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Historical books online
**[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
*Machine Guns
**[https://archive.org/details/overtopbyamerica00empe ''"Over the Top" by an American soldier who went. Arthur Guy Empey, Machine Gunner, serving in France. Together with Tommy’s Dictionary of the Trenches''] 1918 Archive.org. The author, an American, joined the British Army (Royal Fusiliers). After a period he served in the Brigade Machine Gun Company (page 158), then became a a special MP detailed on intelligence work in the front line (page 193). Also available as an audio book from [https://archive.org/details/overthetop_0812_librivox Librivox], Archive.org.
*:[https://archive.org/details/talesfromadugout00empeiala ''Tales from a Dugout''] by Arthur Guy Empey 1918 Archive.org.
*:[https://archive.org/details/firstcall00empe ''First Call: Guide Posts to Berlin''] by Arthur Guy Empey 1918. A guide for new recruits into the American Army, and their families.
*:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Guy_Empey Arthur Guy Empey] Wikipedia
**[https://archive.org/details/coveredwithmudgl00laforich ''Covered with mud and glory; a machine gun company in action ("Ma mitrailleuse")''] by Georges Lafond [of the French Army]. Translated by Edwin Gile Rich 1918 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/historymemoirof300unse ''History and Memoir of the 33rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps and of the 19th, 98th, 100th and 248th M.G. Companies''] Written and Illustrated by Members of the Battalion 1919 Archive.org.Sometimes attributed to Graham Seton Hutchison, Divisional Machine Gun Officer of the 33rd Division.**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625 ''Footslogger''] by Graham Seton 1933. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Full title: ''Footslogger; An autobiography'', by Graham Seton [pseud.] (Lieutenant-Colonel G. S. Hutchison ...)
**[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003297938.0x000002 ''A Brief Narrative of the Guards Machine Gun Battalion during the year 1918''] by Lieut.-Colonel R. Bingham. With an appendix entitled "Machine-Gun Tactics and Organisation." 1931. Typescript manuscript. British Library Digital Collection.
**[https://archive.org/details/canadianemmagees00grafuoft ''The Canadian Emma Gees; a History of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps''] by Lt-Col C S Grafton 1938 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.
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