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*[https://archive.org/details/temporaryheroes00somm ''Temporary Heroes''] by Cecil Sommers [Norman Cecil Sommers Down] 1917. Archive.org. With illustrations by the author. He was a Lieutenant, 1/4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders. Letters from February 22, 1915 to July 27, 1916. For another book see [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)]]
*[https://archive.org/details/onrightofbritish01nobb ''On the Right of the British Line''] by Captain Gilbert Nobbs (late L.R. B.) [London Rifle Brigade] 1917 Archive.org. Some editions are titled ''Englishman, Kamerad! Right of the British Line''. The author was blinded in battle, and became a POW. [https://qormuseum.org/soldiers-of-the-queens-own/nobbs-henry-gilbert/ Biographical details] qormuseum.org
*[https://archive.org/details/mudkhakisketches00bartiala ''Mud and Khaki, Sketches from Flanders and France''] by Vernon Bartlett 1917 Archive.org. Some of these sketches had appeared in the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. The author subsequently became a journalist and politician. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Bartlett Vernon Bartlett] Wikipedia. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ>[http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page44.html Great War Dust Jackets page] listing "War Memoirs : a highly personal top 20", by Great War Dust Jackets and "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War" from ''The Novels of World War 1 : An annotated bibliography'' by Philip Hager & Desmond Taylor. Garland Pub. 1981.</ref>
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz409536733 ''The Immortal First: a Private Soldier's Diary of his Experiences with the Original B.E.F., France''] by F Gaunt 1917. Ex Private 4th Royal Fusiliers. Digital Collection Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. English text, German website. For download, select "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". To read online, select "DFG-Viewer". Also available [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER208704 State Library of Victoria].
→Historical books online
*[https://archive.org/details/pushedreturnpush00nich ''Pushed and the Return Push''] by Quex [G H Nichols, RFA] 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/yearsinfrance00roseuoft ''Three Years in France with the Guns : being episodes in the life of a Field Battery''] by C A Rose, late of the Royal Field Artillery. 1919 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19814 Gutenberg.org version] where photographs may be easier to view.
*[https://archive.org/details/boywithguns00tayl/page/n8 ''The Boy with the Guns''] by the late Lieut. George W Taylor, Royal Field Artillery, 1919. Archive.org . A book in the ''On Active Service'' series. Western Front and [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Serbia]].*[https://archive.org/details/greywave00gibbrich/page/iii ''The Grey Wave''] by Major A. Hamilton Gibbs 1920. American title [https://archive.org/details/gunfodderdiaryof00gibb/page/n9 ''Gun fodder; the diary of four years of war''] 1919. Both Archive.org. He was on the Western Front in two roles, initially as a trooper, 9th Lancers, and latterly as an officer, later Battery Commander, Royal Field Artillery from [https://archive.org/details/greywave00gibbrich/page/122 page 123]. In between he was with 67 Artillery Brigade, in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt]] and [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Hamilton_Gibbs A. Hamilton Gibbs] (Wikipedia), novelist.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromsommetorhine00ashm/page/n5 ''From the Somme to the Rhine''] by S Ashmead-Bartlett. Dust jacket/book cover has additional wording ''An Intelligence Officer's narrative of the last phase of the Great War'' <ref>Dust Jacket Collector. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/211418-on-active-service-series/?do=findComment&comment=2825244 On Active Service Series] ''Great War Forum'' 27 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.</ref> . [1921] Archive.org. A book in the ''On Active Service'' series. Elsewhere it is stated he was Major Herbert Seabury Hunt Ashmead-Bartlett (known as Seabury) 173 Infantry Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. The author’s war diary for [http://www.phelps-ancestry.co.uk/ancestry/herbert-seabury-hunt-ashmead-bartlett/war-diary-1915/ The Battle of Ypres May 1915]. He appears to be a brother of Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the war correspondent, and had himself briefly worked as a journalist. In 1922, as a condition for an inheritance, he changed his surname to Burdett-Coutts.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirofltcoledw00steeiala ''A Memoir of Lt.-Col. Edward Anthony Steel, RHA and RFA, 1880-1919 : consisting chiefly of his letters and diaries with numerous illustrations''] 1921 Archive.org. During WW1 he was on the Western Front with 35th Battery, briefly in Mesopotamia late 1918/early 1919, and finally posted to Vladivostok with the British Military Mission to Siberia, where he died 17 October 1919 in Omsk, of influenza.
*[https://archive.org/details/crossatfrontfrag01tipl ''The Cross at the Front; Fragments from the Trenches''] by Thomas Tiplady, Chaplain to the Forces. 1917 Archive.org. Also published under the title ''The Kitten in the Crater''. He was a Chaplain in the 56th Division of London Territorials.
