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Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general
:[https://archive.org/details/roleofbritishstr035460mbp ''The Role Of British Strategy In The Great War''] by CRMF Cruttwell 1936 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar00tayl/page/n1 ''The First World War : an Illustrated History''] by A J P Taylor. 1980? edition, originally published 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''The First World War : a Complete History'' by Martin Gilbert 1994 [https://archive.org/details/isbn_2900805047348/page/n5/mode/2up File 1], [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwarcom00gilb File 2], [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwarsec00mart/mode/2up File 3] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gilbert Martin Gilbert] Wikipedia. British historian. Also see his book further below ''Somme : the Heroism and Horror of War''.
*[https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar00keeg_0 ''The First World War''] by John Keegan 1999. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/90863/the-first-world-war-by-john-keegan/9780375700453/ About the book] penguinrandomhouse.com which says "The definitive account of the Great War and national bestseller". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keegan John Keegan] Wikipedia. Military historian.
*[https://archive.org/details/worldundonestory00gjme/mode/2up ''A World Undone : the Story of the Great War, 1914-1918''] by G J Meyer 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. A popular history (712 digital pages) whose objectives were to weave together all of the story’s most compelling elements “in the most readable form possible…”.
*''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.
*[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. Also available [https://archive.org/details/victoryofmarneth00made/mode/2up Archive.org]. [September 1914]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523396/page/n5/mode/2up ''Liaison, 1914. A Narrative of the Great Retreat''] by Brigadier-General E L Spears (Late 11th Hussars) 1930 Archive.org. The author was then "the Liaison Officer between the British Army, and the Fifth, or most Northerly of the whole line of French Armies". Also his book below under [[Western Front#Cavalry|Cavalry]].
*[https://archive.org/details/campaignofmarne10000tyng/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Campaign of the Marne, 1914''] by Sewell Tyng 1935 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/deathofarmy00farr ''Death of an Army''] by Anthony Farrar-Hockley 1968. Additional title on cover ''The first battle of Ypres, 1914, in which the British regular Army was destroyed''. [October-November 1914]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/donkeys00clar/page/n5 ''The Donkeys''] by Alan Clark 1962 Archive.org. “This study is concerned simply with what the Army was ordered to do, and what happened when it attempted to carry out those orders; … 1915 saw the core of professional quality dissipated..”
*[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. Verdun: 21 February – 18 December 1916.
*[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/battleofsomme00maserich/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Battle of the Somme''] by John Masefield 1919 Archive.org
*[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 sommedaybydayacc0000mcca/mode/2up ''The Price of GlorySomme : Verdun 1916the day-by-day account''] by Alistair Horne 1964 "This specially abridged edition first published in Penguin Chris McCarthy 1993. Archive.org Books 1964to Borrow/Lending Library*[https://archive." (Originally published 1962)org/details/lifeatlimittrium0000watk/mode/2up ''The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme''] by Malcolm Brown 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library*[https://archive. Horne also wrote org/details/1916battleofsomm0000lidd ''Death The 1916 Battle of a generation: from Neuve Chapelle to Verdun and the Somme: a reappraisal'' 1970 which encapsulates some of the earlier book] by Peter Liddle 2001. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
*[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/somme0000shef ''The Somme''] by Gary Sheffield 2003. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/sommeheroismhorr0000gilb_j9j1/mode/2up ''Somme : the Heroism and Horror of War''] by Martin Gilbert 2006. [https://archive.org/details/sommeheroismhorr0000gilb/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also see his book above ''The First World War : a Complete History''
*[https://archive.org/details/threearmiesonsom00will/page/n5/mode/2up ''Three Armies on the Somme : the First Battle of the Twentieth Century''] by William Philpott 2011, first published 2009. 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/cheerfulsacrific0000nich ''Cheerful Sacrifice : the Battle of Arras, 1917''] by Jonathan Nicholls 1990. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. April-May 1917.
*''From the Australian Front''. 1917. Reproductions of official photographs, and cartoons and sketches by members of the A. I. F [Australian Imperial Force] [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47737/47737-h/47737-h.htm Gutenberg.org version], [https://archive.org/details/fromaustralianfr00lond Archive.org version]
*[https://archive.org/details/sixtysquadronraf00scot ''Sixty Squadron, R.A.F. : a History of the Squadron from its Formation''] by Group-Captain A. J. L. Scott 1920 Archive.org. Originally Royal Flying Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/firstgreatairwar0000bick/mode/2up ''The First Great Air War''] by Richard Townshend Bickers 1988 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA366808 ''Biplanes and Bombsights: British Bombing in World War I''] by George K Williams 1999. Archive.org.
