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*''My Story of the Great War'' by Captain O H Woodward [Oliver Holmes], 1st Tunnelling Company AIF. Published Adelaide SA 1932. 1933 title: ''The War Story of Oliver Holmes Woodward, Captain 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, Australian Imperial Force''. [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?sortby=dateAsc&q=%22MR+WOODWARD%27S+WAR+BOOK%22 A series of 17 extracts] appearing weekly in ''The Recorder'' Port Pirie, SA, 25 February 1933 to 17 June 1933, with [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/95991145 Introductory article] and [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/95991147 book review] both 13 February 1933, same newspaper. trove.nla.gov.au. Includes the firing of Hill 60 mines. Pre war, the author held a senior position in a mining company. [http://www.tunnellers.net/files/1stausttunnellingcoy.pdf Brief Chronology of the 1st Aust Tunnelling Coy, allocated to the Second Army] tunnellers.net
==== 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/airmansoutings00bottuoft/page/n7 ''An Airman's Outings''] by "Contact" [Captain Alan Bott, R F C] 5th Impression 1917. Archive.org. Also published under the titles [https://archive.org/details/flyingace00bott/page/n7 ''The Flying Ace''] (better digital file) Archive.org; ''Cavalry of the Clouds''.
*[https://archive.org/details/warflyingbypilot00hend/page/n9 ''War flying, by a pilot; the letters of "Theta" to his home people written in training and war''] 1917 Archive.org. He was a member of the Royal Flying Corps.
*[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
* ''Winged Warfare : Hunting the Huns in the Air'' by Major [William Avery] Bishop,VC, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfarehun00bish/page/n7 London edition 1918, probably better filmed text] ; [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfare00bishuoft/page/n7 USA edition 1918, better photographs], some photographs differ between the two editions;
:[https://archive.org/details/wingwarfare00bish/page/n3 1981 edition of 1967 reprint with additional material] ; [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfare0000bish/page/n3 2002 edition with additional material] the latter two Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bishop Billy Bishop] Wikipedia . He was the top Canadian ace of the war.
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_98187 ''The Royal Flying Corps in the War''] by "Wing Adjutant" 1918 Archive.org. The author is catalogued as W. T. (Wilfrid Theodore) Blake. Sketches, some personal experiences. Digitised microfiche.
:[https://archive.org/details/planetalesfromsk00blak/page/n5 ''Plane Tales from the Skies''] by "Wing Adjutant" [Wilfrid Theodore Blake] 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_80756 ''Above the Battle''] by Vivian Drake 1918 Archive.org. Royal Flying Corps. Digitised microfiche.
*Lafayette Escadrille
**[https://archive.org/details/storyoflafayette00thenrich ''The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille told by its Commander, Captain Georges Thenault'']. Translated by Walter Duranty 1921 Archive.org
**''The Lafayette Flying Corps'' ed. by James Norman Hall & Charles Bernard Nordhoff [https://archive.org/details/lafayetteflyingc01hall Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/lafayetteflyingc02hall Volume II] 1920. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/victorchapmansle00chapuoft ''Victor Chapman's Letters from France''] 1917. He was a member of the Franco-American Aviation Corps, who was killed 23 June 1916. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/flyingforfrancewmcco/page/n8 ''Flying for France, with the American Escadrille at Verdun''] by James R McConnell. 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/flyingforfrance_1609_librivox Librivox audio recording]. Archive.org. McConnell had first volunteered for Ambulance service in France in 1915. He subsequently died when he was shot down on March 19, 1917 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rogers_McConnell James Rogers McConnell] Wikipedia.
**[https://archive.org/details/normanprincevolu00babb/page/n9 ''Norman Prince, a volunteer who died for the cause he loved''] 1917 Archive.org. An American, he was part of the Lafayette Flying Squadron.
**[https://archive.org/details/withfrenchflying00winsrich ''With the French Flying Corps''] by Carroll Dana Winslow 1917 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/wayofeagle00biddrich ''The Way of the Eagle''] by Major Charles J Biddle 1919 Archive.org. He was an American who joined the French Foreign Legion, Aviation Section, who flew in Escadrille Lafayette and subsequently in the AEF.
**[https://archive.org/details/onemanswarstoryo00lieu ''One Man's War : the Story of the Lafayette Escadrille''] by Lieutenant Bert Hall and Lieutenant John J. Niles 1929 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/airservicemedica00unit ''Air Service Medical Manual''] by [USA] War Department: Air Service. Division of Military Aeronautics, Washington, D.C 1918. Archive.org. With many photographs.
