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**''Volume I August-October 1914'': [https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio01edmouoft 1922 edition], [https://archive.org/details/3edmilitaryopera01edmouoft Revised text 1937 edition]
**[https://archive.org/details/3edmilitaryopera02edmouoft ''Volume II October-November 1914''] 1925 Archive.org
**From the Digital Library of India, available as pdf downloads. Note these files are/ will become available on Archive.org, in time with the ability to read online.***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210675 1915 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210675 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210676 1915 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210676 Archive.org]***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210678 1916], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210678 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210679 1916 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210679 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210680 1916 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210680 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210677 1916 Appendices], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210677 Archive.org]***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210683 1917 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210683 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210681 1917 Appendices] [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210681 Archive.org], probably to Volume I. (Volume II details follow later).***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210686 1918]: The great German offensive [21st March 1918] and its preliminaries (1935), [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210686 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210684 1918 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210684 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210685 Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210685 Archive.org]
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3480009?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''1917 Volume II 7th June-10th November Messines and Third Ypres (Passchendaele)''] published 1948. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services''. See [[First World War#Historical books online 2|First World War-Historical books online]].
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents'' [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b633844?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Transportation on the Western Front, 1914-1918''] compiled by Colonel AM Henniker, R E (ret) 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/84806 Pdf to download from the Digital Library of India], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84806 Archive.org]
:[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn6454756 Volume of 14 Maps] National Library of Australia, with a description in the [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn6454756 catalogue entry].
*French Official Histories: [http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/arkotheque/inventaires/ead_ir_consult.php?fam=11&ref=FRSHD_AFGG_ead ''Les Armées françaises dans la Grande Guerre''] sga.defense.gouv.fr. French language. Eleven ''Tome''s, some with multiple volumes, mostly about the Western Front. With online maps (Cartes) and at times panoramic sketches (Croquis panoramiques).
*German Official, or semi Official Histories: [http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:at:AT-OOeLB-1155545 ''Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918: die militärischen Operationen zu Lande''] 16 Volumes. [http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:at:AT-OOeLB-1627302 ''Schlachten des Weltkrieges''] 22 Volumes. German language. Maps (Karten) are often at the back of individual volumes, and there may be photographs, all of which can be located by clicking on the Thumbnail gallery, and then selecting specific pages. The Digital State Library of Upper Austria.
*[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] Includes the First World War period, with chapters on the British Expeditionary Force.
*[https://archive.org/details/armyservicecorps00puck ''Army Service Corps of the British Army, and, the organization of the transport and transportation at the front in France : lectures delivered before the officers of the Quartermaster Corps and Quartermaster Reserve Corps at Washington, D.C., May 1917''] by Lieut. Col. F K Puckle, A S C, British Army. Archive.org.
*[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] Includes chapters on the Western Front (Part I).
*[https://archive.org/details/signalserviceine00prie ''The Signal Service in the European War of 1914-1918 (France)''] by R E Priestley (Late Major, R E) 1921 Archive.org. Includes information about the use of [https://archive.org/stream/signalserviceine00prie#page/357/mode/1up carrier pigeons] (Index entry)
**[https://archive.org/stream/signalserviceine00prie#page/10/mode/2up/search/Indian Page 11] includes a very brief reference to the Indian Telegraph units of the Indian Army. These were very likely to have been men from the [[Post and Telegraphs Department|Post and Telegraphs Department]] in India, who were appointed to the Army at the outbreak of war. Also see the following book.
*[https://archive.org/details/withroyalarmyme00vivigoog ''With the Royal Army Medical Corps (R. A. M. C.) at the Front''] by E Charles Vivian 1914 Archive.org. Includes chapters on Composition and Duties, Training etc.
*[https://archive.org/details/surgeoninkhaki01mart ''A Surgeon in Khaki''] by Arthur Anderson Martin 1915 Archive.org. Includes the process of the author’s commission, description of a Field Ambulance structure.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/523918 ''Memoirs Of A Camp Follower''(1934)] by Philip Gosse. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523918 Archive.org] Full title/some editions: ''Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War''. At least one later edition published under the title ''A Naturalist Goes to War''. Includes the following [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420021830/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Rats/Rats_01a.htm extract] (archive.org) relating to his duties following his appointed as Rat Officer to the Second Army. The author was a doctor RAMC, in France and Belgium 1915-1917 who initially served with the 69th Field Ambulance, 23rd Division. He subsequently served in India. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/210.full.pdf+html Review of the book]. JRAMC. Scroll to the end.
