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*[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 [https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#Borrow_from_Lending_Library 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]. 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/>
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1939&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Green Envelopes''] No author appears on the title page. Published by John Murray London 1929. Letters home from the Front, from many soldiers, to a village in England. A [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/29136813 review] says "These are the familiar "green envelopes" of active service during the war. ...letters which were really written…" (names changed). The British Library catalogue entry includes the words "A novel", however in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, the book is classified WW1 Personal narratives, British. 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/brasshatinnomans00fran ''A Brass Hat in No Man's Land''] by Brig.-Gen. F P Crozier 1930. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Percy_Crozier Frank Percy Crozier] Wikipedia. He commanded the 9th (Service) Battalion of the 107th (Ulster) Brigade and subsequently commanded the 119th (Welsh) Brigade.
* "The Winter of 1916-17" by Capt G D Mitchell 10th and 48th Battns AIF, a series of articles appearing in ''Reveille'', published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch, commencing in [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV193412.1.17&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ December 1934, page 15 (digital 17)] and continuing each month to at least October 1935. reveille.dlconsulting.com. Scroll from one issue to the next.There is reference elsewhere to further articles in Feb 1936 and Sept/Oct 1936. [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mitchell-george-deane-11137 Mitchell, George Deane (1894–1961)] Australian Dictionary of Biography. Also see [[Gallipoli]] for another series of articles.
*A novel: [https://archive.org/details/hirasinghwhenind00mund ''Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders''] by Talbot Mundy. Archive.org. Published in Britain as ''Hira Singh's Tale: When India Came to Fight in Flanders''. Serialized in ''Adventure'' magazine, October 18 - December 3, 1917. Published in book form 1918. A fictional account of a cavalry regiment taken prisoners of war by the Germans.
*''William – an Englishman'' by Cicely Hamilton c 1919. [https://archive.org/details/williamenglishma00hamiiala Archive.org], missing pages 169-170, but file colour perhaps easier to read, [https://archive.org/details/williamanenglish00hamiiala Archive.org, all pages], [https://archive.org/details/williamanenglishman_1310_librivox Librivox audio recording] Archive.org, missing pages 169-170. The author worked at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont and organised Concerts at the Front. The book, written in a tent within sound of guns and shells, won the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse in 1919.<ref>[http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/william-an-englishman.html ''William – an Englishman'' by Cicely Hamilton] persephonebooks.co.uk.</ref>
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1939&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Green Envelopes''] No author appears on the title page. Published by John Murray London 1929. Letters home from the Front, from many soldiers, to a village in England. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
*A romantic novel: [https://archive.org/details/55230680R.nlm.nih.gov ''The Nurse's Story : In Which Reality Meets Romance''] by Adele Bleneau 1915 Archive.org. The hero of this romantic novel is a Captain in the Ludhiana Sikhs (page 97). There are suggestions that when it was published the book was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. The book is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic nursing background. For a [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19150807&id=YMUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h0kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4225,1611451&hl=en review of this novel] scroll if necessary to page 7, 5th column of the ''Pittsburgh Press'' (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.
*[https://archive.org/details/rillaofingleside00mont_0 ''Rilla of Ingleside''] by L M Montgomert 1921 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/rilla_ingleside_librivox Librivox audio version, read by one reader], [https://archive.org/details/rillaofingleside_1609_librivox Librivox audio, multiple readers] Archive.org. The final book in L. M. Montgomery's ''Anne of Green Gables'' series for girls, set in Canada. The story of the life of the women at home whose family members fought on the Western Front.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241464 ''Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter''] by Captain W E Johns 1954. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Contains thirteen short stories, eleven of which were originally published in ''The Camels Are Coming'' (1932) and two of which were originally published in ''Biggles Of The Camel Squadron'' (1934), originally written for older adolescents. Note however Wikipedia states “The early First World War books were reprinted in the 1950s, when the Biggles books had acquired a younger readership and were bowdlerised''.
*Adventure stories for younger readers by Herbert Strang. gutenberg.org..:[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39150 ''A Hero of Liége: A Story of the Great War''] 1914. :[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39801 ''Fighting with French: A Tale of the New Army''] 1915. :[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41737 ''Burton of the Flying Corps'']. 1916 gutenberg.org.
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