*[https://archive.org/details/aviatorsfieldboo00blrich ''An Aviator’s Field Book, being the Field Reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916'']. Translated from the German by Robert Reynold Hirsch 1917 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Boelcke Oswald Boelcke] (Wikipedia). German flying ace.
*[https://archive.org/details/redbattleflyer00rich ''The Red Battle Flyer''] by Captain Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen . Translated by T Ellis Barker 1918 Archive.org. UK title: ''The Red Air Fighter''.(1918) [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24572 ''Der Rote Kampfflieger''] 1917 Gutenberg.org. There was a 1933 German edition with additional text, originally censored, for which there was a 1969 English translation by Peter Kilduff ''The Red Baron''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen Manfred von Richthofen] (Wikipedia). German flying ace.
:[https://archive.org/details/redknightofgerma00gibb ''The Red Knight of Germany : the story of Baron von Richthofen, Germany's great war bird''] by Floyd Gibbons. 1959 “new illustrated abridgement”, first published 1927. Elsewhere the author is stated to have been war correspondent with the ''Chicago Tribune''. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/richthofen00clau ''Richthofen, the Red Knight of the Air''] by Claud Sykes (Vigilant) 2004 reprint edition, first published 1934. Archive.org Lending Library. As a reprint, part of the series ''Fortunes of War''.
:[https://archive.org/details/whokilledredbaro00cari ''Who killed the Red Baron?''] by P J Carisella and James W Ryan. 1969. [https://archive.org/details/whokilledredbaro0000cari 1979 reprint]. Both editions Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/redbaron00wrig/page/n1 ''The Red Baron''] by Nicholas Wright 1977 Archive.org Lending Library. “Written especially for young readers”.
:[https://archive.org/details/richthofenbeyond00pete ''Richthofen : beyond the legend of the Red Baron''] by Peter Kilduff 1994, first published 1993. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/greenballsadvent00bewsrich ''"Green Balls," the Adventures of a Night-Bomber''] by Paul Bewsher 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fightingflyingc00rickgoog ''Fighting the Flying Circus''] by Eddie Rickenbacker U S Air Service 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/fighting_flying_circus_1104_librivox LibriVox audio recording] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/explorerinairser00binguoft/page/n9 ''An Explorer in the Air Service''] by Hiram Bingham, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel, Air Service, USA 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527721/page/n195 Page 174] ''A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War'' with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929. . Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell. The author transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]], above.
*[https://archive.org/details/canvasfalconss00long ''The Canvas Falcons: the story of the Men and the Planes of World War I''] by Stephen Longstreet 1970 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0702600008 ''Warplanes & air battles of World War I''] edited by Bernard Fitzsimons. 1973. Archive.org Lending Library. First published in ''Purnell’s History of the First World War'', this publication being a series of 128 weekly magazines first released in the UK c mid-late 1960s.
*[https://archive.org/details/billybishopvc0000math ''Billy Bishop, VC''] by William D Mathieson 1989 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/inteethofwindsto00squa ''In the teeth of the wind : the story of a naval pilot on the Western Front, 1916-1918''] by Squadron Leader CPO Bartlett 1994. Archive.org Lending Library. Additional front cover title ''Memoir of the Royal Naval Air Service''.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781559705264 ''Horses Don't Fly''] by Frederick Libby 2000 Archive.org Lending Library. An American who enlisted in the Canadian Army, and subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, initially as an observer, which included a machine gunner role. He subsequently was commissioned and became a pilot, awarded the Military Cross. [https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/americans-in-the-royal-air-force/americans-in-the-british-flying-services-1914-1945/captain-frederick-libby.aspx Captain Frederick Libby] rafmuseum.org.uk. [http://www.historynet.com/flying-cowboy-frederick-libby.htm HistoryNet article: "The Flying Cowboy"] by Derek O’Connor.
*Also see [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]], below.
====Despatch Riders====
*[https://archive.org/details/advdespatchrider00watsuoft ''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''] by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated that editions after the first edition were heavily edited for censorship reasons, but as this edition was published in 1915, it may be the original edition.
: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
→Historical books online
*[https://archive.org/details/surgeoninkhaki01mart ''A Surgeon in Khaki''] by Arthur Anderson Martin 1915 Archive.org. Includes the process of the author’s commission, description of a Field Ambulance structure.
