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*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028003436 ''From Private to Field-Marshal''] by Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson 1921 Archive.org. He held many senior positions during the War, including Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.111437 ''History In The Making. The First World War''] by Richard Thoumin, translated by Martin Kieffer. Archive.org. Translation of ''La Grande Guerre'', (3 Volume anthology) 1931.
*[https://archive.org/details/zeppelinsandsup00heargoog ''Zeppelins and Super-Zeppelins''] [by R P Hearne] [1916] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/zeppelinspastfut00campuoft ''Zeppelins, the Past and Future''] by Edwin Campbell 1918 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/zeppelinsagainst00pool ''Zeppelins against London''] by Kenneth Poolman 1961. Archive.org Lending Library
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:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.6295 ''The World Crisis 1911-1918'']. Abridged and Revised edition 1932, first published 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57905 ''Sandhurst editon of The World Crisis''] 1933
:''The World Crisis 1911-1918'' Revised edition 1938. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523355 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523358 Volume II]
*''The London Gazette'' [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/awards-and-accreditation/content/100079 World War 1 despatches]. Links to all the military despatches from commanders-in-chief. thegazette.co.uk.
*[http://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/WWI.html#tab_1 US Army Centre of Military History online books] ''Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War'' (5 Volumes) and ''United States Army In The World War'' (17 Volumes). Links to Pdf downloads.
*[https://archive.org/details/worldwarshortacc00fieb ''The World War: a Short Account of the Principal Land Operations on the Belgian, French, Russian, Italian, Greek and Turkish Fronts''] by Colonel G J Fiebeger 1921 Archive.org.
:[http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll7/id/866 ''Atlas'' to accompany ''The World War: a Short Account...''] Link to pdf download, Combined Arms Research Library [CARL] Digital Library [USA].
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Seaborne Trade'' by C. Ernest Fayle 1920 -1924. [https://archive.org/details/seabornetrade01char ''Volume I : The Cruiser Period'']; [https://archive.org/details/seabornetrade02char ''Volume II: From the Opening of the Submarine Campaign to the Appointment of the Shipping Controller'']; [https://archive.org/details/seabornetrade03char ''Volume III: The Period of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare''] Archive.org.*''Official History of the War: History of the Great War based on Official Documents''. [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/24853 ''History of the Blockade of Germany and of the countries associated with her in the Great War: Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, 1914-1918''] by A C Bell 1937. Pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India]*[https://archive.org/details/navalblockade00loui ''The Naval Blockade, 1914-1918''] by Lieut. Louis Guichard, French Navy. Translated and edited by Christopher R. Turner. 1930 Archive.org. The economic impact of the blockade.*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/36278 ''Turkey in the World War''] by Ahmed Emin 1930. Pdf download, Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India]. Economic and social history of the World War: Turkish series.*[https://archive.org/details/newwarfare00rothgoog ''The New Warfare''] by Georges Blanchon, translated by Fred Rothwell 1917 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.111437 ''History In The Making. The First World War''] by Richard Thoumin, translated by Martin Kieffer. Archive.org. Translation of ''La Grande Guerre'', (3 Volume anthology) 1931. ==== Corps and Ministries, Munitions====
*[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. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org version]. Includes the First World War period, with chapters on the British Expeditionary Force , [[Gallipoli]], [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|the Balkans]], [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt and Palestine]], [[Mesopotamia Campaign|Mesopotamia]], [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]], Italy, North Russia, England and India.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/274726 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War''] by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 Archive.org version]. Includes chapters on the Western Front (Part I) and chapters on Other Arenas (Part II): The Home Base; the Base in the Levant and Mediterranean [Egypt]; Gallipoli; Salonika; Palestine; Mesopotamia; East Africa; Italy; Russia and Siberia.
*''The War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force''. Volume I by Walter Raleigh 1922. Volumes II-VI by H A Jones 1928-1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingst01rale Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto02rale Volume II] (including Gallipoli), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale Volume III] (inc East Africa), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto04rale Volume IV], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V] (inc Egypt/Palestine, Mesopotamia, Macedonia), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI] (inc Palestine, Mesopotamia, India) Archive.org. Includes Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS).
