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====Fiction====
*Half-novel, half-autobiography: [http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/manmidd ''The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916''] by Frederic Manning 1929. Also published as ''Her Privates We''. Pdf download of a transcription, University of Sydney Digital Collection. Considered “as being true to the actual experience of modern warfare in ways that nothing else had managed to be”. <ref> [http://insidestory.org.au/an-outsider-at-war "An outsider at war"] by Richard Johnstone 4 June 2012. ''Inside Story''.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/peterjacksonciga00franiala ''Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant : a Romance of Married Life''] by Gilbert Frankau Seventh edition 1920. Archive.org. This book "is semi-autobiographical and gives an excellent feel for life as a Kitchener volunteer officer in both the infantry and then the RFA 1914-16… it was also one of the first books to reveal to the general public what Shell Shock was all about. A classic".<ref>charlesmessenger [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/244799-casemate-books-a-question/&do=findComment&comment=2463024 Casemate Books - a question] ''Great War Forum'' 12 November 2016. Retrieved 2016.</ref>
*Novels by Sapper, the non de plume of Herman Cyril McNeile , a writer of war stories that were hailed as realistic revelations of the truth about war. <ref>[https://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com/sapper-from-realism-to-melodrama/ "‘Sapper’ : From Realism to Melodrama"], a paper originally delivered at the conference of Les Amis du Roman Populaire in Amiens, in 2014. ''Great War Fiction''. Retrieved 29 July 2016.</ref> He was the author of the later ''Bulldog Drummond'' series. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/menwomenguns00sappuoft ''Men, Women and Guns''] 1916. Also available in an [https://archive.org/details/menwomenandguns_1511_librivox audio edition].
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