*[https://archive.org/details/regimentalsurgeo00dolb ''A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison''] by Captain Robert V Dolbey, RAMC.1917. Archive.org. The author was in France from August 1914, taken a Prisoner of War in October 1914, then repatriated from Germany c March 1915. He later took part in the campaign in [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]].
*[https://archive.org/details/womenasarmysurg00murr ''Women as Army Surgeons; being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919''] by Flora Murray 1920 Archive.org.
***IOR/L/MIL/5/827/1-6 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/827/1 Dec 1916-Feb 1917], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/827/2 Feb 1917-May 1917], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/827/3 Apr 1917-Jul 1917], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/827/4 May 1917-Oct 1917], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/827/5 Aug 1917-Dec 1917], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/827/6 Dec 1917-Mar 1918]
***IOR/L/MIL/5/828/1-3 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/828/1 Jul 1915-May 1918], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/828/2 Dec 1914-Jul 1918], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/828/3 Jun 1915-May 1918]
*[https://archive.org/details/indiancorpsinfra00ltco ''The Indian Corps in France''] by Lt-Colonel J.W.B. Merewether and Sir Frederick Smith. Second edition 1919 (first edition December 1917) Archive.org. To read the book you may require a BitTorrent plug in. Another version from archive.org is catalogued as [https://archive.org/details/TheIndianCorpsInRance ''The Indian Corps in Rance''] and may require a DjVu plug in, or individual pages can be accessed which use the Tiff format. This book is also available as three different pdf downloads on the Digital Library of India: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/54096 Pdf 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.54096 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/173047 Pdf 2], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173047 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/201725 Pdf 3], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201725 Archive.org]
*[http://archive.org/stream/withindiansinfra00will#page/n3/mode/2up ''With the Indians in France''] by Sir James Willcocks 1920 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/withindiansinfra00will#page/382/mode/2up Index], page 383
**[http://archive.org/stream/withindiansinfra00will#page/346/mode/2up List of 'Promotions and Rewards'] page 347-382
*:[https://archive.org/details/companyoftanks00watsrich ''A Company of Tanks''] by Major WHL Watson, 1920 Archive.org
*:[https://archive.org/details/tankinaction00browrich ''The Tank in Action''] by Captain D G Browne 1920 Archive.org
*:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015035242844?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''The Fighting Tanks since 1916''] by Ralph Ernest Jones, Robert Joseph Icks and George Howard Rarey 1933. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284287 pdf download, Digital Library of India]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284287 Archive.org]
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b42511?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Adventures on the Western Front, August, 1914-June, 1915''] by A Rawlinson 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author, then aged 47, volunteered as a driver, who provided his own car, for service at the Front. He was one of a group of 25 volunteers, organised by the Royal Automobile Club (R A C). For a book about later military related service by this author, see [[Norperforce]].
*[https://archive.org/details/mudkhakisketches00bartiala ''Mud and Khaki, Sketches from Flanders and France''] by Vernon Bartlett 1917 Archive.org. Some of these sketches had appeared in the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. The author subsequently became a journalist and politician. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Bartlett Vernon Bartlett] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/warpicturesbehin00malc ''War Pictures Behind the Lines''] by Ian Malcolm M P. 2nd edition, 1915. Archive.org. The author was involved in Red Cross work.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishwardogsth00richrich ''British War Dogs, their Training and Psychology''] by Lt.-Colonel E H Richardson, late Commandant of the British War Dog School. C 1920. Archive.org.
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/221023 ''Forty Years With Dogs''] by E H Richardson 1935. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221023 Archive.org]. [http://www.k9history.com/WWI-biography-ehrichardson.htm "A Biography of E H Richardson"] k9history.com, probably based on the autobiography.
*[https://archive.org/details/generalheadquart00falk ''General Headquarters, 1914-1916, and its Critical Decisions''] by Erich von Falkenhayn. 1919 Archive.org. German Army. English language. Also published in the USA under the title ''The German General Staff and its Decisions, 1914-1916''.
*''Handbook of the German Army in War''. Issued by the General Staff, British Army ”For Official Use Only”. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003075164.0x000002 ''January, 1917'']; [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100009749073.0x000002 ''November, 1918'']. British Library Digital Collections - Universal Viewer.