:[https://archive.org/details/soulofsoldierske01tipl ''The Soul of the Soldier; Sketches from the Western Battle-Front''] by Thomas Tiplady, Chaplain to the Forces. 1918 Archive.org. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/soulofsoldierske01tipl#page/130 "Chapter XI “Missing”"] page 130, which explains when this classification was used.
*[https://archive.org/details/lettersofcreight00creiuoft/page/160 "France"] page 160 ''Letters of Oswin Creighton, C.F., 1883-1918'' edited by Louise Creighton 1920 Archive.org
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz40746705X ''Letters of an Army Chaplain''] by William Duncan Geare 1918. Classified by IWM as Royal Army Chaplains Department, Liverpool Regt., Bn. 7, Liverpool Regt., Bn. 9. Digital Collection Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. English text, German website. For download, select "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". To read online, select "DFG-Viewer".
*[https://archive.org/details/padreinfrance00birm ''A Padre in France''] by George Birmingham, the pseudonym for James Owen Hannay, c 1919. Archive.org. He was appointed to the Chaplains Department, British Army
*[https://archive.org/details/leavesfromfieldn00morguoft ''Leaves from a Field Note-Book''] by J. H. Morgan Late Home Office Commissioner with the British Expeditionary Force 1916 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._H._Morgan J. H. Morgan] Wikipedia
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924013648203 ''Gentlemen At Arms''] by "Centurion" a Captain in the British Army who has served in France [J H Morgan] 1918 Archive.org. Stated elsewhere to be Volume 13 in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War.'' <ref>[http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page48.html Page from Great War Dust Jackets] Scroll down.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/contemptible00casu ''"Contemptible"''] by "Casualty", a Subaltern. 1916 Archive.org. Book 6, or 7 (numbers seen can vary) in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War''. The IWM website catalogues him as Arnold Alfred Ernest Gyde, 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027894751 ''Bullets & Billets''] by Bruce Bairnsfather 2nd edition 1917 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11232 Gutenberg.org edition], with cartoons collected at the front of the file. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bairnsfather Bruce Bairnsfather] Wikipedia. He was an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who became very well known for his cartoons.
:[https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-025 ''Fragments from France''] by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather 1917 Archive.org. A collection of cartoons. Published in 1916 (2nd edition) as ''The Bystander's Fragments from France''. [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.Fragments1 ''Vol. I''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV2 ''More Fragments from France
Vol. II''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV3 ''Still more Fragments from France
Vol. III''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV4 ''Fragments from France
Vol. IV''] University of Wisconsin Digital Collections; [https://archive.org/details/morefragmentsfro00bair ''More Fragments from France Parts V-VIII''] c 1918 Archive.org.
:''From Mud to Mufti'' by Bruce Bairnsfather 1919 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairrich American edition, with American Preface], [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairuoft London edition].
*[https://archive.org/details/adventuresofensi00will mudkhakisketches00bartiala ''The Adventures of an EnsignMud and Khaki, Sketches from Flanders and France''] by Vedette Vernon Bartlett 1917 Archive.org . "...the autobiography, thinly disguised as fiction and very cleverly written, Some of a subaltern who joined the Guards these sketches had appeared in France just before the battle of ''Daily Mail'' and the Somme, in which he was wounded''Daily Mirror''. The author subsequently became a journalist and politician.[https://en.wikipedia. The best chapters recount the magnificent advance org/wiki/Vernon_Bartlett Vernon Bartlett] Wikipedia. On a list of the Guards towards Lesboeufs on September 15th, 1916, the first day on which the tanks were used"highly personal top 20 War Memoirs"."<refname=GWDJ>[http://archivewww.spectatorgreatwardustjackets.co.uk/article/29th-december-1917/14/books ''The Spectator'' 29 December 1917, page44.html Great War Dust Jackets page 14.]</ref>*[httpslisting "War Memoirs ://archive.org/details/trenchpicturesfr00redm ''Trench Pictures from France''] a highly personal top 20", by Major William Redmond, MP [Member of Parliament], killed in action June 1917. [1917] Archive.org. Great War Dust Jackets and "The articles which make up the bulk 20 most significant novels of the book were originally contributed to the Great War" from ''Daily ChronicleThe Novels of World War 1 : An annotated bibliography'' under a pseudonymby Philip Hager & Desmond Taylor. Garland Pub. He joined the Royal Irish Division, Royal Irish Regiment1981.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/twentytwomonthsu00crof ''Twenty-two Months Under Fire''] by Henry Page Croft 1917 Archive.org. The author belonged to 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, a Territorial Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/oneyoungmansimpl01hodd/page/n5 ''One Young Man; the simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the Western Front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk''] edited by J E Hodder-Williams 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/oneyoungman00willuoft/page/n5 Later edition] Archive.org which advises the young man was Reginald Davis, thought to be in D Company, 1/9th London Regiment (QVR (Queen Victoria's Rifles))<ref>bmac. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/44221-book-one-young-man-sidney-baxter-reginald-davis/?do=findComment&comment=371090 Book 'ONE YOUNG MAN': Sidney Baxter / Reginald Davis] ''Great War Forum'' 2 January 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2019.</ref>, a London territorial regiment.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz409536733 ''The Immortal First: a Private Soldier's Diary of his Experiences with the Original B.E.F., France''] by F Gaunt 1917. Ex Private 4th Royal Fusiliers. Digital Collection Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. English text, German website. For download, select "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". To read online, select "DFG-Viewer". Also available [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER208704 State Library of Victoria].
