Further Reading
- Beckett, Ian F.W. Ypres: The First Battle 1914, (2006) 336pp
- Chickering, Roger et al. eds. Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 (2000). 584 pgs.
- Coffman, Edward M. The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I (1998) excerpt and text search
- Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 (1934), general military history; British perspective
- Doughty, Robert A. Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War,. (2005) 592pp, prize-winning analysis
- Falls, Cyril. The Great War (1960), general military history
- Gilbert, Martin. The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War (2006) 352pp
- Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of the First World War: The Complete History (2002)
- Herwig, Holger H. Operation Michael: The “Last Card” (2001), German spring offensive in 1918
- Horne, Alistair. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (2nd ed 1994), very well written narrative
- Humphries, Mark Osborne, and John Maker, reds. Germany's Western Front: Translations From the German Official History of the Great War, 1915 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press; 2010) 413 pages. First volume in an English translation of Der Weltkrieg, an official German history of World War I produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed after World War II.
- Keegan, John. An Illustrated History of the First World War (1999). by a leading British scholar excerpt and text search
- Kennett, Lee. First Air War, 1914-1918 (1999). 288 pp. excerpt and text search
- Livesey, Anthony, and H. P. Willmott. The Historical Atlas of World War I (1994)
- Passingham, Ian. All the Kaiser's Men: The Life & Death of the German Army on the Western Front 1914-1918, (2nd ed 2006) 288pp
- Prior, Robin, and Trevor Wilson. The Somme, (2005), 368pp
- Prior, Robin, Passchendaele: The Untold Story, (2nd ed. 2002), 272pp
- Sheldon, Jack. German Army on the Somme, 1914–1916, (2005) 352pp
- Strachan, Hew. The First World War (2004): a 385pp version of his multivolume history excerpt and text search
- Strachan, Hew. The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (2004): the major scholarly synthesis. Thorough coverage of 1914 in 1248 pp excerpt online
- Toland, John. No Man's Land. 1918 - The Last Year of the Great War (1980)
- Tooley, Hunt. The Western Front: Battle Ground and Home Front in the First World War. (2003), 305pp, social history, does not emphasize battles
- Travers, Tim. How the War Was Won: Command and Technology in the British Army on the Western Front, 1917–1918,. London:Routledge (1992) online edition
- Tucker, Spencer, ed. The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol 2005); the most detailed reference source; articles by specialists cover all aspects of the war
- Tucker, Spencer, ed. European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1999)
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