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*[https://archive.org/details/onbattlescarredf00luri ''On the Battle-Scarred Fields of France. A Physician's Impressions of the Medical Services of both French and German Armies''] by Adolfo Luria 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ArnoldLeeseOutOfStep ''Out of Step: Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor''] by Arnold Spencer Leese. 1951 Archive.org. Born 1878, during WW1 Leese was an Army Veterinary Surgeon on the Western Front working with horses, with a prior short period in East Africa, and later also purchased camels for the Army in Somaliland. In the late 1920s he became a British Fascist polititian.
*Secret Service**[https://archive.org/details/secretservice00geor ''Secret Service''] by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org:**[https://archive.org/details/allsfairstoryofb00henr ''All's Fair : the Story of the British Secret Service Behind the German Lines''] by Captain Henry Landau 1934 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Landau_(captain) Henry Landau] Wikipedia.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100000050752.0x000002 ''Strategic Camouflage''] by Solomon J. Solomon 1920. British Library Digital file.
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx The British Library digitised manuscripts] include some India Office Records relating to the First World War. A search using the key word India, and adjustment of the dates will locate the documents, or see [http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/tag/india-office-records/ europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu], or the direct links include
*[https://archive.org/stream/heroesheroicdeed00mackiala#page/98/mode/2up "Indians' Daring Feats"], page 99 ''Heroes and Heroic Deeds of the Great War'' by Donald A Mackenzie 1916. Archive.org. A book for younger readers.
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46283 ''The Motor-Bus in War: Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half
Years at the Front''] by A. M. Beatson (Temp. Lieut. A.S.C.) 1918 Gutenberg.org. The author was an Army Service Corps officer in the Mechanical Transport Supply Column of an Indian Cavalry Division. Elsewhere, the ASC company is recorded as being the 1st Indian Cavalry Division Supply Column which was 89 Coy ASC.<ref>Larkin, Roy. [http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?48009-The-Motor-Bus-in-War-A-M-Beatson-1918&p=434811#post434811 The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918] ''Historic Military Vehicle Forum'' 8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.</ref>
*Artillery**[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.*Despatch Riders**[https://archive.org/details/advdespatchrider00watsuoft ''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''] by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org*:Captain WHL Watson was also the author of ''Tales of a Gaspipe Officer'' by Despatch Rider. ‘Military cyclists are popularly known as Gaspipe Cavalry’ ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' Nos 198, 199 and 201, December 1915-March 1916, and January 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/794/mode/2up/ Page 795], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/76/mode/2up page 76], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/246/mode/2up page 246], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/360/mode/2up page 360], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi201edinuoft#page/44/mode/2up/ page 45].:**[https://archive.org/details/daredevilofarmye00aust ''The Daredevil of the Army : Experiences as a "Buzzer" and Despatch Rider''] by Captain A P Corcoran 1918 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/pushedreturnpush00nich ''Pushed and the Return Push''] by Quex [G H Nichols, RFA] 1919 Archive.org
*Tanks
**[https://archive.org/details/tanksbyrequestwi00swin_0 ''The "Tanks" : (by request, and with permission)''] by Colonel E.D. Swinton, Royal Engineers. 1918. Reprinted from ''The World’s Work'' (a monthly magazine, published in New York). [https://archive.org/details/tanksbyrequestwi00swin Same title, reprinted from the ''Strand Magazine''] 1925 Archive.org.
*:[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015007039616;view=1up;seq=11 ''Eyewitness. Being Personal Reminiscences of Certain Phases of the Great War, Including the Genesis of the Tank''] by Major-General Sir Ernest D Swinton, R E (Retired) 1933 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*:*[https://archive.org/details/lifeintank00haiguoft ''Life in a Tank''] by Richard Haigh, Captain of the Tank Corps 1918 Archive.org*:*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027835168 ''Tanks in the Great War, 1914-1918''] by Brevet-Colonel J F C Fuller (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry) 1920 Archive.org*:*[https://archive.org/details/companyoftanks00watsrich ''A Company of Tanks''] by Major WHL Watson, 1920 Archive.org*:*[https://archive.org/details/tankinaction00browrich ''The Tank in Action''] by Captain D G Browne 1920 Archive.org*:*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015035242844?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''The Fighting Tanks since 1916''] by Ralph Ernest Jones, Robert Joseph Icks and George Howard Rarey 1933. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284287 pdf download, Digital Library of India]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284287 Archive.org]
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b42511?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Adventures on the Western Front, August, 1914-June, 1915''] by A Rawlinson 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author, then aged 47, volunteered as a driver, who provided his own car, for service at the Front. He was one of a group of 25 volunteers, organised by the Royal Automobile Club (R A C). For a book about later military related service by this author, see [[Norperforce]].
*[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.
