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*Also see [[First World War#Historical books online 2| First World War - Historical books online]], including general histories such as ''The Times History of the War'' with illustrations, and periodical publications with illustrations such as ''The Illustrated War News''.
*[https://archive.org/details/warbookscritical0000fall/page/n5 ''War Books : a Critical Guide''] by Cyril Falls 1930. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:A later book is ''World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919'' by Edward G. Lengel 2004, available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01013277719 . Lengel has a [http://www.edwardlengel.com website] which includes information about WW1 books.
====Official Histories and Battles====
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Military Operations: France and Belgium'' by Brigadier-General J E Edmonds
*[https://archive.org/details/onlookerinfrance00orpe/page/n7 ''An Onlooker in France 1917-1919''] by Sir William Orpen 1921 Archive.org. At this time he was an official War Artist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Orpen William Orpen] Wikipedia. He had been commissioned into the Army Service Corps in 1916, and as a war artist he was officially working for the Department of Information.
*[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsoftemp00bacoiala/page/n8 ''The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior : a territorial officer's narrative of service (and sport) in three continents''] by Captain Alban F L Bacon (late Hampshire Regiment) [2/4 Battalion] 1922. Archive.org. Includes Western Front and India, [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt/Palestine]].
*[https://archive.org/details/towardflamewardi00herv ''Toward the Flame: a War Diary''] by Hervey Allen. Revised edition, with illustrations 1934, first published 1926. Archive.org. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/a-doughboys-march-toward-the-flame-6-best-wwi-memoir/ "#6 Best WWI Memoir"] by Edward Lengel. The author was a Lieutenant in the United States Army, and subsequently became an author and poet. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervey_Allen Hervey Allen] Wikipedia.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081555660?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Wine, Women and War: a Diary of Disillusionment''] by Anonymous. 10th edition 1927, first published 1926. Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010945122?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 2nd Hathi Trust file]. The author is catalogued as Howard Vincent O'Brien, American novelist and journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Vincent_O%27Brien Howard Vincent O'Brien] Wikipedia. Appointed 1st Lieutenant Field Artillery, [US Army] November 1917, and later became a Liaison Officer.
*[https://archive.org/details/subalternonsomme00mark ''A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916''] by Mark VII [Max Plowman] 1928, first published 1927. Archive.org. 10th West Yorks. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. The initial four chapters are Purcell's account of his time as a young officer with the 11th (Service) Battalion of the Green Howards, including his time as a Prisoner of War.
*[https://archive.org/details/ghostshavewarmha0000bird/page/n5 ''Ghosts have Warm Hands''] by Will R. Bird 1968. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/canadian-will-birds-ghosts-have-warm-hands-5-best-wwi-memoir/ "#5 Best WWI Memoir"] by Edward Lengel. About 60% of this book consists of much of the content of the earlier publication ''And We Go On'', published 1930, reprinted 2014.<ref>[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/613074 Review: ''And We Go On: A Memoir of the Great War''] Review by Hanna Smyth. muse.jhu.edu</ref> Sometimes classified as fiction, but based on Bird's diaries. Bird served with the 42nd Battalion, Royal Highlanders of Canada (Black Watch), composed largely of men from Ontario and the Maritimes. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_R._Bird Will R. Bird] , a Canadian who became an author.
*[https://archive.org/details/lifeapart0000thom/page/n5 ''A Life Apart''] by Alan Thomas 1968. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Alan Ernest Wentworth Thomas served with the 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. Elsewhere it is stated he had a varied career, including as a barrister, editor for nineteen years, between 1939 and 1957, of ''The Listener'', and as an author.
*[https://archive.org/details/anotherworld189700eden ''Another World, 1897-1917''] by Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon 1977. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Eden served with the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Eden Anthony Eden] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/withgermanarmies00hedi/page/n7 ''With the German Armies in the West''] by Sven Hedin. Translated from the Swedish by H G de Walterstorff 1915 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/withgermanarmies00hediuoft/page/n7 Another version Archive.org] where illustrations may be clearer. The author travelled from Sweden, which was a neutral nation, so that he could view the war with his own eyes, and study the psychology of war.
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofgermansol00cfel ''The Diary of a German Soldier''] by Feldwebel C… First Sergeant 88th Infantry 21st Division, 18th Army Corps. 1919. Translated from the original 1918 French edition Archive.org
*Memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger's experiences on the Western Front. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/> . Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/ernst-jungers-storm-of-steel-3-best-wwi-memoir/ "#3 Best WWI Memoir"] by Edward Lengel. First published in 1920, there were many German revisions by the author later published. There have been two English translations, based on different German editions. The 2003 Hofmann translation is considered more literary, but Hofmann was ignorant of German military matters, whereas the 1929 translation by Creighton, who had served in the Great War, was more literal<ref> Trajan et al. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/268646-ernst-junger-war-diaries/?do=findComment&comment=2740525 Ernst Junger War Diaries] ''Great War Forum'' 14th February 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019. Review of the Hofmann translation [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3601190/A-Homer-for-the-20th-century.html "A Homer for the 20th century"] by Daniel Johnson 25 August 2003 ''The Telegraph''.</ref> and is more accurate from a military point of view.
:[https://archive.org/details/ErnstJngerTheStormOfSteel/page/n3 ''The Storm Of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front''] by Ernst Jünger, Lieutenant, 73rd Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment. Reprint of the 1929 translation [by Basil Creighton of the 1924 German edition]. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/stormofsteel00jung/page/n3 ''Storm of Steel''] by Ernst Jünger. Translated by Michael Hofmann 2003, from the 1961 German edition. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/novelsofworldwar0000hage/page/n5 ''The Novels of World War I : an Annotated Bibliography''] by Philip E Hager and Desmond Taylor 1981. Includes [https://archive.org/details/novelsofworldwar0000hage/page/5/mode/1up The twenty most significant novels of the Great War] pages 5-6. Includes novels for both adults and juveniles. Archive.org Books To Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://www.themodernnovel.org/my-lists/world-war-i/ "World War I books" [A Bibliography<nowiki>]</nowiki>] from ''The Modern Novel''.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.123680 ''Memoirs of an Infantry Officer''] by Siegfried Sassoon 1930. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. A fictionalised account of Sassoon's own life during and immediately after World War I. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_an_Infantry_Officer About the book] Wikipedia. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War"<ref name=GWDJ/>. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/siegfried-sassoons-memoirs-of-george-sherston-2-best-wwi-account/ "#2 Best WWI Account"] by Edward Lengel. Its predecessor, also an autobiographical novel, is [https://archive.org/details/memoirsoffoxhunt00sieg ''Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man''], first published 1928. Archive.org Lending Library. The third book in the trilogy is [https://archive.org/details/sherstonsprogres00sass ''Sherston's Progress''], first published 1936. Archive.org Lending Library.
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon Sassoon Journals] Cambridge Digital Library. Links to handwritten Journals.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781411403628 ''All Quiet On The Western Front''] by Erich Maria Remarque. Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28WESTERN+Front%29+AND+creator%3A%28Remarque%2C%29&sort=-date Other digital files] are available to borrow. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>.
