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===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.: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 .
====Official Histories and Battles====
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Military Operations: France and Belgium'' by Brigadier-General J E Edmonds
*[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/towardflamewardi00herv ''Toward the Flame: a War Diary''] by Hervey Allen. Revised edition, with illustrations 1934, first published 1926. Archive.org. 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://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.
* For books by British journalist Philip Gibbs, including the autobiographical ''Adventures in Journalism'', see [[Western Front#Histories and general| Histories and general]] 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/atwar0000nort/page/n5 ''At the War''] by Lord Northcliffe 1916 Archive.org. Published for the British Red Cross Society.
*[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.
*[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.
