Books specifically about the Battle of the Somme
Barry Cuttell, One Day on the Somme, 1st July 1916. Peterborough: GMA Enterprises, 1997
——148 Days on the Somme, 2nd July to 26th November 1916. Peterborough: GMA Enterprises, 2000
Martin Marix Evans, The Battles of the Somme. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996
A. H. Farrar-Hockley, The Somme. London: B. T. Batsford, 1964
John Giles, The Somme Then and Now. London: Battle of Britain International, 1986
Peter Hart, The Somme. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005
Tonie and Valmai Holt, Major and Mrs Holt’s Battlefield Guide to the Somme. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 4th edition, 2003
Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914–1918), The Somme, Volume 1: The First Battle of the Somme (1916–1917) Albert–Bapaume– Péronne. Clermont-Ferrand: Michelin Tyre Company, 1925
Peter H. Liddle, The 1916 Battle of the Somme: A Reappraisal. London: Leo Cooper, 1992
Chris McCarthy, The Somme: The Day-by-Day Account. London: Cassell, 1993
Lyn Macdonald, Somme. London: Michael Joseph, 1983
Martin and Mary Middlebrook, The Somme Battlefields: A Comprehensive Guide from Crécy to the Two World Wars. London: Viking, 1991
Mike O’Connor, Airfields and Airmen: Somme. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2002
Anne Powell (editor), The Fierce Light: The Battle of the Somme, July–November 1916, Poetry and Prose. Aberporth: Palladour Books, 1996
Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson, The Somme. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005
Paul Reed, Walking the Somme. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1997
Gary Sheffield, The Somme. London: Cassell, 2003
Jack Sheldon, The German Army on the Somme, 1914-1916. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military, 2005
Books about phases and aspects of the Battle of Somme
Nigel Cave, Beaumont Hamel: Newfoundland Park. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1994
——Delville Wood. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1999
——Gommecourt. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1998
Peter Charlton, Pozières: Australians on the Somme, 1916. London: Leo Cooper/Secker & Warburg, 1986
Gerald Gliddon, VCs of the First World War: The Somme. Norwich: Gliddon Books, 1991
Jack Horsfall and Nigel Cave, Serre. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1996
Graham Keech, Pozières. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1998
Graham Maddocks, Liverpool Pals. London: Leo Cooper, 1991
Martin Middlebrook, The First Day on the Somme. London: Purnell Book Services, 1971. Reprinted by Leo Cooper, Barnsley, 2003
Terry Norman, The Hell They Called High Wood: The Somme, 1916. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2003 (reprint)
Paul Reed, Courcelette. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1998
Michael Renshaw, Beaucourt. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2003
Lieutenant Colonel W. A. Shooter, OBE, Ulster’s Part in the Battle of the Somme, July to November 1916. Belfast: The Somme Association, 1996
Michael Stedman, Guillemont. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1998
——La Boisselle, Ovillers, Contalmaison. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1997
Document volumes and reference works
Max Arthur, Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A History of World War I in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There. London: The Lyons Press, 2002
——Symbol of Courage: A History of the Victoria Cross. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2004
Keith Bartlett (editor), Somme. London: Public Record Office, The National Archives, no date (portfolio of documents)
J. H. Borlaston, Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches (December 1915–April 1919). London: J. M. Dent, 1919
Cemeteries and Memorials in Belgium and Northern France. Maidenhead: Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Michelin, 2004
Brigadier General Sir James E. Edmonds, Military Operations France and Belgium, 1916, Sir Douglas Haig’s Command of the 1st July: Battle of the Somme. London: Macmillan, 1932. Reprinted by the Imperial War Museum, London, and Battery Press, Nashville, 1993
A. D. Ellis, The Story of the Fifth Australian Division. London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date (c. 1920). Reprinted by Naval and Military Press, Uckfield, 2002
Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914–1918). Washington DC: War Department (Document No. 905), 1920. Reprinted by the London Stamp Exchange, London, 1989
History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Volume Five, The Home Front, France, Flanders and Italy in the First World War. Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers, 1952
Sidney C. Hurst, The Silent Cities: An Illustrated Guide to the War Cemeteries and Memorials to the ‘Missing’ in France and Flanders, 1914-1918. London: Methuen, 1929
Captain Wilfrid Miles, Military Operations France and Belgium, 1916, 2nd July 1916 to the End of the Battles of the Somme. London: Macmillan, 1938. Reprinted by the Imperial War Museum, London, and Battery Press, Nashville, 1992
Gary Sheffield and John Bourne (editors), Douglas Haig: War Diaries and etters. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005
Memoirs and diaries containing recollections of the Battle of the Somme
Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War. London: Four Square, The New English Library, 1928
Joy B. Cave (editor), I Survived, Didn’t I? The Great War Reminiscences of Private ‘Ginger’ Byrne. London: Leo Cooper, 1993
