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*[https://archive.org/details/warbirdsdiaryofu00unse/page/n9 ''War Birds : Diary of an Unknown Aviator''] Illustrated by Clayton Knight. 1926 Archive.org. The author was Elliott White Springs who edited a short diary by "Unknown Aviator" John MacGavock Grider, and wrote the rest of the content.<ref>Dan_San_Abbott. [http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=948 War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator] ''The Aerodrome Forum'' 20 July 2002. Retrieved 27 May 2019.</ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_White_Springs Elliott White Springs] Wikipedia. They were both part of a group of Americans who trained in Britain, and joined the Royal Flying Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527721/page/n195 Page 174] ''A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War'' with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929. Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell. The author transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]], above.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3488289?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Fights and Flights''] "Part I Armoured Cars (August –November 1914)" and "Part II The "Iron Coast" (November 1914-February 1915)" by Air-Commodore Charles Rumney Samson 1930. Royal Naval Air Service. HathiTrust Digital Library. Possibly not available in USA etc. * ''Winged Victory'' by V M Yates published 1934 was in fictional form, but based very largely on the author’s experiences as a fighter pilot. He joined 46 Squadron in February 1918, then 80 Sqn. See [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]] below. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Maslin_Yeates Victor Maslin Yeates] Wikipedia. A biography ''Winged Victor'' by Gordon Atkin 2004 (available at The British Library UIN: BLL01012980540) established that ''Winger Victory'' was largely autobiographical.
*[https://archive.org/details/sagittariusrisin0000lewi/mode/2up ''Sagittarius Rising''] by Cecil Lewis 2003, originally published 1936. He arrived in France as a pilot with the RFC in March 1916, age 17. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278559 ''Air Power And Armies''] by Wing Commander J C Slessor 1936 Archive.org, mirror from the Digital Library of India. Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Staff College Camberley between 1931 and 1934. Includes WW1 content.
*[https://archive.org/details/noparachutefight00leea/page/n7 ''No Parachute: a Fighter Pilot in World War I. Letters written in 1917 by Lieutenant A. S. G. Lee, Sherwood Forresters, attached Royal Flying Corps''] by Arthur Stanley Gould Lee 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Lee was a pilot in No 46 Fighter Squadron, RFC. He was also the author of ''Open Cockpit : a pilot of the Royal Flying Corps'' 1969, [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Open_Cockpit.html?id=wXbzAAAAMAAJ Searchable, but not viewable Google Books] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lee_(RAF_officer) Arthur Lee (RAF officer)] Wikipedia. He continued in the RAF until retiring in 1946 as an Air Vice Marshal.
*[https://archive.org/details/canvasfalconss00long ''The Canvas Falcons: the story of the Men and the Planes of World War I''] by Stephen Longstreet 1970. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0702600008 ''Warplanes & Air Battles of World War I''] edited by Bernard Fitzsimons. 1973. Archive.org Lending Library. First published in ''Purnell’s History of the First World War'', this publication being a well regarded series of 128 weekly magazines first released in the UK c mid-late 1960s.
*[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_89630/2?r=0&s=1 ''Generals Die In Bed''] by Charles Yale Harrison 1930, first published 1928. canadiana.ca. [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500061h.html 1928 edition], a transcription by Project Gutenberg Australia. [https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20141066 1930 edition], a transcription by Faded Page (Canada). [https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/100-stories/Pages/harrison.aspx Charles Yale Harrison] (bac-lac.gc.ca) (1898-1954) was an 18-year-old student when he enlisted with the 244th (Kitchener’s Own) Battalion on January 24, 1917, in Montreal. He was wounded in August 1918. [https://www.englishworks.com.au/generals-die-bed-charles-harrison/ About the book] englishworks.com.au.[https://www.wlajournal.com/wlaarchive/23_1-2/clausson.pdf "Charles Yale Harrison’s “Little-Known Minor Masterpiece”: ''Generals Die in Bed'', Modernism, and the Canon of World War I Fiction"] by Nils Clausson ''War, Literature & the Arts'' 23 (2011).
