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*[https://archive.org/details/Mapsartilleryboards ''Maps and Artillery Boards'']. Reprinted 1917 by Army War College, Washington, [USA] from a Pamphlet issued by the British General Staff 1916
*[https://archive.org/details/listofconvention00unitrich ''List of conventional signs and abbreviations in use on French and German maps''] compiled by Second Section, General Staff (Topography) [USA Army] 1918 Archive.org.
:[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990067955990203941/catalog ''Conventional map signs, British and French'' [Military<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Also some German. Printed by U.S. Geological Survey, 1918. Harvard University Digital Library.
*[https://www.poigraves.uk Download Accurate POI [Point Of Interest<nowiki>]</nowiki> Satnav files for free!] Useful when visiting [[Cemeteries#CWGC|CWGC]] cemeteries. poigraves.uk
*Also see next section "Historical books online" for some maps, including sections "Histories and General", "Prisoners of War" and "German Army"
***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210686 1918]: ''The German March Offensive 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]
**The Ancestry owned pay website fold3 contains many online books in the above series, perhaps the entire series, consisting of online versions of reprints from Naval & Military Press, under the title [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ84WXU8hdLDbb5xIEV ''Military Operations France & Belgium''], a total of 9421 digital pages from multiple books. (Located in World War II/ Military Books/France, letter M)
*[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990056588280203941/catalog ''Despatch, dated 23rd December, 1916, from General Sir Douglas Haig, G.C.B., relating to the operations on the western front including the Battle of the Somme''] London : Printed under the authority of H.M.S.O. 1917. Harvard University Digital Library.
:[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990088393030203941/catalog ''Despatch from Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig ... covering the period from 8th December, 1917, to 30th April, 1918''] London : Printed under the authority of H.M.S.O. 1918. Harvard University Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/despatchesoflord00fren ''The Despatches of Lord French : Mons, the Marne, the Aisne, Flanders, Neuve Chapelle, the second battle of Ypres, Loos, Hohenzollern Redoubt, and a complete list of the officers and men mentioned''] 1917 Archive.org.
*Books by two out of 25 volunteer members of the RAC [Royal Automobile Club] Contingent, who volunteered with their own car, who were sent officially by the War Office to drive officers of the General Headquarters Staff at the front. As a result, they were in constant contact with very senior officers, and personally observed the course of events over a wide field. It seems they officially joined the Army, and were given officer status.
*[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.
*[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990055782080203941/catalog ''The victory of the Marne : the enemy's onslaught, order to stand firm, the battle, immediate results, historic consequences''] by Louis Madelin ; translated from the original French by Lilly M. Grove 1917. Part of the series ''Studies and documents on the war''. Harvard University Digital Library.
*[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
====Miscellaneous====
*[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990067801010203941/catalog ''Notes on uniforms and insignia : French, Belgian, British, German''] compiled and edited at the [USA] Army War College, December 1917. Harvard University Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/500ofbestcockney00lond ''500 of the Best Cockney War Stories''] Reprinted from the London ''Evening News''. 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/selfpronouncing900rand ''Self pronouncing 9,000 names of places in the war zones: Belgium, Germany, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Austria-Hungary, Italy, France''] 1919, published USA. Archive.org