*[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.
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Regimental+histories+Great+Britain%22&sort=titleSorter Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader "World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories Great Britain"]. Also use the [https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php Search].
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Campaigns%22&sort=titleSorter Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader "World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns"] Includes some Regimental histories.
:The Ancestry owned pay website [https://www.fold3.com fold3] contains many online Regimental and Divisional histories consisting of online versions of reprints from Naval & Military Press in respect of the WWI period(and other) periods, but confusingly located in World War IIInternational/Military Books then select Britain, or France. There are The category International also additional titles in categories other than World War II, catalogued under the actual title, (not generally under Military Books, although WWI contains a sub category Australia Military Book Collection, which also covers other periods, which appear to be original scans from "Gould Genealogy and History"/[https://www.gould.com.au/australian-and-states-military-collection/au0-u24/ "Australian and States Military Collection"]). There are also additional titles in other categories, catalogued under the actual title, rather than under Military Books.
:[[findmypast]], pay website, includes a database [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-army-records-and-regimental-histories British Army Records & Regimental Histories], located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Regimental & Service Records, introduced 2019/03/22, when it contained two WW1 Regimental histories, (but perhaps additional titles will be added). Click on 'Browse Title', select title, then click on 'View Results'. Note the fold3 version is easier to read online than the findmypast version, for books which are on both pay websites.
:[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
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*[https://archive.org/details/firstsevendivis00hami/page/n7 ''The First Seven Divisions : being a detailed account of the fighting from Mons to Ypres''] by Ernest W Hamilton (Late Captain [[11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars|11th Hussars]]) 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/picnicbasket00spea ''The Picnic Basket''] by Major-General Sir Edward Spears. 1968. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes a chapter on a cavalry engagement at Nery 1st September 1914, pages 134-161, which involved the 11th Hussars, in which he had been an officer since 1910. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Spears Edward Spears] Wikipedia. Also see his book above under [[Western Front#Official Histories and Battles|Official Histories and Battles]].
*[https://archive.org/details/squadroon00beam/page/n8 ''The Squadroon''] by Ardern Beaman 1920 Archive.org. "Beaman, a regular officer of the 1st Cavalry, Indian Army, who won the DSO on the North- West Frontier in 1915, joined the [[4th (Queen's Own) Hussars]] as a combatant officer early in October 1917. He was present with the regiment at Cambrai & the regimental history records in detail his command of a ‘composite squadron’ in March 1918 & later “C” Squadron at Amiens &c. For reasons unknown he chose to present this Western Front ‘memoir’ from the point of view of the regimental chaplain".<ref name=TDJ>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190611114923/https://www.turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf June 2019 catalogue] turnerdonovan.com.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/withcavalryinwes00aqui ''With the Cavalry in the West''] by "Aquila" [J D Delius] 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_990873/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Note-book of an Intelligence Officer''] by Eric Fisher Wood 1917 Archive.org. An American, with high level contacts, he became a major in the British Army (63rd (Royal Naval) Division [Infantry] attached GHQ ID (ID=Naval Intelligence Division)) having been commissioned as a Lieutenant-Commander. Some of the book relates to his time in France from February 1917, [https://archive.org/details/cihm_990873/page/n191/mode/1up Page 143], up until 9 April 1917, when he was wounded at the Battle of Arras. Some of the book is of a more general nature, including interviews, and the Clothing and other requirements for an officer [https://archive.org/details/cihm_990873/page/n257/mode/2up page 202]. By the time of book publication later in 1917 he was in the USA Army in USA. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Fisher_Wood Eric Fisher Wood] Wikipedia. Also see [[Western Front#Volunteers and others|Volunteers and others, below]] for an earlier book.
*[https://archive.org/details/nothingofimporta01adam ''"Nothing of Importance": Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion''] by Bernard Adams 1918 Archive.org. Elsewhere, the regiment is stated to be the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/nothing-of-importance.-a-record-of-eight-months-at-the-front-with-a-welsh-battalion-october-1915-to-june-1916.html Naval & Military Press]</ref> On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ>[http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page44.html Great War Dust Jackets page] listing "War Memoirs : a highly personal top 20", by Great War Dust Jackets and "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War" from ''The Novels of World War 1 : An annotated bibliography'' by Philip Hager & Desmond Taylor. Garland Pub. 1981.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/whensommeranred00dugmrich/page/n7/mode/2up ''When the Somme Ran Red''] by A Radclyffe Dugmore. Temp. Captain King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1918. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Radclyffe_Dugmore Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore] Wikipedia. Prior to his commission, he was in Belgium at the time of the German advance as a civilian photographer.
