History of the Great War Based on Official Documents (British Official History)
Military Operations
The volumes of the British Official History: Military Operations are as follows:
Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1914
- Volume I: Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, the Marne and the Aisne, August - October 1914, Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1922
- Volume II: Antwerp, La Bassée, Armentières, Messines and Ypres, October - November 1914, Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1925
Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1915
- Volume I: Winter 1914-15: Battle of Neuve Chapelle: Battles of Ypres, Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds and Captain G.C. Wynne, 1927
- Volume II: Battles of Aubers Ridge, Festubert, and Loos, Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1928
Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1916
- Volume I: Sir Douglas Haig's Command to the 1st July: Battle of the Somme, Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1932
- Volume II: 2 July 1916 to the end of the Battles of the Somme, Captain Wilfrid Miles, 1938
Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1917
- Volume I: The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the Battles of Arras, Captain Cyril Falls, 1940
- Volume II: Messines and third Ypres (Passchendaele), Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1948
- Volume III: The Battle of Cambrai, Captain Wilfrid Miles, 1948
Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1918
- Volume I: The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries, Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1935
- Volume II: March-April: Continuation of the German Offensives, Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1937
- Volume III: May-July: The German Diversion Offensives and the First Allied Counter-Offensive, Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1939
- Volume IV: 8 August-26 September: The Franco-British Offensive, Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1947
- Volume V: 26 September-11 November: The Advance to Victory, Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds and Lieutenant-Colonel R. Maxwell-Hyslop, 1947
Military Operations: Gallipoli
- Volume I, Brigadier-General C.F. Aspinall-Oglander, 1929
- Volume II, Brigadier-General C.F. Aspinall-Oglander, 1932
Military Operations: Italy, 1915-1919, Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds and H.R. Davies, 1949
Military Operations: East Africa, 1914-1916
- Volume I, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Nordern, 1941
- Volume II, unpublished
Military Operations: Togoland and the Cameroons, 1914-1916, Brigadier-General F.J. Moberly, 1931
Military Operations: Macedonia
- Volume I: From the Outbreak of War to the Spring of 1917, Captain Cyril Falls, 1933
- Volume II: From the Spring of 1917 to the End of the War, Captain Cyril Falls, 1935
Military Operations: Egypt and Palestine
- Volume I, Captain Cyril Falls, 1928
- Volume II, Captain Cyril Falls
Military Operations: Mesopotamia
- Volume I: Outbreak of Hostilities, Campaign in Lower Mesopotamia, Brigadier-General F.J. Moberly, 1923
- Volume II: April 1916: The Attempt on Baghdad, the Battle of Ctesiphon, the Siege and the Fall of Kut-al-Amara, Brigadier-General F.J. Moberly,1924
- Volume III: April 1917: The Capture and Consolidation of Baghdad, Brigadier-General F.J. Moberly, 1926
- Volume IV: The Campaign in Upper Mesopotamia to the Armistice, Brigadier-General F.J. Moberly, 1927
Naval Operations
Five volumes by the official Royal Navy historian Sir Julian S. Corbett (1854-1922). Sir Julian died when he was completing Volume III and before he had agree to the corrections to this volume. The remaining works were completed by the writer and poet Sir Henry J Newbolt (1862-1938).
- Naval Operations Volume I: The events leading up to war, organization of three fleets in Home Waters, coastal Destroyer Flotillas, opening movements on the outbreak of war in Home Waters and the Mediterranean, the passage of the British Expeditionary Force to France, Heligoland Bight action, operations off the Belgian coast October 1914,. Cameroons Expedition, Far East, Battle of Coronel and the Falklands. By Sir Julian S. Corbett, April 1920
- Naval Operations Volume I: Maps
- Naval Operations Volume II: Dardanelles Campaign, German raid on Yorkshsire coast December 1914, Dogger Bank action, by Sir Julian S.Corbett, November 1921
- Naval Operations Volume III: Spring 1915 to the Battle of Jutland 31 May/1 June 1916, events in Home Waters, the Dardanelles, Salonika, Mesopotamia (to November 1915), the destruction of the Koenigsberg, the Battle of Jutland. By Sir Julian S. Corbett, 1923
- Naval Operations Volume III: Maps
- Naval Operations Volume IV: From Jutland to February 1917 - Home Waters, East Africa, Cameroons, Mesopotamia, the Baltic, Salonika campaign (January - June 1916 and January 1917), German introduction of unrestricted submarine warfare. By Henry Newbolt.