*[https://archive.org/details/TheUSAirServiceInWWIVol1 ''The U S Air Service in WWI''] Volume 1, with links to 3 other volumes. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/zeppelinsandsup00heargoog ''Zeppelins and Super-Zeppelins''] [by R P Hearne] [1916] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/zeppelinspastfut00campuoft ''Zeppelins, the Past and Future''] by Edwin Campbell 1918 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/zeppelinsagainst00pool ''Zeppelins against London''] by Kenneth Poolman 1961. Archive.org Lending Library
====Naval====
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Naval Operations''.Volumes I-III by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, Volumes IV-V by Henry Newbolt. Published 1920-1931. Archive.org and Hathi Trust (Vol. V): [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations01corb Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations00newbgoog Volume II], includes Gallipoli. [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations03corb Volume III] Includes Gallipoli and Mesopotamia. [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations04corb Volume IV] , includes Mesopotamia. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b2985875?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Volume V]. [http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.net] has transcribed editions which additionally contain maps from a separate case for Volumes II and III.
*[https://archive.org/details/captiveongermanr00tray ''A Captive on a German Raider''] by F G Trayes 1918. Archive.org The author, who was retiring from [[Thailand|Siam]], was a passenger on a Japanese ship "Hitachi Maru" which was captured by the German "Wolf" on 26 September 1917, two days after leaving Colombo. For more about the "Wolf", see [[Royal Navy]].
====Memoirs====
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028003436 ''From Private to Field-Marshal''] by Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson 1921 Archive.org. He held many senior positions during the War, including Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
*[https://archive.org/details/experiencesofdug00calluoft ''Experiences of a Dug-Out, 1914-1918''], by Major General Sir C E Callwell 1920 Archive.org. The author was appointed to the high ranking role of Director of Military Operations (DMO) at the War Office at the outbreak of the war. [Dug-Out: a retired officer, recalled to employment].
*''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. The author 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://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29652/supplement/6695 To 9th March 1916] ''LGS'' 4 July 1916; [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30360/supplement/11269 To 31st March 1917] ''LGS'' 31 October 1917; [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31235/supplement/3585 To 31st May 1918] ''LGS'' 17 March 1919; [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32007/supplement/8157 To 30 April 1919] ''LGS'' 5 August 1920
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/72295 ''Compendium of the More Important Army Order''] 1919. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72295 Archive.org version]. Full title: ''Compendium of the More Important Orders of the Government of India, Army Department and India Army Orders issued from the 1st August 1914, to the 31st December 1917''
====Histories History series and periodical publications====*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Seaborne Trade'' by C. Ernest Fayle 1920 -1924. [https://archive.org/details/seabornetrade01char ''Volume I : The Cruiser Period'']; [https://archive.org/details/seabornetrade02char ''Volume II: From the Opening of the Submarine Campaign to the Appointment of the Shipping Controller'']; [https://archive.org/details/seabornetrade03char ''Volume III: The Period of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare''] Archive.org.*''Official History of the War: History of the Great War based on Official Documents''. [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/24853 ''History of the Blockade of Germany and of the countries associated with her in the Great War: Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, 1914-1918''] by A C Bell 1937. Pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India]*[https://archive.org/details/navalblockade00loui ''The Naval Blockade, 1914-1918''] by Lieut. Louis Guichard, French Navy. Translated and edited by Christopher R. Turner. 1930 Archive.org. The economic impact of the blockade.*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/36278 ''Turkey in the World War''] by Ahmed Emin 1930. Pdf download, Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India]. Economic and social history of the World War: Turkish series.*[https://archive.org/details/newwarfare00rothgoog ''The New Warfare''] by Georges Blanchon, translated by Fred Rothwell 1917 Archive.org
*''The Times History of the War''. Illustrated. 22 Volumes including Index. Appears to be based on (but not a reprint of) the weekly publication by ''The Times'', London from August 25, 1914 to July 27, 1920; Title varied: pts. 64-273, ''The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War''.<ref>
