
*[https://hdlcatalog.handlehathitrust.netorg/2027Record/uc1.e0000002139?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 101690197 ''The Great War. The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict'': Volume Volumes 1 [to Aug. 1914<nowiki>]</nowiki>, 4 [1915<nowiki>]</nowiki>, 7 [1915-16<nowiki>]</nowiki>, 9[1917<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Edited by H. W. Wilson full view, and J A Hammerton 1917Volumes 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 restricted to North America etc readers. “Profusely illustrated” . Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. [httphttps://ebookdigitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/CADAL/B31417760V13catalog/ r7820x29w Volume 13 with General Index] University of Hong Kong. A series of 13 volumes, most of which are available on [https://catalogedited by H. W.hathitrustWilson and J A Hammerton 1917.org/Record/101690197 Hathi Trust Digital Library], restricted to North America etc readers"Profusely illustrated" . [https://thegreatwar.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Great_War:The_Standard_History_of_the_All-Europe_Conflict Details of the publication] with a link to a partial transcription of Volume 4. thegreatwar.miraheze.org
*''A Popular History of the Great War'' edited by Sir J A Hammerton c 1933 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. A series of six volumes which is an original narrative "embodying the gist of post-war revelations and official documents" (according to the Editors Introduction) but making use of material from the 13 volume series ''The Great War'', see previous entry. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96728 Vol. 1 1914], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96729 Vol. 2 1915], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96730 Vol. 3 1916], Vol. 4 not online, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96731 Vol. 5 1918], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96732 Vol. 6 Armistice and After]
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Harper%27s+Pictorial+Library+Of+The+World+War%29&sort=-publicdate ''Harper's Pictorial Library Of The World War''] 1920 Archive.org. Links to 12 volumes. The 12 titles are listed on the [https://archive.org/details/HarpersPictorialLibraryOfTheWorldWarV1 Volume 1] file.
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: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
*Collection [https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-war-history-newspaper-clippings/?dates=1900/1999&dl=issue&sb=shelf-id&st=grid ''World War history : daily records and comments as appeared in American and foreign newspapers, 1914-1926''], but mainly to 1918. Use this page to Search the collection. 400 volumes, each approximately 200 pages, of newspaper clippings, completed in 1928. Includes some German and other language extracts. [https://www.loc.gov/item/2004540423/?st=calendar Calendar] to select a particular date to browse. Click on any page for a “Show Text” option. [https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-war-history-newspaper-clippings/about-this-collection/ About this Collection] Library of Congress.
*''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]
*''Preliminary Economic Studies of the War'' edited by David Kinley. A series from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History. A List of the [https://archive.org/details/pricespricecontr00litm/page/n9/mode/1up Issues in the series]
:A later book which is available at the [[British Library]] is ''Prisoners of War in British hands during WWI : a study of their history, the camps and their mails'' by Graham Mark. The Postal History Society, 2007. UIN: BLL01014480516
*''German Prisoners in Great Britain'' published by Tillotson, Bolton and London. A collection of photographs. [https://archive.org/details/germanprisonersi00unse/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org version]; [https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:349611 Villanova University [USA<nowiki>]</nowiki> Digital Library version] with rotatable pages, catalogued 1916.
*[http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll7/id/243 ''Prisoners of War''] by Herbert C. Fooks 1924. Link to pdf downloads in six parts. Combined Arms Research Library [CARL] Digital Library [USA]. Also available to read online at [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b19954?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[https://archive.org/details/myescapefromdoni00plusuoft ''My Escape from Donington Hall : preceded by an Account of the Siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915''] by Kapitanleutnant Gunther Plüschow of the German Air Service. Translated by Pauline de Chary. 1922 Archive.org. Escape of a German officer from an English POW Camp.
*[https://archive.org/details/texts?and%5B%5D=Prisoners+of+War&and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918%22&sort=&page=1 Books on Prisoners of War from Archive.org]. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Prisoners+of+War%29&sort=-publicdate Alternative link for Prisoners of War titled books on Archive.org]. Select your own filters.
*[https://archive.org/details/thewarpensionsallow00hoggrich ''War Pensions and Allowances''] by J. M. Hogge and T. H. Garside 1918 Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100000058387.0x000002 ''The Military Service Act : fully and clearly explained''] by Philip Snowden. 1916? British Library Digital file.
