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*[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". From the outbreak of war to 14 September 1914. Also his book below under [[Western Front#Cavalry|Cavalry]].
*[https://archive.org/details/campaignofmarne10000tyng/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Campaign of the Marne, 1914''] by Sewell Tyng 1935 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/marne1914opening0000herw/mode/2up ''The Marne, 1914 : the opening of World War I and the battle that changed the world''] by Holger H Herwig 2009 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Herwig Holger Herwig] Canadian historian and professor. He was the co-author of ''Biographical Dictionary of World War I'', see [[Western Front#Generals and Army Headquarters|next section]].
*[https://archive.org/details/ypres1914officia00schwuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''Ypres, 1914; an Official Account published by order of the German General Staff''] by Captain Otto Schwink, German Army, translation by G.C.W. 1919. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/deathofarmy00farr ''Death of an Army''] by Anthony Farrar-Hockley 1968. Additional title on cover ''The first battle of Ypres, 1914, in which the British regular Army was destroyed''. [October-November 1914]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/westernfront00rich ''The Western Front''] by Richard Holmes 2000. Additional title on cover ''Ordinary Soldiers and the Defining Battles of World War I''.
:[https://archive.org/details/worldwariinphoto00carl ''The First World War in Photographs''] by Richard Holmes in association with Imperial War Museum (Great Britain) 2001
:[https://archive.org/details/tommybritishsold0000holm ''Tommy : the British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918''] by Richard Holmes 2005. :[https://archive.org/details/shotsfromfrontbr0000holm_w7e8/page/n5/mode/2up ''Shots from the front : the British soldier 1914-18''] by Richard Holmes 2010, first published 2008. All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/1918verybritishv0000hart/mode/2up ''1918 : a Very British Victory''] by Peter Hart 2008. [https://archive.org/details/1918verybritishv0000hart_i3m2/mode/2up File 2]
:[https://archive.org/details/voicesfromfronto0000hart/mode/2up ''Voices from the Front : an Oral History of the Great War''] by Peter Hart 2015.
====Generals and Army Headquarters====
*[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000herw/page/n5/mode/2up ''Biographical Dictionary of World War I''] by Holger H Herwig and Neil M Heyman 1982. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also see Herwig's ''The Marne'' above.
*[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>
*[https://archive.org/details/visittosirdougla00marc/page/n3 ''A visit to Sir Douglas Haig''] by Isaac F Marcosson [American journalist and editor] 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211288/page/n9 ''Plumer Of Messines''] by General Sir Charles Harington 1935 Archive.org. General Herbert Plumer, Commander of the Second Army. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Plumer,_1st_Viscount_Plumer Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer] Wikipedia.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176573/page/n47 "The Great War"] page 41 ''Tim Harington Looks Back'' by General Sir Charles Harington 1941 reprint, first published 1940. [https://archive.org/details/TimHaringtonLooksBack/page/n1 2nd file, images slightly better] Both Archive.org. The author was Chief of Staff to General Herbert Plumer, Commander of the Second Army. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harington_Harington Charles Harington Harington] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38633/page/n7 ''The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent: from his journals and letters]'' edited by Major-Genersl General Sir Frederick Maurice 1928 Archive.org. USA title ''Soldier, Artist, Sportsman: The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent from his Journal and Letters''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rawlinson,_1st_Baron_Rawlinson Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson] Wikipedia. He commanded the Fourth Army of the British Expeditionary Force at the battles of the Somme (1916) and Amiens (1918).
*[https://archive.org/details/eyewitnesssnarra00swinuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''Eye-witness's narrative of the war; from the Marne to Neuve Chapelle, September, 1914-March, 1915''] by an Eyewitness present with General Headquarters 1915 Archive.org. Catalogued authors Swinton and Percy, see following book.
:Swinton was Official Correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force in France, as newspaper correspondents were not allowed.
