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*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000004064699?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 '' "Sister"; the War Diary of a Nurse''] [during 1918] by Helen Dore Boylston 1927 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Boylston was an American nurse who left for France with the Harvard Surgical Unit, where she worked at General Hospital No. 22, British Expeditionary Force at Étaples. [https://authorsreallives.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/helen-dore-boylston-1895-1984-part-ii/ Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984)- Part II: War Service] authorsreallives. She subsequently became a well known author of the ''Sue Barton, Nurse'' series of books for girls.
*[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 politician.
====Secret Service and Spies====
*[https://archive.org/details/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts''] by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org
*[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://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063000031?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Intelligence Service within the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918''] by Major J E Hahn, James Emanuel late General staff, 4th Canadian Division CEF 1930 HathiTrust Digital Library.
*[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.
:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744646?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Secrets of the White Lady''] by Captain Henry Landau 1935 HathiTrust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527793 ''Mata Hari''] by Major Thomas Coulson 3rd impression. Full title: ''Mata Hari Courtesan and Spy'', first published 1930. Archive.org,
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041190870?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Spies I Knew''] by Marthe McKenna 1934 HathiTrust Digital Library. Belgian Marthe Cnockaert, 'Laura' of the British Intelligence Service.
*[https://archive.org/details/modernspiestellt00rich ''Modern spies tell their stories : personal narratives of many exploits in secret service''] edited by Richard W Rowan 1934 Archive.org.
====Indian Army====
*Also see [[Western Front#Histories and general|Histories and general]], above
*[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
**IOR/L/MIL/17/5/2384 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Ior/l/mil/17/5/2384 Indian Force for Europe]. India Office Military Dept, 6 Sep 1914
*[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.
*Also see Fiction below for sketches written by Boyd Cable, the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, an officer in the Royal Artillery.
*'''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*'''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/threechevrons00bidd ''Three Chevrons''] by "Orex" (Major H F Bidder) 1919. Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''. Called up from the Reserve in 1914, at first Bidder was with 1 S Staffs and later as Brigade (21st) MG Officer and CO 1st Bn MGC. <ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/three-chevrons.html ''Three Chevrons''] Naval and Military Press</ref> Elsewhere it is stated the 'chevrons' of the title refer to the service chevrons worn on the right sleeve for each year of overseas service, blue for 1914-15 & red for each subsequent year. **[http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5732 "The Chronicles of the 3rd Bn MGC: No 1 Arras March 21-28 1918"] page 15, ''3rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps Magazine'', Issue no 1, May 1919. ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk. The British Library holds issues 1, and also 2 and 4-5 (at least 6 appear to have been published) - these latter also contain "Chronicles". These issues are available on the subscription website database ProQuest "Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War", which is available at the British Library and elsewhere - see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]] for access through some libraries. **[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.