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Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120922025835/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Copy_index.htm The Great War in a Different Light], now an archived website. “Accounts and Galleries from Great War Period Books, Magazines and Publications with more than 8000 Authentic Photos, Illustrations and Newsarticles”. Mainly relates to the Western Front.
*First World War regimental diaries of the Indian Infantry units deployed to the Western Front are available online to download via The National Archives's [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/ First World War 100] portal.<ref> [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/962.htm Indian infantry unit war diaries go online] The National Archives</ref> At September 2014, 171 were available. They are not personal diaries. See TNA’s [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/war-diaries-ww1.htm British Army war diaries 1914-1922] for more details about this type of record. Searching is free, but there may be a charge to download documents. Also see [[Western Front#War Diaries|War Diaries]] above.
*[http://www.mea.gov.in/Images/pdf1/France_Flanders_eng.pdf "India and the Great War: France and Flanders"] by Tom Donovan 2015. Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/india_wwone_01.shtml India and the Western Front] Article by Dr David Omissi on BBC History website.
*[http://www.academia.edu/15196760/The_experiences_of_the_Indian_Infantry_on_the_Western_Front_between_August_1914_and_December_1915 ''What were the experiences of the Indian Infantry on the Western Front between August 1914 and December 1915?''] by Riyaz Husein Dhalla 2006, A dissertation, probably/possibly University of Nottingham. academia.edu
*[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48362 ''The Western Front. Drawings by Muirhead Bone''] 1917 gutenberg.org. 100 drawings. [https://archive.org/details/thewesternfrontd48362gut Archive.org version] images only, no text.
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003214352.0x000002 ''War Drawings by Muirhead Bone. From the Collection presented to the British Museum by His Majesty's Government''] in six Parts, total 60 drawings. published 1917-1918. British Library Digital file, where images may be rotated. There appears to be some overlap.
*[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10315934z/f11.item ''Australia at War : Drawings at the Front''] by Lieut. Will Dyson, Official Artist A. I. F. Title page is ''Australia at War: A Winter Record made by Will Dyson on the Somme and at Ypres during the Campaigns of 1918 and 1917''. Published 1918. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10315934z/f23.item Contents] gallica.bnf.fr. [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57177 Gutenberg.org edition].
*[http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110044454 [World War I sketches<nowiki>]</nowiki> drawn by Leslie Hore] Mainly Western Front, (a few from [[Gallipoli]], see more sketches). State Library of NSW, catalogue reference PXE 703. [http://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/history/conflicts/gallipoli-and-anzacs/resources/artist-gallipoli-–-major-hore/biography-l-f-s-hore Biographical details L. F. S. Hore MC (1870–1935)]anzacportal.dva.gov.au. Originally with the AIF. he went to France as Brigade Machine Gun Officer of the 6th Infantry Brigade.
*[https://archive.org/details/boulognebaseinfr00hardiala ''Boulogne. A Base in France : being 32 drawings from the sketchbook of Capt. Martin Hardie'']. Catalogued [1918]. [https://archive.org/stream/boulognebaseinfr00hardiala#page/n7/mode/2up List of Illustrations]. Archive.org. Also available on [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10315933h/f1.item Gallica]. gallica.bnf.fr. Note the two digital files differ in colour.
*[http://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/ww1/ndx5to40.htm Western Front Maps] from McMaster University, Canada. Text Search using Place Name or Trench Name.
*[http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=9&lat=50.0645&lon=2.7620&layers=101465290 National Library of Scotland WW1 Trench Maps]. View maps overlaid on a modern map. Allows you to swap between trench map and modern map. On the left hand side you will see a slider to change the transparency between the trench map and the underlying modern map.
*[http://www.tmapper.com Gazetteer of the Western Front - 2020] - part of the tMapper Suite. tmapper.com. An expanded update of the 2013 publication ''Gazetteer of the Western Front'' by John Reed. Search parameters include Trench name. "Each successful search elicits a trench map reference and latitude, longitude and these form the database anchor for a researcher wishing to delve deeper, asking to see nearby towns, populations, elevation, Victoria Cross recipients, battles and Commonwealth War Graves cemeteries within a defined range". Details.<ref>WhiteStarLine. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/281619-gazetteer-of-the-western-front-2020-reboot/ Gazetteer of the Western Front - 2020 Reboot] ''Great War Forum'' 17 May 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020.</ref>
*[http://rdf.muninn-project.org/ontologies/btmaps.html British Trench Maps Ontology Specification - 1.0. An ontology to markup information on the British Trench Map Coordinate system used during the Great War]. The Muninn Project
:[http://rdf.muninn-project.org/TrenchCoordinates.html?q=57d.+L.3.a+80.45 Great War British Trench Map Coordinates Converter] muninn-project.org. Allows you to enter specific map references but note "Still Experimental" and "For development purposes only". May require Chrome as browser.
*[https://www.army.gov.au/our-heritage/history/primary-materials/1914-1918-world-war-one-1914-to-1918/imagery-and-maps Trench maps of the Western Front] (select Imagery and Maps) from the collection of the Australian Army History Unit, located under Our Heritage/History/Primary Materials/1914 to 1918 - World War One/Imagery and Maps. Mainly British maps, with the focus on battlefields where the Australian Imperial Force fought, but includes a few German maps.*[https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p16062coll11/search/searchterm/World%20War%20I%20Maps/field/digita/mode/exact/conn/and World War I Maps] North Carolina Digital Collections, digital.ncdcr.gov. Mainly France and Belgium. Click on maps to enlarge.
*[https://www.wdl.org/en/item/18970/ ''Carte du théâtre des opérations: (front occidental) avec répertoire alphabétique''] (Map of the theater of operations [Western Front] with alphabetical directory) is a set of 15 detailed military maps produced in 1915 by the Geographical Service of the French Army. World Digital Library, a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, from National Library of Brazil.
*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.
:[https://archive.org/details/britishautobiogr0000matt/page/n5/mode/2up ''British Autobiographies : an annotated bibliography of British autobiographies published or written before 1951''] by William Matthews. [https://archive.org/details/britishautobiogr0000matt/page/372/mode/2up Index page 372: World War I]. 1984 reprint edition, first published 1955. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HY_4aH5ihhUC&pg=PR3 Sample pages Google Books]
:[https://archive.org/details/subjectbibliogra0000ense_i7a5/page/n5 ''A subject bibliography of the First World War : books in English, 1914-1978''] by A. G. S. Enser 1979. [https://archive.org/details/subjectbibliogra0000ense_w9o4/page/n5 1990 revised edition including title wording ''1914-1987''] 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====
*** 1917 Volume I, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210683 Archive.org] ''The German Retreat to the Hindenberg Line and the Battle of Arras''; 1917 Appendices, Volume I, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210681 Archive.org].
**:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3480009?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''1917 Volume II 7th June-10th November Messines and Third Ypres (Passchendaele)''] published 1948. HathiTrust Digital Library. Note, perhaps may not be viewable in USA.
