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 Considered to provide "a good overview, although a little outdated".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