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*[http://www.hcilondon.in/ebook/valour/ Valour and Sacrifice. The First Indian Soldiers in Europe 1914-1916] Website of High Commission of India in London. *[http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/9dGlURRrd8GjqIk3YAkJjO/The-men-who-cut-the-war-short.html "The men who cut the war short"] by Sidin Vadukut June 28 2014 Livemint. An Transcript of an interview with Gordon Corrigan, author of ''Sepoy in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914-15''.:Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AW9IWyqB5w "Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914-15"] Major Gordon Corrigan MBE (Retd, Royal Gurkha Rifles), talks about the vital but unrecognised role of the Indian Army in the First World War, highlighting the Sikh contribution. A talk from a symposium convened by the UK Punjab Heritage Association on 31 August 2014. YouTube.
*[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/index.html ''"The Infantry cannot do with a gun less": The Place of the Artillery
in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918''] by Sanders Marble gutenberg-e.org. Colombia University Press. Based on the author's Ph D thesis, University of London, 1998.
*YouTube video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znLmcT27X7g ''Soldiers: Part 3. Gunner'']. Includes WW1 footage, including commentary at 3.00 by Patrick James Campbell, 150th Brigade R.F.A, who wrote ''The Ebb & Flow of Battle'' c 1977 and ''In the Cannon's Mouth'', 1979, the latter also published in an 1979 edition which included the former. The video is from an 1985 eight part series, most of which are also available on YouTube.
*[https://www.poigraves.uk Download Accurate POI [Point Of Interest<nowiki>]</nowiki> Satnav files for free!] Useful when visiting [[Cemeteries#CWGC|CWGC]] cemeteries. poigraves.uk
*:[https://archive.org/details/despatchesoflord00fren sirdouglashaigsd00haig/page/n9 ''The Sir Douglas Haig's 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(December 1915-April 1919)''] 1917 Archiveedited by Lieut.org.*Books by two out of 25 volunteer members of the RAC [Royal Automobile Club] Contingent, who volunteered with their own car, who were sent officially by the War Office -Colonel J H Boraston (Private Secretary to drive officers of the General Headquarters Staff at the frontEarl Haig) 1919. As a result, they were in constant contact with very senior officers, and personally observed the course of events over a wide field. It seems they officially joined the Army, and were given officer status. **[httphttps://hdlarchive.handle.netorg/details/cihm_990328/2027page/uc1n481 Microform edition] has a series of maps (in sections).$b42511?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Archive.org*''Adventures on Germany in Defeat. A Strategic History of the Western Front, August, 1914-June, 1915War''] by A Rawlinson 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author, then aged 47, volunteered as a driver, who provided his own car, for service at the Front, as part of the RAC Contingent. For a book about later military related service by this author, see [[Norperforce]]Count Charles de Souza.**[https://archive.org/details/frommonstoypresw00cole cu31924088055250/page/n5 ''From Mons to Ypres with General French; a Personal NarrativeFirst Phase''] by Frederic Coleman. 3rd edition 1916 Archive.org. Originally published under the title ''From Mons to Ypres with French : a personal narrative''. He was a part of the RAC Contingent, who volunteered with his own car.*:Joint author Major Haldane MacFall; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208781 cu31924088055268/page/n5 ''With Cavalry In 1915. The British Trooper in the Trench line : Through the second battle of YpresSecond Phase''] by Frederic Coleman 1916. Archive.org. Also published with the title beginning ''With Cavalry in the Great War...''. He was attached, with his car, to the Head-quarters Staff of the 1st Cavalry Division. These two titles were later reprinted by Leonaur as ''A Twilight of Centaurs''*:Frederic Coleman, an American resident in London, is elsewhere <ref>; [https://wwwarchive.bonhams.comorg/auctionsdetails/15398cu31924088055276/lotpage/61/ Frederick Abernethy Colemann6 ''Third Phase''] bonhams.com</ref> described as the journalist and Motoring [figure], Frederick Abernethy Coleman, who popularized the White Steam car in England and was a prominent figure in English motoring. He appears to have spent time in China, at the time of the Boxer Rebellion, possibly as a journalist. He was also the author of *:1916; [https://archive.org/details/ourboysoverther00colegoog cu31924088055284/page/n3 ''Our boys over there; to the young American in khaki - what he will find when he gets to FranceFourth Phase''] by Frederic Coleman 1918 1919. All Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/gunsofaugust00tuch_gaq shorthistoryofgr0000poll/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Guns A Short History of Augustthe Great War''] , with nineteen maps, by Barbara Tuchman 1988. A F Pollard 1920 Archive.org Lending Library. A narrative of the earliest stages of World War I, from the decisions to go to war, up until the battles of the first month. [https://en.wikipediaarchive.org/wikidetails/The_Guns_of_August About the book] Wikipedia. Article [https:ashorthistoryoft07189gut/shogw10h/wwwmap01.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/03/guns-of-august-barbara-tuchman "png Maps from ''The Guns A Short History of August'' showed me how history could bring the past to life"] by Margaret MacMillan ''The Guardian'' 4 August 2014.*[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1647 ''Reputations, Ten Years AfterGreat War''] by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart 1928(different digital file) Archive.Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailandorg. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times19 Maps, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". An examination of 10 leading personalities of WWI, including Joffre, Foch, Petain, Lundendorff, Pershing, and otherseach shown twice.:*[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/historyoffirstwo00lidd ''History of the First World War''] by B. H. Liddell Hart 1972 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Liddell_Hart B. H. Liddell Hart] Wikipedia.
*:[https://archive.org/details/canteensbritisharmy/page/n13/mode/2up ''A Short Account of Canteens in the British Army''] by John Fortescue 1928 Archive.org. Includes WW1, when the organisation was known as the Expeditionary Force Canteen, EFC. It appears that at least in the later years of WW1, Canteen personnel were either Army Service Corps personnel, or were administered by the ASC. Medals awarded were inscribed Canteens.:[https://archive.org/details/armyservicecorps00puck ''Army Service Corps of the British Army, and, the organization of the transport and transportation at the front in France : lectures delivered before the officers of the Quartermaster Corps and Quartermaster Reserve Corps at Washington, D.C., May 1917''] by Lieut. Col. F K Puckle, A S C, British Army. Archive.org.:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274682/mode/2up ''A. and Q. or, Military Administration In War''] by Lieut.-Col. W G Lindsell RA 1928. Archive.org.*For railways, see [[First World War#Corps, Munitions, Equipment, Railways etc.|First World War-Historical books online-Corps, Munitions, Equipment, Railways etc.]] and scroll down.
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER279936 ''Mine Rescue Work on the Western Front''] by Lieut.-Colonel D Dale Logan RAMC 1920 HMSO. State Library of Victoria.
: A similar series of books is ''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, etc''. Published c 1917 as a two volume set, c 900 pages, and also published as a five volume set. *[https://wwwarchive.naval-military-press.comorg/productdetails/deeds-that-thrill-the-empiretrue-stories-500ofbestcockney00lond ''500 of-the-most-glorious-acts-of-heroism-of-Best Cockney War Stories''] Reprinted from the-empires-soldiers-and-sailors-during-the-great-war/ Information about the contents] (naval-military-pressLondon ''Evening News''.com) advises 56 VCs are covered. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000891226 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''] with an Introduction by Jon E Lewis 1999, and still later as [https://archive.org/details/onfrontlinetruew0000unse_r2k6/page/n3/mode/2up ''On the Front Line : True World War I Stories''] with a Foreword by Malcolm Brown 2009. Both 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 . *[https://archive.org/details/warlettersoffall00emil/page/n5 ''War Letters of Fallen Englishmen''] edited by Laurence Housman [1930] Archive.org*''Twenty Years After. The Battlefields of 1914-18: Then and Now'', edited by Maj Gen Sir Ernest Swinton, published by George Newnes. A series of 64 weekly editions, also reprinted as three volumes, written by those who had served, with their own photos and biographical accounts, published in the mid-late 1930s, most likely from late 1936. The weekly editions may be accessed (for free) through [https://vickersmg.blog/about/research/twenty-years-after/ Vickers MG Collection and Research Association] website, the actual downloads being available from the Vickers MG Collection page at patreon.com*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176613/page/n1/mode/2up ''Vain Glory. A miscellany of the Great War 1914-1918 written by those who fought in it on each side and on all fronts''] edited, and with an Introduction, by Guy Chapman 1937 Archive.org*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120825165603/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/NewsMedia/I_Was_There_01.htm ''The Great War…I Was There! Undying Memories of 1914-1918''] (a description greatwardifferent.com, archived) edited by Sir John Hammerton originally published in 51 weekly parts 1938-39, (first appearing around the 20th anniversary of the end of the war), and also published 1938-39 in a three volume edition, 2060 pages (V.1. August 4, 1914, to July 1, 1916; V.2. July 4, 1916, to October 22, 1917; V.3. Oct. 25, 1917 to Jan. 1919 (with pages V1 1-696, V2 697-1376, V3 1377-2060)(Amalgamated Press)), the latter available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01001581634 . There was also a four volume publication (1930s) by Waverley (with pages V1 1-496, V2 497-1016, V3 1017-1536, V4 1537-2056 with Supplement and General Index).:Contents sample, pages 1545 to 1734<ref>stiletto_33853 . [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/301821-i-was-there-volumes/?do=findComment&comment=3174496 I Was There Volumes] ''Great War Forum'' 26 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.</ref>, which indicates that the majority of the accounts were extracts from previously published books. :The weekly issues are being uploaded to the Patreon.com platform by the Vickers MG Collection and Research Association, and at 19 December 2023 [https://www.patreon.com/vickersmg/posts?filters%5Btag%5D=%23IWasThere Issues 1-32] were available to download as pdfs for free, and more uploads were expected.:The weekly magazines are available as a database on the pay website [[findmypast]], titled [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-the-great-war-i-was-there Britain, The Great War, I Was There] located in Armed Forces & Conflict/First World War, which advises the 51 editions ran from 29 September 1938 to 19 September 1939. To browse the pages, do not use a Search term but click on the Search icon, when a series of 1186 pdf images, (each of two pages), will be displayed in image order. From any image you can navigate to the next image, or the previous image. (This function is located near the top of the findmypast webpage, not near the actual image). Part 1 consists of 29 images, perhaps larger than the average, if in fact all issues are included.:Some of the weekly issues (Parts 1-41, (for the period to 23 April 1918) and Part 46 (Sept-Oct 1918) are 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" and it appears in five separate listings, the editions to Part 41 in four listings and Part 46 as a separate listing. 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/onwesternfrontso0000laff/mode/2up ''On the Western Front : Soldiers' Stories from France and Flanders 1914-1918''] by John Laffin 2004 reprint, first published 1985. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/oxfordbookofmili00cdot/page/322/mode/2up First World War extracts] pages 323-381 ''The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes'' edited by Max Hastings, 1985. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/forgottenvoiceso0000arth_i2a6/mode/2up ''Forgotten Voices of the Great War''] by Max Arthur 2002. "In Association with Imperial War Museum". Personal accounts. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library*[https://archive.org/details/battlelineseyewi0000gran/page/n5/mode/2up ''Battle Lines : eyewitness accounts from Canada's military history''] by J L Granatstein and Norman Hillmer 2004. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes Western Front accounts, for both Army and RFC personnel.
*[https://archive.org/details/shortflightswith00spinrich ''Short Flights With the Cloud Cavalry''] by "Spin" [1918] Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated the author was Lieutenant G. E. Thomson, the Records Officer of 46 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps , who dedicated the book to his Commanding Officer, Philip Babington, ("Pip Beer" on the Dedication Page).<ref> Resurgam13. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/61344-rarest-book/?do=findComment&comment=2761527 Rarest book?] ''Great War Forum'' 26 April 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2019.</ref>
*[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 (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars|11th Hussars]], in which he had been an officer since 1910. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Spears Edward Spears] Wikipedia.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100103993?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Confessions of a Private''] by Frank Grey, late 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. 1920. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/passionateprodig00chap ''A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography''] by Guy Chapman. 1966 edition, first published 1933. Archive.org [https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#Borrow_from_Lending_Library Lending Library]. [First you must register. Only one person at a time is able to read the book, as in a 'real' library, so you may need to go on a waiting list]. He was Adj. 13th Batt. Royal Fusiliers, who was gassed at Arras. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/500ofbestcockney00lond ''500 of the Best Cockney War Stories''] Reprinted from the London ''Evening News''. 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781411403628 ''All Quiet On The Western Front''] by Erich Maria Remarque. Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28WESTERN+Front%29+AND+creator%3A%28Remarque%2C%29&sort=-date Other digital files] are available to borrow. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>.:[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. 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]*[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.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207934/page/n5 ''The Spanish Farm Trilogy 1914-1918''] by R H Mottram, originally published 1924-1926. ''Trilogy'' edition 1927 Archive.org. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-rh-mottram-trilogy-20151210-story.html "The underappreciation of R. H. Mottram's World War I novels"] by Patrick Reardon 10 December 2015 ''Chicago Tribune''. "''The Spanish Farm,'' ''Sixty-four, Ninety-four!'' and ''The Crime of Vanderlynden's'' — were set in Flanders, mostly behind the lines, and were based on Mottram's own military experiences. They were published individually in the late 1920s and later issued together with additional material as ''The Spanish Farm Trilogy''". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Hale_Mottram Ralph Hale Mottram] Wikipedia.*The four book ''Parade’s End'' by Ford Madox Ford, published 1924-1928, consisting of ''Some do not...'' ; ''No More Parades''; ''A Man Could Stand Up'' ; ''Last Post'' . First reprinted as ''Parade's End'' in 1950.On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*''William – an Englishman'' by Cicely Hamilton c 1919. [https://archive.org/details/williamenglishma00hamiiala Archive.org], missing pages 169-170, but file colour perhaps easier to read, [https://archive.org/details/williamanenglish00hamiiala Archive.org, all pages], [https://archive.org/details/williamanenglishman_1310_librivox Librivox audio recording] Archive.org, missing pages 169-170. The author worked at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont and organised Concerts at the Front. The book, written in a tent within sound of guns and shells, won the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse in 1919.<ref>[http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/william-an-englishman.html ''William – an Englishman'' by Cicely Hamilton] persephonebooks.co.uk.</ref>
*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/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.
→Official Histories and Battles
Some War Diaries, many of which are '''handwritten''', have been digitised and are available (on a pay basis) online from various sources: from the National Archives through the Discovery catalogue<ref>[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk Discovery catalogue]</ref>, from Naval and Military Archive<ref>[http://www.nmarchive.com/search-the-war-diaries Naval and Military Archive]</ref>, part of Naval & Military Press, which also publishes print and DVD-ROM versions, and through Ancestry which contains the database "UK, WWI War Diaries (France, Belgium and Germany), 1914-1920" (selected, and at times, part war diaries only)<ref>[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60779 UK, WWI War Diaries (France, Belgium and Germany), 1914-1920] consisting of WO 95/1096–3948 records. Ancestry. However, within this series, there appears to be a further selection of diaries available - not all are included.</ref><ref> stiletto_33853.
[httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.com/forumsorg/topic/257648-ancestry-vs-national-archives/?do=findComment&comment=2606479 Ancestry vs National Archives] ''Great War Forum'' 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018December 2020. Ancestry diaries may have large parts (many months) missingcompared to TNA files.</ref>(search hints<ref>MrSwan. [httphttps://1914-1918web.invisionzonearchive.comorg/web/20201225230124/https:/forums/topicwebcache.googleusercontent.com/256132search?q=cache%3AGdDPF0FbnwMJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.greatwarforum.org%2Ftopic%2F256132-ancestry-war-diaries/ %2F+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk Ancestry war diaries] ''Great War Forum'' 17 December 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2017Google cache version, archived.</ref><ref>Guest. [httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.com/forumsorg/topic/257685-finding-war-diaries-beating-ancestrys-poor-indexing/ Finding War Diaries: Beating Ancestry's Poor Indexing] ''Great War Forum'' 27 January 2018. Retrieved 30 March 201826 December 2020.</ref>) (and another database for Gallipoli). The Ancestry database also contains War Diaries for some Indian, Australian, New Zealand, and other regiments.
<br>Some '''transcribed''' war diaries (where the handwriting has been deciphered for you!) edited by Martin Gillott, series title (and publisher) ''Great War Diaries'', for British Army and Indian Army regiments, are available through Amazon.co.uk<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Diaries++Adjutant+Gillott&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ADiaries++Adjutant+Gillott ''Gallipoli Diaries'' and ''Great War Diaries''] amazon.co.uk</ref> in Kindle editions which have a Search facility (anyone with Kindle Unlimited can read them for free). (Download of a free Kindle App is available onto a PC, Mac or tablet - you don't need Kindle). The transcribed Indian Army ''Great War Diaries'' currently (2017/12) available are ''[[15th (Ludhiana) Regiment of Sikh Infantry|15th Ludhiana Sikhs]] War Diary 1914-15: Indian Army on the Western Front''; ''[[4th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|57th (Wilde's) Rifles (Frontier Force)]] War Diary 1914-15: The Indian Army on the Western Front''; ''[[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th (Scinde) Rifles (FF)]] War Diary 1914-15: Indian Army on the Western Front''.
==Time zones==
During the First World War, unoccupied France was and Belgium were in the same time zone as Great Britain, (Greenwich Mean Time). Germany was one hour ahead (GMT+1), as were the German occupied areas of France and Belgium. Germany first introduced Daylight Saving time Sunday, 30 April 1916, 23:00:00 when clocks were forwarded one hour. France followed on Wednesday, 14 June 1916, 23:00:00 pm when clocks were forwarded 1 hour. (Details.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_France Time in France] Wikipedia. [https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/france?year=1916 France DST 1916], with links to other years. [https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/germany?year=1916 Germany DST 1916], with links to other years. [https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/uk?year=1916 UK DST 1916], with links to other years. [https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/belgium?year=1916 Belgium DST 1916], with links to other years. timeanddate.com</ref>)
==Indian treacle (opium)==
On the Western Front, Sikh troops were supplied with Indian treacle, an euphemism for opium, which was part of their ration.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xhwJQavg7BsC&lpg=PA66&ots=MPzXpdJK7b&dq=%22Indian%20treacle%22%20opium&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q=%22Indian%20treacle%22%20opium&f=false page 66], ''British Logistics on the Western Front: 1914-1919'' by Ian Malcolm Brown. , quoting end notes 84, 85 WO 95/74 Director of Supplies, War Diary 29 October 1914, 1 November 1914 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xhwJQavg7BsC&pg=PA72 page 72] </ref>==Holding section (resulting from technical problems)==
== External links ==
*[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.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=itWzLPUnw4Q George Morton-Jack talks about sources of the personal stories used in his book ''The Indian Empire at War''] 6 July 2020. YouTube video.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151029054959/http://www.cwgc.org/foreverindia/stories/khudadad-khan-ghulam-haider-hollebke-east-africa.php Khudadad Khan and Ghulam Haider of the 129th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Baluchis] cwgc.org, now an archived webpage. For his remarkable courage, at the village of Hollebeke, near Ypres in Belgium. Khudadad Khan was the first Indian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160317153857/http://www.nam.ac.uk/microsites/ww1/stories/lieutenant-frank-de-pass/#.VHbUllYWFFw VurPly10dBw Lieutenant Frank de Pass] nam.ac.uk, now archived. Lieutenant Frank de Pass of the [[34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse|34th Prince Albert Victor’s Own Poona Horse]] was the first Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC) and also the first Indian Army officer to win the award in the First World War. It was awarded for conspicuous bravery near Festubert, in the Artois region of France on the western front, on the 24th November 1914.**[httphttps://wwwcollection.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1995-06-59-1 Lieutenant Frank Alexander de Pass in uniform VC, 1914] Photograph. nam.ac.uk
**[http://www.army.mod.uk/news/26740.aspx Memorial honours first Jewish WW1 hero] Ministry of Defence.
*[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/21/found-translation-indias-first-world-war "The last post: letters home to India during the first world war"] by Daljit Nagra 21 February 2014. ''The Guardian''. [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2015/09/letters-from-indian-soldiers-26-september-1915.html "Letters from Indian Soldiers, 26 September 1915"] 26 September 2015. British Library Untold lives blog. [http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2012/letters-from-the-west/ Letters from the West] Reports of the Censor of Indian Mails in France. generalist.org.uk.
:[httphttps://www.nam.acyoutube.ukcom/events/lunchtimewatch?v=qovq-lectures/video-archive/illiterate-literary-censored-correspondence-indian-soldiers- Video and transcript: UL_AY4 "Illiterate but Literary: The Censored Correspondence of Indian Soldiers in France, 1914-18"] by Dr David Omissi, recorded on 2 November 2015 . YouTube video, NationalArmyMuseumUK. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161114164047/http://www.nam.ac.uk/events/lunchtime-lectures/video-archive/illiterate-literary-censored-correspondence-indian-soldiers- Transcript of the video] nam.ac.uk, including YouTube videonow archived.
:See Historical books online, below.
*Podcast: [http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/india-first-world-war/ India in the First World War] William Spencer and others. 12 March 2015. The National Archives. The battle of Neuve Chapelle.
*[https://undereveryleaf.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/the-indian-memorial-at-neuve-chapelle/ The Indian Memorial at Neuve Chapelle] with Photographs. undereveryleaf.wordpress.com
:[httphttps://www.ww1cemeteries.com/othercemeteries/neuvechapelleindianneuve-chapelle-memorial.htm html Neuve Chapelle Memorial] ww1cemeteries.com
*[http://www.greatwar.co.uk/ypres-salient/memorial-indian-forces.htm Indian Forces Memorial, Ypres] greatwar.co.uk
*[http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/18.html Record Of Work [in France<nowiki>]</nowiki> Of Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service For India] Scarletfinders
*[httphttps://www.brighton-hove-rpmlbrightonmuseums.org.uk/RoyalPavilionvisit/royal-pavilion-garden/Pagesour-history/home.aspx Royal Pavilion in Brighton, Sussex UK] Used as a hospital for troops from the Indian corps who had been wounded during WW1 in France and Flanders and now contains the [httphttps://www.brighton-hove-rpmlbrightonmuseums.org.uk/RoyalPavilionvisit/whattoseeroyal-pavilion-garden/Pageswhat-to-see/indian-hospital-gallery/indianhospital.aspx Indian Military Hospital gallery]. brightonmuseums.org.uk**[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8589634.stm In Pictures: Brighton Pavilion's Indian military hospital] BBC.<br>
**[http://www.sikhmuseum.com/brighton Doctor Brighton's Pavilion] is an 'Online Exhibit' from sikhmuseum.com with much information.
**[http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/rYeYeqLcF8kAdCJ1T2U6KI/Brighton-England--Remains-of-a-faraway-battle.html Brighton, England : Remains of a faraway battle] by Sidin Vadukut May 11 2013. www.livemint.com. The Chattri Memorial to Indian soldiers who fought in World War I
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151208162121/http://www.newforestheritage.org/brockenhurst-a-first-world-war-hospital-village-1914/ Brockenhurst a First World War Hospital village 1914]. [England]. newforestheritage.org, now archived. The Lady Hardinge Hospital for Wounded Indian Soldiers, used from the outbreak of war until the end of 1915. when the Indian Army Corps which it supported, was transferred to Egypt. In 1916 it became No 1 New Zealand General Hospital. Also see [[Nurse]].
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/sets/72157644008850194 A series of photographs depicting the Indian Army in the First World War, by H.D. Girdwood] held by the British Library. flickr.com. Each photograph has a link to the British Library online photograph, where a zoom facility is available. The photographs were mainly taken on the Western Front, but some taken at the Indian hospitals at Brighton are also included. The set also includes British Army soldiers.
*[http://hiddenhistorieswwi.ac.uk/uncategorized/2016/02/north-east-india-and-the-first-world-war/ "North East India and the First World War"] by Pratap Chhetri February 4, 2016. The Indian Labour Corps: Lushai Labour Corps, Khasi Labour Corps, Garo Labour Corps, Naga Labour Corps, Manipur Labour Corps and enlistments from Tripura. "The Centre for Hidden Histories" [WW1]
*[http://www.armyupress.army.mil/Books/CSI-Press-Publications/World-War-I/#World-War-I ''The Dynamics of Doctrine: The Changes in German Tactical Doctrine During The First World War''] by Timothy T. Lupfer 76 Pages Published: 1981. A publication in the series ''Leavenworth Papers''. Link to a pdf download (scroll down) [US] Army University Press. Also available [https://archive.org/details/dynamicsofdoctri00timo Archive.org version].
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA139483 ''The German General Staff in World War I''] by Larry D Bruns 1983. A Masters Thesis presented to the Faculty of the US Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Archive.org, Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Collection.
*[https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-evolution-of-the-british-armys-logistical-and-administrative-infrastructure-and-its-influence-on-ghqs-operational-and-strategic-decisionmaking-on-the-western-front-19141918(3c32643e-dcd3-47c4-9f7b-b5242ccf55c8).html ''The Evolution of the British Army’s Logistical and Administrative Infrastructure and its Influence on GHQ's Operational and Strategic Decision-Making on the Western Front, 1914-1918''] by Ian Malcolm Brown. King's College London 1996 PhD Thesis. [https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/2926015/321769.pdf Direct pdf]
*[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/index.html ''"The Infantry cannot do with a gun less": The Place of the Artillery
in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918''] by Sanders Marble gutenberg-e.org. Colombia University Press. Based on the author's Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1998.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/1826/3032 ''British Cavalry on the Western Front 1916-1918''] by David Kenyon 2008 Ph.D. thesis, Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis, Cranfield University, UK.
*[https://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6775/ ''The provision and management of casualty replacements for British infantry units on the Western Front during the First World War''] by Alison Hine 2016 Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham. Direct [https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/6775/1/Hine16PhD.pdf pdf link].
*[http://www.gatewaysfww.org.uk/sites/default/files/blog_sanitations_shells_exhibition_booklet_0.pdf ''Sanitation, Sand & Shells: The War Diary of Alfred M. Cockburn 2nd London Sanitary Company, Royal Army Medical Corps''] who served in Egypt and France. Produced for an exhibition at the Museum of Military Medicine. Diary extracts and images. gatewaysfww.org.uk
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA170789 ''General Haig's Dental Surgeon from Paris : Sir Auguste Charles Valadier, a Pioneer in Maxillo-Facial Surgery: A Historical Update''] by William P Cruse 7 April 1986 US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA. Archive.org, Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Collection. Valadier was an officer in the RAMC.
:[https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2017.503 "The first dentists sent to the Western Front during the First World War"] by F S S Gray, ''British Dental Journal'' volume 222, pages 893–897 (2017). nature.com
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061205105456/http://web.westernfrontassociation.com:80/thegreatwar/articles/research/theotherbritishwar.htm "The Other British War on the Western Front in the Great War: The Hygiene War."] by Dr David Payne c 2006. Archived page from westernfrontassociation.com
*[https://acwww.els-cdnsciencedirect.com/S0085253815520036science/article/pii/1-s2.0-S0085253815520036-main.pdf?_tid=aee6f693-3977-48eb-a05e-42a8aad4f03d&acdnat=1534079260_13f4033e116e67c5c0e00012597edd10 "The medical response to trench nephritis in World War One"] by R. L. Atenstaedt ''Kidney International'' Volume 70, Issue 4, 2 August 2006, Pages 635-640. sciencedirect.com*[https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30003-2 "The centenary of the discovery of trench fever, an emerging infectious disease of World War 1"] by Prof Gregory M Anstead, MD. ''Historical Review'' Volume 16, Issue 8, E164-E172, August 01, 2016. thelancet.com
*[http://edwardianpromenade.com/wp-content/uploads/Womens-War-Work-1922.pdf "Women's War-Work"] edwardianpromenade.com. Stated on the website to be from the 1922 edition of the ''Encyclopedia Britanica''. Includes details of volunteer organisations, including hospitals and other facilities run by these organisations, including on the Western Front.
*[http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/clearingthedead.html "Clearing the Dead"] by Peter E. Hodgkinson from [http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/ WWI Resource Centre] vlib.us. The process of the clearance and burial of the remains of British soldiers from the Great War battlefields.
*[http://genwiki.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Infanterie-Regiment_im_Ersten_Weltkrieg Kategorie:Infanterie-Regiment im Ersten Weltkrieg] GenWiki. German language. [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgenwiki.genealogy.net%2FKategorie%3AInfanterie-Regiment_im_Ersten_Weltkrieg Google Translate English version] Category: Infantry Regiment in the First World War or enter individual web page links in [https://translate.google.com.au Google Translate].