*** 1918: ''The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries'' (1935) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210686 Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7892/mode/1up Maps from Separate case, Volume I, 1918] Archive.org-[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210686/page/n26/mode/1up Contents] The maps available are 2-13, but they are not in numerical order in the digital file; 1918 Volume II, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210684 Archive.org]; 1918 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 IIInternational/ Military Books/France, letter M)*''Report of the Committee on the Lessons of the Great War'' 13 Oct 1932 includes two Appendices on the Western Front. (Details<ref>Greenwoodman. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/54329-official-inquiry-into-conduct-of-ww1/?do=findComment&comment=467922 Official Inquiry into Conduct of WW1] ''Great War Forum'' 19 June 2006. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref>.) Also known as the ''Kirke Report'' it is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/report-of-the-committee-on-the-lessons-of-the-great-war/ ''Report of the Committee on the Lessons of the Great War''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19l7X7Fb8A online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in International/Military Books/Britain.
*''Germany in Defeat. A Strategic History of the War'' by Count Charles de Souza. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055250/page/n5 ''First Phase''] 3rd edition 1916. Joint author Major Haldane MacFall; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055268/page/n5 ''Second Phase''] 1916; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055276/page/n6 ''Third Phase''] 1916; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055284/page/n3 ''Fourth Phase''] 1919. All Archive.org
*[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.
:''Sir Douglas Haig's Command, December 19, 1915, to November 11, 1918'' by George A. B. Dewar, assisted by Lieut.-Col. J. H. Boraston 1922. [https://archive.org/details/sirdouglashaigsc01dewa/page/n7 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/sirdouglashaigsc02dewa/page/n7 Volume II] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80523/page/n7 ''Twenty-five Years With Earl Haig''] by Sergt T Secrett 1929. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210467/page/n5 ''Field-Marshal Earl Haig''] by Brigadier General John Charteris 1929 (391 pages). [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175974/page/n1 ''Haig''] by Brig.-Gen. J Charteris 1933 (144 pages) Archive.org. Also see another book by Charteris ''At G.H.Q'' further below in this section.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210537/page/n5 ''Haig''] by Duff Cooper first published 1935. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.503321/page/n5 ''Haig: The Second Volume''] by Duff Cooper 1935 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/ordealofvictory00terr ''Ordeal of Victory''] by John Terraine 1963. Published in England under the title ''Douglas Haig: The Educated Soldier''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. John Terraine wrote additional books, see below in this section.
*[https://archive.org/details/britisharmyatwar00foxf/page/n5 ''The British Army at War''] by Frank Fox RFA. 1917 Archive.org. A simplified overview which aimed to give “a general impression of the extent and variety of [the British] Army’s energies”, designed, (according to Wikipedia) to educate the American Public about the British war effort.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41362/page/n9 ''G.H.Q. (Montreuil-Sur-Mer)''] by “G.S.O”. [Sir Frank Fox] 1920 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fox_(author) Frank Fox (author)]. He served as Staff Captain at the Quartermaster General's branch, General Headquarters, in France. He had previously been an officer in the Royal Field Artillery, and pre-war a journalist.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174265/page/n5/mode/2up ''At G.H.Q''] by Brigadier-General John Charteris 1931 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charteris John Charteris] (Wikipedia) was the Chief of Intelligence at the British Expeditionary Force General Headquarters from 1915 to 1918. Also see his books on Field-Marshal Haig, above.
*[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1647 ''Reputations, Ten Years After''] by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart 1928.Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". An examination of 10 leading personalities of WWI, including Joffre, Foch, Petain, Lundendorff, Pershing, and others.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57906 ''Real War 1914-1918''] by B H Liddell Hart 1930 Archive.org. An enlarged edition was published as: ''A History of the World War, 1914-1918'', 1934. Reprinted as
:[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…”.
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents'' [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b633844?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Transportation on the Western Front, 1914-1918''] compiled by Colonel AM Henniker, R E (ret) 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84806 Archive.org mirror version], originally from Digital Library of India.
:[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn6454756 Volume of 14 Maps] National Library of Australia, with a description in the [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6454756 catalogue entry].
*''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 Somme : the day-by-day account''] by Chris McCarthy 1993. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library*[https://archive.org/details/lifeatlimittrium0000watk/mode/2up ''The Imperial War Museum Book of Glorythe Somme''] by Malcolm Brown 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library*[https: Verdun //archive.org/details/1916battleofsomm0000lidd ''The 1916 Battle of the Somme : a reappraisal''] 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 Alistair Horne 1964 "This specially abridged edition first published in Penguin Robin Neillands 2001. Archive.org Books 1964to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive." (Originally published 1962)org/details/somme0000shef ''The Somme''] by Gary Sheffield 2003. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library*[https://archive. Horne also wrote org/details/sommeheroismhorr0000gilb_j9j1/mode/2up ''Death 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 generationComplete History''*[https: from Neuve Chapelle to Verdun and //archive.org/details/threearmiesonsom00will/page/n5/mode/2up ''Three Armies on the Somme: the First Battle of the Twentieth Century'' 1970 which encapsulates some of the earlier book] 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.
*[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.
:Maps issued in a separate case [Volume 2]: [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232726840 19 maps and 5 photographs] National Library of Australia
*[https://archive.org/details/1918lastact00pitt ''1918 The Last Act''] by Barrie Pitt 1964. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/westernfront191400terr/page/n7 ''The Western Front, 1914-1918''] by John Terraine 1965. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/towinwar191800terr ''To Win a War : 1918, the Year of Victory''] by John Terraine 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
: See further above for an additional book by John Terraine about Douglas Haig. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Terraine John Terraine] Wikipedia.
 
*[https://archive.org/details/y00timo_0 ''The Killing Ground : the British Army, the Western Front, and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-1918''] by Timothy Travers 1987. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*Books by Lyn Macdonald. Opinions about this author differ, but generally her books are considered to provide a good introduction to WW1, and to concentrate on the personal experience of the soldier, but lack the broader picture of the war. <ref> Saunders, Jonathan. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/30507-lyn-macdonald/ Lyn MacDonald] ''Great War Forum'' 10 April 2005. Retrieved 8 May 2019.</ref>
*[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/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/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====
*[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf ''A Record of the 58th Rifles F. F. in the Great War 1914-1919''] by A G Lind DSO 1933. Wikimedia Commons. Direct [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf pdf link] [https://web.archive.org/web/20170727020015/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Archive.org pdf]. May be slow to open. Includes France 1914-1915.
*For Indian Army regimental histories, see [[1st Bengal Lancers (Skinner's Horse)]]; [[2nd Bengal Lancers (Gardner's Horse)|2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse)]]; [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[20th Deccan Horse]]; [[29th Lancers (Deccan Horse)]]; [[38th Central India Horse]]; [[Bhopal Battalion|9th Bhopal Infantry]]; [[39th (The Garhwal Rifle) Regiment of Bengal Infantry|Garhwal Rifles]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[127th Baluch Light Infantry|127th Baluchis]]; the histories being on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website).
:Other regimental histories, see [[41st Regiment of Dogra Infantry|41st Dogras]], [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)]]; [[44th Gurkha Rifles| 8th Gurkha Rifles]]- the 2/8th Gurkha Rifles had many deaths on the Western Front; [[9th Gurkha Rifles]]; [[2nd Bombay Pioneers]].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012679548 ''The Post Office of India in the Great War''] edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. Officers and men of the [[Post and Telegraphs Department|Post and Telegraphs Department]] in India who became the military postal service of the Indian Army. Includes chapters on the Western Front.
