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*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three Fronts''] Edited by his wife. 1919. The letters of George Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles]. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta, Egypt and Palestine, where he died. He was a well known Theosophist. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
*[https://archive.org/details/handfulofausseys00thor ''A Handful of Ausseys''] by C. Hampton Thorp, AIF 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''. The latter part of the book is about the Western Front.
*''The Storm of Steel'' by Ernst Jünger. First published in German 1920. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/> See [[Western Front#German Army|German Army]].
*[https://archive.org/details/howifilmedwarrec00malirich/page/n9 ''How I filmed the war; a record of the extraordinary experiences of the man who filmed the great Somme battles, etc.''] by Lieut Geoffrey H Malins 1920. Archive.org. For two years he was one of the official War Office Kinematographers, having previously done some free lance war work. [https://archive.org/details/how_filmed_war_rs_librivox ''How I Filmed the War'' LibriVox recording] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/galloperatypress00butlrich/page/n7 ''A Galloper at Ypres, and some subsequent adventures''] by Major and Bt- Lieut-Col Patrick Butler, The Royal Irish 1920. Archive.org. Butler was ADC to the General of the 7th Division.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz381969959 ''Die graue Felduniform der deutschen Armee''] 5th edition [1915] Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Read online, or download. [https://archive.org/details/1910000aGraueFelduniform File of images, Archive.org 1910 edition]
*[https://archive.org/details/withgermanarmies00hedi/page/n7 ''With the German Armies in the West''] by Sven Hedin. Translated from the Swedish by H G de Walterstorff 1915 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/withgermanarmies00hediuoft/page/n7 Another version Archive.org] where illustrations may be clearer. The author travelled from Sweden, which was a neutral nation, so that he could view the war with his own eyes, and study the psychology of war.
*Memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger's experiences on the Western Front. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/> First published in 1920, there were many German revisions published. There have been two English translations, based on different German editions, of which the second translation by Hofman is generally considered superior.:[https://archive.org/details/ErnstJngerTheStormOfSteel/page/n3 ''The Storm Of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front''] by Ernst Jünger, Lieutenant, 73rd Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment. Reprint of the 1929 translation [by Basil Creighton of the 1924 German edition]. Archive.org. :[https://archive.org/details/stormofsteel00jung/page/n3 ''Storm of Steel''] by Ernst Jünger. Translated by Michael Hofman 2003, from the 1961 German edition. Archive.org Lending Library.:[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34099 ''In Stahlgewittern: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Stoßtruppführers''] by Ernst Jünger 1922. Gutenberg.org. German language. There are English translations, not available online, under the title :[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_of_Steel ''Storm of Steel''] (Wikipedia).
====Post War including British Occupation of Germany====
*''The Occupation of the Rhineland : 1918-1929'' by J. E Edmonds, (James Edward, Sir). Originally published under restricted circulation 1944. Series: ''History of the Great War''. Available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/the-occupation-of-the-rhineland-1918-1929official-history-of-the-great-war/ ''The Occupation of the Rhineland : 1918-1929''] by J. E Edmonds. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8KO82s1roGLP6hQIy online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in World War II/Military Books/Germany.