*[https://archive.org/details/withfieldambulan00boyduoft ''With a Field Ambulance at Ypres : being letters written March 7-August 15, 1915''] by William Boyd 1916. Archive.org. The author was a doctor.
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008912655 ''The Tale of a Casualty Clearing Station''] by a Royal Field Leech. Pseud. of Col. F.A. Symons [Frank Albert] 1917 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Salisbury/Salisbury%20-%20Roll%20of%20Honour%20-%20Frank%20Albert%20Symons%20(Cathedral).pdf Salisbury Cathedral Roll of Honour : Colonel F. A. Symons, Royal Army Medical Corps] died 30th April,1917 Age 48. wiltshire-opc.org.uk
*[https://archive.org/details/fieldambulancesk00londuoft ''Field Ambulance Sketches''] by A Corporal. 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER279936 ''Mine Rescue Work on the Western Front''] by Lieut.-Colonel D Dale Logan, RAMC. 40/Medical/1955. 1920. HMSO London. State Library of Victoria.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/523918 ''Memoirs Of A Camp Follower''(1934)] by Philip Gosse. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523918 Archive.org mirror version] from Digital Library of India. Full title/some editions: ''Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War''. At least one later edition published under the title ''A Naturalist Goes to War''. Includes the following [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420021830/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Rats/Rats_01a.htm extract] (archive.org) relating to his duties following his appointed as Rat Officer to the Second Army. The author was a doctor RAMC, in France and Belgium 1915-1917 who initially served with the 69th Field Ambulance, 23rd Division. He subsequently served in India. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/210.full.pdf+html Review of the book]. JRAMC. Scroll to the end.
*[https://archive.org/details/regimentalsurgeo00dolb ''A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison''] by Captain Robert V Dolbey, RAMC. 1917. Archive.org. The author was in France from August 1914, taken a Prisoner of War in October 1914, then repatriated from Germany c March 1915. He later took part in the campaign in [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]].
*[https://archive.org/details/wadeinsanitary00rich ''Wade in, Sanitary! The Story of a Division Surgeon in France''] by Richard Derby Lt.-Col. USA, Division Surgeon, Second Division. 1919. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/yearofchivalry00cand#page/102/mode/2up "The Drabi"] [Mule Driver] page 103.
*[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.
==== 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/airmansoutings00bottuoft/page/n7 ''An Airman's Outings''] by "Contact" [Captain Alan Bott, R F C] 5th Impression 1917. Archive.org. Also published under the titles [https://archive.org/details/flyingace00bott/page/n7 ''The Flying Ace''] (better digital file) Archive.org; ''Cavalry of the Clouds''.*[https://archive.org/details/warflyingbypilot00hend/page/n9 ''War flying, by a pilot; the letters of "Theta" to his home people written in training and war''] 1917 Archive.org. He was a member of the Royal Flying Corps.*[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* ''Winged Warfare : Hunting the Huns in the Air'' by Major [William Avery] Bishop,VC, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfarehun00bish/page/n7 London edition 1918, probably better filmed text] ; [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfare00bishuoft/page/n7 USA edition 1918, better photographs], some photographs differ between the two editions; :[https://archive.org/details/wingwarfare00bish/page/n3 1981 edition of 1967 reprint with additional material] ; [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfare0000bish/page/n3 2002 edition with additional material] the latter two Archive.org Lending Library. :[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bishop Billy Bishop] Wikipedia . He was the top Canadian ace of the war.*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_98187 ''The Royal Flying Corps in the War''] by "Wing Adjutant" 1918 Archive.org. The author is catalogued as W. T. (Wilfrid Theodore) Blake. Sketches, some personal experiences. Digitised microfiche.:[https://archive.org/details/planetalesfromsk00blak/page/n5 ''Plane Tales from the Skies''] by "Wing Adjutant" [Wilfrid Theodore Blake] 1918 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_80756 ''Above the Battle''] by Vivian Drake 1918 Archive.org. Royal Flying Corps. Digitised microfiche.*Lafayette Escadrille**[https://archive.org/details/storyoflafayette00thenrich ''The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille told by its Commander, Captain Georges Thenault'']. Translated by Walter Duranty 1921 Archive.org**''The Lafayette Flying Corps'' ed. by James Norman Hall & Charles Bernard Nordhoff [https://archive.org/details/lafayetteflyingc01hall Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/lafayetteflyingc02hall Volume II] 1920. Archive.org**[https://archive.org/details/victorchapmansle00chapuoft ''Victor Chapman's Letters from France''] 1917. He was a member of the Franco-American Aviation Corps, who was killed 23 June 1916. Archive.org**[https://archive.org/details/flyingforfrancewmcco/page/n8 ''Flying for France, with the American Escadrille at Verdun''] by James R McConnell. 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/flyingforfrance_1609_librivox Librivox audio recording]. Archive.org. McConnell had first volunteered for Ambulance service in France in 1915. He subsequently died when he was shot down on March 19, 1917 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rogers_McConnell James Rogers McConnell] Wikipedia.