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Historical books online
*''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]
*[http://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/WWI.html#tab_1 US Army Centre of Military History online books] ''Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War'' (5 Volumes) and ''United States Army In The World War'' (17 Volumes). 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
*''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/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
:[http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll7/id/284 ''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. Link to pdf download, Combined Arms Research Library [CARL] Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/handgrenadeshand00ainsrich ''Hand Grenades: a Handbook on Rifle and Hand Grenades''] by Major Graham M Ainslie 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027946619 ''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.
====Miscellaneous====
*[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/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 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.
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