**[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi197edinuoft#page/538/mode/2up "From an Indian Post Office in France"] page 538 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 197 January- June 1915. Archive.org.
*''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
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100000050752.0x000002 ''Strategic Camouflage''] by Solomon J. Solomon 1920. British Library Digital file, where pages are rotatable. [https://archive.org/details/StrategicCamouflage1920/page/n7 Archive.org version].
*[http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5801 ''The Pill-boxes of Flanders''] by Col. E. G. L. Thurlow 1933. "The Great War Archive", a part of ''The First World War Poetry Digital Archive'', University of Oxford. The pages of this short book have been listed out of order. To read in book order, selected the following document pages 26, 11, 15 (Title page); 27, 23 Contents; 13, 2, 18, 4, 14, 24, 16, 3, 17, 25, 7, 19, 8, 21, 28, 1, 12, 5, 22, 9, 6, 10, 20. This book was reprinted in edition No 9, c 1986 of the magazine ''Gun Fire'', all of which have been digitised and are available in the members' area of the Western Front Association (WFA).<ref>[https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/november-2019/gun-fire-the-re-publication-of-a-renowned-wfa-journal/ "Gun Fire: the re-publication of a renowned WFA journal"] westernfrontassociation.com </ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/poisonwar00robeuoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Poison War''] by A A Roberts 1915 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/seekingvictoryon00albe/page/n3 ''Seeking Victory on the Western Front : the British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I''] by Albert Palazzo. Catalogued 2003, originally published 2000. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:The British Gas Units were part of the Royal Engineers, see [[Western Front#Engineers|Engineers]], below.
*[https://archive.org/details/shootingsatdawna00thurrich ''Shootings at Dawn: The Army Death Penalty at Work''] by Ernest Thurtle MP. Published 1920s. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Thurtle Ernest Thurtle] Wikipedia. He campaigned in the 1920s to bring about the abolition of the death penalty for cowardice or desertion in the British Army.
:''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.
*[https://archive.org/details/seekingvictoryon00albe/page/n3 ''Seeking Victory on the Western Front : the British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I''] by Albert Palazzo. Catalogued 2003, originally published 2000. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/mudbloodpoppycoc0000corr ''Mud, Blood and Poppycock : Britain and the First World War''] by Gordon Corrigan 2003. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Corrigan was also the author of ''Sepoys in the Trenches'', see [[Western Front#Recommended reading|Recommended reading]], above.
*[https://archive.org/details/greatwarperspect0000unse ''The Great War : perspectives on the First World War''] edited by Robert Cowley 2003. Thirty articles by different authors. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/boysoldiersofgre0000vane/mode/2up ''Boy Soldiers of the Great War''] by Richard Van Emden 2005. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/soldierswar0000vane ''The Soldier's War: The Great War through Veterans’ Eyes''] by Richard Van Emden 2010, first published 2008. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/meetingenemyhuma0000vane/mode/2up ''Meeting the Enemy : the Human Face of the Great War''] by Richard Van Emden 2013. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/Shooting-the-Front-Allied-Aerial-Reconnaissance-2007/mode/2up Chapter 1 only: pages 7-37 ''Shooting The Front: Allied Aerial Reconnaissance And Photographic Interpretation On The Western Front — World War I''] by Colonel Terrence J Finnegan catalogued 2007, first published 2006. Archive.org. Also published in later editions under slightly different titles.
*[https://archive.org/details/warfarearmedconf0000clod ''Warfare and armed conflicts : a statistical encyclopedia of casualty and other figures, 1494-2007''] by Michael Clodfelter 2008. 3rd edition updated and heavily revised Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. (A 4th edition, to 2015, was published 2017). Includes WW1.
*[https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/2661 ''The Sad Adventures of Big and Little Willie, during the First Six Months of the Great War, August 1914--January 1915''] by W K Haselden (William Kerridge) 1915 . Satirical caricature cartoons of the German Kaiser Wilhelm and his son, The Crown Prince. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours".
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Raemaekers%27+cartoon+history+of+the+war++%29&sort=-date ''Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War''] in three volumes. 1918 Archive.org. Louis Raemaekers was a Dutch cartoonist, whose influential work was first published in the ''Amsterdam Telegraaf''.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211311/page/n5/mode/2up/ ''Punch: Vol. CLIII July- December 1917'']. Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/mrpunchshistoryo00grav_0 ''Mr. Punch's History of the Great War''] Published by arrangement with the Proprietors of Punch. 1919 Archive.org
*For Army ''Manuals'', see [[Military periodicals online#Army Regulations, Equipment, Manuals etc|Military periodicals online - Army Regulations, Equipment, Manuals etc]]
*[https://archive.org/details/anatomyofcourage00mora ''The Anatomy of Courage''] by Lord Moran, Medical Officer to the 1st Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, (later Physician to Winston Churchill). 1967 American edition, first published 1945. Archive.org Lending Library. A later addition has the title ''The Anatomy of Courage: The Classic WWI Account of the Psychological Effects of War''.
*[https://archive.org/details/notesforarmymedi00good ''Notes for Army Medical Officers''] by Lt-Col. T H Goodwin RAMC 1917. Archive.org. Includes the medical organisation and sanitation matters. Based on lectures given in USA.
*[https://digitalcollections.library.unsw.edu.au/nodes/view/3079 ''Injuries and Diseases of War : a Manual based on experience of the present campaign in France. January 1918''. 40 Misc. 2051] His Majesty's Stationery Office 1918. A Manual for RAMC personnel. UNSW Library (Sydney) Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/withroyalarmyme00vivigoog ''With the Royal Army Medical Corps (R. A. M. C.) at the Front''] by E Charles Vivian 1914 Archive.org. Includes chapters on Composition and Duties, Training etc.
*[https://archive.org/details/surgeoninkhaki01mart ''A Surgeon in Khaki''] by Arthur Anderson Martin 1915 Archive.org. Includes the process of the author’s commission, description of a Field Ambulance structure.
*[https://archive.org/details/deedsofheroismbr00elwy/page/n7 ''Deeds of heroism and bravery : the book of heroes and personal daring''] edited by Elwyn A Barron 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/500ofbestcockney00lond ''500 of the Best Cockney War Stories''] Reprinted from the London ''Evening News''. 1920 Archive.org
*''Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War'' edited by C. B. Purdom 1930. Accounts were submitted after a request by the editor of ''Everyman'' magazine. Later reprinted under the title [https://archive.org/details/onfrontlinetruew0000unse/mode/2up '' True World War I Stories''] 1999. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.:A number of the accounts have been transcribed on [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm Memoirs & Diaries] firstworldwar.com including [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/firstgasattack.htm "The First Gas Attack"] by Anthony R. Hossack, Queen Victoria Rifles [9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment]. To locate other entries, either scroll through all entries in the Memoirs & Diaries category or use your Search engine, with terms "Everyman at War" firstworldwar.com/diaries . Available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006523443 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University Library access. Also available on the Library subscription website "The First World War" by Adam Matthew Digital, module "Personal Experiences", see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#First World War databases| Subscription websites - First World War databases]] for details of this database. To locate this publication, it is classified as a "Printed Book". The [[British Library]] is listed on the database website as a Participating Library. Card holders of the State Library of NSW can access The First World War: Personal Experiences module on their home computers.
