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====Official Histories and Battles====
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Military Operations: France and Belgium'' by Brigadier-General J E Edmonds
**[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/about/british-official-histories-great-war/ The Official Histories of the Great War] longlongtrail.co.uk. Details the various volumes. Often there were separate volumes/cases of maps which generally have '''not''' been digitised.
**''Volume I August-October 1914'': [https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio01edmouoft 1922 edition], [https://archive.org/details/3edmilitaryopera01edmouoft Revised text 1937 edition]
**[https://archive.org/details/3edmilitaryopera02edmouoft ''Volume II October-November 1914''] 1925 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 International/ Military Books/France, letter M). It is thought the separate volumes of maps are all included.
*''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