*[https://archive.org/details/onrightofbritish01nobb ''On the Right of the British Line''] by Captain Gilbert Nobbs (late L.R. B.) [London Rifle Brigade] 1917 Archive.org. Some editions are titled ''Englishman, Kamerad! Right of the British Line''. The author was blinded in battle, and became a POW. [https://qormuseum.org/soldiers-of-the-queens-own/nobbs-henry-gilbert/ Biographical details] qormuseum.org
*[https://archive.org/details/trenchpicturesfr00redm ''Trench Pictures from France''] by Major William Redmond, MP [Member of Parliament], killed in action June 1917. [1917] Archive.org. The articles which make up the bulk of the book were originally contributed to the ''Daily Chronicle'' under a pseudonym. He joined the Royal Irish Division, Royal Irish Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/temporaryheroes00somm ''Temporary Heroes''] by Cecil Sommers [Norman Cecil Sommers Down] 1917. Archive.org. With illustrations by the author. He was a Lieutenant, 1/4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders. Letters from February 22, 1915 to July 27, 1916. For another book see [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)]]
*[https://archive.org/details/adventuresofensi00will ''The Adventures of an Ensign''] by Vedette 1917 Archive.org "...the autobiography, thinly disguised as fiction and very cleverly written, of a subaltern who joined the Guards in France just before the battle of the Somme, in which he was wounded... The best chapters recount the magnificent advance of the Guards towards Lesboeufs on September 15th, 1916, the first day on which the tanks were used."<ref>[http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/29th-december-1917/14/books ''The Spectator'' 29 December 1917, page 14.]</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/letterstohiswife00vernrich/page/n8 ''Letters to his Wife''] by R E Vernède 1917 Archive.org. He was a novelist commissioned in 5th (SR) Bn. Rifle Brigade, attd. 3rd Bn. in France 1915-16; wounded on the Somme; then with 12th (Service) Bn. 1917 & DoW post-Arras, 9/4/17.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191204220208/https://turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf Turner Donovan] December 2019, item 259</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/nothingofimporta01adam ''"Nothing of Importance": Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion''] by Bernard Adams 1918 Archive.org. Elsewhere, the regiment is stated to be the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/nothing-of-importance.-a-record-of-eight-months-at-the-front-with-a-welsh-battalion-october-1915-to-june-1916.html Naval & Military Press]</ref> On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/irontimeswithgua00lond/page/n5 ''Iron Times with the Guards''] by An "O. E." ["O. E." Old Etonian; Geoffrey Philip Agnew Fildes, 2nd Coldstream Guards] 1918 Archive.org
:[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34099 ''In Stahlgewittern: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Stoßtruppführers''] by Ernst Jünger 1922. Gutenberg.org. German language.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_of_Steel ''Storm of Steel''] (Wikipedia).
*[https://archive.org/details/fatalistatwar00rudo/page/n7 ''A Fatalist at War''] by Rudolf Georg Binding translated from the German by Ian F. D. Morrow. 1929 Archive.org. Original title ''Aus dem Kreige'' 1925.
*[http://www.grensland-docs.nl/egodocumenten/egodocuments-startpage/ Kriegstagebücher indexpage] Bibliography of German/Austrian war books, with some online links. Grensland-Docs (Dutch website, page in German with minimal English content).
====Post War including British Occupation of Germany====
*''The Occupation of the Rhineland : 1918-1929'' by J. E Edmonds, (James Edward, Sir). Originally published under restricted circulation 1944. Series: ''History of the Great War''. Available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/the-occupation-of-the-rhineland-1918-1929official-history-of-the-great-war/ ''The Occupation of the Rhineland : 1918-1929''] by J. E Edmonds. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8KO82s1roGLP6hQIy online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in World War II/Military Books/Germany.
