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*''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''. Published c 1917 as a two volume set, c 900 pages, and also published as a five volume set. Information about the contents<ref name=DTE>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/deeds-that-thrill-the-empiretrue-stories-of-the-most-glorious-acts-of-heroism-of-the-empires-soldiers-and-sailors-during-the-great-war/ ''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''] naval-military-press.com</ref> advises 56 VCs are covered.
:Transcribed editions by OCR, (optical character recognition) so subject to inaccuracies and without the original illustrations: [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-I/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Volume I], [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-II/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Volume II] of the two volume set. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Although some pages are acceptable, many are not, but they give an indication of the content of the book. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nvUgVYY3ew YouTube video] about the books and their illustrations.
:Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000891226 and in a reprint edition.<ref name=DTE/>
→Collected stories
:[https://archive.org/details/inlineofbattleso00wood/page/n7 ''In the Line of Battle: Soldiers' Stories of the War''] edited by Walter Wood 1916 Archive.org
*''True Stories of the Great War. Tales of Adventure-Heroic Deeds-Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses''. Edited by Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917. In six volumes: [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre01mill/page/n6 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre0000unse/page/n3 Vol. II], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre03mill/page/n6 Vol. III], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre04mill/page/n6 Vol. IV], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre05mill/page/n6 Vol. V], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre06mill/page/n5 Vol. VI]. All Archive.org
*''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''. Published c 1917 as a two volume set, c 900 pages, and also published as a five volume set. Information about the contents<ref name=DTE>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/deeds-that-thrill-the-empiretrue-stories-of-the-most-glorious-acts-of-heroism-of-the-empires-soldiers-and-sailors-during-the-great-war/ ''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''] naval-military-press.com</ref> advises 56 VCs are covered.
:Transcribed editions by OCR, (optical character recognition) so subject to inaccuracies and without the original illustrations: [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-I/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Volume I], [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-II/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Volume II] of the two volume set. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Although some pages are acceptable, many are not, but they give an indication of the content of the book. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nvUgVYY3ew YouTube video] about the books and their illustrations.
:Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000891226 and in a reprint edition<ref name=DTE/>, which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/1/hte6ho_3Wf5ecMDWz ''British WWI Stories of Heroism''] (located in International/scroll to letter B). Contains many illustrations.
*[https://archive.org/details/deedsofheroismbr00elwy/page/n7 ''Deeds of heroism and bravery : the book of heroes and personal daring''] edited by Elwyn A Barron 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/500ofbestcockney00lond ''500 of the Best Cockney War Stories''] Reprinted from the London ''Evening News''. 1920 Archive.org
:A number of the accounts have been transcribed on [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm Memoirs & Diaries] firstworldwar.com including [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/firstgasattack.htm "The First Gas Attack"] by Anthony R. Hossack, Queen Victoria Rifles [9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment]. To locate other entries, either scroll through all entries in the Memoirs & Diaries category or use your Search engine, with terms "Everyman at War" firstworldwar.com/diaries . Available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006523443 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University Library access. Also available on the Library subscription website "The First World War" by Adam Matthew Digital, module "Personal Experiences", see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#First World War databases| Subscription websites - First World War databases]] for details of this database. To locate this publication, it is classified as a "Printed Book". The [[British Library]] is listed on the database website as a Participating Library. Card holders of the State Library of NSW can access The First World War: Personal Experiences module on their home computers.
*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersoffall00emil/page/n5 ''War Letters of Fallen Englishmen''] edited by Laurence Housman [1930] Archive.org
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120825165603/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/NewsMedia/I_Was_There_01.htm ''The Great War…I Was There! Undying Memories of 1914-1918''] (a description greatwardifferent.com, archived) edited by Sir John Hammerton originally published in 51 weekly parts 1938-39, (first appearing around the 20th anniversary of the end of the war), and also published in a three volume edition, 2020 pages (v. 1. August 4, 1914, to July 1, 1916; v. 2. July 4, 1916, to October 22, 1917; v. 3. Oct. 1917 to Jan. 1919 (Amalgamated Press)), the latter available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01001581634 . There was also a four volume reprint by Waverley.
:The weekly magazines are available as a database on the pay website [[findmypast]], titled [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-the-great-war-i-was-there Britain, The Great War, I Was There] located in Armed Forces & Conflict/First World War, which advises the 51 editions ran from 29 September 1938 to 19 September 1939. To browse the pages, do not use a Search term but click on the Search icon, when a series of 1186 pdf images, (each of two pages), will be displayed in image order. From any image you can navigate to the next image, or the previous image. (This function is located near the top of the findmypast webpage, not near the actual image). Part 1 consists of 29 images, perhaps larger than the average, if in fact all issues are included.
