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*[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
*[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.
*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. The Digital State Library of Upper Austria.
:Also available from the Universty of Hamburg Library as 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>].
*''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] Archive.org.
*[https://www.army.gov.au/sites/g/files/net1846/f/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
*[https://www.army.gov.au/sites/g/files/net1846/f/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.
*[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
*Books by Lyn Macdonald. Opinions about this author differ, but generally her books are considered to provide a good introduction to WW1, and to concentrate on the personal experience of the soldier, but lack the broader picture of the war. <ref> Saunders, Jonathan. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/30507-lyn-macdonald/ Lyn MacDonald] ''Great War Forum'' 10 April 2005. Retrieved 8 May 2019.</ref> :[https://archive.org/details/191400macd/page/n7 ''1914''] by Lyn Macdonald 1988. :[https://archive.org/details/sommemacd00macd ''Somme''] by Lyn Macdonald 1983. :[https://archive.org/details/tolastmanspring100macd ''To the Last Man: Spring 1918''] by Lyn Macdonald 1998. All Archive.org Lending Library.
====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 Archive.org mirror version 1]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173047 Archive.org 2]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201725 Archive.org 3]
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