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*''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 1961 HMSO. Reprint of 1937 original edition, which was for official purposes only and was not generally released and had title on spine ''The Blockade of the Central Empires, 1914-1918''. Pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India]. Note, there are two downloads. The first download is an extract of 149 pages , consisting of Contents etc and Appendices, out of a total of 845 pages. The second download is the entire book.
:Article [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1904539 "British Official Histories of the Blockade of the Central Powers during the First World War"] jstor.org
*[https://archive.org/details/triumphofunarmed00consuoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Triumph of Unarmed Forces (1914-1918) : an account of the transactions by which Germany during the Great War was able to obtain supplies prior to her collapse under the pressure of economic forces''] by Rear-Admiral M W W P Consett 1923 Archive.org.
 
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/blockade191419190000arno/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Blockade, 1914-1919 : Before the Armistice - and After''] by W Arnold-Forster 1939. Series: ''Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs, No.17''. [https://archive.org/details/trent_0116403757614/page/n1/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/politicsofhunger00cpau_0/page/n5 ''The Politics of Hunger : the Allied Blockade of Germany, 1915-1919''] by C. Paul Vincent (Charles Paul) 1985 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/womanwar00warw/page/n3 ''A Woman and the War''] by the Countess of Warwick (Frances Evelyn Maynard Greville) 1916 Archive.org. The catalogue classifies this book as "Social Conditions".
:For information about revised editions, including an online version on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see [[Royal Navy]].
:''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: The Merchant Navy'' by Archibald Hurd 1921-1929. [https://archive.org/details/merchantnav01hurd Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/merchantnavy02hurduoft Volume II], Archive.org. Volume III is available as a transcribed edition on [http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.net]
*''The Naval History of the World War'' by Thomas G Forthingham.
:[Vol.1] [https://archive.org/details/navalhistoryofwo01thom/page/n7/mode/2up ''Offensive Operations 1914-1915''] 2nd printing 1925, first published 1924.
:[Vol.2] [https://archive.org/details/navalhistoryofwo02thom/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Stress of Sea Power 1915-1916''] 1926
:[Vol.3] [https://archive.org/details/navalhistoryofwo03thom/page/n5/mode/2up ''The United States in the War 1917-1918''] 1926 All Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176420 ''The Naval Memoirs of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes. The Narrow Seas to the Dardanelles 1910-1915''] 1934. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.524527 ''The Naval Memoirs of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes. Scarpa Flow to the Dover Straits 1916-1918''] 1935. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fightingatjutlan0000fawc/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Fighting at Jutland : the Personal Experiences of Sixty Officers and Men of the British Fleet''] April 1921. There was also an abridged edition with a similar title about [https://archive.org/details/fightingatjutlan0000fawc_a1w6/page/n5/mode/2up ''Forty-five Officers and Men''] published September 1921. Both Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/heroicrecordofbr00hurd ''The Heroic Record of the British Navy; a Short History of the Naval War, 1914-1918''] by Archibald Hurd and H H Bashford 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fleetfromwithinb00moserich/page/n7/mode/2up The Fleet from Within. Being the impressions of a R. N. V. R. officer''] by Sydney A Moseley 1919 Archive.org.
*Books by E. Keble Chatterton, late Lieutenant-Commander RNVR :
:[https://archive.org/details/qshipstheirstory00chatter ''Q-Ships and their Story''] 1923 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship Q-ship] Wikipedia. Q-Ships were armed ships, originally merchant ships, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks.
*[https://archive.org/details/underblackensign00gwat/page/n7/mode/2up ''Under the Black Ensign''] by Captain R S Gwatkin-Williams (Rupert Stanley) 1922. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924027832421/page/n7/mode/1up Map: Murman Coast 1916-1917] [northwest Russia] from a 2nd file, rotated. Archive.org. "…all those little ships of the late war Navy - destroyers, tugs, trawlers, boarding steamers, and the like".
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210703/page/n3/mode/2up ''My Mystery Ships''] by Rear Admiral Gordon Campbell , illustrated by Lieutenant J E Broome, first published 1928 in London. [https://archive.org/details/mymysteryships00gord/page/n9/mode/2up American edition] 1929, with extra Foreword, and images appear to differ slightly. Both Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/mymysteryships0000camp/mode/2up Archive.org Lending Library version] (American edition), probably best digital file. Also known as Q Ships.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofroyalna0000bowe/page/n5/mode/2up ''History of the Royal Naval Reserve'] by Frank C Bowen 1926 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. WW1 period commences around [https://archive.org/details/historyofroyalna0000bowe/page/102/mode/2up page 104].
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. May be unavailable in USA etc. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19Nw8lk2wk online version] (located in World War II/Military Books/Britain, the first of two books with the same title) of a Naval & Military Press reprint.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027871213 ''Indiscretions of the Naval Censor''] by Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas Brownrigg [1867-1939] 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fishermeninwarti00wood/page/n7 ''Fishermen in War Time''] by Walter Wood (catalogued [1918?]) Archive.org
*[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]].
*''My Memoirs'' by Grand-Admiral Von Tirpitz [German Navy] 1919. [https://archive.org/details/mymemoirs0000tirp/page/n5/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/mymemoirs0002tirp/page/n7/mode/2up Vol. II] Both Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/germanyshighseaf00sche/page/n9 ''Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War''] by Admiral Scheer [German Navy] 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/gunrunningforcas00spinuoft ''Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion 1916''] by Karl Spindler of the German Navy; translated by W Montgomery and E H McGrath 1921 Archive.org
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