*[https://archive.org/details/irontimeswithgua00lond/page/n5 ''Iron Times with the Guards''] by An "O. E." ["O. E." Old Etonian; Geoffrey Philip Agnew Fildes, 2nd Coldstream Guards] 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ladiesfromhel00pink ''"Ladies from Hell"''] by R Douglas Pinkerton 1918. The author was a member of the London Scottish. "Published in the USA during the War, the purpose for writing was primarily to sway American opinion towards the Allied cause and not as a record of events".<ref name=LFH>[https://www.londonscottishregt.org/index.php/en/museum/archival-research/ww1 The London Scottish Regiment] londonscottishregt.org</ref>
:[https://archive.org/details/reporteratarmage00irwirich ''A Reporter at Armageddon: Letters from the Front and Behind the Lines of the Great War''] by Will Irwin. 1918. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027856933 ''"The Next War"; an Appeal to Common Sense''] by Will Irwin 1921 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/withnewarmyonsom00palm/page/n9/mode/2up ''With The New Army On The Somme. My Second Year of the War''] by Frederick Palmer, Accredited American Correspondent at the British Front. 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withbritishonsom00thom/mode/2up ''With the British on the Somme''] by W Beach Thomas 1917 Archive.org [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beach_Thomas William Beach Thomas] war correspondent with the ''Daily Mail''.
*[https://archive.org/details/someofmyexperien00ashmrich ''Some of my Experiences in the Great War''] by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, war correspondent of the ''Daily Telegraph''. 1918 Archive.org. The initial chapter concerns his escape from Vienna in late July 1914, pursued by war.
* For books by British journalist Philip Gibbs, including the autobiographical ''Adventures in Journalism'', see [[Western Front#Official Histories and generalBattles| Official Histories and generalBattles]] above.
*[https://archive.org/details/warpicturesbehin00malc ''War Pictures Behind the Lines''] by Ian Malcolm M P. 2nd edition, 1915. Archive.org. The author was involved in Red Cross work.
*[https://archive.org/details/atwarnortnew00nortuoft ''At the War''] by Lord Northcliffe. New and enlarged edition 1917. [https://archive.org/details/atwar0000nort/page/n13 1916 edition] both Archive.org. Published for the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross.
:[https://archive.org/details/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront_201608 Audio version: ''All Quiet On The Western Front''] Archive.org
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front About the book] Wikipedia. First published 1929, original German title [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.168305 ''Im Westen nichts Neues''] Archive.org.
*Half-novel, half-autobiography, the author states the events described actually happened : [http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/manmidd ''The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916''] by Frederic Manning 1929. Pdf download of a transcription, University of Sydney Digital Collection. Also available 1997 reprint [https://archive.org/details/middlepartsoffor0000mann/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library]. Subsequently published in an expurgated version as [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207678 ''Her Privates We''] by Private 19022. 1930 Archive.org. Considered “as being true to the actual experience of modern warfare in ways that nothing else had managed to be”.<ref> [http://insidestory.org.au/an-outsider-at-war "An outsider at war"] by Richard Johnstone 4 June 2012. ''Inside Story''.</ref> On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/secretbattle00herbuoft/page/n5 ''The Secret Battle''] by A P Herbert 1919. Archive.org. One of three novels published in 1919 praised for its convincing account of war, and recommended by Churchill.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4tmvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA51 Pages 51-52] ''English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918–39'' by John Onions. Google Books</ref> The first part of the book is set at [[Gallipoli]], the latter part on the Western Front. [https://archive.org/details/secretbattle_rm_librivox ''The Secret Battle'' Librivox audio book] by A P Herbert. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._Herbert A. P. Herbert] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/silenceofcolonel00mauruoft ''The Silence of Colonel Bramble''] by André Maurois. Translated from the French by Thurfrida Wake. Verses translated by Wilfrid Jackson. 1920 Archive.org. The author, writing under a non de plume which subsequently became his legal name, was an Interpreter, and subsequently Liaison Officer with the IXth (Scotch) Division, when the book was written.
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