=== Sketches===
*[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. *[https://archive.org/details/warpaintingsdraw00grea/page/n7/mode/2up ''War Paintings & Drawings by British Artists: exhibited under the auspices of the Ministry of information, London''] 1919. Mostly black and white plates, and many are at the back of the book. Archive.org
===Maps===
*Guides and articles**[https://archive.org/details/getsquareduseatrenchmap/mode/2up ''Get Squared! Use A Trench Map''] by Richard Laughton, LMC Great War Research Company 2016 Archive.org. Based on the work of Dr [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chasseaud Peter Chasseaud] (Wikipedia), who also wrote ''Rats Alley: Trench Names of the Western Front, 1914–1918'', [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vScsDwAAQBAJ Sample pages Google Books], 2017 2nd edition, first published 2006.**[https://web.archive.org/web/20170302214652/http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/great-war-mapping/mapping-the-front-great-war-maps-dvd/great-war-map-lists/855-read-a-trenchmap.html "How to read a Trench Map"] by Howard Anderson, October 2008 Western Front Association, now an archived webpage.**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/military-maps-first-world-war/ The National Archives [Kew<nowiki>]</nowiki> Research guide: Military maps of the First World War]. The National Archives maps are '''not''' available online.*:Includes the National Archives series WO 153 "War Office: War of 1914-1918: Maps and Plans". The catalogue may be searched through [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14360 Discovery]. The maps and plans in this series were collected from various sources, mainly for use by the Official War Historians, and as such were originally held in the Cabinet Office Historical Section. Many were extracted from regimental war diaries. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C37203 More details, Western Front maps].** Guide: [https://www.awm.gov.au/research/guide/maps-westernfront "Finding First World War maps: Western Front"] Australian War Memorial. **[http://1stmiddlesex.com/georeferencing/index.htm Great War Mapping 1914-1918] 1stmiddlesex.com. Contains links to ''Report on Survey of The Western Front 1914-1918'' by Colonel E.M. Jack HMSO 1920, see further down this section. **Article [https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/mapping-the-front/ "Mapping The Front"] Western Front Association.**[https://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/pdf/plp/occasional/OccPaper7.pdf "Maps of The First World War: An Illustrated Essay and List of Select Maps in The Library of Congress"] by Ryan J. Moore 2014 ''The Occasional Papers''. Series No.7. A Philip Lee Phillips Map Society Publication. loc.gov*[https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/trenchmapper-public/ TrenchMapper] Western Front Association. Access link for the public. WFA members get privileged access via the WFA login page. The site launched on 28th March 2022 with more than 1,100 maps but in the future that number is planned to reach approximately 7,000. The main emphasis at introduction is on the Western Front and Gallipoli but other theatres will be added in the future. All maps are free to use, while some maps can be downloaded for a fee. WFA members get two free maps a month and are able to zoom in further for more detail. For the left hand side menu select "Frequently Asked Questions" which has links to many other sections with information such as Using the site; About the project; Knowledge Centre.
*[http://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/ww1/ndx5to40.htm Western Front Maps] from McMaster University, Canada. Text Search using Place Name or Trench Name.
:[https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A34 World War I (1914-1918) [Maps<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Digital Archive@McMaster University Library.
*[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://rdfwww.muninntmapper.com Gazetteer of the Western Front -project2020] - part of the tMapper Suite.org/TrenchCoordinatestmapper.html?q=57dcom.+LAn expanded update of the 2013 publication ''Gazetteer of the Western Front'' by John Reed.3Search parameters include Trench name."Each successful search elicits a trench map reference and latitude, longitude and these form the database anchor for a+80.45 Great researcher wishing to delve deeper, asking to see nearby towns, populations, elevation, Victoria Cross recipients, battles and Commonwealth War British Trench Map Coordinates Converter] muninn-projectGraves cemeteries within a defined range".orgDetails. Allows you to enter specific map references<ref>WhiteStarLine.*[https://www.armygreatwarforum.gov.auorg/topic/our281619-history/primarygazetteer-materials/worldof-warthe-onewestern-1914front-to2020-1918reboot/imagery-andGazetteer of the Western Front -2020 Reboot] ''Great War Forum'' 17 May 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020.</ref>*The British Library has produced some digitised maps Trench maps of including the Western Front, which are accessed from the catalogue [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1452928171364&vid=BLVU1&fromLogin=true Search] from . Using the Search term map, then filter the results by using the left hand side filters on the collection of webpage, selecting the Australian Army History Unitaccess option Online, and Subject filter World War, 1914-1918. Mainly British mapsIf the latter filter doesn't display, with go into the focus on battlefields where Creation Date filter and select the Australian Imperial Force foughtrelevant date range.*[https://digital.ncdcr.gov/collections/world-war-i-maps World War I Maps] North Carolina Digital Collections, but includes a few German digital.ncdcr.gov. Mainly France and Belgium. Click on mapsto 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.
*[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1068224 Maps of the French Artillery Survey Group, 1917 - ca. 1919]. USA Army versions, based on French military maps. Contains 9 online French Trench Maps. Click on “Search within this series”, then click on “Archival Descriptions with digital objects” (Left hand side of webpage). Website of The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
:This series contains Plans Directeurs maps. Information about these types of maps is included in the article [https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/05/15/wwi-map-division "The Great War and Modern Mapping: WWI in the Map Division"] May 15, 2015. New York Public Library.
:[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9618412m/f1.image ''Volume II''] 10th edition with maps to 1918. Gallica BnF
*[http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/search/collection/p16614coll33/page/1 Digital map Collection: Illinois National Guard World War I Intelligence Maps] Illinois Digital Archives. Consists of maps used during World War I and brought back to Illinois by the 33rd Infantry Division of the Illinois National Guard. [http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16614coll33/id/0 Index to Collection]. Includes French maps, trench works, location of German troops etc
*German maps of France and Belgium 1916-1918 [https://maps.hungaricana.hu/en/HTITerkeptar/23748/ ''Feldmässig hergestellte Fliegkarte''] (Field produced flying map) catalogued as Repülőtérkép Brügge-Párizs-Genf területére, catalogue reference B V a 207. Hungaricana - Hungarian Cultural Heritage Portal. A series of 26 maps.*A free digitised collection of WWI German Army General Staff Maps showing the location of French, British and Belgian forces on the Western Front from Feb 1916 to Nov 1918, may be requested from the website Digital History Archive, category [http://www.digitalhistoryarchive.com/wwi-document--photofree-collectionsitems.html WWI Document & Photo CollectionsFree items!], scroll to bottom of the page. Maps are from a Russian archive.<ref>MLW. [http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/online-german-documents-in-russian-archives.56507/#post-663520 Online German documents in Russian Archives] ''WW2Talk Forum'' 19 March 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2018.</ref>*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/military-maps-first-world-war/ The National Archives [Kew<nowiki>]</nowiki> Research guide: Military maps of the First World War]. The National Archives maps are '''not''' available online.:Includes the National Archives series WO 153 "War Office: War of 1914-1918: Maps and Plans". The catalogue may be searched through [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14360 Discovery]. The maps and plans in this series were collected from various sources, mainly for use by the Official War Historians, and as such were originally held in the Cabinet Office Historical Section. Many were extracted from regimental war diaries. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C37203 More details, Western Front maps].*[https://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/pdf/plp/occasional/OccPaper7.pdf "Maps of The First World War: An Illustrated Essay and List of Select Maps in The Library of Congress"] by Ryan J. Moore 2014 ''The Occasional Papers''. Series No.7. A Philip Lee Phillips Map Society Publication. loc.gov
*[https://archive.org/details/militarymapeleme00maxwrich ''The Military Map; Elements of Modern Topography (French School of War)''] by Gerald Maxwell 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/Mapsartilleryboards ''Maps and Artillery Boards'']. Reprinted 1917 by Army War College, Washington, [USA] from a Pamphlet issued by the British General Staff 1916. Archive.org. [http://1stmiddlesex.com/georeferencing/mapsbndbrtilleryboards.htm Transcription of this Pamphlet] 1stmiddlesex.com*''Report on Survey on the Western Front, 1914-1918'' by Great Britain: War Office: General Staff: Geographical Section (E M Jack) (London: HMSO, 1920). [http://1stmiddlesex.com/report/reportonsurveyonwesternfrontasscanned.pdf Scanned version], [http://1stmiddlesex.com/report/reportonsurveyonwesternfrontmoderntext.pdf Transcribed version] Both 1stmiddlesex.com. Also available linked from [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/introduction/heritage-material/ Heritage Material, ''NZSappers'']. Many of the guides and articles above list this book as a useful reference.:''Survey on the Western Front: Provisional. (Winterbotham’s preliminary report. This was consulted and largely used in preparing the official report EMJ)'' 1918. [https://www.defencesurveyors.org.uk/historical-papers Historical Papers: Defence Surveyors' Association] Scroll down. [https://fc061d25-33f8-4c65-840c-8ca5bf36650e.filesusr.com/ugd/b9208c_fcfc7107b5514ae3a1245beadbfd3fca.pdf Direct pdf].
*[https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl/page/n1 ''Volume II Maps''] to accompany ''A Military History of the World War'' by Colonel C R Howland, Infantry US Army. 1923. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/militaryatlasoff00arth/page/n9 ''A Military Atlas of the First World War''] by Arthur Banks 1975 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/listofconvention00unitrich ''List of conventional signs and abbreviations in use on French and German maps''] compiled by Second Section, General Staff (Topography) [USA Army] 1918 Archive.org.
:[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990067955990203941/catalog ''Conventional map signs, British and French'' [Military<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Also some German. Printed by U.S. Geological Survey, 1918. Harvard University Digital Library.
*Also see next section "Historical books online" for some maps, including sections "Histories and General", "Prisoners of War" and "German Army"
===Historical books online===
*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.:[https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/bibliography/ "Bibliography"] encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net. There are filtering options available, by language, geographical regions and by themes.
====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/pockets of maps which generally have '''not''' been digitised.**''Volume I August-October 1914'': [https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio01edmouoft 1922 edition], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210673/page/n23/mode/2up 1933 revised 3rd edition], [https://archive.org/details/3edmilitaryopera01edmouoft Revised text 1937 edition, reprint of revised 1933 (3rd) edition]**:[https://archive.org/details/3edmilitaryopera02edmouoft ''Volume II October-November 1914''] 1925 , [https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio02edmo/page/ii/mode/2up 2nd file]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210674/page/n19/mode/2up 1929 reprint of 1925 edition]. [https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio0000jame/page/n5/mode/2up 1995 reprint of 1925 edition]. All Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio02edmo_0/page/n1/mode/1up ''Volume II Maps''] Archive.org. Maps are in reverse order.
** Originally from the Digital Library of India. Note mirror versions of these files are available on Archive.org, with the ability to read online, or download. One volume from HathiTrust.
*** 1915 Volume I, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210675 Archive.org]; 1915 Volume II, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210676 Archive.org]
*** 1916 Volume I, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210679 Archive.org]; 1916 Appendices, Volume I, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210677 Archive.org]; 1916 Volume II, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210680 Archive.org]; 1916, Appendices, Volume II, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210678 Archive.org].
*** 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, with rotatable pages. Note, perhaps may not be viewable in USA. [https://archive.org/details/military-operations-france-and-belgium-volume-ii Archive.org version] [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fbU8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 Google Books], same file; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TgOgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books, File 2].**:[https://archive.org/details/mil-op-fb-1917-v3/page/n7/mode/2up ''1917 [Volume III<nowiki>]</nowiki> The Battle of Cambrai''] by Captain Wilfrid Miles 1948 HMSO. Archive.org. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UxygAAAAMAAJ Google Books] *** 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, ''March-April: Continuation of the German Offensive'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210684 Archive.org]; **:1918 Volume III, ''May-July: The German Diversion Offensives and the First Allied Counter-Offensive'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210685 Archive.org]; **:1918 Volume IV ''8th August-26th September The Franco-British Offensive'' [https://archive.org/details/mil-ops-fr-belg-1918-v-4/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kcjUAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books]; **:1918 Volume V ''26th September – 11th November The Advance to Victory'' [https://archive.org/details/mil-op-fb-1918-v5/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org], [https://books.google.com/books?id=tR0KAAAAIAAJ Google Books].**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 II[https://www.fold3.com/publication/933/military-books/ browse Military Books]-located by the Search/France, letter M). It is thought the separate volumes of maps are all included, however maps which were in separate pockets attached to individual volumes are probably not included.*''Germany in Defeat. A Strategic History of the Great Warbased on official documents. Order of Battle of Divisions Parts 1, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B and 4'' all by Count Charles de SouzaMajor A. F. Becke RFA (Retired) (London: HMSO, 1935-1945)**''Part 1 - The Regular British Divisions'' pub. 1935. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055250order-battle-divisions-p-1 Archive.org], [https://pagebooks.google.com.au/n5 books?id=CRwrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books]**''First PhasePart 2A. The Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42-56)'' pub. 1936. [https://archive.org/details/order-battle-divisions-p-2-a Archive.org], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JRwrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books File 1], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=dtKeYNZLnDUC&pg=PP5 Google Books, File 2] **''Part 2B. The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th-69th) with the Home-Service Divisions (71st-73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions'' 3rd edition 1916pub. 1937. Joint author Major Haldane MacFall; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055268order-battle-divisions-p-2-b Archive.org], [https:/page/n5 books.google.com.au/books?id=nhwrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 GB File 1], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PF38kelDYrYC&pg=PP5 GB File 2]**''Second PhasePart 3A New Army Divisions (9-26)''] 1916; pub. 1938. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055276order-battle-divisions-p-3-a Archive.org], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wxwrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 GB File 1], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=a4tVDLy0AS4C&pg=PP5 GB File 2]*:[https://archive.org/pagedetails/n6 order-battle-divisions-pt3b ''Third PhasePart 3B New Army divisions (30-41) and 63rd (R.N.) Division''] 1916; pub. HMSO 1945 Archive.org. **''Part 4. The Army Council, G.H.Q.s, Armies and Corps 1914-1918'' pub. 1945. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055284order-battle-divisions-p-4 Archive.org], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=v1iVFLSYkqIC&pg=PP5 Google Books].: The complete series, together with a later Index, is available in reprint editions<ref> ''Order of Battle of Divisions'' by A.F. Becke [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-part-3a-3b-new-army-divisions/ Parts 3A and 3B], [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-index/ Index] by Ray Westlake. Naval & Military Press editions.</ref>, which in turn are available as one digital book of 1224 pages titled [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19NTJHoYiz ''Order of Battle of Divisions''] on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain.: There were subsequent publications ''Order of Battle of Divisions Part 5A, Divisions of Australia, Canada and New Zealand and those in East Africa'', compiled by F.W. Perry c 1992. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006378898 and ''Order of Battle of Divisions. Part 5B, Indian Army Divisions'' compiled by F. W. Perry c 1993 available at the B.L. UIN: BLL01008151437 . The latter is also catalogued with the additional title ''History of the Great War : based on official documents''. *''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>.) A War Office report, also known as the ''Kirke Report'' it is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://pagewww.naval-military-press.com/product/report-of-the-committee-on-the-lessons-of-the-great-war/n3 ''Fourth PhaseReport 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 Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. Also available at the National Archives, Kew, WO 33/1297.* ''Army. The official names of the battles and other engagements fought by the military forces of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-1919, and the Third Afghan War, 1919. All Report of the Battles Nomenclature Committee as approved by the Army Council''. This publication is available on the subscription website ''UK Parliamentary Papers'', reference Command Papers/ Accounts and Papers/ Session: 1921/Paper Number: Cmd. 1138. See [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]] for details and suggested access. Your Library needs to have subscribed for the module for this period. Also available at the National Archives, Kew, WO 161/102. There was a reprint edition published c 1992-93.*[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.
*[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990056588280203941/catalog ''Despatch, dated 23rd December, 1916, from General Sir Douglas Haig, G.C.B., relating to the operations on the western front including the Battle of the Somme''] London : Printed under the authority of H.M.S.O. 1917. Harvard University Digital Library.
:[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990088393030203941/catalog ''Despatch from Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig ... covering the period from 8th December, 1917, to 30th April, 1918''] London : Printed under the authority of H.M.S.O. 1918. Harvard University Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458869 ''A History of the Great War 1914-1918''] by CRMF Cruttwell 1934 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81643 2nd Edition, with additions and corrections, 1940/(1936)] [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.81643/2015.81643.A-History-Of-The-Great-War-1914-1918-Edition-Ii#page/n673/mode/2up Index] Archive.org.
:[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".
: An earlier book was [https://archive.org/details/faceofbattle0000keeg_w0d0/mode/2up ''The Face of Battle''] by John Keegan 1976. [https://archive.org/details/faceofbattl00keeg/page/n5/mode/2up File 2]. Includes "Chapter 4 The Somme July 1st, 1916", pages 204-284. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [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…”.
*[https://archive.org/details/greatwarexplaine0000stev/mode/2up ''The Great War Explained : a simple story and guide''] by Philip Stevens 2012. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://chacr.org.uk/2021/09/11/western-front-battlefield-guide/ ''The First World War Battlefield Guide: Volume 1 The Western Front''] edited by Major General (ret’d) Mungo Melvin 2nd edition June 2015 revised and expanded, first published August 2014, published by [British] Army Headquarters. Link to a pdf or [https://chacr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Western-Front-Vol1.pdf direct pdf]. The Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research chacr.org.uk.
*''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 War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force''. Volume I by Walter Raleigh 1922. Volumes II-VI by H A Jones 1928-1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingst01rale Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto02rale Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto04rale Volume IV], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI] , [https://archive.org/details/war-air-v7/page/n7/mode/2up ''Appendices'' [Volume VII<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Archive.org.:[https://archive.org/details/germanairforcein00gurduoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The German Air Force in the Great War''] by Major Georg Paul Neumann (late of the German Air Force) abridged and translated by J E Gurdon (John Everard), c 1921 Archive.orgfrom the original which was approximately three times larger: [http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN363178236 ''Die deutschen Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege''] 1920. Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.
*[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069749/ ''Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918'']. The twelve volumes include France, four volumes. Australian War Memorial website.
:''Volume III'' [https://archive.org/details/australianimperi00cewb/page/n3 ''The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916''] by C E W Bean 1929 Archive.org
:''Volume VI'' ( but catalogued Vol IV) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206599/page/n7 ''The Australian Imperial Force In France during the Allied Offensive, 1918''] by C E W Bean 1942 Archive.org
:''Volume VIII'' [https://archive.org/details/australianflying00cutluoft/page/n3 ''The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern theatres of war, 1914-1918''] by F M Cutlack 2nd edition 1933, first published 1923. Archive.org
*France 1916 [httphttps://archive.org/details/khakigownautobio0000bird/page/300 Page 301] ''Khaki and Gown : an Autobiography'' by Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood 1941. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Birdwood was Commander Australian and New Zealand contingent. Appointed Commander of the Fifth Army in France 31 May 1918.*[https://archive.org/details/australianvictor00mona/page/n7 ''The Australian Victories in France in 1918''] by Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash [1920] Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/theaustralianvic51163gut Images and maps from the book] (different digital file) Archive.org. Monash became Commander of the Australian Corps late May 1918.:[https://archive.org/details/johnmonashbiogra0000serl/page/276/mode/2up Chapters on the Western Front] from page 277 ''John Monash : a Biography'' by Geoffrey Serle 1983, first published 1982. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/WWIwwi/prologue/default/index.html#tab_1 US Army Centre of Military History online books/World War One Era], then select Presentations and Papers **[https://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/wwi/historical_resources/default/hr-sec01.html ''United States Army In The World War'' (17 Volumes)] , together with ''General orders of the AEF''. Links to Pdf downloads. [https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/collect/oob_us_lf_wwi_1917-1919.html Alternative link]**[https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/collect/oob_us_lf_wwi.html ''Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War'' (3 Volumes, volume 3 in 3 Parts, total 5 Volumes/Parts) [1988 reprint editions<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. Links to Pdf downloads. and ''*:[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28Order+of+Battle+of+the+United +States Army In The +Land+Forces+in+the+World +War'' %29&sort=-publicdate Archive.org collection], consisting of a complete 4 volume set (17 Volumeswith Volume 3 in two parts)of the original publications 1931-1949, together with 4 of the 5 Parts for the 1988 reprint editions, missing Volume 3, Part 2. Links to Pdf downloads.
:[http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p4013coll7/searchterm/world%20war/field/keywor/mode/all/conn/and/order/nosort World War I Collection] Combined Arms Research Library [CARL] Digital Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/armybehindarmy00powe ''The Army behind the Army''] by Major Alexander Powell USA 1919 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/americanarmiesba00wash ''American Armies and Battlefields in Europe: a History, Guide, and Reference Book''] prepared by the American Battle Monuments Commission 1938 Archive.org. A revision of the 1927 publication [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744250?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''A Guide to the American Battlefields in Europe''] HathiTrust Digital Library
:*[https://www.abmc.gov American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)] website. Includes "Search ABMC Burials and Memorials". ([http://www.greatwar.co.uk/research/military-records/ww1-service-records.htm#usservicerecords US WW1 Military Service Records] greatwar.co.uk)
:''Soldiers of the Great War'' [https://archive.org/details/SoldiersOfTheGreatWarV1/page/n7/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/SoldiersOfTheGreatWarV2/page/n11/mode/2up Vol. II], [https://archive.org/details/soldiersofgreatw03doyl/page/n5/mode/2up Vol. III] comp. by W.M. Haulsee, F.G. Howe and A.C. Doyle. Soldiers Record Publishing Association Washington, D.C., 1920. A Register of those who died. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22The+U.S.+Air+Service+In+World+War+I%22%29&sort=titleSorter ''The U.S. Air Service In World War I''] in four volumes, edited by Maurer Maurer, The Office of Air Force History. 1978 Archive.org.
*[httphttps://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gccanada.ca/dhhen/department-dhpnational-defence/hisservices/ohmilitary-hohistory/indexhistory-engheritage/official-military-history-lineages/official-histories.asp html ''Official History of The Canadian Forces in the Great War, 1914-1919''] Scroll to various volumes, including ''The Medical Services''. Canadian Forces website.:''Canada in Flanders: The Official Story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force''. [https://archive.org/details/canadainflanders0000beav/page/n1/mode/2up Volume I] 1916, [https://archive.org/details/canadainflanders02maxa/page/n5/mode/2up Volume II] 7th edition 1917. The Preface includes [https://archive.org/details/canadainflanders02maxa/page/n7/mode/2up errors in Volume I]. Volumes I and II by Sir Max Aitken MP who became Lord Beaverbrook; [https://archive.org/details/canadaflanders03charuoft/page/n5/mode/2up Volume III] by Major Charles G D Roberts 1918 Archive.org. The Preface includes [https://archive.org/details/canadaflanders03charuoft/page/n7/mode/2up errors] in Volume II. All Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/canadianforestry00birduoft ''The Canadian Forestry Corps; its inception, development and achievements''] by C.W. Bird and J.B. Davies HMSO London 1919 Archive.org. Includes a chapter "Operations in France", which includes a brief mention, [https://archive.org/stream/canadianforestry00birduoft#page/n79/mode/1up/search/Indian page 42], of the use of Indian labour. The final chapter from page 50 "An Imperial Link" is missing.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthaf00buchrich ''The History of the South African Forces in France''] by John Buchan 1920 Archive.org. Also see [[Western Front#Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general|next category]], under Royal Engineers for some details of South African Engineers units who served in France. See further below for more books by John Buchan.
*French Official Histories: [http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/arkotheque/inventaires/ead_ir_consult.php?fam=11&ref=FRSHD_AFGG_ead ''Les Armées françaises dans la Grande Guerre''] sga.defense.gouv.fr. French language. Eleven ''Tome''s, some with multiple volumes, mostly about the Western Front. With online maps (Cartes) and at times panoramic sketches (Croquis panoramiques).
:[http://www.bnf.fr/en/collections_and_services/digital_libraries_gallica/a.gallica_digital_library.html Gallica – The BnF Digital Library] contains many publications, mostly French language. Use specific search terms, or the Advanced Search for Sujet search terms such as Guerre mondiale ( 1914 -1918) -- Histoire des unités or Guerre mondiale ( 1914 -1918) -- Campagnes et batailles.
*German Official, or semi Official Histories: [http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:at:AT-OOeLB-1155545 ''Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918: die militärischen Operationen zu Lande''] 16 Volumes. [http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:at:AT-OOeLB-1627302 ''Schlachten des Weltkrieges''] 22 Volumes. German language. Maps (Karten) are often at the back of individual volumes, and there may be photographs, all of which can be located by clicking on the Thumbnail gallery, and then selecting specific pages. Although not stated, the digital Volume 13 ''Der Weltkrieg'' is the 1956 reprint edition, Vol. 14 was also published 1956, the first public printing, maps are in black and white both volumes (Maps in Vol 14, part 2]. The Digital State Library of Upper Austria.:Also available from the Universty University of Hamburg Library as - read online or download a pdf downloads: [http://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/de/nc/detail.html?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=861&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1&cHash=e2e5e2c1505e3576fd826203f11deb50 ''Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918''] and [http://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/de/nc/detail.html?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1024&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1&cHash=8f77abe5beb92e8f5f3ce239b4855bc9 ''Schlachten des Weltkrieges''], and click on Bandliste, for a list of the volumes available, or if these URLs are not permanent, use [http://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche.html Recherche [Digitalisierte Bestände<nowiki>]</nowiki>].The digital Volume 13 ''Der Weltkrieg'' is the original edition, with maps in colour. (Comparing one map, the University of Hamburg version is better, as it has colour, and could be enlarged, against black and white in the State Library of Upper Austria version.<ref>Volume 13 ''Der Weltkrieg'' [https://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/de/nc/detail.html?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=5016&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=530&cHash=d1cff81788c09213fd347e1fd4ece382 University of Hamburg version] digital page 530; [https://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/image/AC03617667/527/ State Library of Upper Austria version].</ref>) Vol. 14 is the 1956 edition, but part 2 with the maps may not be included.:Both series of digitisations lack the 2010 publication ''Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918 : die militärischen Operationen zu Lande / Bd. 2 ; Das deutsche Feldeisenbahnwesen ; Die Eisenbahnen von Oktober 1914 bis zum Kriegsende'' / hrsg. von Horst Rohde / bearb. im früheren Reichsarchiv. Published: Hamburg [u.a.]: Mittler ; 2010:''Germany's Western Front : Translations from the German Official History of the Great War'' edited by Mark Osborne Humphries and John Maker. ''Volume 1 1914'' published 2013, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3hPaAgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages] Google Books, ''Volume 2 1915'' published 2010, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yvJ0CwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages] Google Books. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01016765118 and UIN: BLL01014837141 .*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015013496032?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''A Guide to the Military History of the World War, 1914-1918''] by Thomas G Frothingham, Captain U. S. Reserves. 1921 HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/frothingham-thomas-g.-a-guide-to-the-millitary-history-of-the-world-war/page/n3/mode/1up Archive.org] (different file). Also see [[First World War#Naval|First World War-Naval]], for further books by this author, who was a Captain in the U.S. Army during WW1.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica20chic/page/957/mode/1up ''Who's Who in America 1938'' page 957]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.</ref>*''A Military History of the World War'' by Colonel C R Howland, Infantry US Army. 1923. Volume I contains the Narrative. Volume II contains the Maps. Based on a series of lectures. [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl_1/page/n5 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl/page/n1 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo02howl/mode/2up Vol. II 2nd file] Archive.org.*[https://www.army.gov.au/sites/gdefault/files/net1846/f2019-11/a_record_of_the_battles_and_engagements_of_the_british_armies_1914-1918_0.pdf ''A Record of the Battles and Engagements of the British Armies in France and Flanders 1914-1918''] by Captain E A James 48th (South Midland) Divisional Signals T A 1924. army.gov.au(Located in Our Heritage/History/Primary materials/1914 to 1918 - World War One/Documents). [https://archive.org/details/record-battles Archive.org mirror version]:E. A. James is the author of the book, whose title in later editions from 1978 is ''British Regiments, 1914-1918'' (previously published in two volumes, first published 1969 and 1974, and a previous one volume book published 1929, each edition expanded). [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2ky-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 Sample pages, reprint edition] Google Books.*[https://www.army.gov.au/sites/gdefault/files/net1846/f2019-11/the_western_front_-_a_general_outline_by_major_alan_b_steele_0.pdf ''The Western Front: A General Outline''] by Major Alan B. Steele, Australian Staff Corps 1930. Written following a lecture in 1930 and “designed to assist officers in the detailed study of this campaign". Australian Army website.(Located in Our Heritage/History/Primary materials/1919 to 1938 - Between the Wars/Documents). [https://archive.org/details/western-front-general-outline Archive.org mirror version]
*Books by John Buchan Archive.org.
**For volumes of ''Nelson's History of the War'' by John Buchan, 24 volumes published 1915-1919, and the revised, condensed ''A History of the Great War'' in 4 volumes, published 1923, see [[First World War#Historical books online 2| First World War - Historical books online]].
***[https://archive.org/details/battleofsommesec00buch ''The Battle of the Somme, Second Phase''] [1917] A more detailed account.
**[https://archive.org/details/longroadtovictor00buchuoft ''The Long Road to Victory''] edited by John Buchan 1920. Each chapter is a personal account. [https://archive.org/stream/longroadtovictor00buchuoft#page/n11/mode/2up Contents]
**[https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthaf00buchrich ''The History of See above for a further book, about the South African Forces in France''] by John Buchan 1920 Archive.org
*Books by Philip Gibbs, mainly Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Gibbs Philip Gibbs] Wikipedia. Along with four other men he was officially accredited as a war correspondent, his work appearing in the ''Daily Telegraph'' and ''Daily Chronicle''.