[http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/untoldstories/2016/09/13/i-the-times-history-and-encyclopaedia-of-the-war-its-early-issues-and-ambition/ "I: ‘The Times’ History and Encyclopaedia of the War – its early issues and ambition"] libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk</ref> Individual volumes include Contents, Index (at the end) and alphabetical Index of Illustrations (at the end). '''[https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745814 Vol 22: Index]''' 1921. [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa00newyuoft Vol 1: The Battlefield of Europe] 1914. (This title appears to be the American edition); [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa02londuoft Vol 2], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa03lond Vol 3], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091746051 Vol 4], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa05londuoft Vol 5] all 1915; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091746077 Vol 6], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa07londuoft Vol 7], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa08lond Vol 8], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091746101 Vol 9] all 1916; [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa10lond Vol 10], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwo11unse Vol 11], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa12londuoft Vol 12], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa13londuoft Vol 13] all 1917; [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa14londuoft Vol 14], [https://archive.org/details/timeshistoryofwa15londuoft Vol 15], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745756 Vol 16], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745764 Vol 17] all 1918; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745772 Vol 18], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745780 Vol 19], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745798 Vol 20] all 1919; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924091745806 Vol 21] 1920.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Nelson%27s+History+of+the+War+%29&sort=-date&page=1 ''Nelson’s History of the War''] by John Buchan Archive.org. In Link to the 24 volumesin the series, published 1915-1919: ''Vol. 1, From the Beginning of the War to the Fall of Namur; Vol. 2, From the Battle of Mons to the German Retreat to the Aisne; Vol. 3, The Battle of the Aisne and the Events down to the Fall of Antwerp; Vol. 4, The Great Struggle in West Flanders; Vol. 5, The War of Attrition in the West; Vol. 6, The Campaign on the Niemen and the Narev; Vol. 7, From the Second Battle of Ypres to the Beginning of the Italian Campaign; Vol. 8, The Midsummer Campaigns, and the Battles on the Warsaw Salient; Vol. 9, The Italian War, the Campaign at Gallipoli; Vol. 10, The Russian Stand, and the Allied Offensive in the West; Vol. 11, The Struggle for the Dvina, and the Great Invasion of Serbia; Vol. 12, The Retreat from Bagdad, the Evacuation of Gallipoli, and the Derby Report; Vol. 13, The Position at Sea, the Fall of Erzerum, and the First Battle of Verdun; Vol. 14, From the Fall of Kut to the Second Battle of Verdun; Vol. 15, Brussilov’s Offensive and the Intervention of Rumania; Vol. 16, The Battle of the Somme; Vol. 17, From the Opening of the Rumanian Campaign to the Change of Government in Britain; Vol. 18, From the German Overtures for Peace to the American Declaration of War; 19, The Spring Campaigns of 1917; Vol. 20, The Summer Campaigns of 1917; Vol. 21, The Fourth Winter of War; Vol. 22, The Darkest Hour; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088057108 Vol. 23, The Dawn]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461263 Vol. 24, Victory]''.
:A revised, largely rewritten and condensed series was published in 1923 as ''A History of the Great War'' by John Buchan [https://archive.org/details/historyofgreatwa01buch Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/historyofgreatwar02buch Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/historyofgreatwar03buch Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/historyofgreatwa04buch Volume IV] Archive.org.
*''The Illustrated War News'', published weekly by the ''Illustrated London News''
**[https://archive.org/details/illustratedwarne1121lond ''Volume 1'', Nos 1-12. August 12- October 28, 1914] Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18333 Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914], [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18334 Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914] gutenberg.org. [http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll7/id/693 A compilation of issues from October, November and December of 1915]. Link to a pdf download in 5 separate parts. Combined Arms Research Library [CARL] Digital Library [USA].
*[https://archive.org/details/texts?and%5B%5D=Prisoners+of+War&and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918%22&sort=&page=1 Books on Prisoners of War from Archive.org]. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Prisoners+of+War%29&sort=-publicdate Alternative link for Prisoners of War titled books on Archive.org]. Select your own filters.
====Miscellaneous====
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100000058387.0x000002 ''The Military Service Act : fully and clearly explained''] by Philip Snowden. 1916? British Library Digital file.
*[https://archive.org/details/thewarpensionsallow00hoggrich ''War Pensions and Allowances''] by J. M. Hogge and T. H. Garside 1918 Archive.org