*:[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. Also available on [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210464 Archive.org. Digital Library of India Collection] 1932 edition. **[https://archive.org/details/lifeintank00haiguoft ''Life in a Tank''] by Richard Haigh, Captain of the Tank Corps 1918 Archive.org**[https://archive.org/details/tanktales00foot ''Tank Tales''] by "Tank Major" [Stephen Foot] and Eric Wood 1919 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://archive.org/stream/longroadtovictor00buchuoft#page/152/mode/2up "The Call: The Tale of a Tank"] by Major FE Hotblack page 152 ''The Long Road to Victory'' edited by John Buchan 1920. **[https://archive.org/stream/longroadtovictor00buchuoft#page/180/mode/2up "The Tanks at Cambrai'"] by Lieutenant J C MacIntosh, Tank Corps page 181 ''The Long Road to Victory'' edited by John Buchan 1920. *:[https://archive.org/details/mentanks00maciiala ''Men and Tanks''] by J C MacIntosh. 1921 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015035242844?urlappend=%3BseqCavalry====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]
*[https://archive.org/details/withcavalryinwes00aqui ''With the Cavalry in the West''] by "Aquila" [J D Delius] 1922 Archive.org
*'''====Infantry and others'''====**[https://archive.org/details/onrightofbritish01nobb ''On the Right of the British Line''] by Captain Gilbert Nobbs (late L.R. B.) [London Rifle Brigade] 1917 Archive.org. Some editions are titled ''Englishman, Kamerad! Right of the British Line''. The author was blinded in battle, and became a POW. [https://qormuseum.org/soldiers-of-the-queens-own/nobbs-henry-gilbert/ Biographical details] qormuseum.org**[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. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ>[http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page44.html Great War Dust Jackets page] listing "War Memoirs : a highly personal top 20", by Great War Dust Jackets and "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War" from ''The Novels of World War 1 : An annotated bibliography'' by Philip Hager & Desmond Taylor. Garland Pub. 1981.</ref>**[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027894751 ''Bullets & Billets''] by Bruce Bairnsfather 2nd edition 1917 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11232 Gutenberg.org edition], with cartoons collected at the front of the file. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bairnsfather Bruce Bairnsfather] Wikipedia. He was an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who became very well known for his cartoons.*:[https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-025 ''Fragments from France''] by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather 1917 Archive.org A collection of cartoons. Published in 1916 (2nd edition) as ''The Bystander's fragments from France''. [https://archive.org/details/morefragmentsfro00bair ''More Fragments from France Parts V-VIII''] c 1918 Archive.org.*:''From Mud to Mufti'' by Bruce Bairnsfather 1919 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairrich American edition, with American Preface], [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairuoft London edition].**[https://archive.org/details/nothingofimporta01adam ''"Nothing of Importance": Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion''] by Bernard Adams 1918 Archive.org. Elsewhere, the regiment is stated to be the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/nothing-of-importance.-a-record-of-eight-months-at-the-front-with-a-welsh-battalion-october-1915-to-june-1916.html Naval & Military Press]</ref> On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>**[https://archive.org/details/ladiesfromhel00pink ''"Ladies from Hell"''] by R Douglas Pinkerton 1918. The author was a member of the London Scottish.**[https://archive.org/details/bigfight00fall ''The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme'')] by Capt. David Fallon 1918 Archive.org. He served with the AIF (Australian Imperial Force) at Gallipoli , and subsequently became an officer with the [[43rd Regiment of Foot |Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]]. He also flew as a military observer ([https://archive.org/stream/bigfight00fall#page/130/mode/2up "Chapter XI", page 131]), and briefly commanded a tank ([https://archive.org/stream/bigfight00fall#page/144/mode/2up "Chapter XII", page 144]).**[https://archive.org/details/diaryofdeadoffic00westrich ''The Diary of a Dead Officer, being the posthumous papers of Arthur Graeme West''], c 1918. Archive.org. Includes Part V "Poems". [https://archive.org/details/diary_dead_officer_rg_librivox Librivox audio version]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Graeme_West Arthur Graeme West] Wikipedia. He joined as a private; in August 1916 he became a second lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.**[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three Fronts''] Edited by his wife. 1919. The letters of George Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles]. