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*[https://archive.org/details/catastropheeurop0000hast ''Catastrophe : Europe goes to War 1914''] by Max Hastings 2013. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The war to December 1914. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hastings Max Hastings] Wikipedia. British journalist/editor and military historian.
*[https://archive.org/details/donkeys00clar/page/n5 ''The Donkeys''] by Alan Clark 1962 Archive.org. “This study is concerned simply with what the Army was ordered to do, and what happened when it attempted to carry out those orders; … 1915 saw the core of professional quality dissipated..”
*[https://archive.org/details/priceofgloryverd00horn ''The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916''] by Alistair Horne 1964 "This specially abridged edition first published in Penguin Books 1964." (Originally published 1962). Archive.org Lending Library. Horne also wrote ''Death of a generation: from Neuve Chapelle to Verdun and the Somme'' 1970 which encapsulates some of the earlier book. Verdun: 21 February – 18 December 1916. *[https://archive.org/details/roadtoverdunworl00ousb/mode/2up ''The Road to Verdun: World War I’s most momentous battle and the folly of nationalism''] by Ian Ousby 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/lastdaysoffortva00borduoft ''The Last Days of Fort Vaux, March 9-June 7, 1916''] by Henry Bordeaux, translated by Paul V Cohn [c 1917] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/oldfrontline01mase ''The Old Front Line''] by John Masefield 1917 Archive.org. The old front line as it was when the Battle of the Somme began.
:[https://archive.org/details/elsiemairigotowa00dian ''Elsie and Mairi Go To War : two extraordinary women on the Western Front''] by Diane Atkinson 2010 Archive.org Lending Library
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBr-K8JrDZE "The Two Madonnas of Pervyse"] YouTube video. Also see Fiction below, for a book where there is a representation of these two women, but not as the main character.
*[https://archive.org/details/ssa10notesonwork00leng/page/n3/mode/2up ''S. S. A. 10. Notes on the work of a British Volunteer Ambulance Convoy with the 2nd French Army (of Verdun)''] by William St. Q Leng. 1918 Archive.org. S. S. A. = La Section Sanitaire Anglaise.
*[https://archive.org/details/vr76frenchmilita00reckrich ''V.R. 76 : a French Military Hospital''] by Harold James Reckitt. 1921. Archive.org. A military hospital with a non-military administration. (Fondation Johnstone-Reckitt). The author was a previous British MP, with a family history of philanthropy.
*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersofamer00vanviala ''War Letters of an American Woman''] by Marie Van Vorst. 1916 Archive.org. A novelist, she worked as a volunteer nurse at the American Ambulance [Hospital]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Vorst Wikipedia]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.440855/page/n7 ''Fifty Amazing Secret Service Dramas''] c 1937? published by ''The Times of India''. Archive.org
====Volunteers , correspondents and others====
*''The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington'' 1920. [An autobiography]. [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar01repi Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar19100repi Volume II] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_à_Court_Repington Charles à Court Repington] 1858-1925. Wikipedia. He was a former British Army Officer who was military correspondent for ''The Times'' 1904–1918, who had many influential contacts with officers in the Army's highest ranks.
*[https://archive.org/details/notebookofattach01wood/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Note-book of an Attaché; seven months in the war zone''] by Eric Fisher Wood 1915 Archive.org. Some of the images may be better in [https://archive.org/details/cihm_990872/mode/2up this 2nd version] Archive.org. The author was studying in Paris at the outbreak of war, and became Attaché at the American Embassy in Paris under Ambassador Myron Herrick. The American Embassy became responsible for German subjects remaining in France. Includes a period when Wood volunteered as an ambulance driver. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Fisher_Wood Eric Fisher Wood] Wikipedia. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others, above]] for a later book.
:[https://archive.org/details/reporteratarmage00irwirich ''A Reporter at Armageddon: Letters from the Front and Behind the Lines of the Great War''] by Will Irwin. 1918. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027856933 ''"The Next War"; an Appeal to Common Sense''] by Will Irwin 1921 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/verduntovosgesim00camp ''Verdun to the Vosges : impressions of the war on the fortress frontier of France''] by Gerald Campbell, Special Correspondent of ''The Times'' in the East of France. 2nd Impression 1916. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withnewarmyonsom00palm/page/n9/mode/2up ''With The New Army On The Somme. My Second Year of the War''] by Frederick Palmer, Accredited American Correspondent at the British Front. 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withbritishonsom00thom/mode/2up ''With the British on the Somme''] by W Beach Thomas 1917 Archive.org [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beach_Thomas William Beach Thomas] war correspondent with the ''Daily Mail''.