**[https://archive.org/details/normanprincevolu00babb/page/n9 ''Norman Prince, a volunteer who died for the cause he loved''] 1917 Archive.org. An American, he was part of the Lafayette Flying Squadron.**[https://archive.org/details/withfrenchflying00winsrich ''With the French Flying Corps''] by Carroll Dana Winslow 1917 Archive.org**[https://archive.org/details/wayofeagle00biddrich ''The Way of the Eagle''] by Major Charles J Biddle 1919 Archive.org. He was an American who joined the French Foreign Legion, Aviation Section, who flew in Escadrille Lafayette and subsequently in the AEF.**[https://archive.org/details/onemanswarstoryo00lieu ''One Man's War : the Story of the Lafayette Escadrille''] by Lieutenant Bert Hall and Lieutenant John J. Niles 1929 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/airservicemedica00unit ''Air Service Medical Manual''] by [USA] War Department: Air Service. Division of Military Aeronautics, Washington, D.C 1918. Archive.org. With many photographs.*[https://archive.org/details/aviatorsfieldboo00blrich ''An Aviator’s Field Book, being the Field Reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916'']. Translated from the German by Robert Reynold Hirsch 1917 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Boelcke Oswald Boelcke] (Wikipedia). German flying ace.*[https://archive.org/details/redbattleflyer00rich ''The Red Battle Flyer''] by Captain Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen . Translated by T Ellis Barker 1918 Archive.org. UK title: ''The Red Air Fighter''.(1918) [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24572 ''Der Rote Kampfflieger''] 1917 Gutenberg.org. There was a 1933 German edition with additional text, originally censored, for which there was a 1969 English translation by Peter Kilduff ''The Red Baron''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen Manfred von Richthofen] (Wikipedia). German flying ace.:[https://archive.org/details/redknightofgerma00gibb ''The Red Knight of Germany : the story of Baron von Richthofen, Germany's great war bird''] by Floyd Gibbons. 1959 “new illustrated abridgement”, first published 1927. Elsewhere the author is stated to have been war correspondent with the ''Chicago Tribune''. Archive.org Lending Library.:[https://archive.org/details/richthofen00clau ''Richthofen, the Red Knight of the Air''] by Claud Sykes (Vigilant) 2004 reprint edition, first published 1934. Archive.org Lending Library. As a reprint, part of the series ''Fortunes of War''.:[https://archive.org/details/whokilledredbaro00cari ''Who killed the Red Baron?''] by P J Carisella and James W Ryan. 1969. [https://archive.org/details/whokilledredbaro0000cari 1979 reprint]. Both editions Archive.org Lending Library. :[https://archive.org/details/redbaron00wrig/page/n1 ''The Red Baron''] by Nicholas Wright 1977 Archive.org Lending Library. “Written especially for young readers”.:[https://archive.org/details/richthofenbeyond00pete ''Richthofen : beyond the legend of the Red Baron''] by Peter Kilduff 1994, first published 1993. Archive.org Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/greenballsadvent00bewsrich ''"Green Balls," the Adventures of a Night-Bomber''] by Paul Bewsher 1919 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/fightingflyingc00rickgoog ''Fighting the Flying Circus''] by Eddie Rickenbacker U S Air Service 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/fighting_flying_circus_1104_librivox LibriVox audio recording] Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/explorerinairser00binguoft/page/n9 ''An Explorer in the Air Service''] by Hiram Bingham, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel, Air Service, USA 1920 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527721/page/n195 Page 174] ''A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War'' with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929. . Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell. The author transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]], above. *[https://archive.org/details/canvasfalconss00long ''The Canvas Falcons: the story of the Men and the Planes of World War I''] by Stephen Longstreet 1970 Archive.org Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0702600008 ''Warplanes & air battles of World War I''] edited by Bernard Fitzsimons. 1973. Archive.org Lending Library. First published in ''Purnell’s History of the First World War'', this publication being a series of 128 weekly magazines first released in the UK c mid-late 1960s.*[https://archive.org/details/billybishopvc0000math ''Billy Bishop, VC''] by William D Mathieson 1989 Archive.org Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/inteethofwindsto00squa ''In the teeth of the wind : the story of a naval pilot on the Western Front, 1916-1918''] by Squadron Leader CPO Bartlett 1994. Archive.org Lending Library. Additional front cover title ''Memoir of the Royal Naval Air Service''.*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781559705264 ''Horses Don't Fly''] by Frederick Libby 2000 Archive.org Lending Library. An American who enlisted in the Canadian Army, and subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, initially as an observer, which included a machine gunner role. He subsequently was commissioned and became a pilot, awarded the Military Cross. [https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/americans-in-the-royal-air-force/americans-in-the-british-flying-services-1914-1945/captain-frederick-libby.aspx Captain Frederick Libby] rafmuseum.org.uk. [http://www.historynet.com/flying-cowboy-frederick-libby.htm HistoryNet article: "The Flying Cowboy"] by Derek O’Connor.*Also see [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]], below.