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta, Egypt and Palestine, where he died. He was a well known Theosophist. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".**[https://archive.org/details/handfulofausseys00thor ''A Handful of Ausseys''] by C. Hampton Thorp, AIF 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''. The latter part of the book is about the Western Front.**[https://archive.org/details/combedout00voiguoft ''Combed Out''] by F A Voigt 1920 Archive.org. The author subsequently became an influential journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Augustus_Voigt Frederick Augustus Voigt] Wikipedia.**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100103993?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Confessions of a Private''] by Frank Grey, late 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. 1920. Hathi Trust Digital Library.**[https://archive.org/details/towardflamewardi00herv ''Toward the Flame: a War Diary''] by Hervey Allen. Revised edition, with illustrations 1934, first published 1926. Archive.org. The author was a Lieutenant in the United States Army, and subsequently became an author and poet. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervey_Allen Hervey Allen] Wikipedia. **[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081555660?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Wine, Women and War: a Diary of Disillusionment''] by Anonymous. 10th edition 1927, first published 1926. Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010945122?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 2nd Hathi Trust file]. The author is catalogued as Howard Vincent O'Brien, American novelist and journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Vincent_O%27Brien Howard Vincent O'Brien] Wikipedia. Appointed 1st Lieutenant Field Artillery, [US Army] November 1917, and later became a Liaison Officer.**[https://archive.org/details/subalternonsomme00mark ''A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916''] by Mark VII [Max Plowman] 1928, first published 1927. Archive.org. 10th West Yorks. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>**[https://archive.org/details/undertonesofwar00edmu ''Undertones of War''] by Edmund Blunden 1929 Archive.org. Subaltern in Royal Sussex at the Somme & Passchendaele. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>**[https://archive.org/details/passionateprodig00chap ''A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography''] by Guy Chapman. 1966 edition, first published 1933. Archive.org Lending Library, see next entry. He was Adj. 13th Batt. Royal Fusiliers, who was gassed at Arras. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>**[https://archive.org/details/gunsofaugust00tuch_gaq ''The Guns of August''] by Barbara Tuchman 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. First you must register. Only one person at a time is able to read the book, as in a 'real' library, so you may need to go on a waiting list. ==== In the Air====
*[https://archive.org/details/inroyalnavalairs00roshiala ''In the Royal Naval Air Service. Being the War Letters of the late Harold Rocher to his Family''] 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/subalternssharei00deverich ''A Subaltern's Share in the War, Home Letters of the late George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., attached R.F.C.''] 1917 Archive.org
*'''Prisoners of War'''====Despatch Riders====**[https://archive.org/details/ofmainprisoncmap00poperich advdespatchrider00watsuoft ''Map Adventures of the main prison camps in Germany and Austriaa Despatch Rider''] by Captain WHL Watson, with Gazeteer1915 Archive.org:Captain WHL Watson was also the author of ''Tales of a Gaspipe Officer''] by Mrs Pope Hennessy. Catalogued 1920. Printed in LondonDespatch 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/ofmainprisoncmap00poperichblackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/n5794/mode/1up Map2up/ Page 795]**, [https://wwwarchive.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.deorg/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/76/itemmode/JUTM5NV4GRHSMEKA6RUKYA6RZZ67WQJH German Map of the main French prison camps2up page 76], labor commandos and hospitals[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/246/mode/2up page 246] 1917, [https://archive. Karte der wichtigsten französischen Gefangenenlager, Arbeitskommandos u. Lazarette. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Some additional camps are also mentioned.