**[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027819691 The Soul of the War] 1916, first published 1915
**[https://archive.org/details/germansonsommeby00gibb ''The Germans on the Somme''] 1917
**[https://archive.org/details/frombapaumetopas01gibb ''From Bapaume to Passchendaele: on the Western Front, 1917''] 1918 . Reprinted as [https://archive.org/details/struggleinflande00gibb ''The Struggle in Flanders: on the Western Front, 1917''] with a new introduction.
**[https://archive.org/details/openwarfaregibbs/page/n7/mode/2up ''Open Warfare - the Way to Victory''] by Philip Gibbs. Archive.org. The UK title, being one volume of 552 pages. *:''The Way to Victory'', published 1919. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924088058908?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Volume 1: The Menace''] HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/waytovictor02gibb ''Volume 2 The Repulse''] 1919. USA editions. Published in the UK in 1919 in one volume (552 p) [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2058622/object_Future_Library_18671078.html ''Open Warfare : the Way to Victory''] europeana.eu with link to a pdf from Future Library (Greece); note however digital pages contain a watermark., published as two separate books
**[https://archive.org/details/realitiesofwar00gibbuoft ''Realities of War''] by Philip Gibbs 1920. Also published under the title [https://archive.org/details/nowitcanbetold00gibb ''Now It Can Be Told''] 1920. [https://archive.org/details/nowitcanbetold_1406_librivox ''Now It Can Be Told'' Librivox audio version]. This book was written after the war, and not subject to the censorship restrictions applying during the war. All Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/morethatmustbet03gibbgoog ''More That Must Be Told''] by Philip Gibbs 1921 Archive.org
**[httphttps://dspacearchive.gipe.ac.inorg/details/adventuresinjour0000phil/xmluipage/handlen11/10973mode/37015?show=full 2up ''Adventures in Journalism''] by Philip Gibbs. 1923. Autobiographical. Page 193 190 onward covers the years from 1912. Link to pdf download, Digital Repository of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune India. Locate in your downloads folderArchive.org
*''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.
*[https://archive.org/details/gunsofaugust00tuch_gaq ''The Guns of August''] by Barbara Tuchman 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. A narrative of the earliest stages of World War I, from the decisions to go to war, up until the battles of the first month. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_August About the book] Wikipedia. Article [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/03/guns-of-august-barbara-tuchman "''The Guns of August'' showed me how history could bring the past to life"] by Margaret MacMillan ''The Guardian'' 4 August 2014.*[https://archive.org/details/retreatfrommons00daviuoft/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Retreat from Mons''] by H W C Davis (Henry William Carless) 3rd impression [1914] Archive.org. Part of the series ''Oxford Pamphlets 1914''.*[https://archive.org/details/retreatfrommons01gord/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Retreat from Mons''] 1917. Catalogued author George Stuart Gordon. Elsewhere noted "London edition (Constable) published in 1918 under title: ''Mons and the retreat''".*[https://archive.org/details/monsretreattovic0000terr/page/n3/mode/2up ''Mons : the Retreat to Victory''] by John Terraine. 2002 reprint edition, first published 1960. [https://archive.org/details/monsretreattovic0000terr_e7d7/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd file, 1972 reprint]. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. *[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990055782080203941/catalog ''The victory 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/marnecampaig00whit/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Marne Campaign''] by Major F E Whitton 1917. Archive.org. A volume in the series ''Campaigns and their Lessons''.*[https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll7/id/1035 ''The Marne Campaign 1914''] by H von Kuhl, General of Infantry (Retired) Chief of Staff of the First Army, 1914. [German Army] 1936. Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. 1936 translation of 1921 original [https://archive.org/details/dermarnefeldzug100kuhluoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''Der Marnefeldzug 1914''] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_von_Kuhl Hermann von Kuhl] Wikipedia.*[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". From the outbreak of war to 14 September 1914. 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/marne1914opening0000herw/mode/2up ''The Marne, 1914 : the opening of World War I and the battle that changed the world''] by Holger H Herwig 2009 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Herwig Holger Herwig] Canadian historian and professor. He was the co-author of ''Biographical Dictionary of World War I'', see [[Western Front#Generals and Army Headquarters|next section]].*[https://archive.org/details/ypres1914officia00schwuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''Ypres, 1914; an Official Account published by order of the German General Staff''] by Captain Otto Schwink, German Army, translation by G.C.W. 1919. 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/catastropheeurop0000hast ''Catastrophe : Europe goes to War 1914''] by Max Hastings 2013. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The war to December 1914. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hastings Max Hastings] Wikipedia. British journalist/editor and military historian.*[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/roadtoverdunworl00ousb/mode/2up ''The Road to Verdun: World War I’s most momentous battle and the folly of nationalism''] by Ian Ousby 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
*[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 . [https://archive.org/details/firstdayonsomme10000midd/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd file, 1984 reprint]. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes interviews with many survivors, both British and German.:[https://archive.org/details/sommebattlefield0000midd/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Somme Battlefields : a Comprehensive Guide from Crécy to the Two World Wars''] by Martin and Mary Middlebrook 1991. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/1916battleofsomm0000lidd ''The 1916 Battle of the Somme : a reappraisal''] by Peter Liddle 2001, first published 1992. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library*[https://archive.org/details/sommedaybydayacc0000mcca/mode/2up ''The 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 the Somme''] by Malcolm Brown 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library*[https://archive.org/details/attritiongreatwa0000neil ''Attrition : the Great War on the Western Front, 1916''] by Robin Neillands 2001. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/priceofgloryverd00horn somme0000shef ''The Price Somme''] by Gary Sheffield 2003. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library*[https://archive.org/details/sommeheroismhorr0000gilb_j9j1/mode/2up ''Somme : the Heroism and Horror of GloryWar''] by Martin Gilbert 2006. [https://archive.org/details/sommeheroismhorr0000gilb/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also see his book above ''The First World War : a Complete History''*[https://archive.org/details/threearmiesonsom00will/page/n5/mode/2up ''Three Armies on the Somme : the First Battle of the Twentieth Century''] by William Philpott 2011, first published 2009. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/somme19160000robe/page/n3/mode/2up ''Somme 1916''] by Andrew Robertshaw 2014. Cover has extra title '' Battle Story''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/elegyfirstdayons0000robe_l7x2/page/n3/mode/2up ''Elegy : Verdun the first day on the Somme''] by Andrew Roberts 2015. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/fromelles19160000cobb/page/n3/mode/2up ''Fromelles 1916''] by Alistair Horne 1964 "This specially abridged Paul Cobb 2010 edition , first published 2007. Attack at Fromelles 19-20 July, 1916, subsidiary to the Battle of the Somme, by both British and Australian troops, the début of the AIF on the Western Front. 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/battlesofridges00foxf/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Battles of the Ridges: Arras, Messines, March-June, 1917''] by Frank Fox RFA 1918. Archive.org. See also two further books in Penguin the section [[Western Front#Generals and Army Headquarters|Generals and Army Headquarters]] following.*[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 1964to Borrow/Lending Library." *[https://archive.org/details/passchendaeleunt0000prio/mode/2up ''Passchendaele : the untold story''] by Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson. 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Battle of Passchendaele (Originally published 1962Third Battle of Ypres) July to November 1917.*[https://archive.org/details/passchendaele1910000mcna/mode/2up ''Passchendaele 1917''] by Chris McNab 2014. Extra title on cover ''Battle Story''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Horne *[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/fiftharmyinmarch00spar/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Fifth Army in March 1918''] by W Shaw Sparrow with an Introduction by General Sir Hubert Gough 1921 Archive.org:Gough also wrote ''Death The Fifth Army'', published 1931, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011508934 . Elsewhere it is stated that this latter book was ghostwritten by the novelist Bernard Newman, at the instigation of a generationBasil Liddell Hart.:[https://archive.org/details/soldieringonbein0000goug/page/n7/mode/2up ''Soldiering on : from Neuve Chapelle to Verdun and being the Sommememoirs of General Sir Hubert Gough'' 1970 which encapsulates some of the earlier book] 1957, first published 1954. Includes WW1. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[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 above for his ''Mons'' book, and further below for an additional book by John Terraine about Douglas Haig. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Terraine John Terraine] Wikipedia.*[https://archive.org/details/hundreddayscampa0000lloy/mode/2up ''Hundred days : the campaign that ended World War I''] by Nick Lloyd 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[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://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/21/lyn-macdonald-obituary "Lyn Macdonald obituary"] by James Holland 21 April 2021 ''The Guardian''.
:[https://archive.org/details/191400macd/page/n7 ''1914''] by Lyn Macdonald 1988.
:[https://archive.org/details/1915deathofinnoc0000macd/mode/2up ''1915, the Death of Innocence''] by Lyn Macdonald 1995, first published 1993. [https://archive.org/details/1915deathofinnoc0000macd_h4v1/mode/2up File 2, 2000 edition].
:[https://archive.org/details/sommemacd00macd ''Somme''] by Lyn Macdonald 1983.
:[https://archive.org/details/theycalleditpass0000macd ''They called it Passchendaele : the story of the Battle of Ypres and of the men who fought in it''] by Lyn Macdonald 1993, first published 1978.:[https://archive.org/details/tolastmanspring100macd ''To the Last Man: Spring 1918''] by Lyn Macdonald 1998. :[https://archive.org/details/19141918voicesim0000macd ''1914-1918: Voices and Images of the Great War''] by Lyn Macdonald 1988. [https://archive.org/details/19141918voicesim0000macd_e2w1/mode/2up File 2, 1991 edition].: All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.Also see her book about nurses under [[Western Front#Medical Services including Veterinary|Medical Services]], below. *[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/somme1916battlef0000glid_x2h9/mode/2up ''Somme 1916 : a Battlefield Companion''] by Gerald Gliddon first published 2006, catalogued 2013. An updated edition of ''When the Barrage Lifts'' 1987 and ''Battle of the Somme'' 1994. 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.:[https://archive.org/details/shotsfromfrontbr0000holm_w7e8/page/n5/mode/2up ''Shots from the front : the British soldier 1914-18''] by Richard Holmes 2010, first published 2008. All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/1918verybritishv0000hart/mode/2up ''1918 : a Very British Victory''] by Peter Hart 2008. [https://archive.org/details/1918verybritishv0000hart_i3m2/mode/2up File 2] :[https://archive.org/details/voicesfromfronto0000hart/mode/2up ''Voices from the Front : an Oral History of the Great War''] by Peter Hart 2015.:All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. ====Generals and Army Headquarters====*[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000herw/page/n5/mode/2up ''Biographical Dictionary of World War I''] by Holger H Herwig and Neil M Heyman 1982. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also see Herwig's ''The Marne'' above.*[https://archive.org/details/privatepapersofd0000haig ''The private papers of Douglas Haig, 1914-1919: being selections from the private diary and correspondence of Field-Marshal the Earl of Bemersyde''] edited by Robert Blake 1952 Archive.org. There was a subsequent selection of papers (with more emphasis on Haig’s military role), ''Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918'' edited by Gary Sheffield and John Bourne 2005, the latter book based on the manuscript version of the diaries (Blake’s used the typescript).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20181220103221/http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2018/01/haigs-unique-wwi-diaries.html Haig’s ‘unique’ WWI diaries] The Diary Review.</ref>*[https://archive.org/details/visittosirdougla00marc/page/n3 ''A visit to Sir Douglas Haig''] by Isaac F Marcosson [American journalist and editor] 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. 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/chiefdouglashaig0000shef/mode/2up ''The Chief : Douglas Haig and the British Army''] by Gary Sheffield 2011. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library*''Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson'' by Major-General Sir C E Callwell 1927. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206957/page/n5 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209304/page/n5 Volume II]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Henry_Wilson,_1st_Baronet Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet] Wikipedia*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211288/page/n9 ''Plumer Of Messines''] by General Sir Charles Harington 1935 Archive.org. General Herbert Plumer, Commander of the Second Army. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Plumer,_1st_Viscount_Plumer Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer] Wikipedia.:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176573/page/n47 "The Great War"] page 41 ''Tim Harington Looks Back'' by General Sir Charles Harington 1941 reprint, first published 1940. [https://archive.org/details/TimHaringtonLooksBack/page/n1 2nd file, images slightly better] Both Archive.org. The author was Chief of Staff to General Herbert Plumer, Commander of the Second Army. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harington_Harington Charles Harington Harington] Wikipedia. *[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38633/page/n7 ''The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent: from his journals and letters]'' edited by Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice 1928 Archive.org. USA title ''Soldier, Artist, Sportsman: The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent from his Journal and Letters''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rawlinson,_1st_Baron_Rawlinson Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson] Wikipedia. He commanded the Fourth Army of the British Expeditionary Force at the battles of the Somme (1916) and Amiens (1918).*[https://archive.org/details/eyewitnesssnarra00swinuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''Eye-witness's narrative of the war; from the Marne to Neuve Chapelle, September, 1914-March, 1915''] by an Eyewitness present with General Headquarters 1915 Archive.org. Catalogued authors Swinton and Percy, see following book.:Swinton was Official Correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force in France, as newspaper correspondents were not allowed.:[https://archive.org/details/yearagoeyewitnes00swinrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''A year ago; eye-witness's narrative of the war from March 20th to July 18th, 1915''] by Lieutenant-Colonel E D Swinton RE and Captain The Earl Percy 1916 Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210464 ''Eyewitness. Being Personal Reminiscences of Certain Phases of the Great War, Including the Genesis of the Tank''] by Major-General Sir Ernest D Swinton, R E (Retired) 1932. Archive.org. Digital Library of India Collection:Sir Ernest was the 1904 author of ''The Defence of Duffer’s Drift'', see [[Military periodicals online#Manuals, Handbooks etc| Military periodicals online]]. *Books by two out of 25 volunteer members of the RAC [Royal Automobile Club] Contingent, who volunteered with their own car, who were sent officially by the War Office to drive officers of the General Headquarters Staff at the front. As a result, they were in constant contact with very senior officers, and personally observed the course of events over a wide field. It seems they officially joined the Army, and were given officer status. **[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b42511?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Adventures on the Western Front, August, 1914-June, 1915''] by A Rawlinson 1925 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/adventureswesternfront/page/n11/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. The author, then aged 47, volunteered as a driver, who provided his own car, for service at the Front, as part of the RAC Contingent. For a book about later military related service by this author, see [[Norperforce]].**[https://archive.org/details/frommonstoypresw0000cole/page/n5/mode/2up ''From Mons to Ypres with French : a personal narrative''] by Frederic Coleman. 1916 Archive.org. Published in London. Contains illustrations but missing at least first page of the Preface. USA title [https://archive.org/details/frommonstoypresw00cole ''From Mons to Ypres with General French: a Personal Narrative''] by Frederic Coleman. 1916 Archive.org. Edition without illustrations. He was a part of the RAC Contingent, who volunteered with his own car.*:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208781 ''With Cavalry In 1915. The British Trooper in the Trench line : Through the second battle of Ypres''] by Frederic Coleman 1916. Archive.org. Also published with the title beginning ''With Cavalry in the Great War...''. He was attached, with his car, to the Head-quarters Staff of the 1st Cavalry Division. These two titles were later reprinted by Leonaur as ''A Twilight of Centaurs''*:Frederic Coleman, an American resident in London, is elsewhere <ref>[https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/15398/lot/61/ Frederick Abernethy Coleman] bonhams.com</ref> described as the journalist and Motoring [figure], Frederick Abernethy Coleman, who popularized the White Steam car in England and was a prominent figure in English motoring. He appears to have spent time in China, at the time of the Boxer Rebellion, possibly as a journalist. He was also the author of *:[https://archive.org/details/ourboysoverther00colegoog ''Our boys over there; to the young American in khaki - what he will find when he gets to France''] by Frederic Coleman 1918 Archive.org*[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". [https://archive.org/details/reputations-liddell-hart/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org] mirror version. An examination of 10 leading personalities of WWI, including Joffre, Foch, Petain, Lundendorff, Pershing, and others.
====Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general====
*[https://archive.org/details/indiancorpsinfra00ltco ''The Indian Corps in France''] by Lt-Colonel J.W.B. Merewether and Sir Frederick Smith, 1918 which appears to be a simple reprint of the first edition December 1917. Archive.org. A 1919 revised second edition from archive.org is catalogued as [https://archive.org/details/TheIndianCorpsInRance ''The Indian Corps in Rance''] and may require a DjVu plug in, or individual pages can be accessed which use the Tiff format. The 1919 second edition is also available as three different files, originally from Digital Library of India: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.54096 173047 Archive.org mirror version 1](catalogued as ''The Indian Corps In Rance''); [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173047 54096 Archive.org 2]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201725 Archive.org 3]
*[http://archive.org/stream/withindiansinfra00will#page/n3/mode/2up ''With the Indians in France''] by Sir James Willcocks 1920 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/withindiansinfra00will#page/382/mode/2up Index], page 383
**[http://archive.org/stream/withindiansinfra00will#page/346/mode/2up List of 'Promotions and Rewards'] page 347-382
*[https://commons.wikimediaarchive.org/wikidetails/File:AG_Lindrecord-58th-rifles-f-f-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_great-_1919.pdf war/page/n1/mode/2up ''A Record of the 58th Rifles F. F. in the Great War 1914-1919''] by Colonel A G Lind DSO 1933. Archive.org. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf 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 The latter links 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 [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[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]];[[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Bengal]], [[Madras Sappers and Miners|Madras]], [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]].
*[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/details/deutschlandskrie00hoep ''Deutschlands Krieg in der Luft : ein Rückblick auf die Entwicklung und die Leistungen unserer Heeres-Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege''] by Ernst Wilhelm Arnold von Hoeppner 1921. Archive.org. German language. Also available [http://www.digar.ee/id/nlib-digar:237572 National Library of Estonia] - English webpage option available.
*Some '''Regimental ''' and '''Divisional Histories''' histories, and some Manuals from the British Library Digital Collection may be accessed by [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do Searching the British Library Main Catalogue], using search term such as Army Great Britain or War Office Great Britain, or specific search terms. Then use side filters, Online, Books. Note: Selecting the filter for date does not appear to be accurate, so it is best to re-order the Search results according to date, and then select those applicable to WW1.:[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"]; Archive.org Search result [https://archive.org/search?query=British+Army+regimental+histories&sort=date&and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22World+War+1914-1918%22&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22 British Army regimental histories/World War 1914-1918] includes Regimental and some Divisional histories. Also use the [https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php Search]using your own Search terms.:[https://archive.org/details/mcmaster_university?sort=title McMaster University collection in the Internet Archive] contains many Regimental and Battalion Histories. In addition the website [https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/node/22 McMaster University Digital Archive] includes additional histories.
:[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.
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?type%5B%5D=subject&lookfor%5B%5D=%22%20World%20War%2C%201914-1918%20Regimental%20histories%22&filter%5B%5D=topicStr%3AWorld%20War%2C%201914-1918&filter%5B%5D=topicStr%3AGreat%20Britain&ft=ft&page=1&pagesize=100 HathiTrust Digital Library] regimental histories, some of which are available full view. [https://www.hathitrust.org Search] the catalogue for specific titles.: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 Pressin respect of WWI (and other) periods, located in World War II/Military Books -located by the Search, 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.:[[findmypastFindmypast]], 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 Findmypast version, for books which are on both pay websites.:[https://archive.org/details/territorialdivis00stirrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Territorial Divisions 1914-1918''] by J Stirling, late Major 8th Batt. Royal Scots 1922 Archive.org
:[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
:''The Irish Guards in the Great War'' (2 Vols) by Rudyard Kipling, whose son, killed in action, was in this regiment. [https://archive.org/details/irishguardsofgre01rudy/page/n9/mode/2up Vol. 1], [https://archive.org/details/irishguardsofgre02rudy/page/n9/mode/2up Vol. 2] 1923 editions. Archive.org. 1997 Reprint editions with new Forewords [https://archive.org/details/irishguardsingre00kipl/mode/2up Vol. 1], [https://archive.org/details/irishguardsingre0000kipl_o4u1/mode/2up Vol. 2] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The regiment was founded in 1900.:''The History of the Lancashire Fusiliers 1914-1918'' by J C Latter 1949. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201111160122/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-the-Lancashire-Fusiliers-1914-1918-Volume-I/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html Volume I], [https://web.archive.org/web/20220127201540/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-the-Lancashire-Fusiliers-1914-1918-Volume-I/files/assets/basic-html/page8.html V.I Contents]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20200913123809/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-the-Lancashire-Fusiliers-1914-1918-Volume-II/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html Volume II], [https://web.archive.org/web/20200805022519/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-the-Lancashire-Fusiliers-1914-1918-Volume-II/files/assets/basic-html/page3.html V. II Contents]. Transcribed editions by OCR, so subject to errors. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk.: ''A History of the Black Watch , now archived (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' Previously [[in three Volumes20th Regiment of Foot|20th Reg.]] Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. Vol III (8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th & 14th Battalions). :[httphttps://libarchive.militaryarchive.co.ukorg/librarydetails/infantry-historiesfifeforfar00ogiluoft/librarypage/A-History-of-The-Black-Watch-Royal-Highlanders-in-the-Great-War-1914-1918-Volume-IIIn7/filesmode/assets/basic-html/page12up ''Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F.html Volume III transcribed edition] lib& F.militaryarchive.co.uk. Transcribed edition by OCR, so subject to errorsYeo) Battn.:[https://catalogR.hathitrustH.org/Record/000442395 ''The Coldstream Guards, 1914-19181919''] [R. H. = Royal Highlanders] by by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Ross-of-Bladensburg 1928 HathiTrust Digital LibraryMajor D D Ogilvie 1921 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/moralestudyofmen00bayn/page/n5 ''Morale: a study of men and courage; the Second Scottish Rifles at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 1915''] by John Baynes 1967 Archive.org Lending Library
:[https://archive.org/details/10thpworoyalhuss00whit/page/n3 ''The 10th (Psearch?query=title%3A%28Hussars+War%29&sort=-date Archive. W. O.) Royal org titles using keywords, Hussars and the Essex Yeomanry during the European War, 1914-1918''] by Lt.-Col. F H D C Whitmore 1920 Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/thirteenthhussar00dura historyofsixteen00grah/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Thirteenth Hussars in History of the Sixteenth, the Great WarQueen's Light Dragoons (Lancers) 1912-1925''] by Sir H Mortimer Durand 1921 Colonel Henry Graham 1926. Archive.org.:Pdf downloads available from the [http://www.lightdragoons.org.uk/downloads.html Light Dragoons Regimental Association]: ''History of the 15th The King's Hussars 1914-1922'' by Lord Carnock 1932; ''The Memoirs of the 18th - Queen Mary's Own - Royal Hussars, 1906-1922, including operations in the Great War'' by Brig.-General Charles Burnett, published 1926WW1 period also appear to be available Archive. org
* ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org mirror version] from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with chapters on the British Expeditionary Force.
* ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War'' by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 Archive.org mirror version] from Digital Library of India. Includes chapters on the Western Front (Part I).
*[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Corps-History-Vol-05.pdf ''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume V: The Home Front, France Flanders and Italy in the First World War''], edited by H.L. Pritchard, published 1952 nzsappers.org.nz:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=The%20Work%20of%20the%20Royal%20Engineers%20in%20the%20European%20War&searchtype=title&ft=&setft=false ''The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War 1914-1919'']. Six Seven full view editions from HathiTrust Digital Library: ''Water Supply - France. Part I. General development of organization, plant and works. Part II. Operations'' (1921); ''Work in the field under the engineer in chief, B. E. F.. Geological work on the Western Front'' (1922); ''Military mining'' (1922); ''Supply of engineer stores and equipment'' (1921); Bridging (1921); ''Miscellaneous: The organization and expansion of the Corps, 1914-18. Organization of engineer intelligence and information. Camouflage service. Concrete defence works and factories. Forward communications. Machinery, workshops, and electricity. Anti-Aircraft searchlights. Inundations. Schools''. Compiled by Colonel G. H. Addison. 1926. (372 pages). All the ''Miscellaneous'' sections have been reprinted as separate volumes by Naval&Military Press; ''Work in the field in other theatres of war. Egypt and Palestine--Water supply'' (1921). [https://archive.org/search?query=The+%22Work+of+the+Royal+Engineers+in+the+European+War%22&sort=-date ''The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War'', Archive.org collection], five (of the previous 7) volumes. Four of these editions are available as pdfs from [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/introduction/heritage-material/ nzsappers.org.nz] under Heritage Material/World War One.:Available at the British Library: ''Water supply''. [Containing 9 maps showing the] Water supply in France] (1921) UIN: BLL01004844114 ; '' Work under the Director of Works (France)'' (1924) UIN: BLL01006788368 ; .:''Artillery Survey in the First World War''Miscellaneousby Sir Lawrence Bragg, Major-General A H Dowson, Lieut.-Colonel H H Hemming 1971. [https://www.defencesurveyors.org.uk/historical-papers Historical Papers: Defence Surveyors' Association] Scroll down. [https://fc061d25-33f8-4c65-840c-8ca5bf36650e.filesusr.com/ugd/b9208c_5499d287fb204d3d8661517bba8844dc.pdf Direct pdf link]:Also see [[Western Front#Maps|Maps]], above.:[http://hdl.handle. The organization net/11343/24628 "Inland waterways and expansion docks, royal engineers in war time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the CorpsVictorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, 1914pages 104-18116. Organization Includes mention of engineer intelligence and informationTrain Ferries from 1917. Melbourne University Digital Collection.:[https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/SouthAfrica/Sappers-I/Sappers-1. Camouflage servicehtml Chapter 1] ''Salute the Sappers'' by Neil Orpen with H. Concrete defence works and factoriesJ. Forward communicationsMartin. MachinerySeries ''South African Forces World War II'', workshopsVolume 8, and electricityPart 1. AntiPublished Johannesburg : Sappers Association, c1981-Aircraft searchlightsc1982. Details the formation of the S. InundationsA. Schools''Signal Company, R. Compiled by Colonel GE. H, and other South African Engineer units who served in France and East Africa. AddisonTranscription from ibiblio. 1926org/hyperwar. BLL01007769877
*[https://archive.org/details/signalserviceine00prie ''The Signal Service in the European War of 1914-1918 (France)''] by R E Priestley (Late Major, R E) 1921 Archive.org. Part of the above series ''The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War''. Includes information about the use of [https://archive.org/stream/signalserviceine00prie#page/357/mode/1up carrier pigeons] (Index entry)
**[https://archive.org/stream/signalserviceine00prie#page/10/mode/2up/search/Indian Page 11] includes a very brief reference to the Indian Telegraph units of the Indian Army. These were very likely to have been men from the [[Post and Telegraphs Department|Post and Telegraphs Department]] in India, who were appointed to the Army at the outbreak of war. Also see ''The Post Office of India in the following bookGreat War'', above.*[http://hdlnla.gov.au/nla.handleobj-52178355/view?partId=nla.netobj-52178465#page/n2/11343mode/24628 "Inland waterways and docks, royal engineers in war time, with special reference to 1up ''The Royal Naval Division''] by Douglas Jerrold 1923. Includes the mystery port Western Front. National Library of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"Australia. Also available [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.527767/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version] by Captain A E Battle, RE .:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143164/page/n1/mode/2up ''Proceedings The Hawke Battalion. Some Personal Records of the Victorian Institute of EngineersFour Years 1914-1918'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116] by Douglas Jerrold 1925. Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015. 536830/page/n163 Page 161] ''Georgian Adventure Includes mention The Autobiography of Train Ferries Douglas Jerrold'' 1937 Archive.org:The RND transferred from 1917. Melbourne University Digital Collectionthe authority of the Admiralty to the War Office on 29 April 1916.*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/sea-soldiers/page/n15/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. Includes chapters on France, and chapters on the Royal Marine Artillery.:A later publication is ''The Royal Marines on the Western Front'' by Daniel J McLean ISBN: 9781526763860 .
*[https://archive.org/details/notesfromcalaisb00mont ''Notes from Calais Base, and pictures of its many activities''] by C E Montague 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_71054 ''Quick training for war : a few practical suggestions illustrated by diagrams''] by Lieut.General Sir Robert Baden-Powell. 1914 Archive.org. A digitised microfilm.
*[https://archive.org/details/trainingfortrenc00vickrich ''Training for the Trenches: a Practical Handbook. Based upon personal experience during the first two years of the war in France''] by Captain Leslie Vickers, late Lieut. Seaforth Highlanders 1917 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/specimensofbriti00armyrich/page/n1 ''Specimens of British trench orders'']. This book discusses the duties of the Canadian Corps trench officers, based on examples from the British Army. Includes trench orders, battalion trench standing orders, brigade standing orders for the trenches, and the 55th (West Lancashire) Division trench orders. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/generalsletterst00smit/page/n7 ''A General's letters to his son on obtaining his Commission''] [by "X. Y. Z."] 1918 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/generalsletterst00xyzf/page/n5 ''A General's letters to his son on Minor Tactics''] [by "X. Y. Z."] 1918 Archive.org. The author is a “Senior General Officer of wide experience, who is on the active list”.
