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Histories and general
:[https://archive.org/details/armybehindarmy00powe ''The Army behind the Army''] by Major Alexander Powell USA 1919 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/americanarmiesba00wash ''American Armies and Battlefields in Europe: a History, Guide, and Reference Book''] prepared by the American Battle Monuments Commission 1938 Archive.org. A revision of the 1927 publication [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744250?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''A Guide to the American Battlefields in Europe''] HathiTrust Digital Library
:*[https://www.abmc.gov American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)] website. Includes "Search ABMC Burials and Memorials".([http://www.greatwar.co.uk/research/military-records/ww1-service-records.htm#usservicerecords US WW1 Military Service Records] greatwar.co.uk)
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22The+U.S.+Air+Service+In+World+War+I%22%29&sort=titleSorter ''The U.S. Air Service In World War I''] in four volumes, edited by Maurer Maurer, The Office of Air Force History. 1978 Archive.org.
*[http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/index-eng.asp ''Official History of The Canadian Forces in the Great War, 1914-1919''] Scroll to various volumes. Canadian Forces website.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz381969959 ''Die graue Felduniform der deutschen Armee''] 5th edition [1915] Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Read online, or download. [https://archive.org/details/1910000aGraueFelduniform File of images, Archive.org 1910 edition]
*[https://archive.org/details/withgermanarmies00hedi/page/n7 ''With the German Armies in the West''] by Sven Hedin. Translated from the Swedish by H G de Walterstorff 1915 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/withgermanarmies00hediuoft/page/n7 Another version Archive.org] where illustrations may be clearer. The author travelled from Sweden, which was a neutral nation, so that he could view the war with his own eyes, and study the psychology of war.
*Memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger's experiences on the Western Front. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/> First published in 1920, there were many German revisions by the author later published. There have been two English translations, based on different German editions. The 2003 Hofmann translation is considered more literary, but Hofmann was ignorant of which German military matters, whereas the second 1929 translation by Hofmann is generally considered better.Creighton, who had served in the Great War, was more literal<ref> For example, Trajan et al. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/268646-ernst-junger-war-diaries/?do=findComment&comment=2740525 Ernst Junger War Diaries] ''Great War Forum'' 14th February 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019. Review of the review Hofmann translation [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3601190/A-Homer-for-the-20th-century.html "A Homer for the 20th century"] by Daniel Johnson 25 August 2003 ''The Telegraph'' states "Hofmann is better".</ref>and is more accurate from a military point of view.
:[https://archive.org/details/ErnstJngerTheStormOfSteel/page/n3 ''The Storm Of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front''] by Ernst Jünger, Lieutenant, 73rd Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment. Reprint of the 1929 translation [by Basil Creighton of the 1924 German edition]. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/stormofsteel00jung/page/n3 ''Storm of Steel''] by Ernst Jünger. Translated by Michael Hofmann 2003, from the 1961 German edition. Archive.org Lending Library.
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