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Historical books online
*''Official History of the War: History of the Great War based on Official Documents''. [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/24853 ''History of the Blockade of Germany and of the countries associated with her in the Great War: Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, 1914-1918''] by A C Bell 1961 HMSO. Reprint of 1937 original edition, which was for official purposes only and was not generally released. Pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India]. Note, there are two downloads. The first download is an extract of 149 pages , consisting of Contents etc and Appendices, out of a total of 845 pages. The second download is the entire book.
*[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/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''.
*[https://archive.org/details/economicsocialhi07carn_0 ''An Economic Chronicle of the Great War for Great Britain & Ireland 1914-1919. With a Supplement dealing briefly with the years 1920, 1921 and 1922''] by N B Nearle 1929 Archive.org. A book in the series ''Economic And Social History Of The World War British Series''. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
*[https://archive.org/details/economicsocialhi09carn_0 ''The Consequences of the War to Great Britain''] by Francis W Hirst 1934 Archive.org. A book in the series ''Economic And Social History Of The World War British Series''. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.37675 ''German Atrocities: An Official Investigation''] by J H Morgan 1916 Archive.org.
==== Corps, Munitions, Equipment, Railways etc.====
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284463 ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II''] by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Link to an Adobe pdf download. Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org version]. 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.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/274726 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War''] by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 Archive.org version]. Includes chapters on the Western Front (Part I) and chapters on Other Arenas (Part II): The Home Base; the Base in the Levant and Mediterranean [Egypt]; Gallipoli; Salonika; Palestine; Mesopotamia; East Africa; Italy; Russia and Siberia.
:[https://archive.org/details/tankslogbookofpi00ster ''Tanks, 1914-1918; the Log-Book of a Pioneer''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Albert G Stern 1919. Missing at least the first illustration. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924027835176 2nd file] Both Archive.org
:There are additional online Tank books linked on the page [[Western Front]].
*[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''.*''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).
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