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Historical books online
**[https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthaf00buchrich ''The History of the South African Forces in France''] by John Buchan 1920 Archive.org
*''The British Campaign in France and Flanders'' by Arthur Conan Doyle [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni01doyl ''1914 Volume I''] 2nd Edition 1916; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni02doyluoft ''1915 Volume II''] 2nd Edition 1917; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign03doyl ''1916 Volume III''] 1918; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni04doyluoft ''1917 Volume IV''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign00doyluoft ''January to July 1918 Volume V''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/cihm_76792 ''July to November 1918 Volume VI''] 1920. Archive.org.
*'''Medical Services'''**''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services'', and other books regarding Medical Services. See [[First World War#Historical books online 2|First World War-Historical books online]].**[https://archive.org/details/WW1ArmyMedDeptHistV8 ''The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War Volume 8: Field Operations''] Prepared under the direction of Maj Gen M W Ireland, Surgeon General 1925. Archive.org. Mainly about the Western Front. Other volumes in this series [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28medicine%29+AND+title%3A%28The+Medical+Department+of+the+United+States+Army+in+the+World+War%29&sort=-date Archive.org]**[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.**[https://archive.org/details/withfieldambulan00boyduoft ''With a Field Ambulance at Ypres : being letters written March 7-August 15, 1915''] by William Boyd 1916. Archive.org. The author was a doctor.**[https://archive.org/details/fieldambulancesk00londuoft ''Field Ambulance Sketches''] by A Corporal. 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.**[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.**[https://archive.org/details/onbattlescarredf00luri ''On the Battle-Scarred Fields of France. A Physician's Impressions of the Medical Services of both French and German Armies''] by Adolfo Luria 1918 Archive.org**Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader as [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Hospitals%2C+charities%2C+etc%22&sort=-date World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals, charities, etc] Many are about the Western Front.**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000004064699?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 '' "Sister"; the War Diary of a Nurse''] [during 1918] by Helen Dore Boylston 1927 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Boylston was an American nurse who left for France with the Harvard Surgical Unit, where she worked at General Hospital No. 22, British Expeditionary Force at Étaples. [https://authorsreallives.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/helen-dore-boylston-1895-1984-part-ii/ Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984)- Part II: War Service] authorsreallives. She subsequently became a well known author of the ''Sue Barton, Nurse'' series of books for girls.
*[https://archive.org/details/ArnoldLeeseOutOfStep ''Out of Step: Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor''] by Arnold Spencer Leese. 1951 Archive.org. Born 1878, during WW1 Leese was an Army Veterinary Surgeon on the Western Front working with horses, with a prior short period in East Africa, and later also purchased camels for the Army in Somaliland. In the late 1920s he became a British Fascist polititian.
*'''Secret Service and Spies'''
**[https://archive.org/details/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts''] by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org
**[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
**[https://archive.org/stream/yearofchivalry00cand#page/102/mode/2up "The Drabi"] [Mule Driver] page 103.
*[https://archive.org/stream/heroesheroicdeed00mackiala#page/98/mode/2up "Indians' Daring Feats"], page 99 ''Heroes and Heroic Deeds of the Great War'' by Donald A Mackenzie 1916. Archive.org. A book for younger readers.
*'''Army Service Corps'''**[https://archive.org/details/frommonstoloosbe00stewuoft ''From Mons to Loos : being the Diary of a Supply Officer''] by Major Herbert A Stewart Army Service Corps 1916 Archive.org.**[https://archive.org/details/lofclinesofcommu00agatrich ''L. of C. (Lines of Communication): being the Letters of a Temporary Officer in the Army Service Corps''] by Captain James E Agate 1917 Archive.org.**[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46283 ''The Motor-Bus in War: Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half 
Years at the Front''] by A. M. Beatson (Temp. Lieut. A.S.C.) 1918 Gutenberg.org. The author was an Army Service Corps officer in the Mechanical Transport Supply Column of an Indian Cavalry Division. Elsewhere, the ASC company is recorded as being the 1st Indian Cavalry Division Supply Column which was 89 Coy ASC.<ref>Larkin, Roy. [http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?48009-The-Motor-Bus-in-War-A-M-Beatson-1918&p=434811#post434811 The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918] ''Historic Military Vehicle Forum'' 8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.</ref>'']*'''Artillery'''
**[https://archive.org/details/withguns00foof ''With the Guns''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
*:[https://archive.org/details/makingofgunner00streiala ''The Making of a Gunner''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/leavesfromoffice00craw ''Leaves from an Officer's Notebook''] by Eliot Crawshay-Williams 1918 Archive.org. The author was in a Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force). Also includes service in Egypt.
