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*:[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/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.
*[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1647 ''Reputations, Ten Years After''] by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart 1928.Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". An examination of 10 leading personalities of WWI, including Joffre, Foch, Petain, Lundendorff, Pershing, and others.:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57906 ''Real War 1914-1918''] by B H Liddell Hart 1930 Archive.org. An enlarged edition was published as: ''A History of the World War, 1914-1918'', 1934. Reprinted as
:[https://archive.org/details/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/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.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100000050752.0x000002 ''Strategic Camouflage''] by Solomon J. Solomon 1920. British Library Digital file.
*[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
*[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). 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". Satirical caricature cartoons of the German Kaiser Wilhelm and his son, The Crown Prince.
*For Army ''Manuals'', see [[Military periodicals online#Army Regulations, Equipment, Manuals etc|Military periodicals online - Army Regulations, Equipment, Manuals etc]]
*[https://archive.org/details/temporaryheroes00somm ''Temporary Heroes''] by 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/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.
*[https://archive.org/details/greatpush00macg ''The Great Push : an Episode of the Great War''] by Patrick MacGill, 1917 Archive.org. The author served with the London Irish Rifles. [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/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/ Biographical details] qormuseum.org
*[https://archive.org/details/mudkhakisketches00bartiala ''Mud and Khaki, 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. 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>
