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*[https://archive.org/details/pillarsoffirebat0000pass ''Pillars of Fire : the Battle of Messines Ridge, June 1917''] by Ian Passingham 1998. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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*[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/priceofgloryverd00horn ''The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916''] by Alistair Horne 1964 "This specially abridged edition first published in Penguin Books 1964." (Originally published 1962). Archive.org Lending Library. Horne also wrote ''Death of a generation: from Neuve Chapelle to Verdun and the Somme'' 1970 which encapsulates some of the earlier book.
*[https://archive.org/details/attritiongreatwa0000neil ''Attrition : the Great War on the Western Front, 1916''] by Robin Neillands 2001. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/inflandersfields00wolf/page/n5 ''In Flanders Fields: the 1917 Campaign''] by Leon Wolff 1958. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/pillarsoffirebat0000pass ''Pillars of Fire : the Battle of Messines Ridge, June 1917''] by Ian Passingham 1998. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/brigadierinfranc00cumm/page/n7 ''A Brigadier in France 1917-1918''] by Hanway R Cumming [1922] Archive.org. He was in command of the 110th Brigade, 21st Division.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/vcsoffirstworldw0000glid ''VCs of the First World War: The Somme''] by Gerald Gliddon, first published 1991. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/legacyofsomme1910000glid ''Legacy of the Somme, 1916 : the battle in fact, film, and fiction''] by Gerald Gliddon 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/westernfront00rich ''The Western Front''] by Richard Holmes 2000. Additional title on cover ''Ordinary Soldiers and the Defining Battles of World War I''.
:[https://archive.org/details/worldwariinphoto00carl ''The First World War in Photographs''] by Richard Holmes in association with Imperial War Museum (Great Britain) 2001
:[https://archive.org/details/tommybritishsold0000holm ''Tommy : the British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918''] by Richard Holmes 2005. All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/victoriacrossher0000ashc/mode/2up/ ''Victoria Cross Heroes''] by Michael Ashcroft 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes WW1.
====Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general====
:''The Men I Killed'' by Brigadier General F P Crozier 1937, see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others, below]].
:[https://archive.org/details/forsakeofexample00anth/page/n5 ''For the Sake of Example : Capital Courts-Martial, 1914-1920''] by Anthony Babington 1983 Archive.org Lending Library. Executions in the British Army.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishbutchersb0000laff ''British Butchers and Bunglers of World War One''] by John Laffin 1988. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/armouragainstfat0000occl ''Armour against Fate : British Military Intelligence in the First World War''] by Michael Occleshaw 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/facingarmageddon0000unse_g6p3 ''Facing Armageddon : the First World War Experienced''] edited by Hugh Cecil and Peter H Liddle. 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Chapters by many different authors.
