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*[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/battleofsomme00maserich/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Battle of the Somme''] by John Masefield 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/firstdayonsomm00midd ''The First Day on the Somme, 1 July 1916''] by Martin Middlebrook 1972 . [https://archive.org/details/firstdayonsomme10000midd/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd file, 1984 reprint]. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes interviews with many survivors, both British and German.:[https://archive.org/details/sommebattlefield0000midd/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Somme Battlefields : a Comprehensive Guide from Crécy to the Two World Wars''] by Martin and Mary Middlebrook 1991. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/sommedaybydayacc0000mcca/mode/2up ''The Somme : the day-by-day account''] by Chris McCarthy 1993. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/lifeatlimittrium0000watk/mode/2up ''The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme''] by Malcolm Brown 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
:[https://archive.org/details/tommybritishsold0000holm ''Tommy : the British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918''] by Richard Holmes 2005. All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/victoriacrossher0000ashc/mode/2up/ ''Victoria Cross Heroes''] by Michael Ashcroft 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes WW1.
====Generals and Army Headquarters====
*[https://archive.org/details/privatepapersofd0000haig ''The private papers of Douglas Haig, 1914-1919: being selections from the private diary and correspondence of Field-Marshal the Earl of Bemersyde''] edited by Robert Blake 1952 Archive.org. There was a subsequent selection of papers (with more emphasis on Haig’s military role), ''Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918'' edited by Gary Sheffield and John Bourne 2005, the latter book based on the manuscript version of the diaries (Blake’s used the typescript).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20181220103221/http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2018/01/haigs-unique-wwi-diaries.html Haig’s ‘unique’ WWI diaries] The Diary Review.</ref>
