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World War 1 Military History Books Free PDF

World War 1 Military History Books Free PDF

Dozens of World War 1 military history books pdf free. Collections on topics and suggested vintage books.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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