<ref>CROONAERT [http:org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/1914-1918360/mode/2up page 360], [https://archive.invisionzone.comorg/forumsstream/index.php?blackwoodsmagazi201edinuoft#page/topic44/248554-german-map-mode/2up/ page 45].*[https://archive.org/details/daredevilofarmye00aust ''The Daredevil of-the-main-french-prison-camps-labor-commandos-Army : Experiences as a "Buzzer" and-hospitals/&doDespatch Rider''] by Captain A P Corcoran 1918 Archive.org=findComment&comment=2506307 German Map of ==Machine Guns====*[https://archive.org/details/overtopbyamerica00empe ''"Over the main French prison campsTop" by an American soldier who went. Arthur Guy Empey, Machine Gunner, labor commandos and hospitals] serving in France. Together with Tommy’s Dictionary of the Trenches''Great War Forum'' 21 March 2017] 1918 Archive. org. The author, an American, joined the British Army (Royal Fusiliers). After a period he Retrieved served in the Brigade Machine Gun Company (page 158), then 8 April 2017.</ref>**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/prisonerofwar00warnuoft ''Prisoner of War''overthetop_0812_librivox Librivox] by André Warnod. Tranlated by M Jourdain 1916 Archive, Archive.org.**:[https://archive.org/details/captured00doug talesfromadugout00empeiala ''Captured: Sixteen Months as Tales from a Prisoner of WarDugout''] by LieutArthur Guy Empey 1918 Archive.org. J Harvey Douglas, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles. 1918 Archive.org. Later in his captivity the author was transferred to Switzerland,**:[https://archive.org/details/britishinternedi00pico firstcall00empe ''The British interned in SwitzerlandFirst Call: Guide Posts to Berlin''] by LieutArthur Guy Empey 1918.-Colonel H P Picot 1919 Archive.orgA guide for new recruits into the American Army, and their families.**:[https://archiveen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Guy_Empey Arthur Guy Empey] Wikipedia*[https://archive.org/details/threeyearsprison00thorrich coveredwithmudgl00laforich ''Three Years Covered with mud and glory; a Prisoner machine gun company in Germanyaction ("Ma mitrailleuse")''] by Major J C Thorn, a First Canadian Contingent Officer 1919 Georges Lafond [of the French Army]. Translated by Edwin Gile Rich 1918 Archive.org.**[https://archive.org/details/2864905upenn threechevrons00bidd ''Three Chevrons''The Wooden City; a Journal for British Prisoners of War'']. Issues 1-15. Published at Göttingen 1915] by "Orex" (Major H F Bidder) 1919. Archive.org. Includes Lists Part of POWs the series ''On Active Service''. Called up from the Reserve in 1914, at Göttingenfirst Bidder was with 1 S Staffs and later as Brigade (21st) MG Officer and CO 1st Bn MGC.*:<ref>[http://accesswww.blnaval-military-press.ukcom/itemthree-chevrons.html ''Three Chevrons''] Naval and Military Press</viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022553586.0x000002?bt=europeanaapi#?c=0ref> Elsewhere it is stated the 'chevrons' of the title refer to the service chevrons worn on the right sleeve for each year of overseas service, blue for 1914-15 &m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-916red for each subsequent year. *[http://ww1lit.nsms.7904%2C0%2C4102ox.5809%2C2958 Issue ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5732 "The Chronicles of the 3rd Bn MGC: No 16 February 1 Arras March 21-28 1918"] page 15, 1916] British Library Digital file''3rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps Magazine'', Issue no 1, May 1919. ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk. The British Library has additional digital files for Issues 17holds issues 1, and also 2 and 4-27 5 (September 1916at least 6 appear to have been published)- these latter also contain "Chronicles". To accessThese issues are available on the subscription website database ProQuest "Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War", through which is available at the British Library and elsewhere - see [http:[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]] for access through some libraries. *[https://explorearchive.bl.ukorg/primo_librarydetails/libweb/action/searchhistorymemoirof300unse ''History and Memoir of the 33rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps and of the 19th, 98th, 100th and 248th M.G.do?menuitem=0&fromTop=true&fromPreferences=false&fromEshelf=false&vid=BLVU1 Main Catalogue]Companies''] Written and Illustrated by Members of the Battalion 1919 Archive.org. Sometimes attributed to Graham Seton Hutchison, use Divisional Machine Gun Officer of the search term BLL01016586686 Then click on "I want this33rd Division.