*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersoffall00emil/page/n5 ''War Letters of Fallen Englishmen''] edited by Laurence Housman [1930] Archive.org
*''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''. Published c 1917 as a two volume set, c 900 pages, and also published as a five volume set. Information about the contents<ref name=DTE>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/deeds-that-thrill-the-empiretrue-stories-of-the-most-glorious-acts-of-heroism-of-the-empires-soldiers-and-sailors-during-the-great-war/ ''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''] naval-military-press.com</ref> advises 56 VCs are covered.
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_80756 ''Above the Battle''] by Vivian Drake 1918 Archive.org. Royal Flying Corps. Digitised microfiche.
*[https://archive.org/details/outwittinghunmye00obriuoft/page/n9 ''Outwitting the Hun : my Escape from a German Prison Camp''] by Lieut. Pat O'Brien, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/outwitting_the_hun_1304_librivox LibriVox audio version] Archive.org. The author was an American who had initially joined a group training in Canada as Royal Flying Corps officers.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027820202/page/n9/mode/2up ''The American Spirit; Letters of Briggs Kilburn Adams, Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps''] 1918 Archive.org. Most of the letters cover his time in training, in Canada from August 1917, and England from January 1918. He arrived in France 1 March 1918 and died soon afterwards 14 March 1918.
*Lafayette Escadrille
**[https://archive.org/details/storyoflafayette00thenrich ''The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille told by its Commander, Captain Georges Thenault'']. Translated by Walter Duranty 1921 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/bombingbruges00bewsgoog/page/n14 ''The Bombing of Bruges''] by Paul Bewsher, Captain, RAF 1918 Archive.org. A collection of short poems reprinted in part from the ''Graphic'' and the ''Weekly Dispatch''.
*[https://archive.org/details/nightbombingwith00reec/page/n7 ''Night Bombing with the Bedouins''] by Robert H Reece Lieut RAF 1919. Archive.org. The Bedouin Squadron, so called because as a unit it was constantly moved from place to place, was formed in September 1917 as part of the Royal Flying Corps.
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005891834 ''Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps''], by James Thomas Byford McCudden [1919]. HathiTrust Digital Library, available in areas such as North America. There was a 1930 reprint under the title ''Flying Fury'' and still later reprints as ''Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps''.
*[https://archive.org/details/fightingflyingc00rickgoog ''Fighting the Flying Circus''] by Eddie Rickenbacker U S Air Service 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/fighting_flying_circus_1104_librivox LibriVox audio recording] Archive.org
*''New England Aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records'' edited by Caroline Ticknor. [https://archive.org/details/NewEnglandaviatVol1Tick/page/n7 Volume I] 1919, [https://archive.org/details/NewEnglandaviatVol2Tick/page/iii Volume II] 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/canvasfalconss00long ''The Canvas Falcons: the story of the Men and the Planes of World War I''] by Stephen Longstreet 1970. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0702600008 ''Warplanes & Air Battles of World War I''] edited by Bernard Fitzsimons. 1973. Archive.org Lending Library. First published in ''Purnell’s History of the First World War'', this publication being a well regarded series of 128 weekly magazines first released in the UK c mid-late 1960s.
*[https://archive.org/details/Coningham/mode/2up ''Coningham: A Biography Of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, DFC, AFC''] by Vincent Orange 1992, first published 1990. WW1 period commences [https://archive.org/details/Coningham/page/n23/mode/2up page 13]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/inteethofwindsto00squa ''In the Teeth of the Wind : the story of a naval pilot on the Western Front, 1916-1918''] by Squadron Leader CPO Bartlett, edited by his son Nick Bartlett 1994. Archive.org Lending Library. Additional front cover title ''Memoir of the Royal Naval Air Service''. Catalogue entry states "Revised edition of: ''Bomber pilot, 1916-1918''. London : Ian Allan Ltd., 1974", the latter edited by Chaz Bowyer.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781559705264 ''Horses Don't Fly''] by Frederick Libby 2000 Archive.org Lending Library. An American who enlisted in the Canadian Army, and subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, initially as an observer, which included a machine gunner role. He subsequently was commissioned and became a pilot, awarded the Military Cross. [https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/americans-in-the-royal-air-force/americans-in-the-british-flying-services-1914-1945/captain-frederick-libby.aspx Captain Frederick Libby] rafmuseum.org.uk. [http://www.historynet.com/flying-cowboy-frederick-libby.htm HistoryNet article: "The Flying Cowboy"] by Derek O’Connor.
*[https://archive.org/details/millionairesunit00wort ''The Millionaire's Unit: the aristocratic flyboys who fought the Great War and invented America's airpower''] by Marc Wortman 2006. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/Flight_International_Magazine?sort=titleSorter ''Flight International Magazine''] Collection at Archive.org, which is Searchable as a Collection. ''Flight'' editions from 1909 including WW1 period. Contain pages relating to "Service Aviation".*Also see [[Western Front#Prisoners of War|Prisoners of War]] and [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]], below.
====Army Service Corps and others====
*Also see In The Air, below, for letters of George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., attached R.F.C.
*Also see Fiction below for sketches written by Boyd Cable, the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, an officer in the Royal Artillery.
*Volumes, from 1911, of ''The Field Artillery Journal'' published by The United States Field Artillery Association, are available on the website of [https://sill-www.army.mil/firesbulletin/index.html Fires] (then click on the tab Archives) published by the US Army Field Artillery. sill-www.army.mil Fort Sill, Oklahoma USA.*[https://archive.org/details/artilleryfiring00statgoog/page/n4/mode/2up/ ''Artillery Firing (reprint of pamphlet translated by American Expeditionary Forces, France)''] by War Plans Division, [US] General Staff June 1918. Archive.org.*Available on HathiTust Digital Library, University access only. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102644358 ''Salute of Guns''] by Donald Boyd 1930. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101949927 ''The Ebb and Flow of Battle''] by P. J. Campbell 1977; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000694479 ''In the Cannon's Mouth''] by P. J. Campbell 1979 (146 pages) . The was also an edition with the latter title published containing both volumes (317 pages).
====Cavalry====
*[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/sportinpeacewar00buxtrich/page/n6 ''Sport in Peace and War''] by Anthony Buxton 1920. Non military account. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Buxton Anthony Buxton] Wikipedia, which says he was a Major in the Essex Yeomanry.
*''The Cavalry Journal''. ''Journal of the United States Cavalry Association''. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000679840 A]; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008891896 B]; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008898701 C] includes full view V.30-31 1921-1922. Includes articles about the Western Front. Mainly full view HathiTrust.
