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*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/windsofchange19100macm/page/58/mode/2up "The First World War"] Chapter Three page 59 ''Winds of Change, 1914-1939'' by Harold Macmillan 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Macmillan Harold Macmillan] (Wikipedia) later British Prime Minister. He was an officer of the Grenadier Guards in France.
*[https://archive.org/details/ghostshavewarmha0000bird/page/n5 ''Ghosts have Warm Hands''] by Will R. Bird 1968. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/canadian-will-birds-ghosts-have-warm-hands-5-best-wwi-memoir/ "#5 Best WWI Memoir"] by Edward Lengel. About 60% of this book consists of much of the content of the earlier publication ''And We Go On'', published 1930, reprinted 2014.<ref>[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/613074 Review: ''And We Go On: A Memoir of the Great War''] Review by Hanna Smyth. muse.jhu.edu</ref> Sometimes classified as fiction, but based on Bird's diaries. Bird served with the 42nd Battalion, Royal Highlanders of Canada (Black Watch), composed largely of men from Ontario and the Maritimes. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_R._Bird Will R. Bird] , a Canadian who became an author.
*[https://archive.org/details/lifeapart0000thom/page/n5 ''A Life Apart''] by Alan Thomas 1968. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Alan Ernest Wentworth Thomas served with the 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. Elsewhere it is stated he had a varied career, including as a barrister, editor for nineteen years, between 1939 and 1957, of ''The Listener'', and as an author.
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