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3474719 "British Emergency Legislation during the Present War"] by Ludwik Ehrlich ''California Law Review'' Vol. 5, No. 6 (Sep., 1917), pp. 433-451 (19 pages)
:[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3473871 "British Emergency Legislation"] by H. Geraldine Lester ''California Law Review'' Vol. 7, No. 5 (Jul., 1919), pp. 323-339 (17 pages). Legislation from April 1917 to December 1918. Both jstor.org
: Some (but seemingly not all) legislation (text of Acts) is available at [https://www.legislation.gov.uk legislation.gov.uk], with Military Service Acts in ''Public General Acts 1917-1918'', [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.91501/page/12/mode/2up Chapter 12, page 13] and ''1918'', [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211062/page/n17/mode/2up Chapter 5, page 7] HMSO. Archive.org
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044080709587?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Ministry of National Service, 1917-1919: Report upon the Medical Department of the Ministry of National Service''] 1920 HMSO. HathiTrust Digital Library. The Medical Department conducted the examinations of all men of Military Age called up for Medical Examination under the Military Service Acts.
*[https://archive.org/details/conscriptioncons00grahrich/page/n5 ''Conscription and Conscience; a History, 1916-1919''] by J W Graham 1922 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/conscriptioncons00grah/page/n5 1971 reprint edition] with a new introduction. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/horsewarillustra00galt ''The Horse and the War''] by Captain Sidney Galtrey. Illustrated from drawings by Captain Lionel Edwards and from photographs. 1918 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/bookofpoemsforbl00bluerich ''A Book of Poems for the Blue Cross Fund (to help horses in war time)''] 1917 Archive.org. Poems about horses.
*[https://archive.org/details/whenthisbloodywa0000arth/mode/2up ''When this bloody war is over : soldiers' songs of the First World War''] by Max Arthur 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/inventionsofgrea00bond2/page/n9/mode/2up ''Inventions of the Great War''] by A. Russell Bond 1919. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.233727/page/n5/mode/2up ''Propaganda Technique in the World War''] by Harold D. Lasswell 1927. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/Ponsonby-FalsehoodInWar-time1928 ''Falsehood In War-time''] by Arthur Ponsonby MP (Lord Ponsonby). Tenth Impression 1940, first published 1928. Archive.org. Full title: ''Falsehood in War-time: Containing an Assortment of Lies Circulated Throughout the Nations During the Great War''.
*[https://archive.org/details/subjectindexofbo00brituoft ''Subject Index of the books relating to the European War, 1914-1918, acquired by the British Museum, 1914-1920''] 1922 Archive.org
*[http://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu%3A110774#page/Front+Cover/mode/2up ''The Child's ABC of the War''] by Geoffrey Whitworth with Pictures by Stanley North 1914. Florida State University Digital Library.
*[https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/topic_knitting.html#books Digital Archive of Documents Related to Knitting] contains the following books as pdfs. Scroll down. ''Knitting and Sewing. How to Make Seventy Useful Articles for Men in the Army and Navy'' by Maud Churchill Nicoll. 1918, 209 pages and ''Khaki Knitting Book'' by Olive Whiting 1917, 58 pages. University of Arizona [https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/index.html On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics]. ''Khaki Knitting Book'' [https://archive.org/details/khakiknittingboo00whit Archive.org version]. [https://archive.org/details/priscillawarwork00pris ''The Priscilla War Work Book, including directions for knitted garments and comfort kits from the American Red Cross, and knitted garments for the Boy Scout''] 1917 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/krl00394014/page/n5/mode/2up ''Practical instruction in cutting out and making up hospital garments for sick and wounded (approved by the Red Cross Society) : knitted articles and women's apparel including dressmaking (illustrated with sheets of diagrams drawn to scale for practical use)''] by Emily Peek 1914 Archive.org*The subscription website ''UK Parliamentary Papers'' includes many Papers and Reports in respect of the First World War. See [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]] for details and suggested access. Your Library needs to have subscribed for the module for this period. Included are War Cabinet Reports. Also available** ''Army. The official names of the battles and other engagements fought by the military forces of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-1919, and the Third Afghan War, 1919. Report of the Battles Nomenclature Committee as approved by the Army Council''. Command Papers/ Accounts and Papers/ Session: 1921/Paper Number: Cmd. 1138.**''General Annual Reports on the British Army (including the territorial force from the date of embodiment) for the period from 1st October, 1913, to 30th September, 1919''. (Acronym sometimes used is GARBA). Command Papers/ Accounts and Papers/ Session: 1921/Paper Number: Cmd. 1193. (Acronym sometimes used is GARBA)
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