====Army Service Corps====
*[https://archive.org/details/frommonstoloosbe00stewuoft ''From Mons to Loos : being the Diary of a Supply Officer''] by Major Herbert A Stewart Army Service Corps 1916 Archive.org.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz40746705X ''Letters of an Army Chaplain''] by William Duncan Geare 1918. Classified by IWM as Royal Army Chaplains Department, Liverpool Regt., Bn. 7, Liverpool Regt., Bn. 9. Digital Collection Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. English text, German website. For download, select "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". To read online, select "DFG-Viewer".
*[https://archive.org/details/padreinfrance00birm ''A Padre in France''] by George Birmingham, the pseudonym for James Owen Hannay, c 1919. Archive.org. He was appointed to the Chaplains Department, British Army
====Despatch Riders====*[https://archive.org/details/advdespatchrider00watsuoft ''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''] by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated that editions after the first edition were heavily edited for censorship reasons, but as this edition was published in 1915, it may be the original edition.: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====Engineers====*[https://archive.org/details/asoldiersdiary00scotuoft ''A Soldier's Diary''] by Ralph Scott [George Scott Atkinson, Royal Engineers] 1923. Archive.org. Sapper officer’s day-to-day diary with 2nd Army in the Ypres Salient, April- Nov. 1918.*''My Story of the Great War'' by Captain O H Woodward [Oliver Holmes], 1st Tunnelling Company AIF. Published Adelaide SA 1932. 1933 title: ''The War Story of Oliver Holmes Woodward, Captain 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, Australian Imperial Force''. [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?sortby=dateAsc&q=%22MR+WOODWARD%27S+WAR+BOOK%22 A series of 17 extracts] appearing weekly in ''The Recorder'' Port Pirie, SA, 25 February 1933 to 17 June 1933, with [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/95991145 Introductory article] and [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/95991147 book review] both 13 February 1933, same newspaper. trove.nla.gov.au. Includes the firing of Hill 60 mines. Pre war, the author held a senior position in a mining company. [http://www.tunnellers.net/files/1stausttunnellingcoy.pdf Brief Chronology of the 1st Aust Tunnelling Coy, allocated to the Second Army] tunnellers.net
====Infantry and others====
*[https://archive.org/details/withmyregimentfr00millrich ''With my Regiment; From the Aisne to La Bassée''] by "Platoon Commander" <nowiki>[</nowiki>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_F._H._Mills Arthur F. H. Mills] (Wikipedia)] 1915 Archive.org. Book No. 1 in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War.'' It is stated elsewhere he was in the 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry.
*[https://archive.org/details/ifwereturnletter00manwrich/page/n5 ''If We Return; Letters of a Soldier of Kitchener's Army''] by G B Manwaring 1918 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/overtherebackint01smit/page/n7 ''Over there and back in three uniforms, being the experiences of an American boy in the Canadian, British and American armies at the front and through No man's land''] by Joseph Shuter Smith 1918 Archive.org
*[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.*''The Diary of a German Soldier'' by Feldwebel C… , published in French in 1918. See [[Western Front#German Army|German Army]] below.
