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Historical books online
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/privateinguards00grah ''A Private in the Guards''] by Stephen Graham 1919 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Graham_(author) Stephen Graham (author)] Wikipedia. Also see a further book under [[Western Front#Miscellaneous|Miscellaneous]] below.
*[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/careofdead00unse ''The Care of the Dead''] 1916 Archive.org. A short pamphlet about the Army’s Graves Registration Units.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207441 ''The Silent Cities: an illustrated guide to the war cemeteries and memorials to the 'Missing' in France and Flanders: 1914-1918''] by Sidney C. Hurst 1929. Photographs are dark, without detail. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/challengeofdeadv00grahrich ''The Challenge of the Dead. A vision of the war and the life of the common soldier in France, seen two years afterwards between August and November, 1920''] by Stephen Graham 1921 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Graham_(author) Stephen Graham (author)] Wikipedia. Also see a previous book under [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]] above.
*[https://archive.org/details/horsewarillustra00galt ''The Horse and the War''] by Captain Sidney Galtrey. Illustrated from drawings by Captain Lionel Edwards and from photographs. 1918 Archive.org
*[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.
====German Army====
*Also see [[Western Front#Histories and general|Histories and general]] above.
*''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
:[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>
: Links to further regimental histories (German language) may be found in the ''Great War Forum'' thread "Free German Regimental History Books".<ref>charlie2. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/topic/232455-free-german-regimental-history-books/?do=findComment&comment=2561910 Free German Regimental History Books]
Great War Foum 7 September 2017. Retrieved September 2017.</ref>
 
====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]
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