*''The Cavalry Journal''. Published in London. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012177767 A], [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010324628 B] Hathi Trust. Restricted access -USA and equivalent access only Volume 1, 1906 to Volume 1214, 19221924. [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=2764 Index of articles up to Volume 23](Source. <ref>archaeologydataservice.ac.uk. Appears to be taken from the book ''A guide to the historical and archaeological publications of societies in England and Wales, 1901-1933'' compiled for the Institute of Historical Research by E. L. C. Mullins 1968. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011582477 and also available for those with university access [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001169241 HathiTrust Digital Library]. [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/A_guide_to_the_historical_and_archaeolog.html?id=dkgOAQAAMAAJ Snippet Google Books]</ref>) Volumes 1-9 1906-1914; Volumes 10-23 1920-1933.
====Chaplains (Army)====
====Engineers====
*[https://archive.org/details/riddleofrhineche00lefeuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Riddle of the Rhine, Chemical Strategy in Peace and War''] by Victor Lefebure, originally published 1921. Archive.org. Commissioned into the 3rd Essex Regiment, he was transferred to the Special Brigade, RE, where he was a Company Commander. In 1917 he was appointed British Chemical Warfare Liaison Officer with the French.
*''"Gas!" The Story of the Special Brigade'' by Maj-Gen C.H Foulkes 1934 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/gas-the-story-of-the-special-brigade/ ''"Gas!" The Story of the Special Brigade''] Naval & Military Press</ref>, which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19TF4S_XPP online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in International/Military Books/Britain (scroll to letter G)
*[https://archive.org/details/asoldiersdiary00scotuoft ''A Soldier's Diary''] by Ralph Scott [George Scott Atkinson, Royal Engineers] 1923. Archive.org. Sapper officer’s day-to-day diary with 2nd Army in the Ypres Salient, April- Nov. 1918.
*''My Story of the Great War'' by Captain O H Woodward [Oliver Holmes], 1st Tunnelling Company AIF. Published Adelaide SA 1932. 1933 title: ''The War Story of Oliver Holmes Woodward, Captain 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, Australian Imperial Force''. [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?sortby=dateAsc&q=%22MR+WOODWARD%27S+WAR+BOOK%22 A series of 17 extracts] appearing weekly in ''The Recorder'' Port Pirie, SA, 25 February 1933 to 17 June 1933, with [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/95991145 Introductory article] and [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/95991147 book review] both 13 February 1933, same newspaper. trove.nla.gov.au. Includes the firing of Hill 60 mines. Pre war, the author held a senior position in a mining company. [http://www.tunnellers.net/files/1stausttunnellingcoy.pdf Brief Chronology of the 1st Aust Tunnelling Coy, allocated to the Second Army] tunnellers.net
*''Tunnellers: The Story of the Tunnelling Companies, Royal Engineers, during the World War'' by W. Grant Grieve and Bernard Newman 1936 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/tunnellers/ ''Tunnellers''] Naval & Military Press</ref>, which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19ShKtXFUU online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in International/Military Books/Britain (scroll to Tu).
*[https://archive.org/details/sappermartinsecr0000mart ''Sapper Martin : the Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin''] edited and introduced by Richard van Emden 2010, first published 2009. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Martin served with the 122nd Infantry Brigade Signal Company, part of the 41st Division. Diary entries from September 1916.
*[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/adventuresinprop00blanrich/page/n8 ''Adventures in Propaganda; Letters from an Intelligence Officer in France''] by Heber Blankenhorn, Captain, Military Intelligence Division, USA. 1919. Contains letters from July 1918. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/privateinguards00grah ''A Private in the Guards''] by Stephen Graham 1919 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Graham_(author) Stephen Graham (author)] Wikipedia. Also see a further book under [[Western Front#Miscellaneous|Miscellaneous]] below.
*[https://archive.org/details/scoutingthrills00mckerich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Scouting Thrills''] by Captain G B McKean, VC, MC, MM 14th Battalion Canadian Infantry 1919 Archive.org. The Battalion scouts were generally part of the Intelligence section, along with observers and snipers. Pages 8-9 state the book is primarily written for boys. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Burdon_McKean George Burdon McKean] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/handfulofausseys00thor ''A Handful of Ausseys''] by C. Hampton Thorp, AIF 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''. The latter part of the book is about the Western Front.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three Fronts''] Edited by his wife. 1919. The letters of George Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles]. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta, Egypt and Palestine, where he died. He was a well known Theosophist. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25528 ''Q. 6. A and Other Places: Recollections of 1916, 1917, and 1918''] by by Francis Buckley 1920. Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/q6aandotherplaces00buckuoft Archive.org version] Difficult to read online, but download possible. from Jan. 1916 onwards as He was a subaltern, from Jan. 1916 onwards, and later company commander, 1st/7th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers.
*[https://archive.org/details/galloperatypress00butlrich/page/n7 ''A Galloper at Ypres, and some subsequent adventures''] by Major and Bt- Lieut-Col Patrick Butler, The Royal Irish 1920. Archive.org. Butler was ADC to the General of the 7th Division.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100103993?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Confessions of a Private''] by Frank Grey, late 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. 1920. HathiTrust Digital Library.
*[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/>
: He had previously written [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89101084432?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''War and the creative impulse''] by Max Plowman; with preface by Henry W. Nevinson. 1919 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Plowman Max Plowman] (Wikipedia), actual name Mark.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208835/page/n7 ''A Subaltern’s War''] by Charles Edmonds (pseud.) [Charles Edmund Carrington] 1929 Archive.org. Full title ''A Subaltern’s War being a memoir of the Great War from the point of view of a romantic young man, with candid accounts of two particular battles, written shortly after they occurred, and an essay on militarism''. The Preface advises most of the book was written in 1919 and 1920. Carrington was a Lieutenant in the 1/5th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/not-disillusioned-charles-carrington-8-best-world-war-i-memoir/ "#8 Best World War I Memoir"] by Edward Lengel. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs"<ref name=GWDJ/>. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carrington_(historian) Charles Carrington (historian)] Wikipedia. Carrington was also the author of ''Soldier From The Wars Returning'' 1965, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008268973
*[https://archive.org/details/wearyroadrecolle0000doui/page/n7 ''The Weary Road : Recollections of a Subaltern of Infantry''] by Charles Douie 1988, first published 1929. Archive.org Lending Library. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs"<ref name=GWDJ/>. In August 1914 he joined “a Territorial unit of the 51st Highland Division”. He was commissioned as a temporary Second Lieutenant in the 7th (Service) Battalion, the Dorsetshire Regiment (9 January 1915) and subsequently transferred to the 1/Dorsets, joining them in France 15 February 1916.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527721/page/n5 ''A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War''] with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell according to a page from [https://www.henrywilliamson.co.uk/bibliography/a-lifes-work/a-soldiers-diary-of-the-great-war henrywilliamson.co.uk]. Bell was with different battalions of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, and then joined the Royal Flying Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/americanfighters00paul ''American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918''] by Paul Ayres Rockwell 1930 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/sky00blai ''Sky: Memoirs''] by Blaise Cendrars [pseudonym], translated by Nina Rootes 1992, originally published in French as ''Le Lotissement du ciel'' 1949. [https://archive.org/details/skymemoirs00cend 2nd file] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. A volume in the author’s war memoirs tetralogy, which includes WW1 chapters. Swiss born, during WWI he joined the French Foreign Legion and served in France, where he lost an arm. [https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/jul/23/thehazyworldofblaisecendr "The hazy world of Blaise Cendrars"] by Lee Rourke 23 July 2007 ''The Guardian''. "Cendrars eschews biographical detail and morphs fact and fiction". The other volumes in the tetralogy are ''Astonished Man'' (''L 'Homme foudroyé'', 1945), ''Lice'' (''La main coupée'', 1946), ''Planus'' (''Bourlinguer'', 1948). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Cendrars Blaise Cendrars] Wikipedia.