*[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://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/>
: He had previously written [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89101084432?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''War and the creative impulse''] by Max Plowman; with preface by Henry W. Nevinson. 1919 HathiTrust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527721/page/n5 ''A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War''] with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell according to a page from [https://www.henrywilliamson.co.uk/bibliography/a-lifes-work/a-soldiers-diary-of-the-great-war henrywilliamson.co.uk]. Bell was with different battalions of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, and then joined the Royal Flying Corps.
*[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/brasshatinnomans00fran ''A Brass Hat in No Man's Land''] by Brig.-Gen. F P Crozier 1930. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.239768/page/n5 ''The Men I Killed''] by Brigadier General F P Crozier 1937 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. [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.
*[http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/bookmark/scots-guard-by-w-h-g-ewart-university-of-oxford/ ''Scots Guard''] by W. H. G. Ewart [Wilfrid Herbert Gore] 1934. Posthumously published papers of Wilfrid Ewart, with reminisces of service as an officer with the Scots Guards from 1915 to the Armistice. Link to a pdf from the University of Oxford. [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/502760107.pdf Direct pdf]. Also see [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]] below.
*[https://archive.org/details/frommonsto193300gera/page/n7 ''From Mons to 1933''] by Gerald Lowry 1934. Archive.org. A Lieutenant in the Special Reserve of the Royal Irish Rifles, he was blinded by a sniper on 26 October 1914. He subsequently qualified as a masseur, then as an osteopath.
:[http://www.booksandwriters.co.uk/F/books-about-the-french-foreign-legion.html List of Books about the French Foreign Legion] booksandwriters.co.uk
*[https://archive.org/details/liddellhartmemoi00lidd ''The Liddell Hart Memoirs 1895-1938 Volume I''] 1965. Archive.org Lending Library. The author became an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Liddell_Hart B. H. Liddell Hart] Wikipedia. Military historian and military theorist.
====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/machineguns00malogoog ''Machine Guns''] by Julian S Hatcher, Glenn P Wilhelm, Harry J Malony of the Machine Gun School, Harlingen,Texas, USA. 1917. Archive.org
*See [[Western Front#Sketches|Sketches, above]] for sketches by Leslie Gore. Originally with the AIF. he went to France as Brigade Machine Gun Officer of the 6th Infantry Brigade, and subsequently took command of the 6th M.G. Coy.
====Tanks====
*[https://archive.org/details/tankcorps00clou ''The Tank Corps''] by Major Clough Williams-Ellis, M. C., and A. Williams-Ellis 1919 Archive.org. Although the digital file contains some images, some appear to be missing. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082481882?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 HathiTrust Digital Library version] which appears to contain more images.
*[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====
*''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.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz381969959 ''Die graue Felduniform der deutschen Armee''] 5th edition [1915] Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Read online, or download. [https://archive.org/details/1910000aGraueFelduniform File of images, Archive.org 1910 edition]
*[https://archive.org/details/withgermanarmies00hedi/page/n7 ''With the German Armies in the West''] by Sven Hedin. Translated from the Swedish by H G de Walterstorff 1915 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/withgermanarmies00hediuoft/page/n7 Another version Archive.org] where illustrations may be clearer. The author travelled from Sweden, which was a neutral nation, so that he could view the war with his own eyes, and study the psychology of war.
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofgermansol00cfel ''The Diary of a German Soldier''] by Feldwebel C… First Sergeant 88th Infantry 21st Division, 18th Army Corps. 1919. Translated from the original 1918 French edition Archive.org
*Memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger's experiences on the Western Front. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/> First published in 1920, there were many German revisions by the author later published. There have been two English translations, based on different German editions. The 2003 Hofmann translation is considered more literary, but Hofmann was ignorant of German military matters, whereas the 1929 translation by Creighton, who had served in the Great War, was more literal<ref> Trajan et al. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/268646-ernst-junger-war-diaries/?do=findComment&comment=2740525 Ernst Junger War Diaries] ''Great War Forum'' 14th February 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019. Review of the Hofmann translation [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3601190/A-Homer-for-the-20th-century.html "A Homer for the 20th century"] by Daniel Johnson 25 August 2003 ''The Telegraph''.</ref> and is more accurate from a military point of view.
:[https://archive.org/details/ErnstJngerTheStormOfSteel/page/n3 ''The Storm Of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front''] by Ernst Jünger, Lieutenant, 73rd Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment. Reprint of the 1929 translation [by Basil Creighton of the 1924 German edition]. Archive.org.
