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General history of the war, including origins
:Details of Red Cross work may be found in the 1921 HMSO publication of 823 pages: ''Reports by the Joint War Committee and the Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England on voluntary aid rendered to the sick and wounded at home and abroad and to British prisoners of war 1914–1919, with appendices'', now available in a reprint<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/voluntary-aid-rendered-to-the-sick-and-wounded-at-home-and-abroad-and-to-british-prisoners-of-war-1914-1919/ ''Reports by the Joint War Committee and the Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England on voluntary aid rendered to the sick and wounded at home and abroad and to British prisoners of war 1914–1919, with appendices''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> edition, which in turn is available to read online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, refer Historical books online below.
*[http://fau.quaker.org.uk The Friends Ambulance Unit] was set up by Quakers in the UK during World War I. The personnel records from this service are now available to search online. Library of the Religious Society of Friends, London, NW1.
*[http://museumstjohn.org.uk Museum of the Order of St John], Clerkenwell, London, EC1. The Museum contains an Archive which includes First World War holdings. The website also includes links to online editions of [http://museumstjohn.org.uk/research/st-john-archive/ ''First Aid. The Independent Journal for the Ambulance and Nursing Services''] (scroll down). Journals , with additions from 1912 1896 to 19201957. The actual online journals are held on the website issuu.com, together with some other publications.
== Related articles ==
*[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 available [https://archive.org/details/frothingham-thomas-g.-a-guide-to-the-millitary-history-of-the-world-war/page/n3/mode/1up Archive.org] (different file). 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], [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo02howl/mode/2up Vol. II 2nd file] 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.
==== Corps, Munitions, Equipment, Railways etc.====
*[https://archive.org/details/businessofwar00marc/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Business of War''] by Isaac F Marcosson 1918. Archive.org. The Quartermaster General (QMG) of the British Army and the Army Service Corps.
* ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with chapters on the British Expeditionary Force , [[Gallipoli]], [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|the Balkans]], [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt and Palestine]], [[Mesopotamia Campaign|Mesopotamia]], [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]], Italy, North Russia, England and India.
:[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). Also available [https://archive.org/details/canteensbritisharmy/page/n13/mode/2up Archive.org]. Includes WW1, when the organisation was known as the Expeditionary Force Canteen, EFC. It appears that at least in the later years of WW1, Canteen personnel were either Army Service Corps personnel, or were administered by the ASC. Medals awarded were inscribed Canteens.
====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 and Appendices 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). [https://archive.org/details/war-air-v7/page/n7/mode/2up ''Appendices'' [Volume VII<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Archive.org. Includes Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS).
*[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28%22The%20Great%20War%20in%20the%20Air%22%29%20AND%20creator%3A%28Middleton%29 ''The Great War in the Air Volumes 1-4''] by Edgar Middleton 1920 Archive.org
*[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/casualties-honours-rfcmilw/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[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. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/sea-soldiers/page/n15/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*Submarines
:[https://archive.org/details/submarinesmines00domv/page/n7/mode/2up ''Submarines, mines and torpedoes in the war''] by Charles W Domville-Fife 1914 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/journalofsubmari0000fors/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner''] translated from the German by Mrs Russell Codman 1917. An abridged translation of a 1916 book by Georg-Günther Freiherr(n) von Forstner, commander of the first German U-boat. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/journal_submarine_commander_1101_librivox Librivox recording, English language] Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/alsubootskommand00fors/page/n5/mode/2up ''Als U Boots Kommandant gegen England''] 1916 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/submarineantisub00newbuoft/page/n9 ''Submarine and Anti-submarine''] by Henry Newbolt 1918 Archive.org.
:In 1999 there was a 6 volume reprint by Trident Press International of the 13 Volume series under the original title, and also under the title ''The Great War -the Illustrated History of the First World War'' with Volume 1 also titled ''Opening Moves'' and Volume 4 ''Carnage''. [https://archive.org/details/greatwarstandard0003unse/page/n5/mode/2up 1999 reprint edition of original Volume 3 and Volume 4] Archive.org Books to Borrow.
*''A Popular History of the Great War'' edited by Sir J A Hammerton c 1933 Archive.org, most from the 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], [https://archive.org/details/popularhistoryof0004sirj/page/n5/mode/2up Vol. 4 1917], [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?query=%22The+Children%27s+Story+of+the+War%22&sort=publicdate ''The Children's Story of the War''] by Sir Edward Parrott. Ten volumes published 1915-1919. Archive.org
*[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.
*''The Story of the Great War''. Published by Collier and Son, New York in sixteen volumes. [https://archive.org/details/storyofgreatwarc02reyniala Scroll down to Contents outline]. There is an associated eight volume series, (perhaps condensed to 80%, with fewer illustrations) with some editions titled ''The Story of the Great War. History of the European War from Official Sources. Complete Historical Record of Events to date''. Edited by Francis J Reynolds and Allen L Churchill , published c 1916-1920.
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_990873/page/n35/mode/2up "The British Postal Censorship"] Chapter III, page 18 ''The Note-book of an Intelligence Officer'' by Eric Fisher Wood 1917 Archive.org
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100007658957.0x000002 ''The London Censorship 1914-1919''] by members of the staff past and present. Great Britain. Postal Censor's Department. [London, 1920] , British Library Digital Collection.
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER726701 ''Digger Dialects : a Collection of Slang Phrases used by the Australian Soldiers on Active Service''] by W.H. Downing, late 57th Battalion, AIF. [1919]. State Library of Victoria. Some of the words were probably also used by British and other soldiers. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Downing W. H. Downing] (Wikipedia) was also the author of ''To the Last Ridge'' 1920 and reprint editions [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=u8d1DwAAQBAJ Sample pages Google Books].
*[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.
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