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***[https://archive.org/details/battleofsommesec00buch ''The Battle of the Somme, Second Phase''] [1917] A more detailed account.
**[https://archive.org/details/longroadtovictor00buchuoft ''The Long Road to Victory''] edited by John Buchan 1920. Each chapter is a personal account. [https://archive.org/stream/longroadtovictor00buchuoft#page/n11/mode/2up Contents]
**[https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthaf00buchrich ''The History of the South African Forces in France''] by John Buchan 1920 Archive.org. Also see [[Western Front#Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general|next category]], under Royal Engineers for some details of South African Engineers units who served in France.
*Books by Philip Gibbs, mainly Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Gibbs Philip Gibbs] Wikipedia. Along with four other men he was officially accredited as a war correspondent, his work appearing in the ''Daily Telegraph'' and ''Daily Chronicle''.
**[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027819691 The Soul of the War] 1916, first published 1915
:[https://archive.org/details/sommemacd00macd ''Somme''] by Lyn Macdonald 1983.
:[https://archive.org/details/tolastmanspring100macd ''To the Last Man: Spring 1918''] by Lyn Macdonald 1998. All Archive.org Lending Library.
====Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general====
*[https://archive.org/details/indiancorpsinfra00ltco ''The Indian Corps in France''] by Lt-Colonel J.W.B. Merewether and Sir Frederick Smith, 1918 which appears to be a simple reprint of the first edition December 1917. Archive.org. A revised 1919 second edition is also available as three different files, originally from Digital Library of India: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173047 Archive.org mirror version 1] (catalogued as ''The Indian Corps In Rance''); [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.54096 Archive.org 2]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201725 Archive.org 3]
