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*[https://archive.org/details/storyoffourtharm01mont ''The Story of the Fourth Army in the Battles of the Hundred Days, August 8th to November 11th, 1918''] by Major-General Sir Archibald Montgomery, General Staff, Fourth Army 1919 Archive.org.
:Maps issued in a separate case [Volume 2]: [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232726840 19 maps and 5 photographs] National Library of Australia
*[https://archive.org/details/firstdayonsomm00midd ''The First Day on the Somme, 1 July 1916''] by Martin Middlebrook 1972 Archive.org Lending Library. Includes interviews with many survivors, both British and German.
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***[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]
*[https://archive.org/details/gunsofaugust00tuch_gaq ''The Guns of August''] by Barbara Tuchman 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. A narrative of the earliest stages of World War I, from the decisions to go to war, up until the battles of the first month. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_August About the book] Wikipedia. Article [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/03/guns-of-august-barbara-tuchman "''The Guns of August'' showed me how history could bring the past to life"] by Margaret MacMillan ''The Guardian'' 4 August 2014.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57906 ''Real War 1914-1918''] by B H Liddell Hart 1930 Archive.org. An enlarged edition was published as: ''A History of the World War, 1914-1918'', 1934. Reprinted as
:[https://archive.org/details/historyoffirstwo00lidd ''History of the First World War''] by B. H. Liddell Hart 1972 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Liddell_Hart B. H. Liddell Hart] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/germanairforcein00gurduoft ''The German Air Force in the Great War''] by Major Georg Paul Neumann, late of the German Air Force, translated by J E Gurdon 1920 Archive.org. From the original [https://archive.org/details/diedeutschenluf00neumgoog ''Die deutschen Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege''] 1920 Archive.org.
*Some Regimental and Divisional Histories, and some Manuals from the British Library Digital Collection may be accessed by [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do Searching the British Library Main Catalogue], using search term such as Army Great Britain or War Office Great Britain, or specific search terms. Then use side filters, Online, Books. Note: Selecting the filter for date does not appear to be accurate, so it is best to re-order the Search results according to date, and then select those applicable to WW1.
:[https://archive.org/details/doingsoffifteent00glei ''The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915''] by its Commander Brigadier General Count Gleichen (now Major-General Lord Edward Gleichen) 1917 Archive.org
*[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 mirror version] 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.
**[https://archive.org/details/realitiesofwar00gibbuoft ''Realities of War''] by Philip Gibbs 1920. Also published under the title [https://archive.org/details/nowitcanbetold00gibb ''Now it can be told''] 1920. [https://archive.org/details/nowitcanbetold_1406_librivox ''Now It Can Be Told'' Librivox audio version]. This book was written after the war, and not subject to the censorship restrictions applying during the war.
*''The British Campaign in France and Flanders'' by Arthur Conan Doyle. Mainly Archive.org. [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/britishcampaigni05doyl ''January to July 1918 Volume V''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/cihm_76792 ''July to November 1918 Volume VI''] 1920, [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks12/1202601h.html ''Volume VI'' Project Gutenberg Australia transcribed version] where maps may be clearer.
*[https://archive.org/details/lastdaysoffortva00borduoft ''The Last Days of Fort Vaux, March 9-June 7, 1916''] by Henry Bordeaux, translated by Paul V Cohn [c 1917] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/oldfrontline01mase ''The Old Front Line''] by John Masefield 1917 Archive.org. The old front line as it was when the Battle of the Somme began.
*[https://archive.org/details/firstdayonsomm00midd ''The First Day on the Somme, 1 July 1916''] by Martin Middlebrook 1972 Archive.org Lending Library. Includes interviews with many survivors, both British and German.
*[https://archive.org/details/storyoffourtharm01mont ''The Story of the Fourth Army in the Battles of the Hundred Days, August 8th to November 11th, 1918''] by Major-General Sir Archibald Montgomery, General Staff, Fourth Army 1919 Archive.org.
:Maps issued in a separate case [Volume 2]: [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232726840 19 maps and 5 photographs] National Library of Australia
*[https://archive.org/details/notesfromcalaisb00mont ''Notes from Calais Base, and pictures of its many activities''] by C E Montague 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_71054 ''Quick training for war : a few practical suggestions illustrated by diagrams''] by Lieut.General Sir Robert Baden-Powell. 1914 Archive.org. A digitised microfilm.
*[https://archive.org/details/brasshatinnomans00fran ''A Brass Hat in No Man's Land''] by Brig.-Gen. F P Crozier 1930. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Percy_Crozier Frank Percy Crozier] Wikipedia. He commanded the 9th (Service) Battalion of the 107th (Ulster) Brigade and subsequently commanded the 119th (Welsh) Brigade.
* "The Winter of 1916-17" by Capt G D Mitchell 10th and 48th Battns AIF, a series of articles appearing in ''Reveille'', published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch, commencing in [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV193412.1.17&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ December 1934, page 15 (digital 17)] and continuing each month to at least October 1935. reveille.dlconsulting.com. Scroll from one issue to the next.There is reference elsewhere to further articles in Feb 1936 and Sept/Oct 1936. [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mitchell-george-deane-11137 Mitchell, George Deane (1894–1961)] Australian Dictionary of Biography. Also see [[Gallipoli]] for another series of articles.
*[https://archive.org/details/liddellhartmemoi00lidd ''The Liddell Hart Memoirs 1895-1938 Volume I''] 1965. Archive.org Lending Library. The author became an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Liddell_Hart B. H. Liddell Hart] Wikipedia. Military historian and military theorist.
