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*[https://archive.org/details/seekingvictoryon00albe/page/n3 ''Seeking Victory on the Western Front : the British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I''] by Albert Palazzo. Catalogued 2003, originally published 2000. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100000050752.0x000002 ''Strategic Camouflage''] by Solomon J. Solomon 1920. British Library Digital file, where pages are rotatable. [https://archive.org/details/StrategicCamouflage1920/page/n7 Archive.org version].
*[http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5801 ''The Pill-boxes of Flanders''] by Col. E. G. L. Thurlow 1933. "The Great War Archive", a part of ''The First World War Poetry Digital Archive'', University of Oxford. The pages of this short book have been listed out of order. To read in book order, selected the following document pages 26, 11, 15 (Title page); 27, 23 Contents; 13, 2, 18, 4, 14, 24, 16, 3, 17, 25, 7, 19, 8, 21, 28, 1, 12, 5, 22, 9, 6, 10, 20. This book was reprinted in edition No 9, c 1986 of the magazine ''Gun Fire'', all of which have been digitised and are available in the members' area of the Western Front Association (WFA).<ref>[https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/november-2019/gun-fire-the-re-publication-of-a-renowned-wfa-journal/ "Gun Fire: the re-publication of a renowned WFA journal"] westernfrontassociation.com </ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/poisonwar00robeuoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Poison War''] by A A Roberts 1915 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/seekingvictoryon00albe/page/n3 ''Seeking Victory on the Western Front : the British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I''] by Albert Palazzo. Catalogued 2003, originally published 2000. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:The British Gas Units were part of the Royal Engineers, see [[Western Front#Engineers|Engineers]], below.
*[https://archive.org/details/shootingsatdawna00thurrich ''Shootings at Dawn: The Army Death Penalty at Work''] by Ernest Thurtle MP. Published 1920s. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Thurtle Ernest Thurtle] Wikipedia. He campaigned in the 1920s to bring about the abolition of the death penalty for cowardice or desertion in the British Army.
:''The Men I Killed'' by Brigadier General F P Crozier 1937, see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others, below]].
*[https://archive.org/details/armouragainstfat0000occl ''Armour against Fate : British Military Intelligence in the First World War''] by Michael Occleshaw 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/facingarmageddon0000unse_g6p3 ''Facing Armageddon : the First World War Experienced''] edited by Hugh Cecil and Peter H Liddle. 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Chapters by many different authors.
*[https://archive.org/details/mudbloodpoppycoc0000corr ''Mud, Blood and Poppycock : Britain and the First World War''] by Gordon Corrigan 2003. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Corrigan was also the author of ''Sepoys in the Trenches'', see [[Western Front#Recommended reading|Recommended reading]], above.
*[https://archive.org/details/greatwarperspect0000unse ''The Great War : perspectives on the First World War''] edited by Robert Cowley 2003. Thirty articles by different authors. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/americanfighters00paul ''American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918''] by Paul Ayres Rockwell 1930 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/sky00blai ''Sky: Memoirs''] by Blaise Cendrars [pseudonym], translated by Nina Rootes 1992, originally published in French as ''Le Lotissement du ciel'' 1949. [https://archive.org/details/skymemoirs00cend 2nd file] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. A volume in the author’s war memoirs tetralogy, which includes WW1 chapters. Swiss born, during WWI he joined the French Foreign Legion and served in France, where he lost an arm. [https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/jul/23/thehazyworldofblaisecendr "The hazy world of Blaise Cendrars"] by Lee Rourke 23 July 2007 ''The Guardian''. "Cendrars eschews biographical detail and morphs fact and fiction". The other volumes in the tetralogy are ''Astonished Man'' (''L 'Homme foudroyé'', 1945), ''Lice'' (''La main coupée'', 1946), ''Planus'' (''Bourlinguer'', 1948). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Cendrars Blaise Cendrars] Wikipedia.
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Alexander,_1st_Earl_Alexander_of_Tunis Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis] Wikipedia. During WW1, he was in the Irish Guards, initially Lieutenant 1st Battalion, appointed Commander 2nd Irish Guards in October 1917, aged 25. For online biographies published 1952-1973, containing chapters on WW1, see [[Second World War#Historical books online|Second World War - Historical books online]] and scroll down.
*[https://archive.org/details/liddellhartmemoi00lidd ''The Liddell Hart Memoirs 1895-1938 Volume I''] 1965. Archive.org Lending Library. The author became an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Liddell_Hart B. H. Liddell Hart] Wikipedia. Military historian and military theorist.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. The initial four chapters are Purcell's account of his time as a young officer with the 11th (Service) Battalion of the Green Howards, including his time as a Prisoner of War.
