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:[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 . Comments about the books from [https://archive.org/details/oldmenforget011687mbp/page/n201/mode/2up pages 184-188] of Cooper's autobiography. All 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/haig00andr ''Haig : the Evolution of a Commander''] by Andrew A West 2005. Archive.org Lending Library
*[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/oldmenforget011687mbp/page/n87/mode/2up "The Army in France 1918"] Chapter Five, page 75 ''Old Men Forget: The Autobiography of Duff Cooper (Viscount Norwich)'' 1954 Archive.org. He was an officer in the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, and served in France for six months. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff_Cooper Duff Cooper] Wikipedia. He became a British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and military and political historian.
*[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.
