The bibliography on the battle of the Somme is so vast that I have only mentioned here books that I have relied on heavily or quoted from in this book. All books are published in London unless otherwise stated.
ANONYMOUS, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth Battalions The Manchester Regiment: First City Brigade 1 (Naval and Military Press, 1923)
BARDGETT, Colin, The Lonsdale Battalion (The Cromwell Press, 1993)
BARNETT, Correlli, The Lords of War: Supreme Leadership from Lincoln to Churchill (The Praetorian Press, 2012)
BEACH, Jim, Haig’s Intelligence: GHQ and the German Army 1916–1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
BILTON, David, Hull Pals (Wharncliffe Books, 1999)
BLACK, Jeremy, The Great War and the Making of the Modern World (Bloomsbury, 2011)
BLAKE, Robert, (ed.), The Private Papers of Sir Douglas Haig 1914–1919 (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952)
BOND, Brian, (ed.), et al, Look To Your Front (The History Press, 1999)
BORASTON, J. H., (ed.), Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches (J.M. Dent & Sons,1919)
BROWN, I.M., British Logistics on the Western Front 1914–19 (Praeger Publishers, Connecticut, 1998)
BRYANT, Peter, Grimsby Chums (Humberside Heritage Publications, 1990)
CARTER, Terry, Birmingham Pals (Pen & Sword, 1997)
CAVE, Nigel, Battleground Europe: Somme (Pen & Sword, 2000)
CHARTERIS, John, Field-Marshal Earl Haig (Cassell, 1929)
——, At G.H.Q. (Cassell, 1931)
CHRISTIE, N.M., For King and Empire: The Newfoundlanders in the Great War (CEF Books, Ottawa, 2003)
CHURCHILL, Winston, The World Crisis, vol 3 (Thornton Butterfield, 1927)
——, Great Contemporaries (Macmillan and Co., 1942)
COOKSEY, Jon, Pals: The 13th and 14th Battalions York and Lancaster Regiments (Barnsley Chronicle, 1986)
COOPER, Alfred Duff, Haig (Faber, 1935)
COWLEY, Robert, (ed.), The Great War: Perspectives on the Great War (Random House, 2004)
DEWAR, George, and Boraston, J.H., Sir Douglas Haig’s Command (Constable, 1922)
DUFFY, Christopher, The German Army on the Somme (Pen & Sword, 2007)
EDMONDS, Brig-Gen. Sir J.E., Military Operations: France and Belgium 1916, vol 1, 1932
EMDEN, Richard Van, Meeting the Enemy (Bloomsbury, 2013)
——, Tommy’s War (Bloomsbury, 2014)
ENGLUND, Peter, The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War (Knopf, 2011)
FARRAR-HOCKLEY, A.H., The Somme (Batsford, 1964)
FERGUSON, Niall, The Pity of War (Basic Books, 1999)
GIBSON, Ralph, and Oldfield, Paul, Sheffield City Battalion (Leo Cooper, 1988)
GILBERT, Martin, The Somme (Henry Holt & Co., 2006)
HAIG, Countess, The Man I Knew (Moray Press, 1936)
HARRIS, John, Covenant with Death (Arrow, 1961)
HART, Peter, The Somme (Cassell Military Paperbacks, 2008)
HASTINGS, Max, Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 (William Collins, 2013)
HERWIG, H.H., First World War (Bloomsbury, 1997)
HORNE, Charles, F., (ed.), Sources Records of The Great War, vol. 4 (The American Legion, Indianapolis, 1931)
JÜNGER, Ernst, Storm of Steel (Allen Lane, 2003)
KEEGAN, John, The Face of Battle (Penguin, 1976)
——, The First World War (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
LEE, John, The Warlords: Hindenburg and Ludendorff (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005)
LEWIS, Cecil, Sagittarius Rising (Greenhill, 1936)
LEWIS, John, (ed.), The Mammoth Book of How it Happened (Robinson, 1998)
LIDDELL HART, B.H., Through the Fog of War (Random House, 1938)
LLOYD GEORGE, D., War Memoirs (Odhams, 1931)
LUDENDORFF, Erich, My War Memories, vol. I (Hutchinson, 1919)
MCCARTHY, Chris, The Somme: The Day-by-Day Account (Greenwich Editions, 1996)
MACDONALD, Alan, Z Day: The Attack of the VIII Corps at Beaumont Hamel and Serre (Iona, 2014)