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Alexander,_1st_Earl_Alexander_of_Tunis Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis] Wikipedia. During WW1, he was in the Irish Guards, initially Lieutenant 1st Battalion, appointed Commander 2nd Irish Guards in October 1917, aged 25. For online biographies published 1952-1973, containing chapters on WW1, see [[Second World War#Historical books online|Second World War - Historical books online]] and scroll down.
*[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/windsofchange19100macm/page/58/mode/2up "The First World War"] Chapter Three page 59 ''Winds of Change, 1914-1939'' by Harold Macmillan 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Macmillan Harold Macmillan] (Wikipedia) later British Prime Minister. He was an officer of the Grenadier Guards in France.
*[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.
*''A Victorian Son: an Autobiography, 1897-1922'' by Stuart Cloete 1973. WW1 period commences [https://archive.org/details/victoriansonauto0000cloe/page/180/mode/2up page 181]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Cloete Stuart Cloete] (Wikipedia) says he was commissioned into the 9th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, before later transferring to the Coldstream Guards. He later lived in South Africa and became a novelist.
*[https://archive.org/details/fifteenroundsmin0000jeff/page/n5/mode/2up ''"Fifteen rounds a minute" : the Grenadiers at war, August to December 1914''] Edited from the diaries and letters of Major 'Ma' Jeffries and others by J M Craster 1976. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
*[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/cannonfodderinfa00dold ''Cannon Fodder : An Infantryman's Life on the Western Front, 1914-18''] by A Stuart Dolden 1980 Archive.org Lending Library. “Dolden was a solicitor who enlisted as a Private soldier …an excellent account of the life of an enlisted man, sometime bomber, sometime cook in D Company, 1st/14th London Regiment …a must read for those who want to know “what it was like”.”<ref name=LFH/>
*[https://archive.org/details/somedesperateglo0000vaug/page/6 ''Some Desperate Glory : the World War I Diary of a British Officer, 1917''] by Edwin Campion Vaughan 1988, first published 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The author appears to have been Second Lieutenant, Warwickshire Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/tofightalongside0000mayc/mode/2up ''To Fight Alongside Friends : the First World War Diaries of Charlie May''] edited by Gerry Harrison 2014. Captain Charlie May was killed, aged 27, on 1 July 1916, leading the men of 'B Company', 22nd Manchester Service Battalion (the Manchester Pals) into action on the first day of the Somme. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*For a record of the "Sea Soldiers" of The Royal Marines, see [[Western Front#Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general|Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general, above]].
 
====Machine Guns====
*[https://archive.org/details/shillingsoldiers00gars/page/n5 ''The Shilling Soldiers''] by Denis Garstin [1918]. Archive.org. The author served with the 10th Hussars Machine Gun Squadron 1915-1916, and biographical details may be found in the Preface. He subsequently was killed in action in August 1918 in Russia. [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21999/lot/178/ Captain Denis Norman Garstin] bonhams.com.
====Secret Service and Spies====
*[https://archive.org/details/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts''] by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org. Tuohy also wrote ''The Battle of Brains'' 1930, consisting of some true stories, some semi-fiction, about Secret Service/spies, much of which had appeared serially in the ''Graphic'', available at the British Library UIN: BLL01003689091 and also available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006523449 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University access. Also see a [[ Western Front#Post War including British Occupation of Germany|postwar book below]]. The author was/became a news reporter and post-war foreign correspondent.
*[https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1704 ''Detective & Secret Service Days''] by Edwin T Woodhall 1929. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". Extracts from the book: [https://web.archive.org/web/20180804131912/https://pixelsurgery.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/edwin-wood-hall-detective-part-1.pdf "Book I" pages 31-122], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180804131357/https://pixelsurgery.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/toplis-sectret-service-days.pdf "Book II Secret Service Days", pages 125-162], of 282 pages in total. Archive.org. The 1937 edition was titled ''Detective and Secret Service Days''. The author chronicles his experiences beginning briefly with his early days in 1906 in the London Metropolitan Police Force, and then on to when he subsequently became attached to the CID at Scotland Yard, the Special Political Department, the Secret Service Department and the Special Central Department. [http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rip-woodhall.html Details of the author] casebook.org. Elsewhere it is stated that Chapter III "Military Ishmaels", page 143 is about Toplis who is discussed in an article,<ref>[https://pixelsurgery.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/secret-service-days-woodhall/ "Monocled Mutineer, Percy Toplis"] pixelsurgery.com</ref> and that Chapter IV, "A Charming Spy", relates to Mata Hari, see below. He was also the author of ''Spies of the Great War : adventures with the Allied Secret Service'' by Edwin T. Woodhall 1932. Extracts from the latter book are included in ''Fifty Amazing Secret Service Dramas'', available online, see below.
*[https://archive.org/details/secretservice00geor ''Secret Service''] by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org
*''The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington'' 1920. [An autobiography]. [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar01repi Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar19100repi Volume II] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_à_Court_Repington Charles à Court Repington] 1858-1925. Wikipedia. He was a former British Army Officer who was military correspondent for ''The Times'' 1904–1918, who had many influential contacts with officers in the Army's highest ranks.
*[https://archive.org/details/notebookofattach01wood/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Note-book of an Attaché; seven months in the war zone''] by Eric Fisher Wood 1915 Archive.org. Some of the images may be better in [https://archive.org/details/cihm_990872/mode/2up this 2nd version] Archive.org. The author was studying in Paris at the outbreak of war, and became Attaché at the American Embassy in Paris under Ambassador Myron Herrick. The American Embassy became responsible for German subjects remaining in France. Includes a period when Wood volunteered as an ambulance driver. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Fisher_Wood Eric Fisher Wood] Wikipedia. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others, above]] for a later book.
*[https://archive.org/details/overthresholdwa00hopkgoog/page/n12/mode/2up ''Over the Threshold of War: Personal Experiences of the Great European Conflict''] by Nevil Monroe Hopkins 1918 Archive.org. Hopkins was an American engineer travelling in Europe, including Russia in 1914. He was in Paris at the outbreak of war and worked briefly for the American Embassy (also see account above) before he and his family and friends were evacuated to England on an American cruiser, although he subsequently briefly returned to Europe.
*[https://archive.org/details/myfouryearsinger00gera/page/n5 ''My four years in Germany''] by James W Gerard, late [USA] Ambassador to the German Imperial Court. 1917 Archive.org. He arrived in Belin late 1913.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromtrencheslouv00youn ''From the Trenches : Louvain to the Aisne, the first record of an eye-witness''] by Geoffrey Winthrop Young 1914 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Winthrop_Young Geoffrey Winthrop Young] Wikipedia. Young was then working as a war correspondent for the ''Daily News''.