- Naval Operations Volume IV: Maps
- Naval Operations Volume V: Early 1917 to the end of the war, German submarine campaign in Home Waters, the Mediterranean and off the American coast, the convoy system, blocking Zeebrugge and Ostend. By Henry Newbolt.
- Naval Operations Volume V Maps
Merchant Navy
- The Merchant Navy, Volume I
- The Merchant Navy, Volume II
- The Merchant Navy, Volume III
- Seaborne Trade, Volume I
- Seaborne Trade, Maps
- Seaborne Trade, Volume II
- Seaborne Trade, Volume III
Air Operations
Six volumes of The War in the Air. Volume I was written by Walter Raleigh, who died after its completeion. H A Jones wrote the next six volumes.
- Volume I: Air operations of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign; the Western Front in 1915/1916; naval air operations. By Walter Raleigh.
- Volume II: Gallipoli Campaign in 1915; the Western Front from the winter of 1914-15 to the end of the Battle of the Somme in November 1916; naval operations in Home Waters to the end of 1916; naval air operations from Dunkirk in 1915 and 1916 and bombing operations from Luxeuil in the latter part of 1916. By H A Jones, 1928.
- Volume III by H A Jones
- Volume III Maps
- Volume IV: Naval air operations in 1917 and early 1918, Western Front from June 1917 (Battle of Messines) to German Spring offensives in March 1918. By H A Jones
- Volume V: German air attacks on Britain in 1917-1918. By H A Jones.
- Volume V Maps
- Volume VI: Events leading to the creation of the Royal Air Force (RAF) on 1st April, supply and manpower, the RAF in Palestine 1918, Trans-Jordan, Syria, Persia, Mesopotamia, russian Azerbaijan, Macedonia, Italy. Actions in India throughout the war, naval aircraft co-operation in 1918 in Home Waters and the Mediterranean, Allied offensives on the Western Front in 1918. By H A Jones
- Volume VII: Appendices
Medical History of the War
The medical history of the First World War was written by the Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) Major General Sir William Grant Macpherson KCMG, CB (1858 - October 1927).
- Medical Services: Casualties and Medical Statistics
- Medical Services: General History, Volume I, Medical services in the United Kingdom, British garrisons overseas, military operations in Tsingtau, Togoland, the Camaroons and South-West Africa, by Major General Sir William Grant Macpherson KCMG, CB and Major T J Mitchell.
- Medical Services: General History, Volume II, Operations in France and Belgium 1914-1915
- Medical Services: General History, Volume III, Western Front 1916-1918, Italy, Egypt and Palestine, by Major General Sir William Grant Macpherson KCMG, CB
- Medical Services: General History, Volume IV, Gallipoli Campaign 1915, Macedonia, Mesopotamia (Iraq), Persia (Iran), Aden, Russia, ambulance transport by Major General Sir William Grant Macpherson KCMG, CB and Major T J Mitchell.
- Diseases of the War, Volume I
- Diseases of the War, Volume II
- Hygiene of the War, Volume I
- Hygiene of the War, Volume II
- Pathology
- Surgery of the War, Volume I
- Surgery of the War, Volume II
- Veterinary Services
Further Reading
Writing the Great War: Sir James Edmonds and the Official Histories, 1915-1948 (Military History and Policy) (paperback)
by Andrew Green
Official History of the Great War on DVD-Rom
Sets of volumes and maps of the Official History can be purchased from Naval & Military Press. The recommended retail price for the DVD-Rom is approximately £200 or may be on special offer. For more information see the Naval & Military Press website:
Website: www.naval-military-press.com Official History of the Great War
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Official Military Histories of the First World War
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