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*[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 further above for an additional book by John Terraine about Douglas Haig.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Terraine John Terraine] Wikipedia.
*[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://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.
*[https://archive.org/details/daughtersofbrita00hick/page/n5/mode/2up ''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/pillarsoffirebat0000pass ''Pillars of Fire : the Battle of Messines Ridge, June 1917''] by Ian Passingham 1998. 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''.
:''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/armouragainstfat0000occl ''Armour against fate Fate : British military intelligence Military Intelligence in the First World War''] by Michael Occleshaw 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/greatwarperspect0000unse facingarmageddon0000unse_g6p3 ''The Great War Facing Armageddon : perspectives on the First World WarExperienced''] edited by Robert Cowley 2003Hugh Cecil and Peter H Liddle. Thirty articles by different authors1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Chapters by many different authors.
*[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.
*[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://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/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''.