**[https://archive.org/details/yearsinfrance00roseuoft ''Three Years in France with the Guns : being episodes in the life of a Field Battery''] by C A Rose, late of the Royal Field Artillery. 1919 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19814 Gutenberg.org version] where photographs may be easier to view.
*'''Despatch Riders'''
**[https://archive.org/details/advdespatchrider00watsuoft ''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''] by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org
*:Captain WHL Watson was also the author of ''Tales of a Gaspipe Officer'' by Despatch Rider. ‘Military cyclists are popularly known as Gaspipe Cavalry’ ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' Nos 198, 199 and 201, December 1915-March 1916, and January 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/794/mode/2up/ Page 795], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/76/mode/2up page 76], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/246/mode/2up page 246], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/360/mode/2up page 360], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi201edinuoft#page/44/mode/2up/ page 45].
**[https://archive.org/details/daredevilofarmye00aust ''The Daredevil of the Army : Experiences as a "Buzzer" and Despatch Rider''] by Captain A P Corcoran 1918 Archive.org
*'''Machine Guns'''
**[https://archive.org/details/overtopbyamerica00empe ''"Over the Top" by an American soldier who went. Arthur Guy Empey, Machine Gunner, serving in France. Together with Tommy’s Dictionary of the Trenches''] 1918 Archive.org. The author, an American, joined the British Army (Royal Fusiliers). After a period he served in the Brigade Machine Gun Company (page 158), then became a a special MP detailed on intelligence work in the front line (page 193). Also available as an audio book from [https://archive.org/details/overthetop_0812_librivox Librivox], Archive.org.
*:[https://archive.org/details/talesfromadugout00empeiala ''Tales from a Dugout''] by Arthur Guy Empey 1918 Archive.org.
**[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003297938.0x000002 ''A Brief Narrative of the Guards Machine Gun Battalion during the year 1918''] by Lieut.-Colonel R. Bingham. With an appendix entitled "Machine-Gun Tactics and Organisation." 1931. Typescript manuscript. British Library Digital Collection.
**[https://archive.org/details/canadianemmagees00grafuoft ''The Canadian Emma Gees; a History of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps''] by Lt-Col C S Grafton 1938 Archive.org
*'''Tanks '''
**[https://archive.org/details/tanksbyrequestwi00swin_0 ''The "Tanks" : (by request, and with permission)''] by Colonel E.D. Swinton, Royal Engineers. 1918. Reprinted from ''The World’s Work'' (a monthly magazine, published in New York). [https://archive.org/details/tanksbyrequestwi00swin Same title, reprinted from the ''Strand Magazine''] 1925 Archive.org.
*:[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015007039616;view=1up;seq=11 ''Eyewitness. Being Personal Reminiscences of Certain Phases of the Great War, Including the Genesis of the Tank''] by Major-General Sir Ernest D Swinton, R E (Retired) 1933 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available on [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210464 Archive.org. Digital Library of India Collection] 1932 edition.
**[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]
*[https://archive.org/details/withcavalryinwes00aqui ''With the Cavalry in the West''] by "Aquila" [J D Delius] 1922 Archive.org
*[httphttps://hdlarchive.handle.netorg/2027details/uc1.$b42511?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 onrightofbritish01nobb ''Adventures on On the Right of the Western Front, August, 1914-June, 1915British Line''] by A Rawlinson 1925 Hathi Trust Digital LibraryCaptain Gilbert Nobbs (late L.R. B.) [London Rifle Brigade] 1917 Archive.org. Some editions are titled ''Englishman, Kamerad! Right of the British Line''. The authorwas blinded in battle, then aged 47, volunteered as and became a driver, who provided his own car, for service at the FrontPOW. [https://qormuseum. He was one org/soldiers-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]-queens-own/nobbs-henry-gilbert/ Biographical details]qormuseum.org
*[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/cu31924027894751 ''Bullets & Billets''] by Bruce Bairnsfather 2nd edition 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/nothingofimporta01adam ''"Nothing of Importance": Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion''] by Bernard Adams 1918 Archive.org. Elsewhere, the regiment is stated to be the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/nothing-of-importance.-a-record-of-eight-months-at-the-front-with-a-welsh-battalion-october-1915-to-june-1916.html Naval & Military Press]</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/ladiesfromhel00pink ''"Ladies from Hell"''] by R Douglas Pinkerton 1918. The author was a member of the London Scottish.
