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*[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 Considered to provide "a good overview, although a little outdated".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.
*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/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/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/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====
*''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''
*[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.