*[https://archive.org/details/TreatiseOnAmmunition1915/mode/2up ''Treatise On Ammunition'', 10th Edition 1915] War Office HMSO Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/handgrenadeshand00ainsrich ''Hand Grenades: a Handbook on Rifle and Hand Grenades''] by Major Graham M Ainslie 1917 Archive.org
*[http://www.lulu.com/shop/charles-d-tracy/the-service-revolver-and-how-to-use-it/ebook/product-23483904.html ''The Service Revolver and How to Use It''] by Charles D. Tracy, The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1918. Link to a pdf download (free) lulu.com. (More details.<ref> lklawson. [http://www.martialtalk.com/threads/free-combat-revolver-manual.126207/ Free Combat Revolver manual] ''MartialTalk'' 10 January 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2020.</ref>). [https://archive.org/details/the_service_revolver_and_how_to_use_it/mode/2up Archive.org version], possibly/probably the same file. Tracy was also the author of ''Revolver Shooting in War''. Tracy is mentioned in [http://www.worldwar1.com/tripwire/pdf/davidthomas.pdf ''The Pistol in British Military Service during the Great War''] by David Thomas 2010 Dissertation University of Birmingham. worldwar1.com.*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027946619 snipinginfrancew00pricrich/page/n9/mode/2up ''Sniping in France, with Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers''] by Major H Hesketh-Prichard [1920]. Archive.org. First Army School of S.O.S.*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofriflema0000crum/mode/2up ''Memoirs of a Rifleman Scout''] by Major F M Crum 2014 reprint edition, first published 1950. WW1 period commences [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofriflema0000crum/page/182/mode/2up page 183]. Archive.org Texts to Borrow. Major Crum of 8th KRRC became interested in sniping techniques and in May 1916 established a sniper school at Acq. This book incorporates an edited version of his earlier book [https://archive.org/details/riflemenscoutssnipers/page/n7/mode/2up ''With Rifleman, Scouts and Snipers from 1914 to 1919''] (1921, Private Circulation) 217 digital pages including appendices and photographs. 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, select 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. [https://archive.org/details/pillboxesflandersimages/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version], with pages in the correct order.:Later books are ''Pill Boxes on the Western Front: A Guide to the Design, Construction and Use of Concrete Pill Boxes, 1914-1918'' by Peter Oldham published 1995. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DN6kAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA5 Sample pages] Google Books 2011 reprint edition; ''Armageddon's Walls: British Pill Boxes 1914-1918'' by Peter Oldham 2014. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nmRtBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR3 Sample pages] Google Books.*[https://archive.org/details/poisonwar00robeuoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Poison War''] by A A Roberts 1915 Archive.org:[https://bulletpicker.com/pdf/Old%20Chemical%20Weapons%20Reference%20Guide.pdf ''Old Chemical Weapons Reference Guide: May 1998. American Chemical Munitions''] USA Army publication. Includes WW1 information. bulletpicker.com:[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/executedatdawnbr0000john/mode/2up ''Executed at Dawn : British Firing Squads on the Western Front, 1914-1918''] by David Johnson 2015. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. *[https://archive.org/details/deathsmensoldier0000wint_w2s8 ''Death's Men : Soldiers of the Great War''] by Denis Winter 1979, first published 1978. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. "...Using written and oral reminiscences, he [Winter] builds up a comprehensive picture of the life of an ordinary soldier in and out of the line…"*[https://archive.org/details/trenchwarfare1910000ashw/mode/2up ''Trench Warfare, 1914-18 : the live and let live system''] by Tony Ashworth 2000 reprint edition, first published 1980. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[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/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. [https://archive.org/details/meetingenemyhuma0000vane_y6p8/mode/2up 2nd file, 2014 edition]. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes the experiences in Germany, of British citizens at the beginning of the war.*[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://archive.org/details/geniusfordecepti0000rank/mode/2up ''A genius for deception : how cunning helped the British win two world wars''] by Nicholas Rankin 2009. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. First published in Great Britain as ''Churchill's Wizards : the British genius for deception, 1914-1945'' in 2008.*[https://archive.org/details/greatwarhandbook0000brid_k1j2/mode/2up ''The Great War Handbook''] by Geoff Bridger 2013, first published 2009. Cover additional wording ''A Guide for Family Historians and Students of the Conflict''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[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/details/sad-advent-haselden/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[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]]
====Medical Services including Veterinary====
*''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services'', and other books regarding Medical Services, including Veterinary. See [[First World War#Historical books online 2Medical Services, including Veterinary|First World War-Historical books online-Medical Services, including Veterinary]].*[https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/22479 ''Organisation and work of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the field, with a short discussion of some of the the commoner diseases met with among divisional troops''] by William Farquhar Mclean 1920. Edinburgh Medical School thesis and dissertation collection. Link to a pdf download which you may need to locate in your downloads folder. The author held many roles in the RAMC, both practical and administrative, on hospital ships and in France.*[http://www.vlib.us/medical/CCS/ccs.htm Location of Hospitals and Casualty Clearing Stations in The Great War: British Expeditionary Force]. 13th July 1923 list from the [British] Ministry of Pensions. vlib.us/medical. [https://archive.org/details/lLocationww1hospitals-images/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. This is probably the same list as the reprint book which follows:''Location of hospitals and casualty clearing stations, British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919'' published by Ministry of Pensions 1923 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/location-of-hospitals-and-casualty-clearing-stations-bef-1914-1919/ ''Location of hospitals and casualty clearing stations, British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref>, which in turn is available online on the [https://www.fold3.com/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19LG9-pcHU Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain.
*[https://archive.org/details/WW1ArmyMedDeptHistV8 ''The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War Volume 8: Field Operations''] Prepared under the direction of Maj Gen M W Ireland, Surgeon General 1925. Archive.org. Mainly about the Western Front. Other volumes in this series [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28medicine%29+AND+title%3A%28The+Medical+Department+of+the+United+States+Army+in+the+World+War%29&sort=-date Archive.org]
*[https://archive.org/details/reportonmedicomi00unit ''Report on the medico-military aspects of the European War from observations taken behind the allied armies in France''] by Surgeon A M Fauntleroy US Navy. 1915 Archive.org.
*[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/sanitationinware2lele/page/n7/mode/2up ''Sanitation in War''] by Major P S Lelean RAMC, 2nd edition 1917 ([https://archive.org/details/sanitationinwar00leleuoft 1915 edition]). Both Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/sanitationintren00mccu/page/n2/mode/1up ''Sanitation in the trenches''] by Champe Carter McCulloch MD 1917. Reprinted from articles in ''The Journal of the American Medical Association''. Archive.org
*[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://archive.org/details/treatment-injuries-war-july-1915/page/n17/mode/2up ''Memorandum on the treatment of injuries in war, based on experience of the present campaign July 1915''] His Majesty's Stationery Office 1915. Archive.org. A Manual for RAMC personnel.
: Second edition. [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://books.google.com.au/books?id=zRo1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Injuries...'' [Same title as immediately above <nowiki>]</nowiki> ''Reprint of the Official British Manual''] Washington DC 1918 Google Books.
*[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://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008912655 ''The Tale of a Casualty Clearing Station''] by a Royal Field Leech. Pseud. of Col. F.A. Symons [Frank Albert] 1917 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Salisbury/Salisbury%20-%20Roll%20of%20Honour%20-%20Frank%20Albert%20Symons%20(Cathedral).pdf Salisbury Cathedral Roll of Honour : Colonel F. A. Symons, Royal Army Medical Corps] died 30th April,1917 Age 48. wiltshire-opc.org.uk
*[https://archive.org/details/fieldambulancesk00londuoft ''Field Ambulance Sketches''] by A Corporal. 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.
*[httphttps://searchfind.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER279936 permalink/61SLV_INST/s6pvau/alma992799363607636 ''Mine Rescue Work on the Western Front''] by Lieut.-Colonel D Dale Logan, RAMC. 40/Medical/1955. 1920. HMSO London. State Library of Victoria.*[https://archive.org/details/b29826810/page/n5 ''A Medico's Luck in the War : being reminiscences of R.A.M.C. work with the 51st (Highland) Division''] by David Rorie, Colonel, late RAMC, T A (Ret) 1929 Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/scalpelswordstre0000unse ''Scalpel, Sword and Stretcher : forty years of work and play''] by Colonel Robert J Blackham [1931] Formerly Hon. Surgeon to the Viceroy of India , and DDMS Ninth Army Corps in France. He was posted from India to France in 1915 where he was a doctor to fighting troops in battle. He was also posted to Italy and Russia. Archive.org Books to Borrow. Also available [https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/Detail/2R3BF1F070BY4 Digital Collection University of Calgary] Canada. Download may be possible for the latter, see under Actions "Permissions and access"(registration required, fee seems to/perhaps may apply for digital copies- see [https://libanswers.ucalgary.ca/ FAQ]).
* ''Memoirs Of A Camp Follower'' (1934) by Philip Gosse. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523918 Archive.org mirror version] from Digital Library of India. Full title/some editions: ''Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War''. At least one later edition published under the title ''A Naturalist Goes to War''. Includes the following [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420021830/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Rats/Rats_01a.htm extract] (archive.org) relating to his duties following his appointed as Rat Officer to the Second Army. The author was a doctor RAMC, in France and Belgium 1915-1917 who initially served with the 69th Field Ambulance, 23rd Division. He subsequently served in India. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/210.full.pdf+html Review of the book]. JRAMC. Scroll to the end.
*[https://archive.org/details/regimentalsurgeo00dolb ''A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison''] by Captain Robert V Dolbey, RAMC. 1917. Archive.org. The author was in France from August 1914, taken a Prisoner of War in October 1914, then repatriated from Germany c March 1915. He later took part in the campaign in [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]].
*[https://archive.org/details/onfourfrontswith00spar ''On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division''] by Geoffrey Sparrow MC, and J N MacBean Ross MC, Surgeons RN 1918 Archive.org. The Division was under the authority of the Admiralty until 29 April 1916. Includes the Antwerp Expedition in October 1914, and France from June 1916.
:[https://archive.org/details/JRNMSVOL3Images/page/n481 "With a Royal Marine Battalion in France"] by Temporary Surgeon J N MacBean Ross, Medical Officer, 2nd Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry. ''Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service'', Vol 3 1917, page 465. [https://liveicomgrshot.blob.core.windows.net/jrnmsfiles/articles/JRNMS_100_(2)_117-122.pdf Commentary on “With a Royal Marine Battalion in France”] Surg Lt Cdr JG Penn-Barwell ''J Royal Naval Medical Service'' 2014, Vol 100.2
*[https://archive.org/details/wadeinsanitary00rich ''Wade in, Sanitary! The Story of a Division Surgeon in France''] by Richard Derby Lt.-Col. USA, Division Surgeon, Second Division. 1919. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/39002011123297.med.yale.edu ''From a Surgeon's Journal : 1915-1918''] by Harvey Cushing 1936 Archive.org. The author, a neurosurgeon, was a volunteer with the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance, and later was with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), and with the American Expeditionary Force (AEF).
*[https://archive.org/details/womenasarmysurg00murr ''Women as Army Surgeons; being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919''] by Flora Murray 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/onbattlescarredf00luri ''On the Battle-Scarred Fields of France. A Physician's Impressions of the Medical Services of both French and German Armies''] by Adolfo Luria 1918 Archive.org
*Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader as [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Hospitals%2C+charities%2C+etc%22&sort=-date World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals, charities, etc] and [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%221914-1918--Hospitals%22&sort=-date "1914-1918--Hospitals"], with some overlap. Many are about the Western Front. For accounts by nurses, also see the ''Great War Forum'' topic "Online books-accounts by nurses etc",<ref>Maureene. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/233174-online-books-accounts-by-nurses-etc/ Online books-accounts by nurses etc] ''Great War Forum'' 2 November, 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2018.</ref> with some overlap, some of whom are discussed in [http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30560 ''Nurse Writers of the Great War''] by Christine E Hallett 2016.oapen.org*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000004064699?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 '' "Sister"; the War Diary of a Nurse''] [during 1918] by Helen Dore Boylston 1927 Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/sisterwardiarynurse/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. Boylston was an American nurse who left for France with the Harvard Surgical Unit, where she worked at General Hospital No. 22, British Expeditionary Force at Étaples. [https://authorsreallives.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/helen-dore-boylston-1895-1984-part-ii/ Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984)- Part II: War Service] authorsreallives. She subsequently became a well known author of the ''Sue Barton, Nurse'' series of books for girls.
*[http://www.ourstory.info/library/2-ww1/Borden2/fz.html ''The Forbidden Zone''] by Mary Borden 1929. A transcription. American Field Service website. A later (2008) edition was published under the title ''The Forbidden Zone : a Nurse's Impressions of the First World War''. The Chicago-born millionaire's daughter funded and managed her own hospital unit for the French Army, L’Hôpital Chirurgical Mobile No.1, which moved location several times, including the Hospital of Evacuation 32 at Bray-sur-Somme, a dangerous location within artillery range of the front line.
:[https://archive.org/stream/2englishreview25londuoft#page/n13/mode/2up "At the Somme" [War Poetry<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Mary Borden-Turner published in ''The English Review'', August 1917, page 97. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Borden Mary Borden] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/backwashofwar00lamoiala ''The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse''] by Ellen N. La Motte 1916. Archive.org. The author worked in a French military field hospital, situated ten kilometres behind the lines, in Belgium. The dedication in the book indicates the hospital was run by Mary Borden-Turner, see previous entry.
*[https://archive.org/details/rosesofnomanslan0000macd/mode/2up ''The Roses of No Man’s Land''] by Lyn Macdonald 1980. About nurses on the frontline. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also see [[Western Front#Official Histories and Battles|Official Histories and Battles]] above for further books by Macdonald.
*''An Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War'' by Jessica Meyer 2019. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2X2IDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Google Books version], [http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25723 ''Open Access'' oapen.org version].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027887409 ''The Cellar-house of Pervyse : a tale of uncommon things from the journals and letters of the Baroness T'Serclaes and Mairi Chisholm''] by G E Mitton 1917 Archive.org. Volunteer ambulance drivers Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm in Belgium. [https://archive.org/details/cellarhouseofpervyse_1506_librivox Audio LibriVox recording] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/elsiemairigotowa00dian ''Elsie and Mairi Go To War : two extraordinary women on the Western Front''] by Diane Atkinson 2010 Archive.org Lending Library
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBr-K8JrDZE "The Two Madonnas of Pervyse"] YouTube video. Also see Fiction below, for a book where there is a representation of these two women, but not as the main character. *[https://archive.org/details/ssa10notesonwork00leng/page/n3/mode/2up ''S. S. A. 10. Notes on the work of a British Volunteer Ambulance Convoy with the 2nd French Army (of Verdun)''] by William St. Q Leng. 1918 Archive.org. S. S. A. = La Section Sanitaire Anglaise.
*[https://archive.org/details/vr76frenchmilita00reckrich ''V.R. 76 : a French Military Hospital''] by Harold James Reckitt. 1921. Archive.org. A military hospital with a non-military administration. (Fondation Johnstone-Reckitt). The author was a previous British MP, with a family history of philanthropy.
*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersofamer00vanviala ''War Letters of an American Woman''] by Marie Van Vorst. 1916 Archive.org. A novelist, she worked as a volunteer nurse at the American Ambulance [Hospital]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Vorst Wikipedia]
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000046651 ''The Military Surgeon : Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States''] HathiTrust Digital Library. Full view editions from 1907 to Volume 51, 1922 . There is an Index at the back of the volumes.
*Article: [http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/219318 "Dermatology In A British General Hospital In France Including the Differentiation of "I. C. T." (Inflammation Connective Tissue)"] by Frank Crozer Knowles, M.D. ''Journal of American Medical Association'' (JAMA) October 19, 1918. Includes a comment regarding the prevalence of body lice [pediculus humanus humanus] and pubic lice on the majority of battlefield casualties.
*[https://archive.org/details/surgeryatcasualt00wallrich ''Surgery at a Casualty Clearing Station''] by Cuthbert Wallace, Consulting Surgeon, British Armies in France, and John Fraser 1918 Archive.org. A medical book.
====Indian Army====
*Also see [[Western Front#Histories Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general|Histories Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general]], above
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx The British Library digitised manuscripts] include some India Office Records relating to the First World War. A search using the key word India, and adjustment of the dates will locate the documents, or see [http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/tag/india-office-records/ europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu], or the direct links include
**IOR/L/MIL/17/5/2384 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Ior/l/mil/17/5/2384 Indian Force for Europe]. India Office Military Dept, 6 Sep 1914
====Collected stories====
*[https://archive.org/details/thrillingstories00mars/page/n7 ''Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water''] by Logan Marshall 1915 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/soldiersstorieso00woodrich/page/n7 ''Soldiers' Stories of the War''] edited by Walter Wood 1915 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/inlineofbattleso00wood/page/n7 ''In the Line of Battle: Soldiers' Stories of the War''] edited by Walter Wood 1916 Archive.org
*''True Stories of the Great War. Tales of Adventure-Heroic Deeds-Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses''. Edited by Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917. In six volumes: [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre01mill/page/n6 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre0000unse/page/n3 Vol. II], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre03mill/page/n6 Vol. III], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre04mill/page/n6 Vol. IV], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre05mill/page/n6 Vol. V], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre06mill/page/n5 Vol. VI]. All 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''. Originally published in 1916 in fortnightly editions, then published c 1917 as a two volume set, c 900 pages in total, 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. Contain many specially commissioned illustrations- some [https://www.military-prints.com/great_war1.htm samples]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nvUgVYY3ew YouTube video] about the books and their illustrations.
:Transcribed editions by OCR, (optical character recognition) so subject to inaccuracies and without the original illustrations: [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-I/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Volume I], [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-II/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Volume II] of the two volume set. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Although some pages are acceptable, many are not, but they give an indication of the content of the book.
:Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000891226 and in a reprint edition<ref name=DTE/>, which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/publication/985/uk-wwi-stories-of-heroism-1914-1918 ''UK, WWI, Stories of Heroism, 1914-1918''] (located in International/scroll down to letter U).
:4 of the 5 volume editions, being Volumes I, II, III and V are available for free, provided you register, on the otherwise pay website forces-war-records.co.uk in the [https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/documents/search?searchQuery=D&page=2 Historic Document Library]. Select Browse and Type "Other", then scroll down to letter D.
*[https://archive.org/details/postofhonour00wils/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Post of Honour : Stories of Daring Deeds done by Men of the British Empire in the Great War''] by Richard Wilson 1917. Archive.org. The Author’s Note suggests the book was written for school children.
*[https://archive.org/details/wonderfulstories00newy/page/n9/mode/2up ''Wonderful Stories. Winning the V. C. in the Great War''] catalogued 1918. Archive.org. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t5n87rf69?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 HathiTust Digital Library version] with rotatable pages.
:[https://archive.org/details/victoriacrossher0000ashc/mode/2up/ ''Victoria Cross Heroes''] by Michael Ashcroft 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes WW1.
*[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
==== In the Air====
*''The War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force'' (in seven volumes). Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''.
:''The German Air Force in the Great War'' by Major Georg Paul Neumann c 1921
:For both these titles see [[Western Front#Official Histories and Battles|Official Histories and Battles]] above.
*[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28%22The%20Great%20War%20in%20the%20Air%22%29%20AND%20creator%3A%28Middleton%29 ''The Great War in the Air Volumes 1-4''] by Edgar Middleton 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/inroyalnavalairs00roshiala ''In the Royal Naval Air Service. Being the War Letters of the late Harold Rocher to his Family''] 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/airmansoutings00bottuoft/page/n7 ''An Airman's Outings''] by "Contact" [Captain Alan Bott, R F C] 5th Impression 1917. Archive.org. Also published under the titles [https://archive.org/details/flyingace00bott/page/n7 ''The Flying Ace''] (better digital file) Archive.org; ''Cavalry of the Clouds''.
*[https://archive.org/details/warflyingbypilot00hend/page/n9 ''War flying, by a pilot; the letters of "Theta" to his home people written in training and war''] 1917 Archive.org. He was a member of the Royal Flying Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/subalternssharei00deverich ''A Subaltern's Share in the War, Home Letters of the late George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., attached R.F.C.''] 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/heroicairmenthei00walt/page/n7 ''Heroic Airmen and their Exploits''] by E W Walters 1917 Archive.org* ''Winged Warfare : Hunting the Huns in the Air'' by Major [William Avery] Bishop,VC, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfarehun00bish/page/n7 London edition 1918, probably better filmed text] ; [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfare00bishuoft/page/n7 USA edition 1918, better photographs], some photographs differ between the two editions;
:[https://archive.org/details/wingwarfare00bish/page/n3 1981 edition of 1967 reprint with additional material] ; [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfare0000bish/page/n3 2002 edition with additional material] the latter two Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/billybishopvc0000math ''Billy Bishop, VC''] by William D Mathieson 1989 Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bishop Billy Bishop] Wikipedia . He was the top Canadian ace of the war.
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_98187 ''The Royal Flying Corps in the War''] by "Wing Adjutant" 1918 Archive.org. The author is catalogued as W. T. (Wilfrid Theodore) Blake. Sketches, some personal experiences. Digitised microfiche.
:[https://archive.org/details/planetalesfromsk00blak/page/n5 ''Plane Tales from the Skies''] by "Wing Adjutant" [Wilfrid Theodore Blake] 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/asoldiersky00campgoog/page/n5/mode/2up ''A Soldier of the Sky''] by Captain George F Campbell, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. Also available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000440235 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_80756 ''Above the Battle''] by Vivian Drake 1918 Archive.org. Royal Flying Corps. Digitised microfiche.
*[https://archive.org/details/flyingfuryfiveye0000mccu ''Flying Fury : Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps''] by James McCudden VC, 2000 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. This is a reprint, with some extra content, of ''Flying Fury'' 1930, which in turn was a reprint, with some extra content of [https://archive.org/details/5years-rfc/page/n9/mode/2up ''Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps''] by James Thomas Byford McCudden [1918 or 1919] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/shortflightswith00spinrich ''Short Flights With the Cloud Cavalry''] by "Spin" [1918] Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated the author was Lieutenant G. E. Thomson, the Records Officer of 46 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps , who dedicated the book to his Commanding Officer, Philip Babington, ("Pip Beer" on the Dedication Page).<ref> Resurgam13. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/61344-rarest-book/?do=findComment&comment=2761527 Rarest book?] ''Great War Forum'' 26 April 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2019.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/overgermanlines/page/n9/mode/2up ''Over the German Lines and other sketches illustrating the life and work of an Artillery Squadron of the R.A.F. in France''] by "Wings" (Captain, RAF) (probably Arthur Penrose Martyn Sanders) 1918. Archive.org. The principal duty of an Artillery Squadron was the direction of artillery fire by “wireless” from the air. Archive.org. Sanders served with No. 5 Squadron RFC, where he lost one arm due to wounds.
*[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/richthofen00clau ''Richthofen, the Red Knight of the Air''] by Claud Sykes (Vigilant) 2004 reprint edition, first published 1934. Archive.org Lending Library. As a reprint, part of the series ''Fortunes of War''.
:[https://archive.org/details/whokilledredbaro00cari ''Who killed the Red Baron?''] by P J Carisella and James W Ryan. 1969. [https://archive.org/details/whokilledredbaro0000cari 1979 reprint]. Both editions Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/dayredbarondied00titl ''The Day the Red Baron Died''] by Dale M Titler 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
:[https://archive.org/details/redbaron00wrig/page/n1 ''The Red Baron''] by Nicholas Wright 1977 Archive.org Lending Library. “Written especially for young readers”.
:[https://archive.org/details/richthofenbeyond00pete ''Richthofen : beyond the legend of the Red Baron''] by Peter Kilduff 1994, first published 1993. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[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://archive.org/details/fightingflyingc00rickgoog fightingflyingci0000edwa_f8a5/mode/2up ''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/rfchq1914191800bariuoft/page/n5 ''R.F.C. H.Q., 1914-1918''] by Maurice Baring 1920 Archive.org. Baring was appointed as a Lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps attached to the Headquarters RFC, after applying unsuccessfully to go to France as an interpreter, as he spoke seven modern languages.
*[https://archive.org/details/explorerinairser00binguoft/page/n9 ''An Explorer in the Air Service''] by Hiram Bingham, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel, Air Service, USA 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924030744688 ''Aerial Observation; the Airplane Observer, the Balloon Observer, and the Army Corps Pilot''] by Harold E Porter ("Holworthy Hall") formerly Captain Air Service, United States Army. 1921 Archive.org:More about Balloonists::[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofoldball0000hodg/mode/2up ''Memoirs of an old Balloonatic''] by Goderic Hodges 1972 Archive.org Books to Borrow;:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=eFJ-AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA73 "Flight Sergeant Bernard Oliver"] pages 73-82 ''Voices in Flight: Conversations with Air Veterans of the Great War'' by Anna Malinovska and Mauriel Joslyn 2006. Google Books Limited View. Also see further below in this section for the entire book. Oliver also produced an 1975 album/booklet ''Looking back sixty years. Memoirs ... Three years' service in Ieper, Ypres, Salient in balloons of the Royal Flying Corps'' by Bernard Oliver 1975 (Details<ref>[https://suitcaseofmemoriessite.wordpress.com/part-one-the-oliver-and-hawkes-families-of-kent-england/uncle-bernard/ "Uncle Bernard and WW1 kite balloons"] ''Suitcase of memories''.</ref>), available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002704754.: ''The Balloonatics'' by Alan Morris 1970. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002554345*[https://archive.org/details/warbirdsdiaryofu00unse/page/n9 ''War Birds : Diary of an Unknown Aviator''] Illustrated by Clayton Knight. 1926 Archive.org. The author was Elliott White Springs who edited a short diary by "Unknown Aviator" John MacGavock Grider, and wrote the rest of the content.<ref>Dan_San_Abbott. [http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=948 War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator] ''The Aerodrome Forum'' 20 July 2002. Retrieved 27 May 2019.</ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_White_Springs Elliott White Springs] Wikipedia. They were both part of a group of Americans who trained in Britain, and joined the Royal Flying Corps.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527721/page/n195 Page 174] ''A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War'' with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929. . Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell. The author transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]], above. *[https://archive.org/details/fightsandflights/page/n9/mode/2up ''Fights and Flights''] "Part I Armoured Cars (August –November 1914)" and "Part II The "Iron Coast" (November 1914-February 1915)" by Air-Commodore Charles Rumney Samson 1930. Royal Naval Air Service. Archive.org.*[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.* ''Winged Victory'' by V M Yates published 1934 was in fictional form, but based very largely on the author’s experiences as a fighter pilot. He joined 46 Squadron in February 1918, then 80 Sqn. See [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]] below. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Maslin_Yeates Victor Maslin Yeates] Wikipedia. A biography ''Winged Victor'' by Gordon Atkin 2004 (available at The British Library UIN: BLL01012980540) established that ''Winged Victory'' was largely autobiographical.*[https://archive.org/details/sagittariusrisin0000lewi/mode/2up ''Sagittarius Rising''] by Cecil Lewis 2003, originally published 1936. He arrived in France as a pilot with the RFC in March 1916, age 17. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278559 ''Air Power And Armies''] by Wing Commander J C Slessor 1936 Archive.org, mirror from the Digital Library of India. Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Staff College Camberley between 1931 and 1934. Includes WW1 content.*[https://archive.org/details/noparachutefight00leea/page/n7 ''No Parachute: a Fighter Pilot in World War I. Letters written in 1917 by Lieutenant A. S. G. Lee, Sherwood Forresters, attached Royal Flying Corps''] by Arthur Stanley Gould Lee 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Lee was a pilot in No 46 Fighter Squadron, RFC. He was also the author of ''Open Cockpit : a pilot of the Royal Flying Corps'' 1969, [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Open_Cockpit.html?id=wXbzAAAAMAAJ Searchable, but not viewable Google Books] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lee_(RAF_officer) Arthur Lee (RAF officer)] Wikipedia. He continued in the RAF until retiring in 1946 as an Air Vice Marshal.*[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 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/billybishopvc0000math airaces0000shor/mode/2up ''Billy Bishop, VCAir Aces''] by William D Mathieson 1989 Christopher Shores 1983. [https://archive.org/details/airaces0000shor_d5v1/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes "Chapter 1 World War 1: The Flying Circus".*[https://archive.org/details/inteethofwindsto00squa Coningham/mode/2up ''In the teeth of the wind Coningham: the story of a naval pilot on the Western FrontA Biography Of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, DFC, 1916-1918AFC''] by Squadron Leader CPO Bartlett 1994Vincent 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. Additional front cover title *[https://archive.org/details/usairserviceingr0000cook/page/n5/mode/2up ''Memoir of the Royal Naval The U.S. Air Servicein the Great War, 1917-1919''] by James J Cooke 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow.
*[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/voicesinflightco0000mali/page/n5/mode/2up ''Voices in Flight. Conversations with Air Veterans of the Great War''] by Anna Malinovska and Mauriel P Joslyn 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow. Includes not just the pilots but ground crew and others closely associated with pioneering [aerial] combat.*[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/noemptychairssho0000mack ''No Empty Chairs : the short and heroic lives of the young aviators who fought and died in the First World War''] by Ian Mackersey 2012. Archive.org Books to Borrow/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".*[https://archive.org/details/medicalproblemso00mediuoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The medical problems of flying, including reports nos. 1-7 of the Air Medical Investigation Committee''] Report 53 of the Medical Research Council (Great Britain) HMSO 1920 Archive.org*Also see [[Western Front#Collected stories|Collected stories]] above, and [[Western Front#Prisoners of War|Prisoners of War]] and [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]], below.