MACE, Martin, and GREHAN, John, (eds.), Slaughter on the Somme: The Complete War Diaries of the British Army’s Worst Day (Pen & Sword, 2013)
MADDOCKS, Graham, Liverpool Pals (Pen & Sword, 1991)
MAYHEW, Emily, Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I (Oxford University Press, 2014)
MEAD, Gary, The Good Soldier: The Biography of Douglas Haig (Atlantic, 2007)
——, Victoria’s Cross (Atlantic, 2014)
MIDDLEBROOK, Martin, The First Day on the Somme (Penguin, 2001)
MILNER, Laurie, Leeds Pals (Pen & Sword, 1991)
NICHOLS, G.H.F., The 18th Division in the Great War (William Blackwood, 1922)
NICHOLSON, G.W.L., The Fighting Newfoundlander (McGill-Queens University Press, 2006)
PHILPOTT, William, Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme (Little, Brown, 2009)
——, War of Attrition: Fighting the First World War (Overlook Press, 2014)
PRIOR, Robin and WILSON, Trevor, Command on the Western Front: Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1914–1918 (Blackwell, 1992)
RAWSON, Andy, Somme Campaign (Pen & Sword, 2014)
REYNOLDS, David, The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century (Simon & Schuster, 2014)
ROBERTSHAW, Andrew, Somme 1 July 1916 (Osprey, 2006)
ROGERSON, Sidney, Twelve Days on the Somme (Greenhill, 2006)
SASSOON, Siegfried, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Faber, 1965)
SELDON, Anthony, and WALSH, David, Public Schools and the Great War (Pen & Sword, 2014)
SHEEN, John, Tyneside Irish (Pen & Sword, 1998)
SHEFFIELD, Gary, Forgotten Victory—The First World War: Myths and Realities Hodder Headline, 2001
——, The Somme (Cassell, 2003)
SHEFFIELD, Gary, and BOURNE, John, (eds.), Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914–1918 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005)
SHELDON, Jack, The German Army on the Somme (Pen & Sword, 2007)
STEDMAN, Michael, Salford Pals (Pen & Sword, 1993)
——, Manchester Pals (Pen & Sword, 1994)
STEVENSON, David, 1914–1918: A History of the First World War (Allen Lane, 2004)
STEWART, Graham, and SHEEN, John, Tyneside Scottish (Pen & Sword, 1999)
STRACHAN, Hew, The First World War: A New History (Simon & Schuster, 2014)
TERRAINE, John, Douglas Haig: The Educated Soldier (Hutchinson, 1963)
TRAVERS, Tim, Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front and the Emergence of Modern Warfare 1900–1918 (Harper Collins, 1987)
TURNER, William, Accrington Pals (Pen & Sword, 1993)
WATSON, Alexander, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria in World War I (Basic Civitas, 2014)
WILLIAMSON, Henry, The Golden Virgin (Faber, 2010)
WINTER, Jay, The Great War and the British People (Macmillan, 1986)
WINTER, Michael, Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead (Doubleday, 2014)
BOURNE, John, ‘The BEF on the Somme: Some Career Aspects. Part 1, 1 July 1916’, from Gun Fire. A Journal of First World War History, No. 35, pp. 2–14 (York, 1996)
GREENHALGH, Elizabeth, ‘Why the British were on the Somme in 1916’, War in History 6, pp. 147-73 (California, 1999)
——, ‘Flames on the Somme’, War in History 10, pp. 335–42 (California, 2003)
LEE, John, ‘Some Lessons of the Somme’, in ed. Bond, Brian et al, Look To Your Front, 1999
MARBLE, Sandars, ‘Wire Cutting on the Somme’ Stand To!, No. 61 (Staplehurst, April 2001)
PHILPOTT, William, ‘Why the British Were Really on the Somme’, War in History 9, pp. 446–71 (California, 2002)
PUGSLEY, Christopher, ‘Haig and the Implementation of Tactical Doctrine on the Western Front’, Sandhurst Occasional Paper, No. 8 (Sandhurst, 1991)
STRACHAN, Hew, ‘The Battle of the Somme and British Strategy’ Journal of Strategic Studies, No. 21, pp. 79–85 (Oxford, 1998)
SYM, Andrew, ‘The Learning Curve: The 46th North Midland Division on the Western Front’, History Today, November 2004 (London)