:Revised edition, classified Juvenile/Young Adult Fiction: [https://archive.org/details/generalsdieinbed00char ''Generals die in bed : a story from the trenches''] 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1939&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Green Envelopes''] No author appears on the title page, however the author is identified as Colonel Lionel James, pre WW1 war correspondent and WW1 Commander of King Edward’s Horse<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200331014345/https://www.ebay.com/itm/WWI-1929-GREEN-ENVELOPES-Letters-from-WESTERN-FRONT-to-a-typical-English-Village-/382194859732 Ebay listing ResurgamBooks (dilapsus)] and Lionel James [http://www.northwoodvillage.org.uk/tchudsonarticles/he-wielded-pen-and-sword-by-t-c-hudson/ "He Wielded Pen and Sword"] northwoodvillage.org.uk</ref>. Published by John Murray London 1929. Letters home from the Front, from many soldiers, to a village in England. A [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/29136813 review] says "These are the familiar "green envelopes" of active service during the war. ...letters which were really written…" (names changed). The British Library catalogue entry includes the words "A novel", however in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, the book is classified WW1 Personal narratives, British. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". [https://archive.org/details/greenenvelopes Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.167522/page/n9 ''The W Plan''] by Graham Seton 1930 Archive.org. Also see [[Western Front#Machine Guns|Machine Guns]], above.
*[https://archive.org/details/roadstoglory0000aldi/page/n5 ''Roads to Glory''] by Richard Aldington 1930. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/williammarchomni0000marc/page/n17/mode/2up ''Company K''] by William March, originally serialised 1930-32 and published as a book 1933, from ''A William March Omnibus'' published 1956. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_K Company K] Wikipedia. "...among the most important of all war novels". March (pseud.) was a decorated U S Marine, birth name William Edward Campbell.
*[https://archive.org/details/wethatwereyoungn00rath/page/n5 ''We That Were Young : a Novel''] by Irene Rathbone, with a preface by E.M. Delafield ; and with a new introduction by Lynn Knight. 1989 reprint, first published 1932. Also reprinted in England in 1988 in the series Virago Modern Classics (no. 306). The author volunteered for war service, working at two YMCA camps in France and as a VAD in London. Her novel draws upon those experiences as well as upon those of a close friend who worked in a munitions factory. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/wingedvictory0000yeat_o3r0/mode/2up ''Winged Victory''] by V M Yates 2010 reprint of 1934 original edition. Based very largely on the author’s experiences as a fighter pilot. [https://archive.org/details/wingedvictory0000yeat_h3l9/mode/2up 1985 reprint of 1961 edition] which contained a new preface and a tribute by Henry Williamson. The latter volume a volume in the series ''Echoes of War''. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow. Also see [[Western Front#In the Air|In the Air]] above, for more about the author.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13580/page/n3 ''In Parenthesis''] by David Jones 1937. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(artist-poet) David Jones (artist-poet)] Wikipedia. “...a mixture of verse and prose-lines but the rich language establishes it as poetry”.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.503004 ''Across The Black Waters''] by Mulk Raj Anand. Reprint edition, possibly 1955, originally published 1940. Archive.org. mirror from Digital Library of India. A novel about Indian (Punjabi) soldiers who have crossed the black waters, against all the advice of their forefathers that calamity would befall anyone who went overseas, to join the British and their allies on the Western Front. The author was born in Peshawar in 1905, so was too young for first-hand experience of the war, but the book has a very authentic feel, suggesting that he not only did his research in books but also listened to the stories of older men who came back. He grew up in military cantonments, according to the introduction.<ref> Liz in Eastbourne. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/236997-across-the-black-water-by-mulk-raj-anand/ Across the Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand] ''Great War Forum'' 3 March 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</ref> [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000806/spectrum/books.htm#5 Review] by Randeep Wadehra, August 6, 2000 ''The Tribune''
*[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44348 ''Dastral of the Flying Corps''] by Rowland Walker. First published 1917. Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/dastraloftheflyi44348gut Archive.org version] [http://rowlandwalker.yolasite.com About the author]. The author was in the RFC. An adventure story.
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30698 ''Aces Up''] by Covington Clarke 1929 Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/aces_up_1805_librivox Librivox audio version]. Archive.org. About American aviators.
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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241464 ''Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter''] by Captain W E Johns 1954. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Contains thirteen short stories, eleven of which were originally published in ''The Camels Are Coming'' (1932) and two of which were originally published in ''Biggles Of The Camel Squadron'' (1934), originally written for older adolescents. Note however Wikipedia states "The early First World War books were reprinted in the 1950s, when the Biggles books had acquired a younger readership and were bowdlerised".
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%22Biggles+in+World+War+1%22%29&sort=date ''Biggles in World War 1'' Archive.org collection of 5 volumes] of short stories which originally appeared in magazines.