====Army Service Corpsand others====
*[https://archive.org/details/frommonstoloosbe00stewuoft ''From Mons to Loos : being the Diary of a Supply Officer''] by Major Herbert A Stewart Army Service Corps 1916 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/lofclinesofcommu00agatrich ''L. of C. (Lines of Communication): being the Letters of a Temporary Officer in the Army Service Corps''] by Captain James E Agate 1917 Archive.org.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b283017?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''On the road from Mons with an Army Service Corps Train''] by its commander (Capt. A. Clifton-Shelton, A.S.C.) 2nd edition 1917, first published 1916. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/roadmons/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org version].*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46283 ''The Motor-Bus in War: Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half
Years at the Front''] by A. M. Beatson (Temp. Lieut. A.S.C.) 1918 Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/motorbuswar/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org version]. The author was an Army Service Corps officer in the Mechanical Transport Supply Column of an Indian Cavalry Division. Elsewhere, the ASC company is recorded as being the 1st Indian Cavalry Division Supply Column which was 89 Coy ASC.<ref>Larkin, Roy. [http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?48009-The-Motor-Bus-in-War-A-M-Beatson-1918&p=434811#post434811 The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918] ''Historic Military Vehicle Forum'' 8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.</ref>*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersofpubl00jone/page/n7/mode/2up ''War Letters of a Public-School Boy''] by Paul Jones 1918. Archive.org. He was killed in action 31 July 1917 when a Lieutenant in the Tank Corps, but prior to February 1917 was in the Army Service Corps, performing duties such as Brigade Supply Officer, Brigade Requisitioning Officer and Divisional Forage Purchasing Officer for a Cavalry Brigade and Division.*[https://archive.org/details/truckingtotrench00kautrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Trucking to the Trenches; Letters from France, June-November 1917''] by John Iden Kautz 1918 Archive.org. An American, he volunteered with a group of American University volunteers to drive ambulances, but drove instead munition transport trucks, officially part of the French Army. The service was eventually taken over by the American Army, and he transferred to the Quartermaster Corps (transport division). This book also appears on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200122162718/http://www.ourstory.info/library/catalog.html American Field Service/Library] website, now archived, under the heading "Réserve Mallet truck transport units", [https://web.archive.org/web/20081201233711/http://www.ourstory.info/2/c/Mallet.html more details], archived.:''History of the American Field Service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917,'' told by its members. With illustrations. [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica03unse/page/n9/mode/2up ''Vol. III''] Contains “The Camion Section” Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/camionlettersfro00samp/page/n9/mode/2up ''Camion letters from American college men. Volunteer Drivers of the American Field Service in France 1917''], edited by Martin W Sampson, 1918. Archive.org. Most of the letters are from Cornell men.:[https://archive.org/details/astopatsuzannes00clovgoog/page/n7/mode/2up ''A Stop at Suzanne's: And Lower Flights''] by Greayer Clover 1919. Archive.org. Note poor quality scanning and missing pages at least 24-43, but see [https://web.archive.org/web/20160401162026/http://www.ourstory.info/library/2-ww1/Clover/SuzanneTC.html Transcribed version], (ourstory.info, now archived). Includes Clover's time as a Camion driver. He subsequently joined the aviation service (AEF) and died in a flying accident 30 August 1918.
====Artillery====
*[https://archive.org/details/royalregimentofa00beck/mode/2up ''The Royal Regiment of Artillery at Le Cateau, 26th August, 1914''] by Major A F Becke, late RFA 1919 Archive.org. The book also includes an additional article on Le Cateau by Brig.-General C De Sausmarez.
*[https://archive.org/details/retreatfrommon00corb/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Retreat from Mons by one who shared in it''] by A Corbett-Smith, Major RFA. 1916 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/marneaftercompan00corb/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Marne - and After, a companion volume to "The Retreat from Mons"''] by A Corbett-Smith, Major RFA. 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withguns00foof ''With the Guns''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/makingofgunner00streiala ''The Making of a Gunner''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
:Subsequent career [http://www.bloodysunday.co.uk/castle-propaganda/irish-off-london/street/street-cecil.html Capt. Cecil John Charles Street] bloodysunday.co.uk.
*[https://archive.org/details/batteryflashes00longrich ''Battery Flashes''] by "Wagger" [Cecil W Longley] 1916 Archive.org. He was an artillery signaller, (who subsequently became an officer) and is considered to have been in the 2nd Gloucester Battery of 1st South Midland Brigade RFA (240 Bde).<ref>Porter, David. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/230364-was-wagger-a-real-gunner/?do=findComment&comment=2293112 was "wagger" a real gunner?] ''Great War Forum'' 7 August , 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/my75reminiscence00lintrich ''My .75 : reminiscences of a French gunner of a .75mm battery in 1914''] by Paul Lintier, translated 1917 from the original French ''Ma Pièce. Souvenirs d'un canonnier, 1914. (Avec une batterie de 75.)'' published 1916. Archive.org. A book in the series ''Soldiers' Tales of the Great War''.
*[https://archive.org/details/servantsofguns00mars ''Servants of the Guns''] by Jeffrey E Jeffery [catalogued pseudonym of Jeffrey E Marston] 1917 Archive.org. Most of the soldiers in the Battery were Welsh. The author became a Prisoner of War.
*[https://archive.org/details/carryonlettersin00daws ''Carry On: Letters In War-Time''] by Coningsby Dawson, Canadian Field Artillery. 1917 Archive.org. Letters dated July 16, 1916, to February 6, 1917. The author was a Canadian novelist . Also published under the title ''Khaki Courage: Letters In War-Time''
:[https://archive.org/details/gloryoftrenchesi01daws ''The Glory Of The Trenches: An Interpretation''] by Coningsby Dawson 1917 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/livingbayonetsre1919daws ''Living Bayonets: a Record of the Last Push''] by Coningsby Dawson 1919 Archive.org. Letters from April 14, 1917 to October 6, 1918.
:[https://archive.org/details/testofscarletrom00dawsiala ''The Test of Scarlet, a Romance of Reality''] by Coningsby Dawson 1919 Archive.org. A 2011 edition was published under the title ''The Test of Scarlet: Experiences of an Artillery Officer During the First World War''.
*[https://archive.org/details/breakingofstorm00brow ''The Breaking of the Storm''] by Captain C A L Brownlow RFA 1918 Archive.org. He was in a Brigade Ammunition Column, believed to be 3rd Division.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1895&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Letters of a Headmaster Soldier''] Letters of Harry Sackville Lawson, [Lieutenant RFA] 1918. 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/leavesfromoffice00craw ''Leaves from an Officer's Notebook''] by Eliot Crawshay-Williams 1918 Archive.org. The author was in a Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force). Also includes service in Egypt.
*[https://archive.org/details/collegemaninkhak00merr/page/n7 ''A College Man in Khaki. Letters of an American in the British Artillery''] by Wainwright Merrill 1918 Archive.org. He enlisted as Arthur A Stanley as a gunner in the Canadian Field Artillery, and was killed in November 6, 1917 at Ypres.
*[https://archive.org/details/pushedreturnpush00nich ''Pushed and the Return Push''] by Quex [G H Nichols, RFA] 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/yearsinfrance00roseuoft ''Three Years in France with the Guns : being episodes in the life of a Field Battery''] by C A Rose, late of the Royal Field Artillery. 1919 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19814 Gutenberg.org version] where photographs may be easier to view.
*[https://archive.org/details/boywithguns00tayl/page/n8 ''The Boy with the Guns''] by the late Lieut. George W Taylor, Royal Field Artillery, 1919. Archive.org. A book in the ''On Active Service'' series. Western Front and [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Serbia]].
*[https://archive.org/details/greywave00gibbrich/page/iii ''The Grey Wave''] by Major A. Hamilton Gibbs 1920. American title [https://archive.org/details/gunfodderdiaryof00gibb/page/n9 ''Gun fodder; the diary of four years of war''] 1919. Both Archive.org. He was on the Western Front in two roles, initially as a trooper, 9th Lancers, and latterly as an officer, later Battery Commander, Royal Field Artillery from [https://archive.org/details/greywave00gibbrich/page/122 page 123]. In between he was with 67 Artillery Brigade, in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt]] and [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Hamilton_Gibbs A. Hamilton Gibbs] (Wikipedia), novelist.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromsommetorhine00ashm/page/n5 ''From the Somme to the Rhine''] by S Ashmead-Bartlett. Dust jacket/book cover has additional wording ''An Intelligence Officer's narrative of the last phase of the Great War'' <ref>Dust Jacket Collector. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/211418-on-active-service-series/?do=findComment&comment=2825244 On Active Service Series] ''Great War Forum'' 27 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.</ref> . [1921] Archive.org. A book in the ''On Active Service'' series. Elsewhere it is stated he was Major Herbert Seabury Hunt Ashmead-Bartlett (known as Seabury) 173 Infantry Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. The author’s war diary for [http://www.phelps-ancestry.co.uk/ancestry/herbert-seabury-hunt-ashmead-bartlett/war-diary-1915/ The Battle of Ypres May 1915]. He appears to be a brother of Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the war correspondent, and had himself briefly worked as a journalist. In 1922, as a condition for an inheritance, he changed his surname to Burdett-Coutts.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirofltcoledw00steeiala ''A Memoir of Lt.-Col. Edward Anthony Steel, RHA and RFA, 1880-1919 : consisting chiefly of his letters and diaries with numerous illustrations''] 1921 Archive.org. During WW1 he was on the Western Front with 35th Battery, briefly in Mesopotamia late 1918/early 1919, and finally posted to Vladivostok with the British Military Mission to Siberia, where he died 17 October 1919 in Omsk, of influenza.
*[https://archive.org/details/fieldgunsfrance/page/n11/mode/2up ''Field Guns in France''] by Lieut.-Col. Neil Fraser-Tytler RA (TA) 1922. Archive.org
*[http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph011568508 ''The War Diary of the Master of Belhaven, 1914-1918''] by Ralph GA Hamilton 1924. University of Oxford Digital Collection. Alternative [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/503077282.pdf direct pdf link], same website. Diary of the Hon. Ralph Gerard Alexander Hamilton, Master of Belhaven. Served as an interpreter with the Expeditionary Force in 1914 until wounded, returned to France in September 1915 as O/C “C” Bty., 108 Bde. Royal Field Artillery, 24th Div. Later rose to command the brigade. Killed in action 31st March 1918.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n149/mode/2up WW1 period] page 139 ''Clouds That Flee'' by Colonel Montague Cooke 1935. Archive.org. Born 1877, a career soldier, Cooke was in France two periods 1914-1916 and 1918, initially with the 5th Royal Horse Artillery Artillery Brigade as a Battery Commander.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209654/page/n249 WW1 period] page 241 ''Sword And Stirrup'' by Hervey De Montmorency 1936 Archive.org. Initially the author commanded D Battery, 75th Brigade Royal Field Artillery. After the war he worked as an Intelligence Officer in Ireland.
*[https://archive.org/details/blastingbombardi0000unse/page/n3/mode/2up ''Blasting & Bombardiering''] by Wyndham Lewis 1937. [https://archive.org/details/blastingbombardi0000lewi/page/n5/mode/2up 1967 reprint] Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis Wyndham Lewis] Wikipedia. Writer and artist. He served as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, with much of his time spent in Forward Observation Posts.
*[https://archive.org/details/momentsofmemoryr011518mbp/page/n9 ''Moments of Memory: Recollections and Impressions''] by Herbert Asquith 1938. Archive.org. The author was the son of H H Asquith who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the commencement of the war until December 1916, and an officer in the Royal Marine Artillery. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Asquith_(poet) Herbert Asquith (poet)]
*[https://archive.org/details/ebbflowofbattle0000camp/mode/2up ''The Ebb and Flow of Battle''] by P. J. Campbell (Patrick James) 1977. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He also wrote [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000694479 ''In the Cannon's Mouth''] by P. J. Campbell 1979 (146 pages), searchable but not viewable at HathiTrust Digital Library. There was also an edition with the latter title published containing both volumes (317 pages), published 1986.
*[https://archive.org/details/timetoleaveploug0000carr/mode/2up ''A Time to Leave the Ploughshares : a Gunner Remembers, 1917-18''] by William Carr 1985. He was a subaltern in the 169 Army Brigade Royal Field Artillery who arrived in France c May 1917 and was posted to 377 Battery. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/canadiansroadtor0000tomp/page/n7 ''A Canadian's Road to Russia : Letters from the Great War Decade''] by Stuart Ramsay Tompkins 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He was initially in France with Calgary’s 31st Battalion, Canadian Second Division, (infantry) then transferred to the 6th Canadian Brigade Trench Mortar Battery. He subsequently joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Siberia, arriving in Vladivostok January 1919. He later became a university professor specialising in Russian history.
*[https://archive.org/details/familyatwarfolja0000unse ''Family at war : the Foljambe family and the Great War''] by Jolyon Jackson 2010. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Francis Foljambe had been commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1912. While in France he transferred to the Royal Horse Artillery.
*[https://archive.org/details/amateurgunnersgr0000thor/mode/2up ''Amateur Gunners : the Great War adventures, letters and observations of Alexander Douglas Thorburn''] edited by Ian Ronayne 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Revised, expanded edition of [https://archive.org/details/amateurgunners/page/n5/mode/2up ''Amateur Gunners''] published 1933, additional title ''Recording some of the exploits of the 2/22nd County of London Howitzer Battery RFA on active service.'' Archive.org. Western Front, [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]], [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Palestine]].
*The Royal Marine Artillery was part of the Royal Marines. For chapters in a history, see [[Western Front#Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general|Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general, above]].
*[https://archive.org/details/navalgunsinflanders/page/n9/mode/2up ''Naval Guns in Flanders 1914-1915''] by L. F. R. (Lt. Lionel F Robinson RN) 1920 Archive.org. In October 1914 the author, a naval Gunnery Officer, was ordered to Belgium to command a unit of naval guns on railway mountings, HM Armoured Train 'Jellicoe', one of three armoured trains in operation until the spring of 1915. This unusual unit moved around Flanders giving invaluable artillery support. The trains were under the command of the RNAS.
*Also see In The Air, below, for letters of George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., attached R.F.C.
*Also see German Army below, for ''With the German guns : four years on the Western front, 1914-1918'' by Herbert Sulzbach
*Also see Fiction below for sketches written by Boyd Cable, the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, an officer in the Royal Artillery.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22Journal+of+the+United+States+Artillery%22&sort=date ''Journal of the United States Artillery''] by Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia USA. Archive.org. Multiple volumes from 1892 to 1922. The title then changed to
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22The+Coast+Artillery+Journal%22&sort=date ''The Coast Artillery Journal''] Archive.org. Multiple volumes from 1922 to 1949.
*Volumes, from 1911, of ''The Field Artillery Journal'' published by The United States Field Artillery Association, are available on the webpage [https://sill-www.army.mil/fires-bulletin-archive/ Fires Bulletin Archive] published by the US Army Field Artillery. sill-www.army.mil Fort Sill, Oklahoma USA.
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Field+Artillery+Journal%22%29&sort=date ''Field Artillery Journal''] Collection of digitised microfilm from 1911 at Archive.org.
:*[https://archive.org/details/sim_field-artillery_october-december-1915_5_4/page/659/mode/2up "Our Baptism of Fire"] by Major A Seeger, Commanding the Horse Artillery Battalion, 15th Field Artillery, German Army, translated by First Lieut. Edmund L Gruber. ''The Field Artillery Journal'' October-December 1915: Vol 5 Iss 4, page 659 Archive.org
*[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, restricted regions access only, or searchable, but not viewable. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102644358 ''Salute of Guns''] by Donald Boyd 1930 - [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gbXNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT4 Sample pages Google Books] for a reprint edition, [https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=UCBK:C038622831 Google Books 1930 edition, searchable]. Boyd was a professional journalist prior to the war.
====Cavalry====
*''A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919 [https://archive.org/details/historyofbritish0000angl_f3h2/mode/2up Volume 7 The Curragh Incident and the Western Front, 1914''] by The Marquess of Anglesey 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. In the same series by the same author ''Volume 8 The Western Front 1915-1918. Epilogue 1919-1939'' pub. 1997 - [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BtqXAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover Sample pages] Google Books.
*[http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9145/4776 "The Cavalry Action at Moy, France on August 26th, 1914"] [5th Cavalry Brigade] by W J Cranston from page 13, ''Royal Scots Greys' Association Report, 1947'' . ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk.
*[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/alarmsexcursions0000brid/page/72/mode/2up "Chapter IV The war - Mons and the Retreat"] Page 71 ''Alarms & Excursions : Reminiscences of a Soldier'' by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Tom Bridges. 1938 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He was a Major in the 4th Dragoon Guards, 2nd Cavalry Brigade, and was fighting the Germans from 22 August 1914. His forceful action at St.Quentin a few days later resulted in the court-marshal and cashiering of two colonels. (This latter incident is the subject of the book ''August 1914 : surrender at St Quentin'' by John Hutton 2010. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01015573057. Also described in [http://www.dublin-fusiliers.com/battaliions/2-batt/campaigns/1914-retreat-mons.html "The Retreat from Mons with 2nd Battalion RDF"] dublin-fusiliers.com)
*[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/infield19141915i00duporich ''In the field (1914-1915); The impressions of an officer of light cavalry''] by Marcel Dupont, translated by H W Hill Archive.org 1916. Book No. 3 in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War''. [https://archive.org/details/inthefield_fnh_librivox Libribox audio version] Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/encampagne19141900dupouoft French edition] Archive.org. [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Dupont_(historien) Marcel Dupont (historien)] (Wikipedia, French language). Pseudonym of Marcel Ernest Béchu, 7e Chasseurs à Cheval (7th Cavalry Chasseurs).
*[https://archive.org/details/fightinghunfrom00jonegoog ''Fighting the Hun from Saddle and Trench''] by Sergt. Major William R Jones, Royal Canadian Dragoons 1918 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofworldwari0000home/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Diary of a World War I Cavalry Officer''] by Brigadier General Sir Archibald Home, edited by Diana Briscoe 1985. Archive.org Texts to Borrow
*''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 Londonfrom 1906. [https://catalog.hathitrustarchive.org/Record/012177767 A], [https://catalogsearch.hathitrustphp?query=%28%22+Royal+United+Service+Institution%22%29+AND+title%3A%28The+Cavalry+Journal%29&sort=date ''The Cavalry Journal'' at Archive.org/Record/010324628 B] from Hathi Trust. Restricted access -USA and equivalent access only Volume 1, 1906 to Volume 1232 1942. There were no editions 1915-1919, 1922however editions in subsequent years contain articles about the WW1 period. [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=2764 Selected/partial 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 [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)====
*''Messages from Mars : a Chaplain's Experiences at the Front'' by T. L. B. Westerdale (T. L. Barlow) 1917. [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER890308 Catalogue link], [http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/89208 Direct link] State Library of Victoria. [https://archive.org/details/messagesmars Archive.org version]. He was a Methodist Chaplain with 1/4th K. O. R. L [King’s Own (Royal Lancaster)]. He also wrote the earlier book [https://archive.org/details/underredcrossflag/page/n3/mode/2up ''Under the Red Cross Flag; with the 'medicals' in action''] by T.L. Barlow Westerdale [1915] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/crossatfrontfrag01tipl ''The Cross at the Front; Fragments from the Trenches''] by Thomas Tiplady, Chaplain to the Forces. 1917 Archive.org. Also published under the title ''The Kitten in the Crater''. He was a Chaplain in the 56th Division of London Territorials.
:[https://archive.org/details/soulofsoldierske01tipl ''The Soul of the Soldier; Sketches from the Western Battle-Front''] by Thomas Tiplady, Chaplain to the Forces. 1918 Archive.org. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/soulofsoldierske01tipl#page/130 "Chapter XI “Missing”"] page 130, which explains when this classification was used.
*[https://archive.org/details/lettersofcreight00creiuoft/page/160 "France"] page 160 ''Letters of Oswin Creighton, C.F., 1883-1918'' edited by Louise Creighton 1920 Archive.org
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz40746705X ''Letters of an Army Chaplain''] by William Duncan Geare 1918. Classified by IWM as Royal Army Chaplains Department, Liverpool Regt., Bn. 7, Liverpool Regt., Bn. 9. Digital Collection Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. English text, German website. For download, select "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". To read online, select "DFG-Viewer".
*[https://archive.org/details/padreinfrance00birm ''A Padre in France''] by George Birmingham, the pseudonym for James Owen Hannay, c 1919. Archive.org. He was appointed to the Chaplains Department, British Army
*[https://archive.org/details/johnayscoughslet01aysc/page/n7/mode/2up ''John Ayscough's letters to his mother during 1914, 1915, and 1916''] 1919 Archive.org. The Roman Catholic priest Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew wrote novels under the name John Ayscough. Initially during the war he was an Army Chaplain attached to 15 Field Ambulance, subsequently he was on garrison and hospital duty at Dieppe and Versailles.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromcloistertoca00deva/page/n7 ''From Cloister to Camp : being reminiscences of a priest in France, 1915-1918''] by Fr Dominic Devas OFM. 1919 Archive.org. He was a Franciscan and RC Chaplain , British Army. He was initially attached to the 1/1 South Midland Field Ambulance
====Despatch Riders====
*''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''. ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' Nos 197 and 198, May 1915 - September 1915. [https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi197edinuoft/page/576 Pages 577-612], [https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi197edinuoft/page/842 pages 842- 859], [https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft/page/112 pages 113-138], [https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft/page/246 pages 247-271], [https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft/page/388 pages 389-397] Archive.org:Later in 1915 published as [https://archive.org/details/advdespatchrider00watsuoft ''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''] by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated However, some of the text differs between that editions after the first published in ''Blackwood’s Magazine''.<ref>vintagesunbeam. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/209447-2-german-staff-cars-captured-by-2nd-bn-dwr-01091914/?do=findComment&comment=2822459 2 German Staff Cars Captured by 2nd Bn DWR 01/09/1914] ''Great War Forum'' 18 November 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2019.</ref> Also published in 1917 in an edition were heavily edited for censorship reasons, but as this edition . There was published a 2012 reprint with the title ''A Motorcycle Courier in 1915, it may be the original editionGreat War''.:Captain WHL Watson was also the author of ''Tales of a Gaspipe Officer'' by Despatch Rider. ‘Military cyclists are popularly known as Gaspipe Cavalry’ ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' Nos 198, 199 and 201, December 1915-March 1916, and January 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/794/mode/2up/ Page 795], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/76/mode/2up page 76], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/246/mode/2up page 246], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/360/mode/2up page 360], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi201edinuoft#page/44/mode/2up/ page 45]. Archive.org. There was a 2021 reprint with the title ''Tales of a Gaspipe Officer: With the Cyclists on the Western Front During the First World''.
*[https://archive.org/details/daredevilofarmye00aust ''The Daredevil of the Army : Experiences as a "Buzzer" and Despatch Rider''] by Captain A P Corcoran 1918 Archive.org
*[https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/documents/2422/war-on-two-wheels-a-diary-of-overseas-service-british-expeditionary-force-france-19151918-david-winder-small-royal-engineers-signals ''War On Two Wheels - A Diary Of Overseas Service British Expeditionary Force, France 1915-1918. David Winder Small - Royal Engineers Signals''] by Felicity Jane Laws 2nd edition 2011. Forces War Records, generally a pay website, but this digital file is accessible for free. (Located in Historical Documents Library/War Diaries). Small was a motor cycle despatch rider of the Royal Engineers Signal Service, in the Signals Company of the 20th (Light Division).
====Engineers====
*[https://archive.org/details/fightingbocheun00trou/page/n7/mode/2up ''Fighting the Boche Underground''] by H. D. Trounce, "formerly of the Royal British Engineers, now Captain of Engineers, USA". 1918 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46757 Gutenberg.org version], with photographs correctly rotated. The author, born in Britain, became a civil and mining engineer in the USA and had become a USA citizen. An account of his time in the Royal Engineers from late 1915 to July 1917.*[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/chemicalsoldiers0000rich/mode/2up ''Chemical Soldiers : British Gas Warfare in World War I''] by Donald Richter 1992. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The role of the British Special Brigade.*[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. He was an officer in 237th F. Coy R.E, born 1899.*''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/newspapersearch/advanced/category/resultnewspapers?sortby=dateAsc&qkeyword=%22MR+WOODWARD%20WOODWARD%27S+WAR+BOOK%20WAR%20BOOK%22 &sortBy=dateAsc&startPos=0 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 Military Books/Britain (scroll to Tu).*[https://archive.org/details/tunnelmasterarso0000brid/mode/2up ''Tunnel-master and Arsonist of the Great War. The Norton-Griffiths Story''] by Tony Bridgland and Anne Morgan 2003. Archive.org Books to Borrow. 171 Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers.*[https://archive.org/details/mysapperventure0000eber/page/76/mode/2up ''My Sapper Venture''] by Lieut-Colonel V F Eberle 1973 Archive.org Books to Borrow. He was involved with some development of the "Bangalore Torpedo", see Chapter 11, page 76.*[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.*See [[Western Front#Despatch Riders|Despatch Riders]] above, for the story of David Winder Small, a Despatch Rider in the Royal Engineers Signals Service.
====Infantry and others====
*[https://archive.org/details/firsthundredthou00hayiuoft ''The First Hundred Thousand, being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K(1)"''] by Ian Hay (actual name [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hay_Beith John Hay Beith] Wikipedia) 1915. [https://archive.org/details/firsthundredthou00hayirich American Edition with Publisher’s Note] advises the author was with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/carryingonafterf00hayi ''Carrying on - After the First Hundred Thousand''] by Ian Hay 1917 Archive.org. Also published under the title ''All in It : K(1) Carries On: A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand''.
:[https://archive.org/details/lastmillionhowth00hay/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Last Million; how they invaded France - and England''] by Ian Hay 1919. Archive.org. Some editions were published under the title ''The Last Million''.
*[https://archive.org/details/lettersfromfland00gilluoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''Letters from Flanders, written by 2nd Lieut. A. D. Gillespie, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, to his home people''] [by Alexander Douglas Gillespie] 2nd edition 1916. Archive.org. He was killed in action 25 September 1915. Also contains one letter from his brother Tom, [[25th Regiment of Foot|K.O.S.B]], killed in action 18 October 1914.
*[https://archive.org/details/contemptible00casu ''"Contemptible"''] by "Casualty", a Subaltern. 1916 Archive.org. Book 6, or 7 (numbers seen can vary) in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War''. The IWM website catalogues him as Arnold Alfred Ernest Gyde, 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment.
*''The Red Horizon'' by Patrick MacGill 1916. [https://archive.org/details/redhorizonbypatr00macg/page/n11 London edition], [https://archive.org/details/redhorizon00macgiala/page/n5 USA edition] The initial chapters differ, although the chapter title is the same. The author served with the London Irish Rifles, Rifleman No. 3008. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_MacGill Patrick MacGill] (Wikipedia) Irish journalist, poet and novelist.
:An earlier book: [https://archive.org/details/amateurarmy00macg ''The Amateur Army''] by Patrick MacGill 1915 Archive.org. Initial training in the UK.
:[https://archive.org/details/greatpush00macg ''The Great Push : an Episode of the Great War''] by Patrick MacGill, 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/greatpushepisode0000macg_l2u4/mode/2up 2000 reprint edition] with "Introduction" by Brian D Osborne. Archive.org Books to Borrow.