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625 ''Footslogger''] by Graham Seton 1933. Archive.org, select the required editionDigital Library of India Collection. Full title: ''Footslogger; An autobiography'', and click Goby Graham Seton [pseud.] (Lieutenant-Colonel G. S. Hutchison .. Alternatively, rather than using the Main Catalogue, the digital file for Issue 16, on the right hand side of the page, has an item "View the catalogue record".)**Also see [[First World War#Historical books online|First World War - Historical books online]] for more online books about Prisoners of Warhttp://access.*bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003297938.0x000002 '''Volunteers and others'A Brief Narrative of the Guards Machine Gun Battalion during the year 1918''**[http] by Lieut.-Colonel R. Bingham. With an appendix entitled "Machine-Gun Tactics and Organisation." 1931. Typescript manuscript. British Library Digital Collection. *[https://hdlarchive.handle.netorg/2027details/uc1.$b42511?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 canadianemmagees00grafuoft ''Adventures on The Canadian Emma Gees; a History of the Western Front, August, 1914-June, 1915''] by A Rawlinson 1925 Hathi Trust Digital LibraryCanadian Machine Gun Corps''] by Lt-Col C S Grafton 1938 Archive. The author, then aged 47org====Tanks====*[https://archive.org/details/tanksbyrequestwi00swin_0 ''The "Tanks" : (by request, volunteered as and with permission)''] by Colonel E.D. Swinton, Royal Engineers. 1918. Reprinted from ''The World’s Work'' (a drivermonthly magazine, who provided his own car, for service at the Frontpublished in New York). [https://archive. He was one of a group of 25 volunteersorg/details/tanksbyrequestwi00swin Same title, organised by reprinted from the Royal Automobile Club (R A C)''Strand Magazine''] 1925 Archive.org. For a book about later military related service by this author, see [[Norperforce]]:[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.**39015007039616;view=1up;seq=11 ''The First World Eyewitness. Being Personal Reminiscences of Certain Phases of the Great War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences Including the Genesis of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repingtonthe Tank'' 1920. [An autobiography]by Major-General Sir Ernest D Swinton, R E (Retired) 1933 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available on [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar01repi Volume I], [https://archivein.ernet.dli.2015.210464 Archive.org/details/firstworldwar19100repi Volume II. Digital Library of India Collection] Archive.org1932 edition. *[https://en.wikipediaarchive.org/wikidetails/Charles_à_Court_Repington Charles à Court Repingtonlifeintank00haiguoft ''Life in a Tank''] 1858-1925by Richard Haigh, Captain of the Tank Corps 1918 Archive. Wikipediaorg*[https://archive. He was a former British Army Officer who was military correspondent for org/details/tanktales00foot ''Tank Tales''The Times'' 1904–1918, who had many influential contacts with officers in the Army's highest ranks.] by "Tank Major" [Stephen Foot] and Eric Wood 1919 Archive.org**[https://archive.org/details/roadsideglimpses01swee cu31924027835168 ''Roadside Glimpses of Tanks in the Great War, 1914-1918''] by Arthur Sweetser 1916 Archive.Brevet-Colonel J F C Fuller (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry) 1920 Archive.org. Hw was an American journalist who was in France from the early days of the war.**[https://archive.org/details/reporteratarmage00irwirich companyoftanks00watsrich ''A Reporter at Armageddon: Letters from the Front and Behind the Lines of the Great War'Company of Tanks''] by Will IrwinMajor WHL Watson, 1920 Archive. 1918org*[https://archive. org/details/tankinaction00browrich ''The author was an American journalistTank in Action''] by Captain D G Browne 1920 Archive. org*[https://en.wikipediaarchive.org/wikistream/William_Henry_Irwin longroadtovictor00buchuoft#page/152/mode/2up "The Call: The authorTale of a Tank"] by Major FE Hotblack page 152 ''The Long Road to Victory''s Wikipedia page]edited by John Buchan 1920.**[https://archive.org/detailsstream/warpicturesbehin00malc longroadtovictor00buchuoft#page/180/mode/2up "The Tanks at Cambrai'"] by Lieutenant J C MacIntosh, Tank Corps page 181 ''War Pictures Behind the LinesThe Long Road to Victory''] edited by Ian Malcolm M PJohn Buchan 1920. 2nd edition, 1915. Archive.org. The author was involved in Red Cross work. **:[https://archive.org/details/irishnunsatypres00coluuoft mentanks00maciiala ''Men and Tanks''The Irish Nuns at Ypres : an Episode of the War''] ] by D M J C [Dame M Columban], (Member of the Community) [Benedictines] 1915 MacIntosh. 