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofenglishre00stro ''The Diary of an English Resident in France during twenty-two weeks of war time''] by Rowland Strong 1915 Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated Rowland Strong was/had been the Paris correspondent for the ''Observer'', the ''Morning Post'' and the ''New York Times''.
:[https://archive.org/details/diaryofenglishre00strorich ''The Diary of an English Resident in France during war time. Second series, Jan.-Dec. 1915''] by Rowland Strong 1916 Archive.org.
:[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/thatfriendofmine00kell/page/112 "In France"] page 113 ''That Friend of Mine : a Memoir of Marguerite McArthur'' by Josephine Kellett 1920. Archive.org. In France, McArthur was with the YMCA, working with libraries and educational classes for soldiers, at Etaples, from March 1918 to February 1919 when she died of pneumonia following influenza. Although a civilian, she was given a military funeral. Earlier, she had worked for two years in the Intelligence Department of the War Office in the Translation Bureau, and had also done volunteer war work in England.
*[https://archive.org/details/scavengerinfranc00bellrich ''A Scavenger in France : being Extracts from the Diary of an Architect, 1917-19''] by William Bell 1920 Archive.org. The author was a member of the F W V R C, Friends’ War-Victims’ Relief Committee, a Quaker organization.
*[https://archive.org/details/warmemories00croyuoft/mode/2up ''War Memories''] by Princess Marie de Croy 1932 Archive.org. A resident of Belgium, her house was turned into a hospital until the Germans took it over. In 1915 she was convicted by the Germans for sheltering Allied soldiers. Nurse Edith Cavell who was tried at the same time was shot for her part in these activities, however Princess Marie was sent to a civil prison in Germany which held criminals such as murderers and remained there until the war ended in 1918. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Marie_of_Croÿ Princess Marie of Croÿ] Wikipedia.
*[http://www.ourstory.info/library/catalog.html [American<nowiki>]</nowiki> Field Service/Library] contains accounts by American volunteers including some who drove ambulances and transport trucks. At least some of these volunteers were formally part of the French Army.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishinternedi00pico ''The British interned in Switzerland''] by Lieut.-Colonel H P Picot 1919 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/threeyearsprison00thorrich ''Three Years a Prisoner in Germany''] by Major J C Thorn, a First Canadian Contingent Officer 1919 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/tunnellersofholz00durnuoft/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Tunnellers of Holzminden (with a side-issue)''] by H G Durnford (Hugh George Edmund) 1920 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/thetunnellersofh52308gut Images from the book] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/beyondtumult00winc ''Beyond the Tumult''] by Barry Winchester 1972. Additional wording on front cover: ''The true story of the greatest escape in the annals of wartime adventure''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Pilots from the Royal Flying Corps lead the escape from Holzminden.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241529 ''Within Four Walls: A Classic of Escape''] by Major M C C Harrison, Royal Tank Corps, late the Royal Irish Regiment, and Captain H A Cartwright, late The Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Middlesex Regiment). First published 1930. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/2864905upenn ''The Wooden City; a Journal for British Prisoners of War'']. Issues 1-15. Published at Göttingen 1915. Archive.org. Includes Lists of POWs at Göttingen.
*[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/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
*[https://archive.org/details/careofdead00unse ''The Care of the Dead''] 1916 Archive.org. A short pamphlet about the British Army’s Graves Registration Units.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207441 ''The Silent Cities: an illustrated guide to the war cemeteries and memorials to the 'Missing' in France and Flanders: 1914-1918''] by Sidney C. Hurst 1929. Photographs are dark, without detail. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*Various [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Michelin%29&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22&sort=date Michelin Guides to the Battlefields]. Scroll down to publication dates 1917 -1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/thewhitecrosstouringatlasofthewesternbattlefields/mode/1up ''The White Cross Touring Atlas of the Western Battlefields''] by The White Cross Insurance Association Ltd. 1920 Archive.org. Also contains an Index to the War Graves. The digital file consist of two actual pages to one digital page, so the one page viewing option is suggested. A digitised version of the Index to the War Graves was added 31 March 2020. It is available as four (4) separate PDF files (Original, Alphabetic, Numeric, Page Number) or as an EXCEL Worksheet with four (4) tabs. These links are located immediately under the book reader. All versions of the Index are '''searchable'''. (More details<ref>Tulloch-Marshall, Tom et al.
[https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/142547-the-white-cross-touring-atlas/ The White Cross Touring Atlas] ''Great War Forum'' 22 February 2010 onwards. Retrieved 8 June 2020.</ref>).
*[https://archive.org/details/challengeofdeadv00grahrich ''The Challenge of the Dead. A vision of the war and the life of the common soldier in France, seen two years afterwards between August and November, 1920''] by Stephen Graham 1921 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Graham_(author) Stephen Graham (author)] Wikipedia. Also see a previous book under [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]] above.
*[https://archive.org/details/horsewarillustra00galt ''The Horse and the War''] by Captain Sidney Galtrey. Illustrated from drawings by Captain Lionel Edwards and from photographs. 1918 Archive.org
====Post War including British Occupation of Germany====
*''The Occupation of the Rhineland : 1918-1929'' by J. E Edmonds, (James Edward, Sir). Originally published under restricted circulation 1944. Series: ''History of the Great War''. Available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/the-occupation-of-the-rhineland-1918-1929official-history-of-the-great-war/ ''The Occupation of the Rhineland : 1918-1929''] by J. E Edmonds. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8KO82s1roGLP6hQIy online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in World War II/Military Books/Germany.
*[https://archive.org/details/myrhinelandjourn00alle_0/page/n7/mode/2up ''My Rhineland Journal''] by Henry T. Allen, Major-General USA. 1923 Archive.org
 
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.183516 ''The Present State Of Germany. A Lecture delivered in the University of London on November 20th, 1923, with an Introduction''] by J H Morgan [John Hartman]. 2nd impression 1924. Archive.org. For more online books by J H Morgan, see other sections, above, and also [[First World War]]. Morgan also wrote ''Assize of Arms: The Disarmament of Germany and her Rearmament (1919–1939)'' (1945).
*[https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1954 ''Cockpit of Peace 1919-1925''] by Ferdinand Tuohy 1926. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". The author was a post-war foreign correspondent, also the author of ''Occupied, 1918-1930; a postscript to the western front'' published 1931, available for those with University access, on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005906197 HathiTrust Digital Library] and at the British Library UIN: BLL01012161739 . Also see his book under [[Western Front#Secret Service and Spies|Secret Service and Spies, above]].