*[https://archive.org/details/leavesfromfieldn00morguoft ''Leaves from a Field Note-Book''] by J. H. Morgan Late Home Office Commissioner with the British Expeditionary Force 1916 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._H._Morgan J. H. Morgan] Wikipedia
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924013648203 ''Gentlemen At Arms''] by "Centurion" a Captain in the British Army who has served in France [J H Morgan] 1918 Archive.org. Stated elsewhere to be Volume 13 in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War.'' <ref>[http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page48.html Page from Great War Dust Jackets] Scroll down.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/temporaryheroes00somm ''Temporary Heroes''] by Cecil Sommers [Norman Cecil Sommers Down] 1917. Archive.orgdli. With illustrations by the authorgranth. He was a Lieutenant, 191167/4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders. Letters from February 22, 1915 to July 27, 1916. For another book see [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)]]*[https:page/n5/archive.org/detailsmode/contemptible00casu 2up ''"Contemptible"''] by "Casualty"Student and Sniper-Sergeant, a Subaltern. 1916 Archive.org. Book 6, or 7 (numbers seen can vary) in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales Memoir of the Great War''J. The IWM website catalogues him as Arnold Alfred Ernest Gyde, 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire RegimentK.*[https://archive.org/details/onrightofbritish01nobb ''On the Right of the British LineForbes''] by Captain Gilbert Nobbs (late LWilliam Taylor and Peter Diack.R. B.) [London Rifle Brigade] 1917 1916 Archive.org. Some editions are titled ''Englishman, Kamerad! Right of the British Line''Granth Sanjeevani Collection. The author Forbes was blinded in battle, and became a POW. [https://qormuseum.org/soldiers-of-the-queens-own/nobbs-henry-gilbert/ Biographical details] qormuseum.org*[https://archive.org/details/mudkhakisketches00bartiala ''Mud 4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders and Khaki, Sketches from Flanders and France''] by Vernon Bartlett 1917 Archive.org. Some of these sketches had appeared killed in the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. The author subsequently became a journalist and politician. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Bartlett Vernon Bartlett] Wikipedia. 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>*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz409536733 ''The Immortal First: a Private Soldier's Diary of his Experiences with the Original B.E.F., France''] by F Gaunt 1917. Ex Private 4th Royal Fusiliers. Digital Collection Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. English text, German website. For download, select "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". To read online, select "DFG-Viewer". Also available [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER208704 State Library of Victoria]action 25 September 1915.*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027894751 ''Bullets & Billets''] by Bruce Bairnsfather 2nd edition 1917 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11232 Gutenberg.org edition], with cartoons collected at the front of the file. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bairnsfather Bruce Bairnsfather] Wikipedia. He was an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who became very well known for his cartoons.His character "Old Bill" is stated to be based on Lance Corporal Thomas Henry Rafferty 7840, 1st Battalion.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210806233827/http://www.thomasrafferty.org.uk/?page_id=84 "Thomas Henry Rafferty, (my great uncle)"] died at Ypres 25th April 1915. thomasrafferty.org.uk</ref>
:[https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-025 ''Fragments from France''] by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather 1917 Archive.org. A collection of cartoons. Published in 1916 (2nd edition) as ''The Bystander's Fragments from France''. [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.Fragments1 ''Vol. I''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV2 ''More Fragments from France
Vol. II''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV3 ''Still more Fragments from France
Vol. III''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV4 ''Fragments from France
Vol. IV''] University of Wisconsin Digital Collections; [https://archive.org/details/morefragmentsfro00bair ''More Fragments from France Parts V-VIII''] c 1918 Archive.org.
:''From Mud to Mufti'' by Bruce Bairnsfather 1919 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairrich American edition, with American Preface], [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairuoft London edition].
*[https://archive.org/details/adventuresofensi00will lettersofhenrywe00farn/page/92/mode/2up ''The Adventures Letters of Henry Weston Farnsworth, of the Foreign Legion''] 1916 Archive.org. Page 92, Farnsworth, an American joined the French Foreign Legion in France in January 1915 and was killed in action 28 September 1915.:[https://archive.org/details/lm8046intimatest00davi ''"L. M. 8046" : an Ensignintimate story of the Foreign Legion''] by Vedette 1917 David Wooster King 1927 Archive.org . An American, he joined the French Foreign Legion in August 1914, based in France, "transferred to the French Army October 1915, and subsequently transferred to the American Army, including an Intelligence role. [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6s200542/entire_text/ Some biographical details] oac.cdlib.org, and [http://www.monongahelabooks.com/kingdw.html more].:[https://archive.org/details/americanfighters00paul ''American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918''] by Paul Ayres Rockwell 1930 Archive.org.:[http://www.booksandwriters.co.uk/F/books-about-the-french-foreign-legion.html List of Books about the autobiographyFrench Foreign Legion], thinly disguised as including some titles of fiction /adventure stories. booksandwriters.co.uk*[https://archive.org/details/mudkhakisketches00bartiala ''Mud and very cleverly writtenKhaki, Sketches from Flanders and France''] by Vernon Bartlett 1917 Archive.org. Some of these sketches had appeared in the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. The author subsequently became a journalist and politician. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Bartlett Vernon Bartlett] Wikipedia. *[https://archive.org/details/withreservistinf00bolwrich/page/n7/mode/2up ''With a subaltern who joined Reservist in France; a personal account of all the Guards engagements in France just before which the 1st division 1st corps took part, viz; Mons (including the retirement), the Marne, the Aisne, first battle of the SommeYpes, Neuve Chapelle, Festubert, and Loos''] by F A Bolwell [1917] Archive.org. The author was in which he was wounded1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.*[https://archive.org/details/twentytwomonthsu00crof ''Twenty-two Months Under Fire''] by Henry Page Croft 1917 Archive.org. The best chapters recount author belonged to 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, a Territorial Regiment.*[https://archive.org/details/oneyoungmansimpl01hodd/page/n5 ''One Young Man; the magnificent advance simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the Guards towards Lesboeufs on September 15thWestern Front for nearly two years, 1916was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, the first day and is now on his way back to his desk''] edited by J E Hodder-Williams 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/oneyoungman00willuoft/page/n5 Later edition] Archive.org which advises the tanks were used."young man was Reginald Davis, thought to be in D Company, 1/9th London Regiment (QVR (Queen Victoria's Rifles))<ref>bmac. [httphttps://archivewww.greatwarforum.org/topic/44221-book-one-young-man-sidney-baxter-reginald-davis/?do=findComment&comment=371090 Book 'ONE YOUNG MAN': Sidney Baxter / Reginald Davis] ''Great War Forum'' 2 January 2006.spectatorRetrieved 2 September 2019.co</ref>, a London territorial regiment.uk*[http:/article/29thdigital.wlb-december-1917stuttgart.de/14purl/books bsz409536733 ''The SpectatorImmortal First: a Private Soldier's Diary of his Experiences with the Original B.E.F., France'' 29 December ] by F Gaunt 1917. Ex Private 4th Royal Fusiliers. Digital Collection Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. English text, German website. For download, select "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". To read online, page 14select "DFG-Viewer". Also available [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER208704 State Library of Victoria].*[https://archive.org/details/onrightofbritish01nobb ''On the Right of the British Line''] by Captain Gilbert Nobbs (late L.R. B.) [London Rifle Brigade]<1917 Archive.org. Some editions are titled ''Englishman, Kamerad! Right of the British Line''. The author was blinded in battle, and became a POW. [https://qormuseum.org/soldiers-of-the-queens-own/nobbs-henry-gilbert/ref>Biographical details] qormuseum.org
*[https://archive.org/details/trenchpicturesfr00redm ''Trench Pictures from France''] by Major William Redmond, MP [Member of Parliament], killed in action June 1917. [1917] Archive.org. The articles which make up the bulk of the book were originally contributed to the ''Daily Chronicle'' under a pseudonym. He joined the Royal Irish Division, Royal Irish Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/twentytwomonthsu00crof temporaryheroes00somm ''Twenty-two Months Under FireTemporary Heroes''] by Henry Page Croft Cecil Sommers [Norman Cecil Sommers Down] 1917 . Archive.org. With illustrations by the author. He was a Lieutenant, 1/4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders. Letters from February 22, 1915 to July 27, 1916. For another book see [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)]]*[https://archive.org/details/adventuresofensi00will ''The author belonged Adventures of an Ensign''] by Vedette 1917 Archive.org "...the autobiography, thinly disguised as fiction and very cleverly written, of a subaltern who joined the Guards in France just before the battle of the Somme, in which he was wounded... The best chapters recount the magnificent advance of the Guards towards Lesboeufs on September 15th, 1916, the first day on which the tanks were used."<ref>[http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/29th-december-1917/14/books ''The Spectator'' 29 December 1917, page 14.], which now requires a subscription.</ref>*[https://archive.org/details/letterstohiswife00vernrich/page/n8 ''Letters to his Wife''] by R E Vernède 1917 Archive.org. He was a novelist commissioned in 5th (SR) Bn. Rifle Brigade, attd. 3rd Bn. in France 1915-16; wounded on the Somme; then with 12th (Service) Bn. 1917 & DoW post-Arras, 9/4/17.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191204220208/https://turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf Turner Donovan] December 2019, item 259</ref>*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_990873/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Note-book of an Intelligence Officer''] by 1st BattalionEric 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], Hertfordshire Regiment up until 9 April 1917, when he was wounded at the Battle of Arras. Some of the book is of a Territorial Regimentmore 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/andrewrbuxtonrif00buxt/page/n7/mode/2up ''Andrew R Buxton The Rifle Brigade. A Memoir''] edited by Edward S Woods 1918 Archive.org. He was killed in action 7 June 1917.*[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://web.archive.org/web/20190505182225/https://www.londonscottishregt.org/index.php/en/museum/archival-research/ww1 The London Scottish Regiment, WW1] londonscottishregt.org, archived page.</ref>*[https://archive.org/details/bigfight00fall ''The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme'')] by Capt. David Fallon 1918 Archive.org. He served with the AIF (Australian Imperial Force) at Gallipoli , and subsequently became an officer with the [[43rd Regiment of Foot |Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]]. He also flew as a military observer ([https://archive.org/stream/bigfight00fall#page/130/mode/2up "Chapter XI", page 131]), and briefly commanded a tank ([https://archive.org/stream/bigfight00fall#page/144/mode/2up "Chapter XII", page 144]).'''Note''', at least part of the book appears to be untrue, and the book has been described as a farrago.<ref>delta, and johntanner [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/164606-aif-memoirs-letters-and-other-works-not-battalion-histories/?do=findComment&comment=3062939 AIF memoirs, letters and other works (not Battalion histories)] ''Great War Forum'' 5 November 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2021.</ref>
*''Keeling letters & recollections''. [Frederic Hillersdon Keeling [Ben]] Edited by E.T. [Townshend, Mrs. (Emily)] 1918. The war years start [https://archive.org/details/keelinglettersre00keeluoft/page/182 page 183]. Archive.org. A committed socialist, it appears he became a private, and later Sergeant-Major, in the 6th Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (although the text initially says Duke of York’s). [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/collected-writings-of-john-maynard-keynes/frederic-hillersdon-keeling/6534E545B637EE1D68312EAEDD94B9E6 Summary of a chapter] titled "Frederic Hillersdon Keeling" from ''The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes''. cambridge.org [http://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/archive/frederic-hillersdon-keeling/ Biographical details] winchestercollegeatwar.com
*[https://archive.org/details/ifwereturnletter00manwrich/page/n5 ''If We Return; : Letters of a Soldier of Kitchener's Army''] by G B Manwaring (pseudonym of Geoffrey Manwaring Brown)<ref name=TDJ/> 1918 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/overtherebackint01smit/page/n7 ''Over there and back in three uniforms, being the experiences of an American boy in the Canadian, British and American armies at the front and through No man's land''] by Joseph Shuter Smith 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofdeadoffic00westrich ''The Diary of a Dead Officer, being the posthumous papers of Arthur Graeme West''] c 1918. Archive.org. Includes Part V "Poems". [https://archive.org/details/diary_dead_officer_rg_librivox Librivox audio version]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Graeme_West Arthur Graeme West] Wikipedia. He joined as a private; in August 1916 he became a second lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. The contents were "chosen by the philosopher Cyril Joad who also wrote the preface … Joad was a pacifist and conscientious objector and uses his preface to promote his own notions about the futility of war. It has been alleged that Joad was highly selective regarding his choice of West’s writings".<ref>ilkley remembers. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/189986-great-war-autobiographies-anonymous/?do=findComment&comment=2745047 [Great War<nowiki>]</nowiki> Autobiographies Anonymous] ''Great War Forum'' 1 March 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2019.</ref>*''On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division'' published 1918. See [[Western Front#Medical Services including Veterinary|Medical Services]] above.
*''The Diary of a German Soldier'' by Feldwebel C… , published in French in 1918. See [[Western Front#German Army|German Army]] below.
*[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.
*[httphttps://digitalarchive.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungslisteorg/werksansichtdetails/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 cu31924027820442 ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three FrontsMons, Anzac and Kut''] Edited by his wifean MP [Aubrey Herbert] 1919 Archive.org. [https://en. 1919wikipedia. The letters of George org/wiki/Aubrey_Herbert Aubrey Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles]Wikipedia. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant was an officer in the London Irish Rifles in 1916Guards.*[https://archive. He was in Franceorg/details/scoutingthrills00mckerich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Scouting Thrills''] by Captain G B McKean, Macedonia and MaltaVC, Egypt and PalestineMC, where he diedMM 14th Battalion Canadian Infantry 1919 Archive. He was a well known Theosophistorg. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, StuttgartThe Battalion scouts were generally part of the Intelligence section, along with the library website in Germanobservers and snipers. Read online or download, Pages 8-9 state the latter book is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen"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/purl/bsz40749670X ''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". [https://archive.org/details/glimpsesgreatwar/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25528 ''Q. 6. A and Other Places: Recollections of 1916, 1917, and 1918''] by Francis Buckley 1920. Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/q6aandotherplaces00buckuoft Archive.org version]. Reprinted in 2015 with the title [https://archive.org/details/recollectionsofg0000buck/mode/2up ''Recollections of the Great War : three years on campaign in France and Flanders with the Northumberland Fusiliers''] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/ypresbest00floyuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''At Ypres with Best-Dunkley''] by Thomas Hope Floyd 1920. Archive.org. Part of the ''On Active Service Series''. The author was a Second-Lieutenant 2/5th Lancashire Fusiliers whose account commences 25 May 1917 and includes the Third Battle of Ypres (also known as the Battle of Passchendaele) 31 July 1917 where he was wounded and subsequently evacuated to England.
*[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.
*''The Storm of Steel'' by Ernst Jünger. First published in German 1920. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/> See [[Western Front#German Army|German Army]].
*[https://archive.org/details/howifilmedwarrec00malirich/page/n9 ''How I filmed the war; a record of the extraordinary experiences of the man who filmed the great Somme battles, etc.''] by Lieut Geoffrey H Malins 1920. Archive.org. For two years he was one of the official War Office Kinematographers, having previously done some free lance war work. [https://archive.org/details/how_filmed_war_rs_librivox ''How I Filmed the War'' LibriVox recording] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/galloperatypress00butlrichlettersfromliais00mitc/page/n7 3 ''Letters from a Liaison Officer 1918-1919''] by Clarence Van Schaick Mitchell, Captain, US Cavalry 1920 Archive.org. A Galloper volunteer ambulance driver in France 1914 who then completed a law degree at YpresHarvard, he was commissioned in August 1917 and some subsequent adventureswas assigned as a Liaison Officer on the staff of Gen. de Castelanau, French Army.*[https://archive.org/details/wardiaryofsquare00mgrich/page/48 Page 48] ''The War Diary of a Square Peg. With a Dictionary of War Words''] by Major and Bt- Lieut-Col Patrick Butler, The Royal Irish Maximilian A Mügge. 1920. Archive.org. Although the author was a Butler British citizen and had volunteered, as an "enemy alien Briton", he was ADC transferred to the General of the 7th Divisiona non-combatant corps (N C C ) where conscientious objectors were usually sent, with which he served in France for a few months late May-August 1916. The NCCs were not well regarded. He was soon transferred again to an Infantry Works Battalion in England which he calls "a political concentration camp".
*[https://archive.org/details/combedout00voiguoft ''Combed Out''] by F A Voigt 1920 Archive.org. The author subsequently became an influential journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Augustus_Voigt Frederick Augustus Voigt] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofg00fryerich/page/n7 ''Reminiscences of a Grenadier, 1914-1919''] by E R M Fryer 1921 Archive.org. He initially was a private in the H. A.C., then went to Cadet School and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards.
*[https://archive.org/details/onlookerinfrance00orpe/page/n7 ''An Onlooker in France 1917-1919''] by Sir William Orpen 1921 Archive.org. At this time he was an official War Artist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Orpen William Orpen] Wikipedia. He had been commissioned into the Army Service Corps in 1916, and as a war artist he was officially working for the Department of Information.*[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsoftemp00bacoiala/page/n8 ''The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior : a territorial officer's narrative of service (and sport) in three continents''] by Captain Alban F L Bacon (late Hampshire Regiment) [2/4 Battalion] 1922. Archive.org. Includes Western Front and India, [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt/Palestine]].*[https://archive.org/details/fouryearsonweste0000smit/page/n3/mode/2up ''Four years on the Western Front : being the experiences of a Ranker in the London Rifle Brigade, 4th, 3rd and 56th Divisions''] by a Rifleman (Aubrey Smith). 1999 reprint, first published 1922. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Largely taken from letters home. Smith joined the transport section as a [Horse] Driver when the Battalion was on L. of C. [Lines of Communications] in the summer following the second battle of Ypres in 1915.*[https://archive.org/details/innocenteye0000read/page/176/mode/2up ''In Retreat : A Journal of the Retreat of the Fifth Army from St. Quentin, March 1918''] page 176 ''The Innocent Eye'' by Herbert Read, 1947, printed in USA. [https://archive.org/details/annalsofinnocenc0000read/page/158/mode/2up 2nd file] page 159 ''Annals of Innocence and Experience'', new revised and enlarged edition 1946 printed in Great Britain. ''The Retreat'' was written 1919, but first published 1925, as a stand alone volume. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/war-as-revolution/in-retreat/ "The smaller picture: ‘In Retreat’ – Herbert Read and the 2nd Green Howards during the German March Offensive 1918"] by Philip Dutton. ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk.*[https://archive.org/details/towardflamewardi00herv ''Toward the Flame: a War Diary''] by Hervey Allen. Revised edition, with illustrations 1934, first published 1926. Archive.org. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/a-doughboys-march-toward-the-flame-6-best-wwi-memoir/ "#6 Best WWI Memoir"] by Edward Lengel. The author was a Lieutenant in the United States Army, and subsequently became an author and poet. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervey_Allen Hervey Allen] Wikipedia.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081555660?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Wine, Women and War: a Diary of Disillusionment''] by Anonymous. 10th edition 1927, first published 1926. Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010945122?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 2nd Hathi Trust file]. The author is catalogued as Howard Vincent O'Brien, American novelist and journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Vincent_O%27Brien Howard Vincent O'Brien] Wikipedia. Appointed 1st Lieutenant Field Artillery, [US Army] November 1917, and later became a Liaison Officer.
*[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. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs"<ref name=GWDJ/>. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/not-disillusioned-charles-carrington-8-best-world-war-i-memoir/ "Not Disillusioned: A Subaltern’s War, #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 ''World War I MemoriesSoldier From The Wars Returning'' 1965, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008268973 *[https://archive.org/details/wearyroadrecolle0000doui/page/n7 ''The Weary Road : An Annotated Bibliography Recollections of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919a 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/undertonesofwar00edmu ''Undertones of War''] by Edmund Blunden 1929 Archive.org. Subaltern in Royal Sussex at the Somme & Passchendaele. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/a-pastoralist-at-war-edmund-blundens-undertones-of-war/ #4 of the top ten personal accounts] by Edward Lengel. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.447392 ''Goodbye To All That''] by Robert Graves. New edition revised, November 1957, 2nd edition March 1958. First published 1929. Archive.org. (Catalogued with a different author). Graves was in the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a Special Reserves Officer, (more details <ref>Muerrisch. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/275482-goodbye-to-all-that-fact-or-fiction/?do=findComment&comment=2817167 "Goodbye to all that" = Fact or Fiction?] ''Great War Forum'' 4 November 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2019.</ref>. ) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves Robert Graves] Wikipedia.:[https://archive.org/details/robertgravesassa00grav/page/n7 ''Robert Graves: the Assault Heroic, 1895-1926''] by Richard Perceval Graves [nephew] 1987 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*Siegfried Sassoon was an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. See his entry under [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]], below, which also includes a link to his handwritten Journals.
*[https://archive.org/details/brasshatinnomans00fran ''A Brass Hat in No Man's Land''] by Brig.-Gen. F P Crozier 1930. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.239768/page/n5 ''The Men I Killed''] by Brigadier General F P Crozier 1937 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Percy_Crozier Frank Percy Crozier] Wikipedia. He commanded the 9th (Service) Battalion of the 107th (Ulster) Brigade and subsequently commanded the 119th (Welsh) Brigade. [https://theauxiliaries.com/men-alphabetical/men-c/crozier/crozier.html Biographical details, including obituary] theauxiliaries.com. For a book about Crozier's early Army experiences in West Africa 1901-5, see [[East Africa#Historical books online|East Africa]].*[https://archive.org/details/passionateprodig00chap ''A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography''] by Guy Chapman. 1966 edition, first published 1933. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Contains a Preface by the author written specifically for the 1966 edition, setting out his reasons for writing the book. He was Adj. 13th Batt. Royal Fusiliers, who was gassed at Arras. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>:[https://archive.org/details/kindofsurvivor00chap/page/n7 ''A Kind of Survivor : the Autobiography of Guy Chapman''] 1975 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/twelvedayswithfo0000roge/page/n7/mode/2up ''Twelve Days''] by Sidney Rogerson with a foreword by B. H. Liddell Hart, and eight drawings by Stanley Cursiter. 1933. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. "It deals with the “fag-end” of the Battles of the Somme in 1916". Subsequently reprinted under the title ''Twelve Days on the Somme : a Memoir of the Trenches, 1916''. The reprint description states Rogerson was in 2nd Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment, B Company. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236813123_Twelve_Days_on_the_Somme_A_Memoir_of_the_Trenches_1916_review Reprint review] researchgate.net. He was also the author of ''The Last of the Ebb'' (1937), reprinted as ''The Last of the Ebb : the Battle of the Aisne, 1918''.
*[http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/bookmark/scots-guard-by-w-h-g-ewart-university-of-oxford/ ''Scots Guard''] by W. H. G. Ewart [Wilfrid Herbert Gore] 1934. Posthumously published papers of Wilfrid Ewart, with reminisces of service as an officer with the Scots Guards from 1915 to the Armistice. Link to a pdf from the University of Oxford. [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/502760107.pdf Direct pdf]. Also see [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]] below.
*[https://archive.org/details/frommonsto193300gera/page/n7 ''From Mons to 1933''] by Gerald Lowry 1934. Archive.org. A Lieutenant in the Special Reserve of the Royal Irish Rifles, he was blinded by a sniper on 26 October 1914. He subsequently qualified as a masseur, then as an osteopath.
* "[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600501h.html ''There and Back: The Winter Story of 1916an Australian Soldier 1915-35''] by Rowland Edward Lording, writing as A. Tiveychoc 1935. [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600501h.html#ch-11 Chapter 11] onwards details his time in France, part of 30th Battalion, AIF. He was severely wounded at Fromelles, aged just 17, and spent years in hospital. Project Gutenberg Australia. [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lording-rowland-edward-7236 Biographical details] adb.anu.edu.au/biography*[https://archive.org/details/riflemanwenttowa0000mcbr/mode/2up ''A Rifleman Went to War''] (subtitle) ''being a narrative of the author's experiences and observations while with the Canadian Corps in France and Belgium, September 1915-April 1917. With particular emphasis upon the use of the military rifle in sniping, its place in modern armament, and the work of the individual soldier'', by Herbert W McBride Captain 21st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force and United States Army. 1987 reprint, originally published 1935. Includes the use of the machinegun, pistol and sniper rifle in battle. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-497848471/view?partId=nla.obj-497852656#page/n7/mode/1up "And on to Messines" ] by Capt G D Mitchell 10th and 48th Battns AIF, page 6, (digital page 8) ''Reveille'', July 1, 1936 (commenced in June 1936 issue). nla.gov.au. He was commissioned as an officer, in the field, with a series group of articles appearing in other NCOs. ''Reveille'', was published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch, . Mitchell also wrote commencing in [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi"The Winter of 1916-bin/reveille?17" a=d&d=RV193412.1.17&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ series of articles appearing in ''Reveille'' commencing December 1934, page 15 (digital 17)] and continuing each month to at least October 1935. reveille.dlconsulting.com. Scroll from one issue to the next, previously online, but not currently so.There is reference elsewhere to further articles in Feb 1936 and Sept/Oct 1936. [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mitchell-george-deane-11137 Mitchell, George Deane (1894–1961)] Australian Dictionary of Biography. Also see [[Gallipoli]] for another series of articles. Mitchell was the author of ''Backs to the Wall'' 1937, published in a 2007 reprint edition<ref>[https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/general-books/military/Backs-to-the-Wall-GD-Mitchell-and-Robert-Macklin-9781741752052 ''Backs to the Wall: A larrikin on the Western Front''] by G D Mitchell.</ref> as ''Backs to the Wall: A larrikin on the Western Front'' - [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=c6q_w9kRtbwC&pg=PP1 Sample pages] Google Books.*''"Stand To" A Diary of the Trenches 1915-1918'' by Captain F.C. Hitchcock 1937 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://archivewww.naval-military-press.orgcom/product/detailsstand-to-a-diary-of-the-trenches-1915-1918/lm8046intimatest00davi ''"LStand To" A Diary of the Trenches 1915-1918''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> which is in turn available as an [https://www.fold3. Mcom/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19kcVyTU-9 online book] on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in Military Books/Britain. 8046" : Hitchcock was an intimate story officer of the Foreign Legion2nd Battalion the Leinster Regiment.*[https://archive.org/details/alarmsexcursions0000brid/page/96/mode/2up Page 97] ''Alarms & Excursions : Reminiscences of a Soldier''] by David Wooster King 1927 ArchiveLieut.-Gen. Sir Tom Bridges.org1938. An AmericanAt the start of the war he was with [[Western Front#Cavalry|Cavalry]], see above, then he joined was sent on a Mission to Belgium in respect of the French Foreign Legion situation in August Antwerp which fell to the Germans c 9 October 1914and subsequently became Head of the British Mission with the Belgian Army. Next, based in Francehe took over command of the 19th (Western) Division (this seems to have been prior to May 1915), (where he had a pet lion, Poilu as mascot of the 19th (page 144)), transferred was wounded Sept 1917, when he lost a leg (which he ordered to be fed to the French Army October 1915lion (page 22)). Before and after this, and subsequently transferred he was part of Missions to the USA. He then was sent on a Mission to the American ArmyBalkans, including an Intelligence roleand to Turkey. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. *[https://oac.cdlibarchive.org/findaiddetails/arksky00blai ''Sky: Memoirs''] by Blaise Cendrars [pseudonym], translated by Nina Rootes 1992, originally published in French as ''Le Lotissement du ciel'' 1949. [https:/13030/tf6s200542archive.org/entire_textdetails/ Some biographical detailsskymemoirs00cend 2nd file] oacArchive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.cdlib A volume in the author’s war memoirs tetralogy, which includes WW1 chapters.orgSwiss born, during WWI he joined the French Foreign Legion and served in France, where he lost an arm. [httphttps://www.monongahelabookstheguardian.com/kingdwbooks/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.html moreorg/wiki/Blaise_Cendrars Blaise Cendrars]Wikipedia.*[https://archiveen.wikipedia.org/detailswiki/americanfighters00paul ''American Fighters Harold_Alexander,_1st_Earl_Alexander_of_Tunis Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis] Wikipedia. During WW1, he was in the Foreign LegionIrish 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, 1914see [[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)''] by Paul Ayres Rockwell 1930 1954 Archive.org.:He was an officer in the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, and served in France for six months. [httphttps://wwwen.booksandwriterswikipedia.co.ukorg/Fwiki/books-about-the-french-foreign-legionDuff_Cooper Duff Cooper] Wikipedia.html He became a List of Books about the French Foreign Legion] booksandwriters.coBritish Conservative Party politician, diplomat and military and political historian.uk
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofwar19140000bloc/mode/2up ''Memoirs of War, 1914-15''] by Marc Bloch. Translated and with an introduction by Carole Fink 1988 edition, first published 1980. Translation of the French language ''Souvenirs de Guerre, 1914-1915'' published 1969. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Born 1886, Bloch was a French medievalist and economic historian who was shot by the Germans in WW2 as a leader of the French Resistance. The first part of the account covers the months August 1914 to January 1915, and was written later in 1915. He joined the 272nd reserve regiment (18th company 4th platoon) with the rank of sergeant, and later became an officer. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bloch Marc Bloch] Wikipedia.
*''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/manatarmsmemoirs0000lawf/mode/2up ''A Man at Arms : Memoirs of two World Wars''] by Francis Law 1983. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Law was an officer in the Irish Guards who came to the Western Front in 1915, aged 18 (born 1897).
*[https://archive.org/details/sommemudexperien0000lync/mode/2up ''Somme Mud : the experiences of an infantryman in France, 1916-1919''] by E P F Lynch (Edward P F), edited by Will Davies. Published 2008, written in 1921. Lynch was in the Australian Imperial Force. The [https://archive.org/details/sommemudexperien0000lync/page/n7/mode/2up "Foreword"] says "This book compares with ''All Quiet on the Western Front''...". “A memoir built on a wartime diary and a unit history” in the form of a novel, and considered to be such by some, although the book details state "This book is a work of non-fiction". Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also by the editor, a companion volume: [https://archive.org/details/infootstepsofpri0000davi/mode/2up ''In the Footsteps of Private Lynch''] by Will Davies 2010, first published 2008. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Francis_Lynch Edward Francis Lynch] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/bloodironletters0000butt/mode/2up ''Blood and Iron : Letters from the Western Front''] by Hugh Montagu Butterworth. Edited and with an Introduction by Jon Cooksey 2011. Butterworth was an Officer 9th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade who was KIA 25 September 1915. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/forgottensoldier0000conn_u5b3/mode/2up ''The Forgotten Soldier: He wasn’t a soldier, he was just a boy''] by Charlie Connelly 2014. [https://archive.org/details/forgottensoldier0000conn/mode/2up File 2]. Catalogued as ''The forgotten soldier : he went off to fight in the Great War - and never came home''. Private Edward Charles John Connelly of the 10th Battalion, Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment killed in Flanders 4 November 1918, aged 19. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/battleofboobysbl00list/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Battle of Booby's Bluffs''] by Major Single List 1922. Archive.org. Reprinted from the ''Infantry Journal 1921'' [USA]...designed to teach the application of the principles as developed in the World War, showing the best methods of using the combined arms. …the general plan is the same as in ''The Defence of Duffer’s Drift''. For the latter see [[Military periodicals online#Manuals, Handbooks etc|Military periodicals online]].
