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The books below were written during or immediately after the war by participants or journalist observers. Included are memoirs by military and government leaders.

An Explorer in the Air Service

Bingham, Hiram

1920

Our Army at the Front

Broun, Heywood

1922

British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918

Dane, Edmund

1919

British Campaigns in the Nearer East 1914-1918 (vol 1); The Days of Adversity

Vol 2; The Tide of Victory

from the outbreak of war with Turkey to the Armistice, with 30 maps & plans

Dane, Edmund

1919

World War 1 read online.

Military operations, France and Belgium, 1914 (vol 1), comp.

Vol 2

Edmonds, BG James E.

1925

One of seven titles in the series “History of the Great War, based on Official Documents”, by direction of the Committee of Imperial Defense.
Vol 1: Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, the Marne and the Aisne, August-October 1914.
Vol 2: Antwerp, La Bassee, Armentieres, Messines, and Ypres, October-November 1914.

A.E.F. in Battle

Every, Dale Van

1928

The American Expeditionary Forces was a formation of the United States Army on the Western Front of World War I.

German General Staff and its Decisions, 1914-1916

Falkenhayn, General von

1920

East African Force 1915-1919

an unofficial record of its creation and fighting career; together with some account of the civil and military admin. conditions in East Africa …

Fendall, BG C.P.

1921

World War 1 read online.

Guide to the Military History of the World War, 1914-1918

Frothingham, Thomas G.

1920

Naval History of the World War (vol 1); Offensive Operations 1914-1915

Vol 2: The Stress of Sea Power 1915-1916

Vol 3: The United States in the War

Frothingham, Thomas G.

1925

True Account of the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916

Frothingham, Thomas G.

1920

World War 1 read online.

Tanks in the Great War, 1914-1918

Fuller, J.F.C.

1920

War And Revolution In Russia 1914-17

Gourko, General Basil

1919

The author was the chief of the Russian Imperial General Staff, Nov 1916-Mar 1917; Commander-in-Chief of Western Armies Mar 1917-Jun 1917.

Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire During the Great War 1914-1920

Govt of GB

1922

Topography and Strategy in the War

Johnson, Douglas Wilson

1919

With the Russian Army, 1914-1917 (vol 1)

Vol 2

being chiefly extracts from the diary of a military attache

Knox, MG Alfred

1921

Ludendorff’s Own Story, August 1914 – November 1918 (vol 1)

Vol 2

Ludendorff, Erich von

1919

The Great War from the Siege of Liege to the Signing of the Armistice as viewed from the Grand Headquarters of the German Army.

Gallipoli

Masefield, John

1916

United States in the World War (vol 1)

Vol 2

McMaster, John Bach

1918

Campaign In Mesopotamia 1914-1918 (vol 1)

Vol 2

Vol 3

Vol 4

Moberly, BG F.J.

1923

One of seven titles in the series “History of the Great War, based on Official Documents”, by direction of the Committee of Imperial Defense.

America in Battle, with Guide to the American Battlefields in France and Belgium

Moss, Col. James A. and Howland, Col. Harry S.

1920

History of the War

O’Neill, H.C.

1920

My Year of the Great War

Palmer, Frederick

1915

Observations of an American correspondent at the British front.

With the New Army on the Somme; My Second Year of the War

Palmer, Frederick

1917

Second volume by an American correspondent at the British front.

America in France

Palmer, Frederick

1918

The third volume by this American correspondent, who joined the American Expeditionary Force for the last part of the war.

Germany’s High Sea Fleet in the World War

Scheer, Admiral

1920

History of the World War (vol 1)

Vol 2

Vol 3

Vol 4

Vol 5

Simonds, Frank H.

1917

Victory at Sea

Sims, Rear-Admiral William Sowden

1920

The author commanded American naval forces operating in European waters.

Yankee Ingenuity in the War

Stockbridge, Frank P.

1920

History of the A. E. F.

Thomas, Shipley

1920

The A.E.F. was the American Expeditionary Force, the portion of the U.S. Army sent to Europe to participate in the war.