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Official Histories and Battles
*''History of the Great War based on official documents. Order of Battle of Divisions Parts 1, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B and 4'' all by Major A.F. Becke (London: HMSO, 1935-1945) are available in reprint editions<ref> ''Order of Battle of Divisions'' by A.F. Becke [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-part-1-the-regular-british-division/ Part 1],[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-part-2a-2b-territorial-yeomanry-divisions/ Parts 2A and 2B], [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-part-3a-3b-new-army-divisions/ Parts 3A and 3B], [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-part-4-the-army-council-ghqs-armies-and-corps-including-tank-corps/ Part 4]. [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-index/ Index] by Ray Westlake. Naval & Military Press reprint editions.</ref>, which in turn are available as one digital book of 1224 pages titled [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19NTJHoYiz ''Order of Battle of Divisions''] on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in International/Military Books/Britain.
*''Report of the Committee on the Lessons of the Great War'' 13 Oct 1932 includes two Appendices on the Western Front. (Details<ref>Greenwoodman. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/54329-official-inquiry-into-conduct-of-ww1/?do=findComment&comment=467922 Official Inquiry into Conduct of WW1] ''Great War Forum'' 19 June 2006. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref>.) Also known as the ''Kirke Report'' it is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/report-of-the-committee-on-the-lessons-of-the-great-war/ ''Report of the Committee on the Lessons of the Great War''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19l7X7Fb8A online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in International/Military Books/Britain.
*''Germany in Defeat. A Strategic History of the War'' by Count Charles de Souza. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055250/page/n5 ''First Phase''] 3rd edition 1916. Joint author Major Haldane MacFall; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055268/page/n5 ''Second Phase''] 1916; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055276/page/n6 ''Third Phase''] 1916; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055284/page/n3 ''Fourth Phase''] 1919. All Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/despatchesoflord00fren ''The Despatches of Lord French : Mons, the Marne, the Aisne, Flanders, Neuve Chapelle, the second battle of Ypres, Loos, Hohenzollern Redoubt, and a complete list of the officers and men mentioned''] 1917 Archive.org.
*[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990056588280203941/catalog ''Despatch, dated 23rd December, 1916, from General Sir Douglas Haig, G.C.B., relating to the operations on the western front including the Battle of the Somme''] London : Printed under the authority of H.M.S.O. 1917. Harvard University Digital Library.
*:Frederic Coleman, an American resident in London, is elsewhere <ref>[https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/15398/lot/61/ Frederick Abernethy Coleman] bonhams.com</ref> described as the journalist and Motoring [figure], Frederick Abernethy Coleman, who popularized the White Steam car in England and was a prominent figure in English motoring. He appears to have spent time in China, at the time of the Boxer Rebellion, possibly as a journalist. He was also the author of
*:[https://archive.org/details/ourboysoverther00colegoog ''Our boys over there; to the young American in khaki - what he will find when he gets to France''] by Frederic Coleman 1918 Archive.org
*[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/britisharmyatwar00foxf/page/n5 ''The British Army at War''] by Frank Fox RFA. 1917 Archive.org. A simplified overview which aimed to give “a general impression of the extent and variety of [the British] Army’s energies”, designed, (according to Wikipedia) to educate the American Public about the British war effort.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41362/page/n9 ''G.H.Q. (Montreuil-Sur-Mer)''] by “G.S.O”. [Sir Frank Fox] 1920 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fox_(author) Frank Fox (author)]. He served as Staff Captain at the Quartermaster General's branch, General Headquarters, in France. He had previously been an officer in the Royal Field Artillery, and pre-war a journalist.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174265/page/n5/mode/2up ''At G.H.Q''] by Brigadier-General John Charteris 1931 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charteris John Charteris] (Wikipedia) was the Chief of Intelligence at the British Expeditionary Force General Headquarters from 1915 to 1918. Also see his books on Field-Marshal Haig, above.
*''Germany in Defeat. A Strategic History of the War'' by Count Charles de Souza. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055250/page/n5 ''First Phase''] 3rd edition 1916. Joint author Major Haldane MacFall; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055268/page/n5 ''Second Phase''] 1916; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055276/page/n6 ''Third Phase''] 1916; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924088055284/page/n3 ''Fourth Phase''] 1919. All Archive.org
*[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1647 ''Reputations, Ten Years After''] by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart 1928.Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". An examination of 10 leading personalities of WWI, including Joffre, Foch, Petain, Lundendorff, Pershing, and others.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57906 ''Real War 1914-1918''] by B H Liddell Hart 1930 Archive.org. An enlarged edition was published as: ''A History of the World War, 1914-1918'', 1934. Reprinted as
:[https://archive.org/details/historyoffirstwo00lidd ''History of the First World War''] by B. H. Liddell Hart 1972 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Liddell_Hart B. H. Liddell Hart] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458869 ''A History of the Great War 1914-1918''] by CRMF Cruttwell 1934 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81643 2nd Edition, with additions and corrections, 1940/(1936)] [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.81643/2015.81643.A-History-Of-The-Great-War-1914-1918-Edition-Ii#page/n673/mode/2up Index] Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/roleofbritishstr035460mbp ''The Role Of British Strategy In The Great War''] by CRMF Cruttwell 1936 Archive.org
**[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/37015?show=full ''Adventures in Journalism''] by Philip Gibbs. 1923. Autobiographical. Page 193 onward covers the years from 1912. Link to pdf download, Digital Repository of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune India. Locate in your downloads folder.
*''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.
*[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]].
*[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/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/catastropheeurop0000hast ''Catastrophe : Europe goes to War 1914''] by Max Hastings 2013. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The war to December 1914. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hastings Max Hastings] Wikipedia. British journalist/editor and military historian.
*[https://archive.org/details/donkeys00clar/page/n5 ''The Donkeys''] by Alan Clark 1962 Archive.org. “This study is concerned simply with what the Army was ordered to do, and what happened when it attempted to carry out those orders; … 1915 saw the core of professional quality dissipated..”
*[https://archive.org/details/priceofgloryverd00horn ''The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916''] by Alistair Horne 1964 "This specially abridged edition first published in Penguin Books 1964." (Originally published 1962). Archive.org Lending Library. Horne also wrote ''Death of a generation: from Neuve Chapelle to Verdun and the Somme'' 1970 which encapsulates some of the earlier book. Verdun: 21 February – 18 December 1916.
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