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*''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War, etc''. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-I/#/1/ Volume I], [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-II/#/1/ Volume II] lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. To view the file, Flash must be enabled. If you see a Flash icon, click on it. Published c 1917 as a two volume set, c 900 pages, and also published as a five volume set. [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/deeds-that-thrill-the-empiretrue-stories-of-the-most-glorious-acts-of-heroism-of-the-empires-soldiers-and-sailors-during-the-great-war/ Information about the contents] (naval-military-press.com) advises 56 VCs are covered.
→Historical books online
:[https://archive.org/details/greatmunitionfea00dewarich ''The Great Munition Feat, 1914-1918''] by George A B Dewar 1921 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/doingtheirbitwar00ewarrich ''Doing their Bit: War Work at Home''] by Boyd Cable 2nd impression 1916 (first printed 1916 also) Archive.org. Also see [[Western Front]] for works of fiction by this author.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.10161/page/n1230/mode/1up "Women’s War Work"] Page 1054, Volume 32 ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' 12th edition 1922. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/helmetsbodyarmor00deanuoft ''Helmets and body armor in modern warfare''] by Bashford Dean 1920. [https://archive.org/details/metmuseum-Helmets_and_Body_Armor_in_Modern_Warfare Another file] (images differ in colour) Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/motorcycle16lond_ ''The Motor Cycle'']. Link is to ''Volume 16'', January to June 1916. Links for other available online volumes may be accessed [https://archive.org/search.php?query=publisher%3A%22London+%3A+%27The+Motor+Cycle%27%22&sort=-date here]. Archive.org. Mention of Despatch Riders and the Motor Machine Gun Service (MMGS).
*[https://archive.org/details/secretservice00geor ''Secret Service''] by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org
*[[The National Archives]] series KV1 ''The Security Service: First World War Historical Reports and Other Papers'' is available as a series of free downloads from the National Archives website, [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C15043 catalogue entry]. This series contains the official history of the Security Service work during World War I. The duties of the Security Service were principally the control of aliens within and entering the UK, and counter-espionage within the UK and within the Empire.
*[https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1704 ''Detective & Secret Service Days''] by Edwin T Woodhall 1929. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". Extracts from the book: [https://web.archive.org/web/20180804131912/https://pixelsurgery.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/edwin-wood-hall-detective-part-1.pdf "Book I" pages 31-122], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180804131357/https://pixelsurgery.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/toplis-sectret-service-days.pdf "Book II Secret Service Days", pages 125-162], of 282 pages in total. Archive.org. The 1937 edition was titled ''Detective and Secret Service Days''. The author chronicles his experiences beginning briefly with his early days in 1906 in the London Metropolitan Police Force, and then on to when he subsequently became attached to the CID at Scotland Yard, the Special Political Department, the Secret Service Department and the Special Central Department. Part of the book is discussed in an article.<ref>[https://pixelsurgery.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/secret-service-days-woodhall/ "Monocled Mutineer, Percy Toplis"] pixelsurgery.com</ref> [http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rip-woodhall.html Details of the author] casebook.org. He was also the author of ''Spies of the Great War : adventures with the Allied Secret Service'' by Edwin T. Woodhall 1932.Extracts from the latter book are included in [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.440855/page/n7 ''Fifty Amazing Secret Service Dramas''] c 1937? Archive.org
*The following book appears to have been published under three slightly different titles: ''Memoirs Of A British Agent''; ''Memoirs of a British agent : being an account of the author's early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1918''; and ''British Agent'', by R H Bruce Lockhart 1932. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80541 Archive.org version]; two transcribed formats: [http://www.gwpda.org/wwi-www/BritAgent/BATC.htm#TC gwpda.org] and [http://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/Lockhart-MemoirsBritishAgent.pdf spyculture.com]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._H._Bruce_Lockhart R. H. Bruce Lockhart] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/mysecretservicev00manwrich ''My Secret Service: Vienna--Sophia--Constantinople--Nish--Belgrade--Asia Minor, etc''] by 'The Man Who Dined With the Kaiser' 1916. Archive.org. The author was in Constantinople when the evacuation of Gallipoli was announced. [http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23605620 A press report of the time] indicates the author was a special reporter representing the London ''Daily Mail'', and speculates he was a Dutchman.
**[https://archive.org/stream/empireatwar035445mbp#page/n3/mode/2up ''The Empire at War Volume V Part IV: India''] by Sir Francis Younghusband Edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas 1926 [https://archive.org/stream/empireatwar035445mbp#page/n7/mode/2up Contents] Archive.org
*''Gazette of india'' and ''Calcutta Gazette'' - for editions published during the war period, see [[Gazette of India and Calcutta Gazette (First World War)|separate list]].
*''Turmoil and Tragedy in India, 1914 and After'' by Lieut.-General Sir George MacMunn 1935 is available on the Digital Library of India , catalogued as ''Turmoil The Tragedy In India 1914''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.177667 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx The British Library digitised manuscripts] include some India Office Records relating to the First World War. A search using the key word India, and adjustment of the dates will locate the documents , or the direct links include
**IOR/L/MIL /17/5/2383 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Ior/l/mil/17/5/2383 ''India’s Contribution to the Great War''] published by authority of the Government of India 1923. [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=ior!l!mil!17!5!2383_f004r Contents], including a List of Battles and Engagements. Also available in an [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32085 Archive.org version], and as a [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/19710 Pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE]-Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India].
** Also see the various campaign pages, mentioned below.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/99255 ''Role Of Indian Army In The First World War''] by Shyam Narain Saxena 1987 is available as a pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99255 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ASZvjTV1LdUC&pg=PP1 ''India and the First World War''] by Budheswar Pati 1996 Google Books
*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31476/supplement/9537 "Despatch: Brief review of the part played by India, including the Native States, in the prosecution of the war"] by General Munro, Commander-in-Chief in India ''London Gazette Supplement'' 25 July 1919, Supplement 31476, pages 9537-9549.
* ''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. Also available [http://hdl.handle.net/10689/17961 Volume III United Provinces], [http://hdlconsisting of Vol.handle.net/10689/26822 Volume IV 4 Bengal, Bombay] Pdf downloads from DSpace at West Bengal State Central Library. Alternative links for the latter: [http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/handle/10689/17961 , Madras, and Vol. III]5 Punjab and Central Provinces, [http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/handle/10689/26822 Vol. IV]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
====History series and periodical publications====
*''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.