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/LERYSOSSOM3YL4FB4TTXBCPVUHOGJUVV ''Life in the Occupied Area''] by Katharine Tynan 1925 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. [http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb11126620_00009.html Direct link to book] Bavarian State Library website. [http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/14th-march-1925/28/life-in-the-occupied-area-by-katharine-tynan-hutch Spectator review, 1925]
*''An Ambassador of Peace ; pages from the diary of Viscount D'Abernon. (Berlin, 1920-1926) With historical notes by Maurice Alfred Gerothwohl''. In three volumes
**''Vol. I From Spa (1920) to Rapallo (1922)'', published 1929. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.12490/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org]; [https://archive.org/details/ambassadorofpeac0001dabe/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library]
**[https://archive.org/details/ambassadorofpeac0002dabe/page/8 ''Vol. II The Years of Crisis June 1922-December 1923''], 1929. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
**[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000112675 HathiTrust Digital Library] including [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015049815262?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Vol.III The Years of Recovery January 1924- October 1926''], 1930. Possibly not available in some regions such as North America.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Vincent,_1st_Viscount_D%27Abernon Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon] Wikipedia. British Ambassador to Berlin. He was called "the pioneer of appeasement".
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206501 ''Peace Patrol''] by Lt.-Col. Stewart Roddie 1932. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Roddie was a member of the Inter- Allied Commission of Control in Germany in the 1920s.
:[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.2458 ''Verdun''] ''The Prelude'', and ''The Battle'' by Jules Romains. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. 1940, first published in English 1939. Archive.org Note: Lacks title page. Book 15 ''Prélude à Verdun'' and Book 16 ''Verdun'' (published 1938), Volume 8 (some editions), from the 27 volume series ''Men of Goodwill'' (''Les Hommes de bonne volonté''). [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.264814 2nd Archive.org file]. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/happyforeigner00bagn/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Happy Foreigner''] by Enid Bagnold 1920 Archive.org. “Set in the winter and spring following the Armistice, this fictionalized account of Bagnold's experience as a driver for the French Army remains a valuable record of haunted battlefields and scant army rations…”<ref>[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/366645/summary "Enid Bagnold's The Happy Foreigner: The Wider World Beyond Love"] by Stella Deen muse.jhu.edu</ref>. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Bagnold Enid Bagnold] Wikipedia. She was English, and became an author and playwright.
*[https://archive.org/details/peterjacksonciga00franiala ''Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant : a Romance of Married Life''] by Gilbert Frankau. Seventh edition 1920. Archive.org. This book "is semi-autobiographical and gives an excellent feel for life as a Kitchener volunteer officer in both the infantry and then the RFA 1914-16… it was also one of the first books to reveal to the general public what Shell Shock was all about. A classic".<ref>charlesmessenger [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/244799-casemate-books-a-question/?do=findComment&comment=2463024 Casemate Books - a question] ''Great War Forum'' 12 November 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/wayofrevelationn00ewarrich/page/n5 ''Way of revelation : a novel of five years''] by Wilfrid Ewart 1922 Archive.org. Ewart was an officer in the Scots Guards, refer [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]] above.
:[http://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/EdgarWallace/Smithy/NobbyOnGettingCommissions.html ''Nobby On Getting Commissions''] by Edgar Wallace 1915 . Transcriptions from Roy Glashan’s Library formerly FreeRead freeread.com.au.
*[https://archive.org/details/younghildaatwars00gleaiala ''Young Hilda at the Wars''] by Arthur H Gleason 1915 Archive.org. The photograph at the front of the book is stated to be that of Helen, the author’s wife. Other characters in the book are stated to be based on Ambulance drivers Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm who worked as volunteers in Belgium.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=FVU0CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT81 A page] from Chapter V, ''Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front'' by Diane Atkinson. Google Books.</ref>
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1939&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Green Envelopes''] No author appears on the title page, however the author is identified as Colonel Lionel James, pre WW1 war correspondent and WW1 Commander of King Edward’s Horse<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200331014345/https://www.ebay.com/itm/WWI-1929-GREEN-ENVELOPES-Letters-from-WESTERN-FRONT-to-a-typical-English-Village-/382194859732 Ebay listing ResurgamBooks (dilapsus)] and Lionel James [http://www.northwoodvillage.org.uk/tchudsonarticles/he-wielded-pen-and-sword-by-t-c-hudson/ "He Wielded Pen and Sword"] northwoodvillage.org.uk</ref>. Published by John Murray London 1929. Letters home from the Front, from many soldiers, to a village in England. A [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/29136813 review] says "These are the familiar "green envelopes" of active service during the war. ...letters which were really written…" (names changed). The British Library catalogue entry includes the words "A novel", however in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, the book is classified WW1 Personal narratives, British. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.167522/page/n9 ''The W Plan''] by Graham Seton 1930 Archive.org. Also see [[Western Front#Machine Guns|Machine Guns]], above.
*[https://archive.org/details/roadstoglory0000aldi/page/n5 ''Roads to Glory''] by Richard Aldington 1930. Archive.org Lending Library.
*A romantic novel: [https://archive.org/details/55230680R.nlm.nih.gov ''The Nurse's Story : In Which Reality Meets Romance''] by Adele Bleneau 1915 Archive.org. The hero of this romantic novel is a Captain in the Ludhiana Sikhs (page 97). There are suggestions that when it was published the book was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. The book is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic nursing background. For a [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19150807&id=YMUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h0kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4225,1611451&hl=en review of this novel] scroll if necessary to page 7, 5th column of the ''Pittsburgh Press'' (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.
*[https://archive.org/details/rillaofingleside00mont_0 ''Rilla of Ingleside''] by L M Montgomert 1921 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/rilla_ingleside_librivox Librivox audio version, read by one reader], [https://archive.org/details/rillaofingleside_1609_librivox Librivox audio, multiple readers] Archive.org. The final book in L. M. Montgomery's ''Anne of Green Gables'' series for girls, set in Canada. The story of the life of the women at home whose family members fought on the Western Front.
*[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44348 ''Dastral of the Flying Corps''] by Rowland Walker. First published 1917. Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/dastraloftheflyi44348gut Archive.org version] [http://rowlandwalker.yolasite.com About the author]. The author was in the RFC. An adventure story.
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30698 ''Aces Up''] by Covington Clarke 1929 Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/aces_up_1805_librivox Librivox audio version]. Archive.org. About American aviators.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241464 ''Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter''] by Captain W E Johns 1954. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Contains thirteen short stories, eleven of which were originally published in ''The Camels Are Coming'' (1932) and two of which were originally published in ''Biggles Of The Camel Squadron'' (1934), originally written for older adolescents. Note however Wikipedia states "The early First World War books were reprinted in the 1950s, when the Biggles books had acquired a younger readership and were bowdlerised". [http://www.friardale.co.uk/Biggles/Biggles%20Daniel%20Tangri.pdf "Biggles"] by Daniel Tangri. friardale.co.uk.
*[https://www.gutenbergarchive.org/ebooksdetails/thecockpitkennthquintrelarchwhitehous/mode/44348 2up ''Dastral of the The Cockpit: Flying CorpsAdventures for Young Pilots''] 8 short stories, 4 by Kenneth Quintrel, 2 by Arch Whitehouse, 1 by Captain W E Johns, and 1 by Rudolf Stark with illustrations by Rowland Walker. First published 1917. Gutenberg.orgStanley Orton Bradshaw and Howard Leigh. [https://archiveCatalogued 1934.org/details/dastraloftheflyi44348gut Archive.org version] [http://rowlandwalker.yolasite.com About the author]. The author was in the RFC. An adventure storyA digital reprint.
*Adventure stories for younger readers
**By Herbert Strang. Gutenberg.org.
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