1921 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.**[https://archivehdl.handle.orgnet/details2027/scavengerinfranc00bellrich ''A Scavenger in France : being Extracts from the Diary of an Architect, 1917-19mdp.39015035242844?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''The Fighting Tanks since 1916''] by William Bell 1920 ArchiveRalph Ernest Jones, Robert Joseph Icks and George Howard Rarey 1933.org Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author was Also available as a member [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284287 pdf download, Digital Library of the F W V R C, Friends’ War-Victims’ Relief Committee, a Quaker organizationIndia]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284287 Archive. org] ====Secret Service and Spies====*[https://archive.org/details/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts''] by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org*[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://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063000031?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Intelligence Service within the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918''] by Major J E Hahn, James Emanuel late General staff, 4th Canadian Division CEF 1930 HathiTrust Digital Library.*[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.:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744646?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Secrets of the White Lady''] by Captain Henry Landau 1935 HathiTrust Digital Library*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527793 ''Mata Hari''] by Major Thomas Coulson 3rd impression. Full title: ''Mata Hari Courtesan and Spy'', first published 1930. Archive.org,*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041190870?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Spies I Knew''] by Marthe McKenna 1934 HathiTrust Digital Library. Belgian Marthe Cnockaert, 'Laura' of the British Intelligence Service.*[https://archive.org/details/modernspiestellt00rich ''Modern spies tell their stories : personal narratives of many exploits in secret service''] edited by Richard W Rowan 1934 Archive.org.====Volunteers and others====*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$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]].*''The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington'' 1920. [An autobiography]. [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar01repi Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar19100repi Volume II] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_à_Court_Repington Charles à Court Repington] 1858-1925. Wikipedia. He was a former British Army Officer who was military correspondent for ''The Times'' 1904–1918, who had many influential contacts with officers in the Army's highest ranks.*[https://archive.org/details/roadsideglimpses01swee ''Roadside Glimpses of the Great War''] by Arthur Sweetser 1916 Archive.org. Hw was an American journalist who was in France from the early days of the war.*[https://archive.org/details/reporteratarmage00irwirich ''A Reporter at Armageddon: Letters from the Front and Behind the Lines of the Great War''] by Will Irwin. 1918. The author was an American journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Irwin The author's Wikipedia page].*[https://archive.org/details/warpicturesbehin00malc ''War Pictures Behind the Lines''] by Ian Malcolm M P. 2nd edition, 1915. Archive.org. The author was involved in Red Cross work. *[https://archive.org/details/irishnunsatypres00coluuoft ''The Irish Nuns at Ypres : an Episode of the War''] by D M C [Dame M Columban], (Member of the Community) [Benedictines] 1915 Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/scavengerinfranc00bellrich ''A Scavenger in France : being Extracts from the Diary of an Architect, 1917-19''] by William Bell 1920 Archive.org. The author was a member of the F W V R C, Friends’ War-Victims’ Relief Committee, a Quaker organization.====Prisoners of War====*[https://archive.org/details/ofmainprisoncmap00poperich ''Map of the main prison camps in Germany and Austria, with Gazeteer''] by Mrs Pope Hennessy. Catalogued 1920. Printed in London. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/ofmainprisoncmap00poperich#page/n5/mode/1up Map]*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JUTM5NV4GRHSMEKA6RUKYA6RZZ67WQJH German Map of the main French prison camps, labor commandos and hospitals] 1917. Karte der wichtigsten französischen Gefangenenlager, Arbeitskommandos u. Lazarette. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Some additional camps are also mentioned.