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*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents'' [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b633844?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Transportation on the Western Front, 1914-1918''] compiled by Colonel AM Henniker, R E (ret) 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/84806 Pdf to download from the Digital Library of India]
:[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn6454756 Volume of 14 Maps] National Library of Australia, with a description in the [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn6454756 catalogue entry].
*French Official Histories: [http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/arkotheque/inventaires/ead_ir_consult.php?fam=11&ref=FRSHD_AFGG_ead ''Les Armées françaises dans la Grande Guerre''] sga.defense.gouv.fr. French language. Eleven ''Tome''s, some with multiple volumes, mostly about the Western Front. With online maps (Cartes) and at times panoramic sketches (Croquis panoramiques).*German Official, or semi Official Histories: [http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:at:AT-OOeLB-1155545 ''Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918: die militärischen Operationen zu Lande''] 16 Volumes. [http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:at:AT-OOeLB-1627302 ''Schlachten des Weltkrieges''] 22 Volumes. German language. Maps (Karten) are often at the back of individual volumes, and there may be photographs, all of which can be located by clicking on the Thumbnail gallery, and then selecting specific pages. The Digital State Library of Upper Austria.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284463 ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II''] by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Link to an Adobe pdf download. Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with chapters on the British Expeditionary Force.
*[https://archive.org/details/armyservicecorps00puck ''Army Service Corps of the British Army, and, the organization of the transport and transportation at the front in France : lectures delivered before the officers of the Quartermaster Corps and Quartermaster Reserve Corps at Washington, D.C., May 1917''] by Lieut. Col. F K Puckle, A S C, British Army. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/vocabularygerma00britgoog ''Vocabulary of German Military Terms and Abbreviations''] by Army War College [USA] “Reprint of a British Document” 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/heroesheroicdeed00mackiala#page/98/mode/2up "Indians' Daring Feats"], page 99 ''Heroes and Heroic Deeds of the Great War'' by Donald A Mackenzie 1916. Archive.org. A book for younger readers.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishwardogsth00richrich ''British War Dogs, their Training and Psychology''] by Lt.-Colonel E H Richardson, late Commandant of the British War Dog School. C 1920. Archive.org.
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/221023 ''Forty Years With Dogs''] by E H Richardson 1935. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [http://www.k9history.com/WWI-biography-ehrichardson.htm "A Biography of E H Richardson"] k9history.com, probably based on the autobiography.
* Fiction
**Half-novel, half-autobiography: [http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/manmidd ''The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916''] by Frederic Manning 1929. Also published as ''Her Privates We''. Pdf download of a transcription, University of Sydney Digital Collection. Considered “as being true to the actual experience of modern warfare in ways that nothing else had managed to be”. <ref> [http://insidestory.org.au/an-outsider-at-war "An outsider at war"] by Richard Johnstone 4 June 2012. ''Inside Story''.</ref>