*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.
*[https://archive.org/details/overtopbyamerica00empe ''"Over the Top" by an American soldier who went. Arthur Guy Empey, Machine Gunner, serving in France. Together with Tommy’s Dictionary of the Trenches''] 1918 Archive.org. Also published in the UK with the title ''From the Fire Step: the experiences of an American soldier in the British Army''. The author, an American, joined the British Army (Royal Fusiliers). After a period he served in the Brigade Machine Gun Company (page 158), then became a a special MP detailed on intelligence work in the front line (page 193). Also available as an audio book from [https://archive.org/details/overthetop_0812_librivox Librivox], Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/talesfromadugout00empeiala ''Tales from a Dugout''] by Arthur Guy Empey 1918 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/firstcall00empe ''First Call: Guide Posts to Berlin''] by Arthur Guy Empey 1918. A guide for new recruits into the American Army, and their families.
*[https://archive.org/details/coveredwithmudgl00laforich ''Covered with mud and glory; a machine gun company in action ("Ma mitrailleuse")''] by Georges Lafond [of the French Army]. Translated by Edwin Gile Rich 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/threechevrons00bidd ''Three Chevrons''] by "Orex" (Major H F Bidder) 1919. Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''. Called up from the Reserve in 1914, at first Bidder was with 1 S Staffs and later as Brigade (21st) MG Officer and CO 1st Bn MGC. <ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/three-chevrons.html ''Three Chevrons''] Naval and Military Press</ref> Elsewhere it is stated the 'chevrons' of the title refer to the service chevrons worn on the right sleeve for each year of overseas service, blue for 1914-15 & red for each subsequent year.
*[http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5732 "The Chronicles of the 3rd Bn MGC: No 1 Arras March 21-28 1918"] page 15, ''3rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps Magazine'', Issue no 1, May 1919. ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk. The British Library holds issues 1, and also 2 and 4-5 (at least 6 appear to have been published) - these latter also contain "Chronicles". These issues are available on the subscription website database ProQuest "Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War", which is available at the British Library and elsewhere - see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]] for access through some libraries. *[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027845860/page/n10 ''Letters and Papers of Algernon Hyde Villiers with a memoir by Harry Graham''] 1919 Archive.org. He had been a trooper in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt]] with the Hertfordshire Yeomanry 1914, was commissioned into the Lothian & Borders Horse 1915, before transferring to the Machine Gun Corps; went to France from July 1917 where he was Killed in Action on 23rd November 1917 at Bourlon Wood with the 121st Company.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20191204220208/https://turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf Turner Donovan] December 2019, Item 110.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/historymemoirof300unse ''History and Memoir of the 33rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps and of the 19th, 98th, 100th and 248th M.G. Companies''] Written and Illustrated by Members of the Battalion 1919 Archive.org. Sometimes attributed to Graham Seton Hutchison, Divisional Machine Gun Officer of the 33rd Division.
*[http://www.314th.org/books/A_Machine_Gunners_Notes_France_1918.pdf ''A Machine Gunner's Notes France 1918''] by Lieutenant Colonel Charles M DuPuy, U S Infantry 1920. He was Commanding Officer, 311th Machine Gun Battalion, USA Army. 314th.org/books
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625 ''Footslogger''] by Graham Seton 1933. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Full title: ''Footslogger; An autobiography'', by Graham Seton [pseud.] (Lieutenant-Colonel G. S. Hutchison ...)
: Also see [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]], below.
*[https://archive.org/details/suicidebattalion00wend/page/n3 ''Suicide Battalions''] by Wendell Westover, Captain, 4th M. G. bn., A. E. F.; with 46 illustrations by Lucien Jonas... 1929 Archive.org. A series of sketches of American machine-gunners.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003297938.0x000002 ''A Brief Narrative of the Guards Machine Gun Battalion during the year 1918''] by Lieut.-Colonel R. Bingham. With an appendix entitled "Machine-Gun Tactics and Organisation." 1931. Typescript manuscript. British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/canadianemmagees00grafuoft ''The Canadian Emma Gees; a History of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps''] by Lt-Col C S Grafton 1938 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/farewelltohorses0000hoyt/page/104/mode/2up Chapter 20 "The Western Front"] page 105 ''Farewell to the Horses : A Diary of a British Tommy 1915-1919'' [Cady Cyril Hoyte] edited by Robert Elverstone 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Hoyte spent a short time in France as part of the 100th Battalion Machine Gun Corps from July 1918, until he was demobilised January 1919.
*[https://archive.org/details/machineguns00malogoog ''Machine Guns''] by Julian S Hatcher, Glenn P Wilhelm, Harry J Malony of the Machine Gun School, Harlingen,Texas, USA. 1917. Archive.org
*See [[Western Front#Sketches|Sketches, above]] for sketches by Leslie Gore. Originally with the AIF. he went to France as Brigade Machine Gun Officer of the 6th Infantry Brigade, and subsequently took command of the 6th M.G. Coy.
*[https://archive.org/stream/longroadtovictor00buchuoft#page/180/mode/2up "The Tanks at Cambrai'"] by Lieutenant J C MacIntosh, Tank Corps page 181 ''The Long Road to Victory'' edited by John Buchan 1920.
:[https://archive.org/details/mentanks00maciiala ''Men and Tanks''] by J C MacIntosh. 1921 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.
*[https://www.loc.gov/item/22020297/ ''A Tank Driver's Experiences or Incidents in a Soldier’s Life''] by Arthur Jenkin [1922] Library of Congress. The name Arthur Jenkin is thought to be a pseudonym.<ref>Dust Jacket Collector et al. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/204868-arthur-jenkin-a-tank-drivers-experiences/ Arthur Jenkin 'A Tank Driver's Experiences'] ''Great War Forum'' 10 January 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2021.</ref>
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015035242844?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''The Fighting Tanks since 1916''] by Ralph Ernest Jones, Robert Joseph Icks and George Howard Rarey 1933. HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284287 Archive.org], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77218/page/n7/mode/2up ''Memoirs of an Unconventional Soldier''] by Major-General J F C Fuller 1936 Archive.org. During WW1 Fuller was Chief of the General Staff of the Tank Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/tankpioneers0000mack/mode/2up ''The Tank Pioneers''] by Kenneth Macksey 1981 Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
====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://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Battle_of_Brains.html?id=foLjjgEACAAJ Snippet Google Books] currently searchable, but not viewable, should become available to those in North America etc c 2026, and similarly on HathiTrust Digital Library. Another book about his war experiences is ''The Crater of Mars'' 1929 available [https://books.google.com/books?id=dJhHAAAAIAAJ Snippet Google Books] currently searchable, but not viewable, should become available to those in North America etc c 2025. Also see a [[ Western Front#Post War including British Occupation of Germany|postwar book below]]. The author , 1891-1953<ref name=Tuohy> (James) Ferdinand Tuohy 1891-1953, born in Cork, Ireland and died 1953 Southwark London, was a journalist for a New York daily and then foreign correspondent in Europe for the ''Sphere'', see [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/c00/c00503.htm#A10 The FictionMags Index, Biographical Notes: Page 503]</ref> was/became a news reporter and post-war foreign correspondent. *[https://digitallibarchive.stou.ac.thorg/details/pt-1-detective-secret-service-days/handlePt1DetectiveSecretServiceP011-025/6625047444mode/1704 2up ''Detective & Secret Service Days''] by Edwin T Woodhall 1929. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, ThailandArchive. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours"org. Extracts Mirror from the book: [https://webdigitallib.archivestou.org/web/20180804131912/https://pixelsurgeryac.files.wordpress.comth/2017handle/106625047444/edwin-wood-hall-detective-part-1.pdf "Book I" pages 31-1221704 STOU Digital Repository]Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, [https://web.archiveThailand.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 Book II [digital Pt3] 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", page 156 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 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.440855/page/n7 ''Fifty Amazing Secret Service Dramas''] c 1937? Archive, available online, see below.org
*[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
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063000031?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Intelligence Service within the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918''] by Major J E Hahn, James Emanuel late General staff, 4th Canadian Division CEF 1930 HathiTrust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/allsfairstoryofb00henr ''All's Fair : the Story of the British Secret Service Behind the German Lines''] by Captain Henry Landau 1934 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Landau_(captain) Henry Landau] Wikipedia.
:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744646?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Secrets of the White Lady''] by Captain Henry Landau 1935 Missing at least [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030668340?urlappend=%3Bseq=23 page 13] which is found in a [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030668340?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 2nd digital file], also missing at least one page. Both editions HathiTrust Digital Library. The White Lady was the codename for an underground intelligence network which operated in German-occupied Belgium during World War I. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dame_Blanche_(resistance) Dame Blanche (resistance)] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527793 ''Mata Hari''] by Major Thomas Coulson 3rd impression. Full title: ''Mata Hari Courtesan and Spy'', first published 1930. Archive.org,.:Also see Chapter IV "A Charming Spy" in ''Detective & Secret Service Days'' , relevant pages from [https://archive.org/details/pt-1-detective-secret-service-days/Pt3DetectiveSecretServiceP124-162/page/157/mode/2up 158] by Edwin T Woodhall 1929, mentioned above. Archive.org.:[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.425589/page/3/mode/2up ''Inquest on Mata Hari''] by Bernard Newman 1956. Archive.org. Bernard Newman also wrote a 1935 work of fiction titled ''Spy'', see [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]] below. Although this latter book was written in the first personal Newman had not been a spy himself.
:[http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en/ark:/40699/m005450e5548f9dc Official French files Margueritte Gertrude Zelle] (French language), part of the database of those who were shot during the First World War. Click on the eye icons for the files. memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr. If this link is not permanent, try the website [http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/article.php?larub=211&titre=fusilles-de-la-premiere-guerre-mondiale Search], using the French version website.
:The National Archives Kew has two records KV2/1-2 "'Mata Hari' alias MCCLEOD Margaretha Geertruida (Marguerite Gertrude)", both available as a pay download. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C126793 Catalogue record]
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041190870?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Spies I Knew''] by Marthe McKenna 1934 HathiTrust Digital Library. Belgian Marthe Cnockaert, 'Laura' of the British Intelligence Service.
*[https://archive.org/details/modernspiestellt00rich ''Modern spies tell their stories : personal narratives of many exploits in secret service''] edited by Richard W Rowan 1934 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.440855/page/n7 ''Fifty Amazing Secret Service Dramas''] c 1937? published by ''The Times of India''. Archive.org
====Volunteers , correspondents and others====
*''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.
*Books by Edmund Dane, all in the series ''The Daily Telegraph War Books''. [https://archive.org/details/hackingthroughbe00daneuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''Hacking through Belgium''] 1914. [https://archive.org/details/battleofrivers00daneuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Battle of the Rivers''] 1914. [https://archive.org/details/battlesinflander00daneuoft ''The Battles in Flanders, from Ypres to Neuve Chapelle''] 1915. Republished in 2014 as ''The Western Front, 1914 Trilogy: A Concise History of the Opening Campaigns of the First World War, 1914''. In a 1919 book which he authored, he was described as "Military Correspondent of the ''Westminster Gazette''".
*[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/behindscenesatfr00adam/page/n7/mode/2up ''Behind the Scenes at the Front''] by George Adam, Paris Correspondent of "The Times" 1915. Archive.org
*[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/fightingflanders00poweuoft/page/n7 ''Fighting in Flanders''] by E. Alexander Powell, Special Correspondent of ''The New York World'', with the Belgian Forces in the Field. 1915, first published 1914. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/vivelafranc00powe/page/n7 ''Vive la France!''] by E. Alexander Powell, War Correspondent of ''The New York World'', the London ''Daily Mail'', and ''Scribner’s Magazine'', with the Allied Armies. 1915 Archive.org.
:He was also the author of ''Slanting Lines of Steel''. [An account of the author's experiences as war correspondent in the European War, 1914-1918]. 1933
*[https://archive.org/details/waronallfrontswi01rich/page/n7 ''With the Allies''] by Richard Harding Davis, War Correspondent, with the Allies, of the Wheeler Syndicate of Newspapers and the London ''Daily Chronicle''. 1918, first published 1914. Archive.org. This edition is Volume I of ''The War on All Fronts'', a five volume series, multiple authors.
*[https://archive.org/details/pathsofgloryimpr00cobb/page/n5 ''Paths of Glory: impressions of war written at and near the Front''] by Irvin S Cobb. Revised version, with two extra chapters. 1918 Archive.org. A series of first hand impressions originally written in 1914, and published 1915, while on staff service for the ''Saturday Evening Post''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvin_S._Cobb Irvin S. Cobb] Wikipedia. Not to be confused with a novel with a similar title by Humphrey Cobb.
*[https://archive.org/details/womansexperience00mackrich/page/n9/mode/2up ''A Woman's Experiences in the Great War''] by Louise Mack 1915 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Mack Louise Mack] Wikipedia. An Australian, she was the first female War Correspondent and was in Belgium at the beginning of the war, working for British newspapers.
*[https://archive.org/details/franceatwar0000kipl/mode/2up ''France at War''] by Rudyard Kipling 1915 Archive.org. [http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_france_intro.htm Kipling Society page] . Originally published in the ''Daily Telegraph''.
*[https://archive.org/details/inclawsofgermane00will/page/n9/mode/2up ''In the Claws of the German Eagle''] by Albert Rhys Williams, Special War Correspondent in Belgium of ''The Outlook'' [A New York City weekly magazine]. 1917. Archive.org. Also reprinted under the title ''The Kaiser's Captive''. The early days of the war. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Rhys_Williams Albert Rhys Williams] Wikipedia. He later wrote many books about the Russian Revolution.
*[https://archive.org/details/overtherewarscen00benn/page/n7 ''Over There; War Scenes on the Western Front''] by Arnold Bennett 1915. Archive.org. Bennett lived in France from 1903-1911, and was the first established author to be invited to tour the front for propaganda purposes, spending three weeks in France and Belgium in June 1915 and publishing this account later in the year. He was appointed Director of Propaganda in the Ministry of Information in 1918.<ref>[http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/bookmark/over-there-war-scenes-on-the-western-front-by-arnold-bennett-project-gutenberg/ ''Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front'' by Arnold Bennett] ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/waronallfrontsfi03edit/page/n9 ''Fighting France : from Dunkerque to Belfort''] by Edith Wharton, 1918 edition, first published 1915. Archive.org. This edition is Volume III of ''The War on All Fronts'', a five volume series, multiple authors. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wharton Edith Wharton] Wikipedia. The American novelist was living in France at the outbreak of war.
*[https://archive.org/details/overfrontinaerop00pulirich ''Over the Front in an Aeroplane, and Scenes inside the French and Flemish Trenches''] by Ralph Pulitzer 1915 Archive.org. The author was a New York newspaper proprietor.
*[https://archive.org/details/roadsideglimpses01swee ''Roadside Glimpses of the Great War''] by Arthur Sweetser 1916 Archive.org. He was an American journalist who was in France from the early days of the war.
:[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/verduntovosgesim00camp ''Verdun to the Vosges : impressions of the war on the fortress frontier of France''] by Gerald Campbell, Special Correspondent of ''The Times'' in the East of France. 2nd Impression 1916. 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/hilltoponmarnebe00aldr/page/n11/mode/2up ''A Hilltop on the Marne, being letters written June 3 - September 8, 1914''] by Mildred Aldrich 19th Impression November 1917, first published October 1915.
:[https://archive.org/details/onedgeofwarzonef00aldr/page/n7/mode/2up ''On the Edge of the War Zone, from the battle of the Marne to the entrance of the Stars and Stripes''] by Mildred Aldrich 1917
:[https://archive.org/details/peakofloadwaitin00ald ''The Peak of the Load; the waiting months on the hilltop from the entrance of the Stars and Stripes to the second victory on the Marne''] by Mildred Aldrich 1918.
:[https://archive.org/details/whenjohnnycomesm00aldr ''When Johnny comes marching home''] by Mildred Aldrich 1919. All Archive.org.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Aldrich Mildred Aldrich] Wikipedia. American journalist and writer.
*[https://archive.org/details/padreredcrosscha00pren ''Padre, a Red Cross Chaplain in France''] by Sartell Prentice 1919 Archive.org. An American, he worked at an American Army hospital.
* 28 June 1914 onwards [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015028687906?urlappend=%3Bseq=464%3Bownerid=13510798888006840-472 Page 406] ''More Changes, More Chances'' by Henry W. Nevinson 1925 HathiTrust Digital Library. He was in Berlin when war was declared.:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62121/page/n21 "War, Chapter I"] page 1 ''Last Changes, Last Chances'' by Henry W. Nevinson 1928 Archive.org. :Elsewhere, the author was stated to be "the leading war correspondent of the Edwardian era." Also see [[Gallipoli]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Nevinson Henry Nevinson] Wikipedia.*The war years from [https://archive.org/details/paintandprejudic027098mbp/page/n111 page 90] ''Paint And Prejudice'' by C.R.W. Nevinson 1938. An artist, initially he was with the Red Cross as an ambulance driver/medical volunteer. He was subsequently a private in the RAMC until he was discharged on medical grounds probably c mid 1915. His father was a the war correspondentHenry W. Nevinson, see [[Gallipoli]]immediately above.
*[https://archive.org/details/irishnunsatypres00coluuoft ''The Irish Nuns at Ypres : an Episode of the War''] by D M C [Dame M Columban], (Member of the Community) [Benedictines] 1915 Archive.org.
*Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)
**[https://archive.org/details/swordofdeborahfi00jessrich/page/iii ''The Sword of Deborah, first-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France''] by F. Tennyson Jesse 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/sworddeborah_1401_librivox Librivox audio version] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/minstrelinfranc00laud ''A Minstrel in France''] by Harry Lauder 1918 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lauder Harry Lauder] (Wikipedia) was a very well known Scottish singer and comedian who had achieved international success.
*[https://archive.org/details/canteeners00dixo/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Canteeners''] by Agnes M Dixon 1917 Archive.org. She volunteered with the Cantines des Dames Anglais organised by the London Committee of the French Red Cross, from October 1915 to July 1916.
*[https://archive.org/details/canteeningoverse00baldiala ''Canteening Overseas, 1917-1919''] by Marian Baldwin 1920 Archive.org. The author was mostly with the American YMCA in France.
*[https://archive.org/details/bettystevensonym00steviala/page/n7/mode/2up ''Betty Stevenson, Y. M. C. A., Croix de Guerre avec Palme; Sept. 3, 1896-May 30, 1918''] edited by C G R S and A G S 1920. Archive.org. She helped Belgium refugees in England, then worked in Paris in a YMCA canteen, initially with her aunt, then her mother. She subsequently became a YMCA driver in Étaples where her duties included driving relatives come to visit sick and dying relatives, but then due to health issues went back to canteen duties until she was killed in a bombing raid, aged 21. She is buried in a military cemetery.
*[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 Étaples, 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.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20335 ''The Case of Edith Cavell: A Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants''] by James M Beck [1915]. Reprinted from ''New York Times''. Gutenberg.org
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.544007/page/n5/mode/2up ''Edith Cavell: The Crime that Shook the World''] by S Theodore Felstead c 1940 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Edith%29+AND+title%3A%28Cavell%29+AND+mediatype%3A%28texts%29&sort=date Books about Edith Cavell on Archive.org]
*''History of the American Field Service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917, told by its members. With illustrations''. 1920. [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica01unse/page/n9/mode/2up Vol. I], but missing at least pages 8-9, [https://archive.org/details/14310130RX1.nlm.nih.gov/page/n9/mode/2up Vol. I, 2nd file]; [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica02unse/page/n3/mode/2up Vol. II]; [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica03unse/page/n9/mode/2up Vol. III] Contains “The Camion Section” and Appendices with Roll of Honor, Roster of Volunteers etc. All Archive.org
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20200122162718/http://www.ourstory.info/library/catalog.html [American<nowiki>]</nowiki> Field Service/Library], now archived, contains transcribed accounts by American volunteers including some who drove ambulances and transport trucks. At least some of these volunteers/possibly all were formally part of the French Army. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101126142340fw_/http://ourstory.info/2/b/2b1index.html Introductory article], same website. Current website [http://www.the-afs-archive.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=33&Itemid=231 the-afs-archive.org], '''perhaps''' may have some of the accounts mentioned on the old website.
====Prisoners of War====
*[https://archive.org/details/ofmainprisoncmap00poperich ''Map of the main prison camps in Germany and Austria, with GazeteerGazetteer''] by Mrs Pope Hennessy. Catalogued 1920. Printed in London. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/ofmainprisoncmap00poperich#page/n5/mode/1up Map]*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JUTM5NV4GRHSMEKA6RUKYA6RZZ67WQJH IHK4BMNO5ZWK6W2XCPTRNSNB4QNSRI7I German Map of the main French prison camps, labor commandos and hospitals] 1917. Karte der wichtigsten französischen Gefangenenlager, Arbeitskommandos u. Lazarette. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Some additional camps are also mentioned.<ref>CROONAERT [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/248554-german-map-of-the-main-french-prison-camps-labor-commandos-and-hospitals/?do=findComment&comment=2506307 German Map of the main French prison camps, labor commandos and hospitals] ''Great War Forum'' 21 March 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonerofwar00warnuoft ''Prisoner of War''] by André Warnod. Tranlated by M Jourdain 1916 Archive.org. A book in the series ''Soldiers' Tales of the Great War''.
*[https://archive.org/details/captured00doug ''Captured: Sixteen Months as a Prisoner of War''] by Lieut. J Harvey Douglas, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles. 1918 Archive.org. Later in his captivity the author was transferred to Switzerland,
*[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.
:Restricted basis: British Library registered readers and/or staff: [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022553586.0x000002?bt=europeanaapi#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-916.7904%2C0%2C4102.5809%2C2958 Issue No 16 February 15, 1916] British Library Digital file. The British Library has additional digital files for Issues 17-27 (September 1916). To access, through the [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?menuitem=0&fromTop=true&fromPreferences=false&fromEshelf=false&vid=BLVU1 Main Catalogue], use the search term BLL01016586686 Then click on "I want this', select the required edition, and click Go.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz475363566 ''The First Springbok Prisoner in Germany''] by Corporal E Doitch 1st S A I. 1917. Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. The website is in German, the book in English. Read online, or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonersofgreat00dennrich/page/n7 ''Prisoners of the Great War; Authoritative Statement of Conditions in the Prison Camps of Germany''] by Carl P Dennett, American Red Cross Deputy Commissioner to Switzerland. 1919 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/tunnellingtofree0000unse/mode/2up ''Tunnelling to freedom and other escape narratives from World War I''] 2004. Originally published as ''Escapers All: being the personal narratives of fifteen escapers from war-time prison camps, 1914-1918''. 1932. The "Publishers’ Note" advises that all except two accounts were edited from a series of British Broadcasting Commission talks. [https://archive.org/details/tunnellingtofree0000unse/page/19/mode/1up Contents, page 19], [https://archive.org/details/tunnellingtofree0000unse/page/20/mode/2up page 20]. Archive.org Book to Borrow/Lending Library.
*Books on Archive.org, classified by the uploader [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Prisoners+and+prisons%2C+German%22&sort=-date&page=1 "World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German"] and [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Prisoners+and+prisons%22&sort=-date "World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons"], with some overlap.
*Also see [[First World War#Historical books online|First World War - Historical books online]] for more online books about Prisoners of War.
====Miscellaneous====
*[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/shootingsatdawna00thurrich empiresofdeadhow0000cran ''Shootings at DawnEmpires of the Dead : The Army Death Penalty at Workhow one man's vision led to the creation of WW1's war graves''] by Ernest Thurtle MP. Published 1920sDavid Crane 2013. Archive.org. [https:Books to Borrow//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 ArmyLending Library.
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/britishwardogsth00richrich ''British War Dogs, their Training and Psychology''] by Lt.-Colonel E H Richardson, late Commandant of the British War Dog School. C 1920. Archive.org.
====Vocabularies====
*[https://archive.org/details/adictionarymili00farrgoog ''A Dictionary of Military Terms''] by Edward S Farrow, late of the United States Military Academy. Revised edition 1918. Archive.org.
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER726701 ''Digger Dialects : a Collection of Slang Phrases used by the Australian Soldiers on Active Service''] by W.H. Downing, late 57th Battalion, AIF. [1919]. State Library of Victoria. Some of the words were probably also used by British and other soldiers. Examples: Chat (n) - A Louse; Chat (v) - To examine clothing in order to remove lice; Chatty (adj) - verminous.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Downing W. H. Downing] (Wikipedia) was also the author of ''To the Last Ridge'' 1920 and reprint editions [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=u8d1DwAAQBAJ Sample pages Google Books].*[https://archive.org/details/wardiaryofsquare00mgrich/page/216 "A Dictionary of War Words"] Appendix II, pages 217-224 ''The War Diary of a Square Peg'' by Maximilian A Mügge 1920. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedest00pariuoft ''Dictionnaire des termes militaires et de l'argot poilu''] [1916] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/soldiersserviced00vizerich ''The soldier's service dictionary of English and French terms, embracing 10,000 military, naval, aeronautical, aviation, and conversational words and phrases used by the Belgian, British, and French armies, with their French equivalents carefully pronounced, the whole arranged in one alphabetical order, designed especially for instant use in the United States service''] Edited by Frank H Vizetelly 1917 Archive.org
====German Army====
*Also see [[Western Front#Official Histories and generalBattles|Official Histories and generalBattles]] above.
*[https://archive.org/details/germanwarbookbe00morggoog ''The German War Book: being "The Usages of War on Land" issued by the Great General Staff of the German Army''] translated with a critical introduction by J H Morgan 1915 Archive.org. The USA title was ''The War Book of the German General Staff…'' Translation of [https://archive.org/details/KriegsbrauchImLandkriege ''Kriegsbrauch im Landkriege''] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/germanysdishonou00morg ''Germany's Dishonoured Army''] by Professor J H Morgan (Late Home Office Commissioner with the British Expeditionary Force) 1915 Archive.org
*''My War Memories, 1914-1918'' by General Ludendorff 1919. [https://archive.org/details/mywarmemories19101lude Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/mywarmemories19102lude Volume II] Archive.org. Also published under the title: ''Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918. The Great War from the siege of Liege to the Signing of the armistice as viewed from the Grand Headquarters of the German Army'' by Erich Von Ludendorff Quartermaster-General of the German Army.
:''The General Staff and its problems : the history of the relations between the high command and the German Imperial Government as revealed by official documents'' by General Ludendorff... translated by F. A. Holt. 1920 [https://archive.org/details/generalstaffitsp00lude Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/generalstaffitsp02ludeuoft Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/warministerhiswo00stei/page/n5 ''A War Minister and his Work; Reminiscences of 1914-1918''] by General Von Stein, late Quartermaster-General and War Minister (1916-1918) c 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/generalheadquart00falk ''General Headquarters, 1914-1916, and its Critical Decisions''] by Erich von Falkenhayn. 1919 Archive.org. Also published in the USA under the title ''The German General Staff and its Decisions, 1914-1916''.
*[https://archive.org/details/summaryofrecenti00grearich ''Summary of recent information regarding the German Army and its methods''] by General Staff (Intelligence) General Headquarters. January, 1917. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/hndbk-german-army-1914 ''Handbook of the German Army (Home and Colonial) Fourth Edition 1912, amended to August 1914''] "For Official Use Only" by [Great Britain] General Staff, War Office. Archive.org:''Handbook of the German Army in War''. Issued by the General Staff, British Army ”For "For Official Use Only”Only". [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003075164.0x000002 ''January, 1917'']; [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100009749073.0x000002 ''November, 1918'']. British Library Digital Collection. [https://archive.org/details/hndbkgermanarmy-1917jan/page/n5/mode/2up ''January 1917'']; [https://archive.org/details/hndbk-german-army-1918apr/page/n7/mode/2up ''April 1918'']; [https://archive.org/details/hndbk-german-army-1918nov/page/n1/mode/2up ''November 1918''] Archive.org.*''Index to the German Forces in the Field. October 1917'' by [Great Britain] General Staff, War Office. [https://archive.org/details/index-german-forces-field-oct-1917/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BHQyAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP13 Google Books].:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008231050 ''Foot Artillery Index to the German Forces in the Field'', Volumes 1 and 2] compiled by the General Staff, War Office. 2nd revision February 1918. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/foot-artillery-index-german-forces-pt-1-feb-1918/page/n1/mode/2up Vol. 1 ''Sectors''] Archive.org, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BXMyAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA3 Google Books]; [https://archive.org/details/foot-artillery-index-german-forces-part-2-feb-1918/page/n7/mode/2up Vol. 2 ''Index of Batteries''] Archive.org, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZnMyAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA149 Google Books].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 ''Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German Army which participated in the war (1914-1918)''] Compiled from records of Intelligence Section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces at General Headquarters, Chaumont France 1919. Published 1920 Archive.org.
