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Official Histories and Battles
*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).
:[http://www.bnf.fr/en/collections_and_services/digital_libraries_gallica/a.gallica_digital_library.html Gallica – The BnF Digital Library] contains many publications, mostly French language. Use specific search terms, or the Advanced Search for Sujet search terms such as Guerre mondiale ( 1914 -1918) -- Histoire des unités or Guerre mondiale ( 1914 -1918) -- Campagnes et batailles.
*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. Although not stated, the digital Volume 13 ''Der Weltkrieg'' is the 1956 reprint edition, Vol. 14 is also published 1956, the first public printing, maps are in black and white both volumes (Maps in Vol 14, part 2]. The Digital State Library of Upper Austria.:Also available from the University of Hamburg Library - read online or download a pdf: [http://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/de/nc/detail.html?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=861&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1&cHash=e2e5e2c1505e3576fd826203f11deb50 ''Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918''] and [http://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/de/nc/detail.html?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1024&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1&cHash=8f77abe5beb92e8f5f3ce239b4855bc9 ''Schlachten des Weltkrieges''], and click on Bandliste, for a list of the volumes available, or if these URLs are not permanent, use [http://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche.html Recherche [Digitalisierte Bestände<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. For The digital Volume 13 ''Der Weltkrieg'' is the original edition, with maps in colour. (Compare one map seen, the University of Hamburg version was is better, as it had has colour, and could be enlarged, against black and white in the State Library of Upper Austria version.<ref>Volume 13 ''Der Weltkrieg'' [https://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/de/nc/detail.html?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=5016&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=530&cHash=d1cff81788c09213fd347e1fd4ece382 University of Hamburg version] digital page 530; [https://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/image/AC03617667/527/ State Library of Upper Austria version].</ref>) Vol. 14 is the 1956 edition, but part 2 with the maps may not be included.:Both series of digitisations lack the 2010 publication ''Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918 : die militärischen Operationen zu Lande / Bd. 2 ; Das deutsche Feldeisenbahnwesen ; Die Eisenbahnen von Oktober 1914 bis zum Kriegsende'' / hrsg. von Horst Rohde / bearb. im früheren Reichsarchiv. Published: Hamburg [u.a.]: Mittler ; 2010
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015013496032?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''A Guide to the Military History of the World War, 1914-1918''] by Thomas G Frothingham, Captain U. S. Reserves. 1921 HathiTrust Digital Library. Also see [[First World War#Naval|First World War-Naval]], for further books by this author, who was a Captain in the U.S. Army during WW1.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica20chic/page/957/mode/1up ''Who's Who in America 1938'' page 957]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.</ref>
*''A Military History of the World War'' by Colonel C R Howland, Infantry US Army. 1923. Volume I contains the Narrative. Volume II contains the Maps. Based on a series of lectures. [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl_1/page/n5 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl/page/n1 Volume II] Archive.org.
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