Oliver Lyttelton, Viscount Chandos, The Memoirs of Lord Chandos. London: The Bodley Head, 1962
Viscountess D’Abernon, Red Cross and Berlin Embassy, 1915-1926: Extracts from the Diaries of Viscountess D’Abernon. London: John Murray, 1946
General Sir Hubert Gough, Soldiering On. London: Arthur Barker, 1954
Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That. London: Cassell, 1929
John Jackson, Private 12768: Memoirs of a Tommy. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing, 2004
Cecil Lewis, Sagittarius Rising. London: Peter Davies, 1936
Chris Littler (editor), The Diary of Thomas Frederick Littler, July–December 1916. http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/littlerdiary2.htm. Copyright Michael Duffy, 2000–2005
Harold Macmillan, Winds of Change, 1914-1939. London: Macmillan, 1966
Paul Maze, A Frenchman in Khaki. London: William Heinemann, 1934
Lord Moran, The Anatomy of Courage. London: Constable, 1945
Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. London: Faber and Faber, 1930
R. B. Talbot Kelly, A Subaltern’s Odyssey: A Memoir of the Great War, 1915-1917. London: William Kimber, 1980
R. H. Tawney, The Attack and Other Papers. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1953. Reprinted by Spokesman, Nottingham, 1981
Henry Williamson, The Golden Virgin. Edinburgh: Macdonald & Co., 1957
Biographies
Ann Clayton, Chavasse – Double VC. London: Leo Cooper, 1992
Bill Newton Dunn, Big Wing: The Biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, KCB, DSO and Bar. Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing, 1992
Peter C. Ford, Captain B. H. Radford: Otherwise known as Basil Hallam. http://www.crossandcockade.com
Paul Freyberg, Bernard Freyberg, VC. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991
Martin Gilbert, Plough My Own Furrow: The Story of Lord Allen of Hurtwood as Told through his Writings and Correspondence. London: Longmans, 1965
——Winston S. Churchill, vol. iii, Document Volumes, August 1914– December 1916. London: William Heinmann, 1972
Alistair Horne, Macmillan, 1894-1956, Volume 1 of the Official Biography. London: Macmillan, 1988
Lawrence James. Imperial Warrior: The Life and Times of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, 1861–1936. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993
Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1889–1916: Hubris. London: Allen Lane, 1998
Richard Lovell, Churchill’s Doctor: A Biography of Lord Moran. London: Royal Society of Medicine Services Limited, 1992
Major General Sir Frederick Maurice, The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent, from His Journals and Letters. London: Cassell, 1928
John W. Wheeler-Bennett, Hindenburg: The Wooden Titan. London: Macmillan, 1936
General works
Jack Alexander, McCrae’s Battalion: The Story of the 16th Royal Scots. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2004
Max Arthur, Last Post: The Final Word From Our First World War Soldiers. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005
Robert B. Asprey, The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the First World War. New York: Little, Brown, 1991
C. T. Atkinson, The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 1914–1919. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1924
Maurice Baring, Flying Corps Headquarters, 1914-1918. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1968
D. S. Barnes, This Righteous War. Hudders field: Richard Netherwood, 1990
Alexander Barrie, War Underground. London: Frederick Muller, 1962
C. E. W. Bean, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914 to 1918. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 6 volumes, 1929
Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900–1925. London: Victor Gollancz, 1933
Malcolm Brown, The First World War: A Great Conflict Recalled in Previously Unpublished Letters, Diaries and Memoirs. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1991
John Buchan, The History of the South African Forces in France. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1920
Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis, 1916-1918, Part One. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1927
——Marlborough: His Life and Times, vol. ii. London: George G. Harrap, 1934
Rev. E. C. Crosse, The Defeat of Austria as Seen by the 7th Division. London: H. W. S. Deane, 1919 (includes material about the Battle of the Somme)
Daniel G. Dancocks, Gallant Canadians: The Story of the Tenth Canadian Infantry Battalion, 1914–1919. Markham, Ontario: The Calgary Highlanders Regimental Funds Foundation, 1990
George A. B. Dewar and Lieutenant Colonel J. H. Boraston, Sir Douglas Haig’s Command, December 19, 1915, to November 11, 1918. London: Constable, 2 volumes, 1922
Charles Edmonds, A Subaltern’s War. London: Peter Davies, 1929
John Ellis, Eye-Deep in Hell. London: Croom Helm, 1976
Sir Frank Fox, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the World War. London: Constable, 1928
John Garth, Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003
W. Grant Grieve, Tunnellers: A History of the Tunnelling Companies, Royal Engineers, in the World War. London: H. Jenkins, 1936. Reprinted by Barbarossa Books, Bainbridge Island, Washington State, 1999
Michael Hammerson (editor), No Easy Hopes or Lies: The World War 1 Letters of Lt. Arthur Preston White. London: London Stamp Exchange, 1991
Donald Hankey, A Student in Arms. London: Andrew Melrose, 1918
Amanda Harlech (editor), Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger. Paris: Edition 7L/Steidl, 2001 (first printed in 1917)