*Use the Search term Erinnerungsblätter deutscher Regimenter Ehemals preußische Truppenteile in the [https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/3NG25HN72MPUGPHOB7GZHRKQOETGF57Q Erinnerungsblätter deutscher Regimenter. [...<nowiki>Search]</nowiki>, Ehemals preußische Truppenteile] 44 German Army Regimental online histories, (German language), from from Deutsche Digital Bibliothek, from the collection of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, for 56 results (online histories) for Prussian histories. Omitting the last 3 words in the Search gives even more results.
:[http://d-nb.info/dnbn/1045361879 Deutsche National Bibliothek catalogue entry: Infanterieregimenter] Select the main category and subcategories, then select Publikationen, then use the filter on the RHS of the page "Online (frei zugänglich)". (German language). Also see the ''Great War Forum'' topic "Regimental histories at the German National Library (DNB)".<ref> Ken S. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/236273-regimental-histories-at-the-german-national-library-dnb/?tab=comments#comment-2709094 Regimental histories at the German National Library (DNB)] ''Great War Forum'' 10 February 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2018.</ref> [http://d-nb.info/dnbn/1045361704 Deutsche National Bibliothek catalogue entry: Deutsches Heer] includes links to categories Kavallerie, Artillerie etc, however only a few titles appear to have been digitised.
:[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=141&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 Die württembergischen Regimenter im Weltkrieg 1914 – 1918] Links to multiple volumes of different württembergischen Regimenter (German language). Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. If URL Is not permanent, use [http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/start/ Suchen]. Use the search term Weltkrieg, or Infanterie Regiment to locate many other regimental histories and and other publications. Also from this website [http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=6955&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Kriegsgeschichte der 12. Batterie Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr 13''].
: Links to further regimental histories (German language) may be found in the ''Great War Forum'' topic "Free German Regimental History Books"<ref>charlie2. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/232455-free-german-regimental-history-books/?do=findComment&comment=2561910 Free German Regimental History Books]
''Great War Forum'' 7 September 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</ref> and "More German Regimental histories due soon"<ref> charlie2. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/topic/260146-more-german-regimental-histories-due-soon/ More German Regimental histories due soon] ''Great War Forum'' 12 April 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018.</ref>. For some of the latter [http://digital.slub-dresden.de/kollektionen/ Search SLUB Dresden] Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) Dresden.
:'''Note''', some Digital Libraries may provide a Full text option, which may be copied to Google Translate or similar, for an English translation if this is required.:German language digitised documents from State Archives of the Russian Federation. [http://tsamo.germandocsinrussia.org/de/nodes/1-deutsche-beuteakten-zum-ersten-weltkrieg-im-zentralarchiv-des-verteidigungsministeriums-der-russischen-f-deration-bestand-500-findbuch-12519 German language webpage], [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2Ftsamo.germandocsinrussia.org%2Fde%2Fnodes%2F1-russischdeutsche-deutschesbeuteakten-projektzum-zurersten-digitalisierungweltkrieg-deutscherim-dokumentezentralarchiv-indes-den-archivenverteidigungsministeriums-der-russischen-f-deration&edit-text=&act=url bestand-500-findbuch-12519 Google Translate English webpage]. Includes KriegsTageBuch (KTB) and German maps. tsamo.germandocsinrussia.org
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz381969959 ''Die graue Felduniform der deutschen Armee''] 5th edition [1915] Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Read online, or download. [https://archive.org/details/1910000aGraueFelduniform File of images, Archive.org 1910 edition]
*[https://archive.org/details/withgermanarmies00hedi/page/n7 ''With the German Armies in the West''] by Sven Hedin. Translated from the Swedish by H G de Walterstorff 1915 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/withgermanarmies00hediuoft/page/n7 Another version Archive.org] where illustrations may be clearer. The author travelled from Sweden, which was a neutral nation, so that he could view the war with his own eyes, and study the psychology of war.
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofgermansol00cfel ''The Diary of a German Soldier''] by Feldwebel C… First Sergeant 88th Infantry 21st Division, 18th Army Corps. 1919. Translated from the original 1918 French edition Archive.org
*Memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger's experiences on the Western Front. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/> . Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/ernst-jungers-storm-of-steel-3-best-wwi-memoir/ "#3 Best WWI Memoir"] by Edward Lengel. First published in 1920, there were many German revisions by the author later published. There have been two English translations, based on different German editions. The 2003 Hofmann translation is considered more literary, but Hofmann was ignorant of German military matters, whereas the 1929 translation by Creighton, who had served in the Great War, was more literal<ref> Trajan et al. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/268646-ernst-junger-war-diaries/?do=findComment&comment=2740525 Ernst Junger War Diaries] ''Great War Forum'' 14th February 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019. Review of the Hofmann translation [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3601190/A-Homer-for-the-20th-century.html "A Homer for the 20th century"] by Daniel Johnson 25 August 2003 ''The Telegraph''.</ref> and is more accurate from a military point of view.
:[https://archive.org/details/ErnstJngerTheStormOfSteel/page/n3 ''The Storm Of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front''] by Ernst Jünger, Lieutenant, 73rd Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment. Reprint of the 1929 translation [by Basil Creighton of the 1924 German edition]. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/stormofsteel00jung/page/n3 ''Storm of Steel''] by Ernst Jünger. Translated by Michael Hofmann 2003, from the 1961 German edition. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34099 ''In Stahlgewittern: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Stoßtruppführers''] by Ernst Jünger 1922. Gutenberg.org. German language.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_of_Steel ''Storm of Steel''] (Wikipedia).
*[https://archive.org/details/fatalistatwar00rudo/page/n7 ''A Fatalist at War''] by Rudolf Georg Binding translated from the German by Ian F. D. Morrow. 1929 Archive.org. Original title ''Aus dem Kreige'' 1925.
*[https://archive.org/details/withgermangunsfo0000sulz/mode/2up ''With the German guns : four years on the Western front, 1914-1918''] by Herbert Sulzbach, translated by Richard Thonger 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow. Original title [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=knqsGwAACAAJ ''Zwei lebende Mauern 50 Monate Westfront''] 1935 searchable, but not viewable Google Books. [https://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/sulzbach.htm Biographical details] firstworldwar.com
*[http://www.grensland-docs.nl/egodocumenten/egodocuments-startpage/ Kriegstagebücher indexpage] Bibliography of German/Austrian war books, with some online links. Grensland-Docs (Dutch website, page in German with minimal English content).
====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://digitallibarchive.stou.ac.thorg/details/cockpit-of-peace/page/handlen3/6625047444mode/1954 2up ''Cockpit of Peace 1919-1925''] by Ferdinand Tuohy 1926. Link to a pdf download, Archive.org mirror from [https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1954 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 1891-1953,<ref name=Tuohy/> was a post-war foreign correspondent, also the author of ''Occupied, 1918-1930; a postscript to the western front'' published 1931, Searchable, but not viewable, on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005906197 HathiTrust Digital Library] or [https://books.google.com/books?id=gJiQjgEACAAJ Google Books] 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. (Spectator review, 1925.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201008061738/http://archivewebcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3An12HmmfrK3IJ%3Aarchive.spectator.co.uk/article/14th%2Farticle%2F14th-march-1925/28/life%2F28%2Flife-in-the-occupied-area-by-katharine-tynan-hutch +&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&client=safari Spectator review] of ''Life in the Occupied Area'' by Katharine Tynan 1925.</ref>)*''An Ambassador of Peace ; pages from the diary of Viscount D'Abernon. (Berlin, 19251920-1926) 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/afterruinsrestor0000clou ''After the Ruins : restoring the countryside of Northern France after the Great War''] by Hugh Clout 1996 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/novelsofworldwar0000hage/page/n5 ''The Novels of World War I : an Annotated Bibliography''] by Philip E Hager and Desmond Taylor 1981. Includes [https://archive.org/details/novelsofworldwar0000hage/page/5/mode/1up The twenty most significant novels of the Great War] pages 5-6. Includes novels for both adults and juveniles. Archive.org Books To Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://www.themodernnovel.org/my-lists/world-war-i/ "World War I books" [A Bibliography<nowiki>]</nowiki>] from ''The Modern Novel''.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.123680 ''Memoirs of an Infantry Officer''] by Siegfried Sassoon 1930. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. A fictionalised account of Sassoon's own life during and immediately after World War I. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_an_Infantry_Officer About the book] Wikipedia. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War"<ref name=GWDJ/>. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/siegfried-sassoons-memoirs-of-george-sherston-2-best-wwi-account/ "#2 Best WWI Account"] by Edward Lengel. Its predecessor, also an autobiographical novel, is [https://archive.org/details/memoirsoffoxhunt00sieg ''Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man''], first published 1928. Archive.org Lending Library. The third book in the trilogy is [https://archive.org/details/sherstonsprogres00sass ''Sherston's Progress''], first published 1936. Archive.org Lending Library.
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon Sassoon Journals] Cambridge Digital Library. Links to handwritten Journals.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.546845 ''Some Do Not & No More Parades''] by Ford Madox Ford, reprint edition, first published 1924 and 1925. Archive.org. Volumes [https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20140712 #1], [https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20150355 #2], [https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20140811 #3], [https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20141089 #4] fadedpage.com
: ''Parade’s End'' [https://archive.org/details/paradesend00ford/page/n7 1950 edition], [https://archive.org/details/paradesend00ford_0/page/n5 2001? edition Penguin Classics] both Archive.org Lending Library
:[https://archive.org/details/ParadesEnd ''Parade's End'': Radio audio adaptation] Probably from the BBC.
:[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/24/julian-barnes-parades-end-ford-madox-ford "Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford"] 25 August 2012. ''The Guardian''. BBC/HBO five-part TV serial was made in 2012. [http://www.fordmadoxfordsociety.org/fords-biography.html Biography] fordmadoxfordsociety.org. He was christened Ford Hermann Hueffer, and changed his name after the War. Ford joined the army in 1915, serving as an officer in the Welch Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/sommeincludingal00gris allquietonwest00rema/page/n5/mode/2up ''All Quiet On The SommeWestern Front''] by Erich Maria Remarque, translated from the German by A W Wheen. 1930 edition, first published 1929. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28WESTERN+Front%29+AND+creator%3A%28Remarque%2C%29&sort=-date Other digital files, including also Notes] are available to borrow. Note however a comment that the later 1994 translation by Brian Murdoch is deeply flawed.<ref> David Filsell [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/17939-all-quiet-on-the-western-front/?do=findComment&comment=139106 all quiet on the western front] ''Great War Forum''11 August 2004. Retrieved 4 February 2022.</ref> On a list of "The Coward20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>:[https://archive.org/details/All.Quiet.on.the.Western.Front.1930_201605 1930 Movie version: ''All Quiet On The Western Front''] Archive.org. Selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." :[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front A D Gristwood (Arthur Donald)About the book] Wikipedia. German title [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.168305 ''Im Westen nichts Neues''], 1929 first published 1928. Archive.org.*Half-novel, half-autobiography, the author states the events described actually happened : [http://purl.library.usyd.edu. With new introduction au/setis/id/manmidd ''The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916''] by Hugh CecilFrederic Manning 1929. 2006 Pdf download of a transcription, University of Sydney Digital Collection. First published 1927Also 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> [httpshttp://wwwinsidestory.org.au/an-outsider-at-war "An outsider at war"] by Richard Johnstone 4 June 2012.sc''Inside Story''.edu</uscpressref> On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/books>*[https:/2006/3648archive.html Publisherorg/details/pathsofglory00cobb/page/n3 ''Paths of Glory''s ] A Novel by Humphrey Cobb, 1987 edition, originally published 1935 . Archive.org Lending Library. With an [https://archive.org/details/pathsofglory00cobb/page/266 Afterword] by Stephen E Tabachnick. The author story was suggested by actual events. A film version by Stanley Kubrick was produced in 1957. On a “reluctant accountant turned even more reluctant infantryman list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>*[https://archive.org/details/in .ernet.dli.2015.2458 ''Verdun''] ''The Prelude'', and ''The Battle'' by Jules Romains. Translated from the London Rifle Brigade” 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 war as Gristwood experienced it—a dark and desperate theater of pain where only base instincts could get a man out aliveGreat War".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*Sketches by Boyd Cable, the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, who was appointed Temporary Second Lieutenant 2nd September 1914 in the Royal Artillery where he served in France. By February 1917 he was Acting Captain while commanding a section of a Divisional Ammunition Column. In June 1918 he was awarded an OBE [Officer of the Order of the British Empire] at which time he was Captain, Propaganda Branch, Aircraft Production Department, Ministry of Munitions. Appointed Acting Lt-Colonel, whilst specially employed 12 November 1918.<ref> Details from the ''London Gazette''.</ref>
:[https://archive.org/details/betweenlines00cabl ''Between the Lines''] by Boyd Cable 3rd edition 1917, first published October 1915 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/between_the_lines_dhd_librivox Librivox Audiobook ''Between the Lines''], read by Delmar H Dolbier. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/frontline00cabl ''Front Lines''] by Boyd Cable 1918 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/airmenowar00cabl ''Air Men o' War''] by Boyd Cable 1919 Archive.org
*Novels by Sapper, the nom de plume of Herman Cyril McNeile , a writer of war stories that were hailed as realistic revelations of the truth about war. He had been in the Royal Engineers since 1907. <ref>[https://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com/sapper-from-realism-to-melodrama/ "‘Sapper’ : From Realism to Melodrama"], a paper originally delivered at the conference of Les Amis du Roman Populaire in Amiens, in 2014. ''Great War Fiction''. Retrieved 29 July 2016.<br>[https://fantastic-writers-and-the-great-war.com/the-writers/h-c-mcneile/ "H.C. McNeile (“Sapper”)"] and [https://fantastic-writers-and-the-great-war.com/war-experiences/h-c-mcneile/ "H.C. McNeile (“Sapper”) in the Great War"] ''Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers in the Great War''.</ref> He was the author of the later ''Bulldog Drummond'' series. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/menwomenguns00sappuoft ''Men, Women and Guns''] 1916. Also available in an [https://archive.org/details/menwomenandguns_1511_librivox audio edition].
:[https://archive.org/details/sergeantmichaelc00sappuoft ''Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R. E.''] 1916
:[http://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/EdgarWallace/Smithy/Nobby-JamForTheEnemy.html ''Nobby: Jam for the Enemy''] by Edgar Wallace 1915
:[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://booksarchive.google.com.auorg/details/elsiemairigotowa00dian/books?id=FVU0CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT81 A page/126/mode/2up Pages 126-127] from Chapter V, ''Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front'' by Diane Atkinson. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.</ref>*''William – an Englishman'' by Cicely Hamilton c 1919. [https://archive.org/details/williamenglishma00hamiiala Archive.org], missing pages 169-170, but file colour perhaps easier to read, [https://archive.org/details/williamanenglish00hamiiala Archive.org, all pages], [https://archive.org/details/williamanenglishman_1310_librivox Librivox audio recording] Archive.org, missing pages 169-170. The author worked at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont and organised Concerts at the Front. The book, written in a tent within sound of guns and shells, won the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse in 1919.<ref>[http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/william-an-englishman.html ''William – an Englishman'' by Cicely Hamilton] persephonebooks.co.uk.</ref>*[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/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. :''When Armageddon came; studies in peace and war'' by Wilfrid Ewart 1933. [http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph011430603 Catalogue entry, Oxford University Library] with link to digital copy, [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/502760101.pdf Direct pdf]. [https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00516/hrc-00516.html Biographical details] lib.utexas.edu. He died in 1922. Ewart was an officer in the Scots Guards, refer [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]] above.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207934/page/n5 ''The Spanish Farm Trilogy 1914-1918''] by R H Mottram, originally published 1924-1926. ''Trilogy'' edition 1927 Archive.org. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-rh-mottram-trilogy-20151210-story.html "The underappreciation of R. H. Mottram's World War I novels"] by Patrick Reardon 10 December 2015 ''Chicago Tribune''. "''The Spanish Farm,'' ''Sixty-four, Ninety-four!'' and ''The Crime of Vanderlynden's'' — were set in Flanders, mostly behind the lines, and were based on Mottram's own military experiences. They were published individually in the late 1920s and later issued together with additional material as ''The Spanish Farm Trilogy''". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Hale_Mottram Ralph Hale Mottram] Wikipedia.*[https://archive.org/details/sommeincludingal00gris ''The Somme'', including also ''The Coward''] by A D Gristwood (Arthur Donald). With new introduction by Hugh Cecil. 2006. First published 1927. Archive.org Lending Library. [https://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/2006/3648.html Publisher's page] The author was a “reluctant accountant turned even more reluctant infantryman in the London Rifle Brigade” ... "the war as Gristwood experienced it—a dark and desperate theater of pain where only base instincts could get a man out alive".*[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_89630/2?r=0&s=1 ''Generals Die In Bed''] by Charles Yale Harrison 1930, first published 1928. canadiana.ca. [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500061h.html 1928 edition], a transcription by Project Gutenberg Australia. [https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20141066 1930 edition], a transcription by Faded Page (Canada). [https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/100-stories/Pages/harrison.aspx Charles Yale Harrison] (bac-lac.gc.ca) (1898-1954) was an 18-year-old student when he enlisted with the 244th (Kitchener’s Own) Battalion on January 24, 1917, in Montreal. He was wounded in August 1918. [https://www.englishworks.com.au/generals-die-bed-charles-harrison/ About the book] englishworks.com.au.[https://www.wlajournal.com/wlaarchive/23_1-2/clausson.pdf "Charles Yale Harrison’s “Little-Known Minor Masterpiece”: ''Generals Die in Bed'', Modernism, and the Canon of World War I Fiction"] by Nils Clausson ''War, Literature & the Arts'' 23 (2011).:Revised edition, classified Juvenile/Young Adult Fiction: [https://archive.org/details/generalsdieinbed00char ''Generals die in bed : a story from the trenches''] 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[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/greenenvelopes Archive.org mirror version].
*[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/pathsofglory00cobbroadstoglory0000aldi/page/n3 n5 ''Roads to Glory''] by Richard Aldington 1930. Archive.org Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/cavalrywenthroug0000bern/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Cavalry Went Through''] by Bernard Newman 1930 Archive.org Books to Borrow. Also released in America under the title ''The Cavalry Goes Through!''Paths . [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16639094 Trove review] “a georgeous stunt, an impudently satirical narrative”. The novel is one of Glorythe first in the genre of virtual history, according to the article from [https://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/the-cavalry-went-through/ Great War Fiction Plus]:[https://archive.org/details/spy0000bern/page/n5/mode/2up ''Spy''] A Novel by Humphrey CobbBernard Newman 1935 Archive.org Books to Borrow. Although written in the first person, 1987 editionthis is a book of fiction, not an autobiography. Newman wrote other books about Spies as a historian.:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Newman_(writer) Bernard Newman (writer)] Wikipedia. *[https://archive.org/details/williammarchomni0000marc/page/n17/mode/2up ''Company K''] by William March, originally serialised 1930-32 and published as a book 1933, from ''A William March Omnibus'' published 1935 1956. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. With an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_K Company K] Wikipedia. "...among the most important of all war novels". March (pseud.) was a decorated U S Marine, birth name William Edward Campbell.*[https://archive.org/details/pathsofglory00cobbwethatwereyoungn00rath/page/266 n5 Afterword''We That Were Young : a Novel''] by Stephen Irene Rathbone, with a preface by E Tabachnick.M. Delafield ; and with a new introduction by Lynn Knight. 1989 reprint, first published 1932. Also reprinted in England in 1988 in the series Virago Modern Classics (no. 306). The story was suggested author volunteered for war service, working at two YMCA camps in France and as a VAD in London. Her novel draws upon those experiences as well as upon those of a close friend who worked in a munitions factory. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/wingedvictory0000yeat_o3r0/mode/2up ''Winged Victory''] by actual eventsV M Yates 2010 reprint of 1934 original edition. Based very largely on the author’s experiences as a fighter pilot. [https://archive. A film version org/details/wingedvictory0000yeat_h3l9/mode/2up 1985 reprint of 1961 edition] which contained a new preface and a tribute by Stanley Kubrick was produced Henry Williamson. The latter volume a volume in the series ''Echoes of War''. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow. Also see [[Western Front#In the Air|In the Air]] above, for more about the author.*[https://archive.org/details/in 1957.ernet.dli.2015.13580/page/n3 ''In Parenthesis''] by David Jones 1937. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(artist-poet) David Jones (artist-poet)] Wikipedia. “...a mixture of verse and prose-lines but the rich language establishes it as poetry”.*A novel[https: //archive.org/details/dli.ernet.503004 ''Across The Black Waters'' ] by Mulk Raj Anand. Reprint edition, possibly 1955, originally published 1940. Previously available Archive.org. mirror from Digital Library of India (handle/2015/503004), possibly may become available in the future. A novel about Indian (Punjabi) soldiers who have crossed the black waters, against all the advice of their forefathers that calamity would befall anyone who went overseas, to join the British and their allies on the Western Front. The author was born in Peshawar in 1905, so was too young for first-hand experience of the war, but the book has a very authentic feel, suggesting that he not only did his research in books but also listened to the stories of older men who came back. He grew up in military cantonments, according to the introduction.<ref> Liz in Eastbourne. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/236997-across-the-black-water-by-mulk-raj-anand/ Across the Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand] ''Great War Forum'' 3 March 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</ref> [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000806/spectrum/books.htm#5 Review] by Randeep Wadehra, August 6, 2000 ''The Tribune''*[https://archive.org/details/threecheersforme0000jack/page/n5 ''Three Cheers for Me: The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy Volume One''] by Donald Jack. Revised edition 1973, original version 1962. :[https://archive.org/details/thatsmeinmiddle0002unse/mode/2up ''That's Me in the Middle: The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy Volume Two''] by Donald Jack 1978 reprint, first published 1973.:[https://archive.org/details/itsmeagain00jack ''It’s Me Again: The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy Volume Three''] by Donald Jack 1975. All Archive.org Lending Library.:Volumes One, Two and Three in the series ''The Bandy Papers'', or ''The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy''. A novelseries of novels chronicling the exploits of a World War I fighter ace Bartholomew Wolfe Bandy. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bandy_Papers The Bandy Papers] Wikipedia. “The books are noted for their humour and word play, as well as technical and historic accuracy.” [https: //www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/donald-jack-3/its-me-again-the-journals-of-bartholomew-bandy-/ Review of Volume Three], the final volume set in the WW1 period.*[https://archive.org/details/ravilancersnovel00mast ''The Ravi Lancers''] by [[John Masters]] 1972. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. A novel about an Indian cavalry regiment sent to France at the outbreak of the First World War. Believed to be based on the real-life Jodhpur Lancers (Only one person Indian States Forces)<ref>Comment by Peter Moore on an archived webpage [https://web.archive.org/web/20170328152740/http://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/lieutenant-frank-de-pass/ Soldiers Stories: Lieutenant Frank de Pass] nam.ac.uk</ref>.*''Regeneration Trilogy'' by Pat Barker. On a 2012 ''Guardian'' list of "The 10 best historical novels". "...the story of psychiatrist William Rivers and his pioneering treatment of various First World War soldiers - including Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen - for shell shock at the Craiglockhart war hospital near Edinburgh"<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2012/may/13/ten-best-historical-novels "The 10 best historical novels"] by William Skidelsky 12 May 2012 ''The Guardian''</ref>:[https://archive.org/details/regeneration00bark_1 ''Regeneration''] by Pat Barker 1992. [https://archive.org/details/regeneration00bark 2nd file]:[https://archive.org/details/eyeindoor000bark ''The Eye in the Door''] by Pat Barker 1994. [https://archive.org/details/eyeindoor00bark 2nd file]:[https://archive.org/details/ghostroad00bark ''The Ghost Road''] by Pat Barker 1995. [https://archive.org/details/ghostroad000bark 2nd file]. All Archive.org Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/birdsong00faul_vfx ''Birdsong''] by Sebastian Faulks 1997, first published 1993. Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/Birdsong2008 ''Birdsong'': Audio] 2008 BBC Radio Drama. Archive.org. *[https://archive.org/details/songsfromtrenche00blacrich/page/n7 ''Songs from the Trenches''] by Capt. C W Blackall 1915 Archive.org. During the period when Charles Walter Blackall wrote these poems he was serving with the 1st Bn. Royal Welch Fusiliers. He was KiA 24th March 1918.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191204220208/https://turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf Turner Donovan] December 2019, Item 132.</ref> :[https://archive.org/details/allswellsomehelp00oxenuoft/page/n9 ''"All's Well!" Some Helpful Verse For These Dark Days of War''] by John Oxenham, pseudonym of William Arthur Dunkerley. Eighteenth edition, 1917, first published 1915. Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/agloucestershire00harv/page/n5 ''A Gloucestershire lad at home and abroad''] by F W Harvey. Fourth impression 1917, first published 1916. [https://archive.org/details/gloucestershiref00harv/page/n5 ''Gloucestershire friends: poems from a German prison camp''] by F W Harvey 1917. Both Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Harvey F. W. Harvey] Wikipedia. His war memoir was ''Comrades in Captivity: a time Record of Life in Seven German Prison Camps'' 1920, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001610788:[https://archive.org/details/uplinetodeathwar00gard ''Up the line to death: the war poets, 1914-1918''] An anthology selected and arranged with an introduction and notes by Brian Gardner 1967 Archive.org Lending Library.:[https://archive.org/details/worldwaronebriti00ward/page/n1 ''World War One British poets : Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, and others''] Edited by Candace Ward 1997 Archive.org Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/whenthisbloodywa0000arth/mode/2up ''When this bloody war is able over : soldiers' songs of the First World War''] by Max Arthur 2002. Archive.org Books to borrowBorrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/sommestations0000mart_y9h5/mode/2up ''The Somme Stations''] by Andrew Martin. 2012, so you may need first published 2011. [https://archive.org/details/sommestations0000mart/mode/2up File 2]. Archive.org Books to wait for Borrow/Lending Library. A crime novel and volume in the Jim Stringer, Steam Detective series.*[https://archive.org/details/deadofmametz0000hick ''The Dead of Mametz''] by Jonathan Hicks 2011. [https://archive.org/details/demonswalkamongu0000hick ''Demons Walk Among Us''] by Jonathan Hicks 2013. Murder investigations by Captain Thomas Oscendale of the book Military Police, written by a military historian. Archive.org Books to be returnedBorrow/Lending Library. First you must *[https://archive.org/details/lendinglibraryballoonist0000long/mode/2up ''The Balloonist''] by James Long 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Balloonists directed artillery fire along the Western Front. If there was only one occupant he was always an appropriately trained officer. By mid 1916 a two man crew was the norm, the balloon commander and the observer. The Balloon Section in France became part of the Royal Flying Corps in the autumn of 1915,<ref> Scroll to Burns, Ian. [https://www.crossandcockade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1179&tabtitle=about registerhistory-of-no14-balloon-section History of No.14 Balloon Section] ''Cross & Cockade International Forum'' 29 June 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2021.</ref> after initially being part of the Royal Naval Air Service. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101202223810/http://westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-on-land/73-weapons-equipment-uniforms/313-ob-bal-west.html "Observation Balloons On The Western Front"] by Dr David Payne westernfrontassociation.com, archived.*[https://archive.org/details/caremanagementof0000wins_u1f4/mode/2up ''The Care and Management of Lies''] by Jacqueline Winspear 2014. Some editions have the additional title ''A Novel of the Great War''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://thecareandmanagementoflies.com Book website]. [https://www.npr.org/2014/07/03/325491375/a-primer-on-the-care-and-management-of-hope-in-wartime Book Review] npr.org*[https://archive.org/details/fieldservice0000edri_q0o7/mode/2up ''Field Service''] by Robert Edric 2015 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Set against the background of the work of the War Graves Commission in the wake of the Great War. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Edric Robert Edric] Wikipedia.*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 An Indian cavalry regiment 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 sent 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 France at the outbreak page 7, 5th column of the First World War''Pittsburgh Press'' (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.
*A novel: [https://archive.org/details/hirasinghwhenind00mund ''Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders''] by Talbot Mundy. Archive.org. Published in Britain as ''Hira Singh's Tale: When India Came to Fight in Flanders''. Serialized in ''Adventure'' magazine, October 18 - December 3, 1917. Published in book form 1918. A fictional account of a cavalry regiment taken prisoners of war by the Germans.
*[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.
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*[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".
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%22Biggles+in+World+War+1%22%29&sort=date ''Biggles in World War 1'' Archive.org collection of 5 volumes] of short stories which originally appeared in magazines.
:[http://www.friardale.co.uk/Biggles/Biggles%20Daniel%20Tangri.pdf "Biggles"] by Daniel Tangri. friardale.co.uk.
*[https://archive.org/details/thecockpitkennthquintrelarchwhitehous/mode/2up ''The Cockpit: Flying Adventures 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 Stanley Orton Bradshaw and Howard Leigh. Catalogued 1934. Archive.org. A digital reprint.
*Adventure stories for younger readers
**By Herbert Strang. Gutenberg.org.