*[https://archive.org/details/combedout00voiguoft ''Combed Out''] by F A Voigt 1920 Archive.org. The author subsequently became an influential journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Augustus_Voigt Frederick Augustus Voigt] Wikipedia.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100103993?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Confessions of a Private''] by Frank Grey, late 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. 1920. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[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/towardflamewardi00herv ''Toward the Flame : a War Diary''] by Hervey Allen 1934, first published 1926 Archive.org
 
*[https://archive.org/details/undertonesofwar00edmu ''Undertones of War''] by Edmund Blunden 1929 Archive.org
 *[https://archive.org/details/gunsofaugust00tuch_gaq ''The Guns of August''] by Barbara Tuchman 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. First you must register. Only one person at a time is able to read the book, as in a 'real' library, so you may need to go on a waiting list.*''The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington'' 1920. [An autobiography]. [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar01repi Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar19100repi Volume II] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_à_Court_Repington Charles à Court Repington] 1858-1925. Wikipedia. He was a former British Army Officer who was military correspondent for ''The Times'' 1904–1918, who had many influential contacts with officers in the Army's highest ranks.*[https://archive.org/details/reporteratarmage00irwirich ''A Reporter at Armageddon: Letters from the Front and Behind the Lines of the Great War''] by Will Irwin. 1918. The author was an American journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Irwin The author's Wikipedia page].*[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.
*Prisoners of War
**[https://archive.org/details/ofmainprisoncmap00poperich ''Map of the main prison camps in Germany and Austria, with Gazeteer''] by Mrs Pope Hennessy. Catalogued 1920. Printed in London. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/ofmainprisoncmap00poperich#page/n5/mode/1up Map]
**[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JUTM5NV4GRHSMEKA6RUKYA6RZZ67WQJH German Map of the main French prison camps, labor commandos and hospitals] 1917. Karte der wichtigsten französischen Gefangenenlager, Arbeitskommandos u. Lazarette. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Some additional camps are also mentioned.<ref>CROONAERT [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/248554-german-map-of-the-main-french-prison-camps-labor-commandos-and-hospitals/&do=findComment&comment=2506307 German Map of the main French prison camps, labor commandos and hospitals] ''Great War Forum'' 21 March 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.</ref>
**[https://archive.org/details/prisonerofwar00warnuoft ''Prisoner of War''] by André Warnod. Tranlated by M Jourdain 1916 Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/captured00doug ''Captured: Sixteen Months as a Prisoner of War''] by Lieut. J Harvey Douglas, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles. 1918 Archive.org. Later in his captivity the author was transferred to Switzerland,
**[https://archive.org/details/britishinternedi00pico ''The British interned in Switzerland''] by Lieut.-Colonel H P Picot 1919 Archive.org.
*:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022553586.0x000002?bt=europeanaapi#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-916.7904%2C0%2C4102.5809%2C2958 Issue No 16 February 15, 1916] British Library Digital file. The British Library has additional digital files for Issues 17-27 (September 1916). To access, through the [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?menuitem=0&fromTop=true&fromPreferences=false&fromEshelf=false&vid=BLVU1 Main Catalogue], use the search term BLL01016586686 Then click on "I want this', select the required edition, and click Go. Alternatively, rather than using the Main Catalogue, the digital file for Issue 16, on the right hand side of the page, has an item "View the catalogue record".
**Also see [[First World War#Historical books online|First World War - Historical books online]] for more online books about Prisoners of War.
*''The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington'' 1920. [An autobiography]. [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar01repi Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar19100repi Volume II] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_à_Court_Repington Charles à Court Repington] 1858-1925. Wikipedia. He was a former British Army Officer who was military correspondent for ''The Times'' 1904–1918, who had many influential contacts with officers in the Army's highest ranks.
*[https://archive.org/details/reporteratarmage00irwirich ''A Reporter at Armageddon: Letters from the Front and Behind the Lines of the Great War''] by Will Irwin. 1918. The author was an American journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Irwin The author's Wikipedia page].
*[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/irishnunsatypres00coluuoft ''The Irish Nuns at Ypres : an Episode of the War''] by D M C [Dame M Columban], (Member of the Community) [Benedictines] 1915 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/scavengerinfranc00bellrich ''A Scavenger in France : being Extracts from the Diary of an Architect, 1917-19''] by William Bell 1920 Archive.org. The author was a member of the F W V R C, Friends’ War-Victims’ Relief Committee, a Quaker organization.
*[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.orgversion]. [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/enemywithinhit00john ''The enemy within, hitherto unpublished details of the great conspiracy to corrupt and destroy France''] by Severance Johnson. Translation by Edgard Leon. 1920 Archive.org.
*''Les Archives de la Grande Guerre [et de l'histoire contemporaine]''. French language.
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