——Poems by Alan Seeger. Paris: Edition 7L/Steidl, 2001 (first printed in 1916)
Trevor Henshaw, The Sky Their Battle field: Air Fighting and the Complete List of Allied Air Casualties from Enemy Action in the First War. London: Grub Street, 1995
Captain F. C. Hitchcock, MC, ‘Stand To’: A Diary of the Trenches. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1937. Reprinted by Gliddon Books, Norwich, 1998
Mike Hodgson, Remembered: The Men on the Mareham-le-Fen War Memorial. Boston, Lincolnshire: Lancfile Publishing, 2004
Douglas Jerrold, The Royal Naval Division, London: Hutchinson, 1923
H. A. Jones, The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2 volumes, 1928
Nigel H. Jones, The War Walk: A Journey Along the Western Front. London: Robert Hale, 1983
John Keegan, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme. London: Jonathan Cape, 1976
Rudyard Kipling, The Irish Guards in the Great War: Edited and Compiled from Their Diaries and Papers. London: Macmillan, 2 volumes, 1923
Bernard Lewis, Swansea Pals: A History of the 14th (Service) Battalion, The Welsh Regiment in the Great War. Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2004
Peter H. Liddle, The Soldier’s War, 1914–1918. London: Blandford Press, 1988
David Macfarlane, The Danger Tree: Memory, War, and the Search for a Family’s Past. Toronto: Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 1991
Graham Maddocks, Liverpool Pals: 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th Battalions The King’s (Liverpool Regiment). London: Leo Cooper, 1991
John Masefield, The Old Front Line. London: Heinemann, 1917
Frank Mitchell, Tank Warfare: The Story of the Tanks in the Great War. London: Nelson, 1933. Reprinted by Spa Books and Tom Donovan, Stevenage, 1987
J. B. Montagu, History of the 9th (Service) Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment, 1914–1919. London: privately printed, 1934
Colonel G. W. L. Nicholson, The Fighting Newfoundlander: A History of The Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Ottawa: Government of Newfoundland, 1964
Neal W. O’Connor, Aviation Awards of Imperial Germany in World War I and the Men who Earned Them. Princeton, New Jersey: Foundation for Aviation World War 1, volume 2, 1990
Lieutenant Colonel the Right Hon. Sir Frederick Ponsonby, The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914–1918. London: Macmillan, 3 volumes, 1920
Anne Powell, A Deep Cry: First World War Soldier-Poets Killed in France and Flanders. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998
Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson, Command on the Western Front: The Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1914–1918. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992
Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes, Shot at Dawn. Barnsley: Wharncliffe Publishing, 1989
David Raw, Bradford Pals: A Comprehensive History of the 16th–18th & 20th (Service) Battalions of the Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regiment, 1914–1918. Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2005
Donald Richter, Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1992
Lieutenant Colonel H. R. Sandilands, The 23rd Division, 1914-1919. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1925
Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems. London: Faber and Faber, 1983
Leonard Sellers, The Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division: Antwerp, Gallipoli, France, 1914–1918. London: Leo Cooper, 1995
Alasdair Sutherland, Never More: The Story of Tongue, Melness and Skerray War Memorials. Tongue, Sutherland: Woodend Publishing, 2000
Robert Thompson, Ballymoney Heroes, 1914–1918. Coleraine: Robert Thompson, 1999
——Bushmills Heroes, 1914-1918. Coleraine: Robert Thompson, 1995
——Portrush Heroes, 1914-1918. Coleraine: Robert Thompson, 2001
Tonbridge School and the Great War of 1914 to 1919. London: The Whitefriars Press, 1923
Barrie Thorpe, Private Memorials of the Great War on the Western Front. Reading, Berkshire: The Western Front Association, 1999
Richard Van Emden, Boy Soldiers of the Great War: Their Own Stories for the First Time. London: Hodder Headline, 2005
Ray Westlake, Kitchener’s Army. Staplehurst, Kent: Spellmount, 1989
Captain A. V. Wheeler-Holohan and Captain G. M. C. Wyatt (editors), The Rangers: Historical Records from 1959 to the Conclusion of the Great War. London: Harrison & Son, 1921
Everard Wyrall, History of the Somerset Light Infantry, 1914-1919. London: Methuen, 1927
Journals
Gun Fire, ed. A. J. Peacock, York Educational Settlement, York
The Poppy and the Owl, Journal of the Friends of the Liddle Collection, Leeds University Library
Articles
Winston S. Churchill, ‘Douglas Haig’ (obituary). Nash’s Magazine, November 1928
Owen Slot, ‘France preparing to pay respects to the fallen heroes from Hearts’. The Times, 10 November 2005
Film and DVD
The Battle of the Somme. William F. Drury (producer), Geoffrey Malins and Charles Urban (directors). British Topical Committee for War Films. First shown on 10 August 1916
The Somme. London: Channel Four. First transmission, 22 November 2005
The Trenches of Hell. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Episode Eight, Lucasfilm Ltd. First transmission, 28 September 1992
Website
http://www.cwgc.com (Commonwealth War Graves Commission). Contains a listing of all British and Empire soldiers, sailors and airmen killed in action, with their units, ages when known, date of death, and cemetery or memorial to the missing. Also contains indispensable information about all Commonwealth War Graves cemeteries, including those on the Somme.