<ref>CROONAERT [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/248554-german-map-of-the-main-french-prison-camps-labor-commandos-and-hospitals/&do=findComment&comment=2506307 German Map of the main French prison camps, labor commandos and hospitals] ''Great War Forum'' 21 March 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.</ref>*[https://archive.org/details/prisonerofwar00warnuoft ''Prisoner of War''] by André Warnod. Tranlated by M Jourdain 1916 Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/captured00doug ''Captured: Sixteen Months as a Prisoner of War''] by Lieut. J Harvey Douglas, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles. 1918 Archive.org. Later in his captivity the author was transferred to Switzerland,*[https://archive.org/details/britishinternedi00pico ''The British interned in Switzerland''] by Lieut.-Colonel H P Picot 1919 Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/threeyearsprison00thorrich ''Three Years a Prisoner in Germany''] by Major J C Thorn, a First Canadian Contingent Officer 1919 Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/2864905upenn ''The Wooden City; a Journal for British Prisoners of War'']. Issues 1-15. Published at Göttingen 1915. Archive.org. Includes Lists of POWs at Göttingen.:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022553586.0x000002?bt=europeanaapi#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-916.7904%2C0%2C4102.5809%2C2958 Issue No 16 February 15, 1916] British Library Digital file. The British Library has additional digital files for Issues 17-27 (September 1916). To access, through the [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?menuitem=0&fromTop=true&fromPreferences=false&fromEshelf=false&vid=BLVU1 Main Catalogue], use the search term BLL01016586686 Then click on "I want this', select the required edition, and click Go. Alternatively, rather than using the Main Catalogue, the digital file for Issue 16, on the right hand side of the page, has an item "View the catalogue record".*Also see [[First World War#Historical books online|First World War - Historical books online]] for more online books about Prisoners of War.====Miscellaneous====
*[https://archive.org/details/britishwardogsth00richrich ''British War Dogs, their Training and Psychology''] by Lt.-Colonel E H Richardson, late Commandant of the British War Dog School. C 1920. Archive.org.
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/221023 ''Forty Years With Dogs''] by E H Richardson 1935. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221023 Archive.org version]. [http://www.k9history.com/WWI-biography-ehrichardson.htm "A Biography of E H Richardson"] k9history.com, probably based on the autobiography.
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER726701 ''Digger Dialects : a Collection of Slang Phrases used by the Australian Soldiers on Active Service''] by W.H. Downing, late 57th Battalion, AIF. [1919]. State Library of Victoria. Some of the words were probably also used by British and other soldiers. Examples: Chat (n) - A Louse; Chat (v) - To examine clothing in order to remove lice; Chatty (adj) - verminous.
*[https://archive.org/details/enemywithinhit00john ''The enemy within, hitherto unpublished details of the great conspiracy to corrupt and destroy France''] by Severance Johnson. Translation by Edgard Leon. 1920 Archive.org.
*''Les Archives de la Grande Guerre [et de l'histoire contemporaine]''. French language.
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010316334 Hathi Trust Digital Library] catalogue record for 17 Volumes, viewable by those in regions such as North America. All except the last are stated to be Public Domain in the USA.
:[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb32701275j/date Gallica: Bibliothèque nationale de France] There are 13 digital files for this publication on Gallica, but they are classified by year published, not volume number. (1919 (4), 1920-1923, 2 each year, 1924 (1)), and it is unclear whether these contain the complete series of 17 volumes, or 13 volumes. The last one digitized on Gallica is classified as 1924, and has the title ''5th Annee Tome XVII'', Volume 17. There is a Search facility (whole collection) or individual book files. For individual book files, click on the icon for Table des matières, for contents. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6582541w/f9.item Volume 17], the final volume, contains a Contents section which appears to cover all 17 Volumes, click on the icon for Table des matières. It is then possible to click through to relevant articles, which may be located in other volumes.
