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*''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/gunsofaugust00tuch_gaq ''The Guns of August''] by Barbara Tuchman 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. A narrative of the earliest stages of World War I, from the decisions to go to war, up until the battles of the first month. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_August About the book] Wikipedia. Article [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/03/guns-of-august-barbara-tuchman "''The Guns of August'' showed me how history could bring the past to life"] by Margaret MacMillan ''The Guardian'' 4 August 2014.
*[https://archive.org/details/retreatfrommons00daviuoft/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Retreat from Mons''] by H W C Davis (Henry William Carless) 3rd impression [1914] Archive.org. Part of the series ''Oxford Pamphlets 1914''.
*[https://archive.org/details/retreatfrommons01gord/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Retreat from Mons''] 1917. Catalogued author George Stuart Gordon. Elsewhere noted "London edition (Constable) published in 1918 under title: ''Mons and the retreat''".
*[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990055782080203941/catalog ''The victory of the Marne : the enemy's onslaught, order to stand firm, the battle, immediate results, historic consequences''] by Louis Madelin ; translated from the original French by Lilly M. Grove 1917. Part of the series ''Studies and documents on the war''. Harvard University Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/victoryofmarneth00made/mode/2up Archive.org]. [September 1914]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523396/page/n5/mode/2up ''Liaison, 1914. A Narrative of the Great Retreat''] by Brigadier-General E L Spears (Late 11th Hussars) 1930 Archive.org. The author was then "the Liaison Officer between the British Army, and the Fifth, or most Northerly of the whole line of French Armies". Also his book below under [[Western Front#Cavalry|Cavalry]].
====Artillery====
*[https://archive.org/details/retreatfrommon00corb/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Retreat from Mons by one who shared in it''] by A Corbett-Smith, Major RFA. 1916 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/marneaftercompan00corb/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Marne - and After, a companion volume to "The Retreat from Mons"''] by A Corbett-Smith, Major RFA. 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withguns00foof ''With the Guns''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/makingofgunner00streiala ''The Making of a Gunner''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
:[http://www.booksandwriters.co.uk/F/books-about-the-french-foreign-legion.html List of Books about the French Foreign Legion], including some titles of fiction/adventure stories. booksandwriters.co.uk
*[https://archive.org/details/mudkhakisketches00bartiala ''Mud and Khaki, Sketches from Flanders and France''] by Vernon Bartlett 1917 Archive.org. Some of these sketches had appeared in the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. The author subsequently became a journalist and politician. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Bartlett Vernon Bartlett] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/withreservistinf00bolwrich/page/n7/mode/2up ''With a Reservist in France; a personal account of all the engagements in which the 1st division 1st corps took part, viz; Mons (including the retirement), the Marne, the Aisne, first battle of Ypes, Neuve Chapelle, Festubert, and Loos''] by F A Bolwell [1917] Archive.org. The author was in 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/twentytwomonthsu00crof ''Twenty-two Months Under Fire''] by Henry Page Croft 1917 Archive.org. The author belonged to 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, a Territorial Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/oneyoungmansimpl01hodd/page/n5 ''One Young Man; the simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the Western Front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk''] edited by J E Hodder-Williams 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/oneyoungman00willuoft/page/n5 Later edition] Archive.org which advises the young man was Reginald Davis, thought to be in D Company, 1/9th London Regiment (QVR (Queen Victoria's Rifles))<ref>bmac. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/44221-book-one-young-man-sidney-baxter-reginald-davis/?do=findComment&comment=371090 Book 'ONE YOUNG MAN': Sidney Baxter / Reginald Davis] ''Great War Forum'' 2 January 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2019.</ref>, a London territorial regiment.
