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*[[The National Archives]] series KV1 ''The Security Service: First World War Historical Reports and Other Papers'' is available as a series of free downloads from the National Archives website, [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C15043 catalogue entry]. This series contains the official history of the Security Service work during World War I. The duties of the Security Service were principally the control of aliens within and entering the UK, and counter-espionage within the UK and within the Empire.
*[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1704 ''Detective & Secret Service Days''] by Edwin T Woodhall 1929. Pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. The 1937 edition was titled ''Detective and Secret Service Days''. The author chronicles his experiences beginning briefly with his early days in 1906 in the London Metropolitan Police Force, and then on to when he subsequently became attached to the CID at Scotland Yard, the Special Political Department, the Secret Service Department and the Special Central Department
*The following book appears to have been published under three slightly different titles: ''Memoirs Of A British Agent''; ''Memoirs of a British agent : being an account of the author's early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1918''; and ''British Agent'', by R H Bruce Lockhart 1932. Two [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80541 Archive.org version]; two transcribed formats: [http://www.gwpda.org/wwi-www/BritAgent/BATC.htm#TC gwpda.org] and [http://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/Lockhart-MemoirsBritishAgent.pdf spyculture.com]. Also [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/544347 pdf download] Digital Library of India. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._H._Bruce_Lockhart R. H. Bruce Lockhart] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/mysecretservicev00manwrich ''My Secret Service: Vienna--Sophia--Constantinople--Nish--Belgrade--Asia Minor, etc''] by 'The Man Who Dined With the Kaiser' 1916. Archive.org. The author was in Constantinople when the evacuation of Gallipoli was announced. [http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23605620 A press report of the time] indicates the author was a special reporter representing the London ''Daily Mail'', and speculates he was a Dutchman.
*[https://archive.org/details/celebratedspiesf00bart ''Celebrated Spies and Famous Mysteries of the Great War''] by George Barton 1919 Archive.org
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015008844493?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''German spies at bay, being an actual record of the German espionage in Great Britain during the years 1914-1918, comp. from official sources''] by Sidney Theodore Felstead.[1920] HathiTrust Digital Library.
*Also see the various '''Fronts''' mentioned above.
*Also see Fiction, below.
====India and the Indian Army. The Empire.====
*''The Empire at War'' edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas, in five volumes, with a [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1003532 catalogue contents description]. ([http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022549242.0x000002 Volume 1] British Library Digital file; Volume 4 Africa Google Books North America region only, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DicFAAAAIAAJ A] and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NdBmAAAAMAAJ B]). Volume 5, 1926, covers WW1 The Mediterranean colonies ; Egypt and Palestine ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Malaya ; China. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Volume 5], British Library Digital file, [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Contents] Also available as a pdf download from the Digital Library of India [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284274 Vol-vth], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Archive.org version].
:[https://archive.org/details/greenmantle00buch ''Greenmantle''] by John Buchan 1916 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/greenmantle_version_2_1309_librivox Librivox Audio], catalogued Version 2. (Other files are available). Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenmantle Wikipedia]
:[https://archive.org/details/mrstandfast00buch_0 ''Mr. Standfast''] 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/mr_standfast_1203_librivox Librivox Audio] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Standfast Wikipedia].
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.471632 ''Ashenden or The British Agent''] by W Somerset Maugham. Reprint edition, first published 1928. Archive.org. Short stories based on the author’s experience “in the Intelligence Department during the war, but rearranged for the purpose of fiction”. [https://archive.org/details/Ashenden03 Audio of some of the stories]. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashenden:_Or_the_British_Agent About the book] Wikipedia. Includes chapter headings.
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