====Vocabularies====*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER726701 ''Digger Dialects : a Collection of Slang Phrases used by the Australian Soldiers on Active Service''] by W.H. Downing, late 57th Battalion, AIF. [1919]. State Library of Victoria. Some of the words were probably also used by British and other soldiers. Examples: Chat (n) - A Louse; Chat (v) - To examine clothing in order to remove lice; Chatty (adj) - verminous.*[https://archive.org/details/vocabularygerma00britgoog ''Vocabulary of German Military Terms and Abbreviations''] by ArmyWar College [USA] “Reprint of a British Document” 1917 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedest00pariuoft ''Dictionnaire des termes militaires et de l'argot poilu''] [1916] Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/admiraltyvocabul00grearich ''Vocabularies: English, German, Magyar, Serbian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Greek, Turkish''] Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO. 1920 Archive.org====German Army====*''My War Memories, 1914-1918'' by General Ludendorff 1919. [https://archive.org/details/mywarmemories19101lude Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/mywarmemories19102lude Volume II] Archive.org. Also published under the title: ''Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918. The Great War from the siege of Liege to the Signing of the armistice as viewed from the Grand Headquarters of the German Army'' by Erich Von Ludendorff Quartermaster-General of the German Army.*:''The General Staff and its problems : the history of the relations between the high command and the German Imperial Government as revealed by official documents'' by General Ludendorff... translated by F. A. Holt. 1920 [https://archive.org/details/generalstaffitsp00lude Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/generalstaffitsp02ludeuoft Volume II] Archive.org**[https://archive.org/details/generalheadquart00falk ''General Headquarters, 1914-1916, and its Critical Decisions''] by Erich von Falkenhayn. 1919 Archive.org. Also published in the USA under the title ''The German General Staff and its Decisions, 1914-1916''.**''Handbook of the German Army in War''. Issued by the General Staff, British Army ”For Official Use Only”. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003075164.0x000002 ''January, 1917'']; [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100009749073.0x000002 ''November, 1918'']. British Library Digital Collection.**[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 ''Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German Army which participated in the war (1914-1918)''] Compiled from records of Intelligence Section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces at General Headquarters, Chaumont France 1919. Published 1920 Archive.org.**[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/3NG25HN72MPUGPHOB7GZHRKQOETGF57Q Erinnerungsblätter deutscher Regimenter. [...<nowiki>]</nowiki>, Ehemals preußische Truppenteile] 44 German Army Regimental online histories, (German language), from Deutsche Digital Bibliothek, from the collection of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.*:[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=141&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 Die württembergischen Regimenter im Weltkrieg 1914 – 1918] Links to multiple volumes of different württembergischen Regimenter (German language). Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. If URL Is not permanent, use [http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/start/ Suchen].*:[http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra Digital Library of Wielkopolska (Network of Polish Digital Libraries}] contains some online German Regimental Histories (German language).<ref>charlie2. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/232455-free-german-regimental-history-books/&do=findComment&comment=2520070 Free German Regimental History Books] ''Great War Forum'' 1 May 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2017.</ref>*'''Vocabularies'''**[https://archive.org/details/vocabularygerma00britgoog ''Vocabulary of German Military Terms and Abbreviations''] by Army War College [USA] “Reprint of a British Document” 1917 Archive.org**[https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedest00pariuoft ''Dictionnaire des termes militaires et de l'argot poilu''] [1916] Archive.org**[https://archive.org/details/admiraltyvocabul00grearich ''Vocabularies: English, German, Magyar, Serbian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Greek, Turkish''] Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO. 1920 Archive.org*'''====Post War British Occupation of Germany'''====**[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/LERYSOSSOM3YL4FB4TTXBCPVUHOGJUVV ''Life in the Occupied Area''] by Katharine Tynan 1925 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. [http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/14th-march-1925/28/life-in-the-occupied-area-by-katharine-tynan-hutch Spectator review, 1925]
====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.123680 ''Memoirs of an Infantry Officer''] by Siegfried Sassoon 1930. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. A fictionalised account of Sassoon's own life during and immediately after World War I. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_an_Infantry_Officer About the book] Wikipedia. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>
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