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*''The British Campaign in France and Flanders'' by Arthur Conan Doyle. Mainly Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni01doyl ''1914 Volume I''] 2nd Edition 1916; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni02doyluoft ''1915 Volume II''] 2nd Edition 1917; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign03doyl ''1916 Volume III''] 1918; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni04doyluoft ''1917 Volume IV''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni05doyl ''January to July 1918 Volume V''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/cihm_76792 ''July to November 1918 Volume VI''] 1920, [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks12/1202601h.html ''Volume VI'' Project Gutenberg Australia transcribed version] where maps may be clearer.
*[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990055782080203941/catalog ''The victory of the Marne : the enemy's onslaught, order to stand firm, the battle, immediate results, historic consequences''] by Louis Madelin ; translated from the original French by Lilly M. Grove 1917. Part of the series ''Studies and documents on the war''. Harvard University Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/victoryofmarneth00made/mode/2up Archive.org]. [September 1914]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523396/page/n5/mode/2up ''Liaison, 1914. A Narrative of the Great Retreat''] by Brigadier-General E L Spears (Late 11th Hussars) 1930 Archive.org. The author was then "the Liaison Officer between the British Army, and the Fifth, or most Northerly of the whole line of French Armies".
*[https://archive.org/details/campaignofmarne10000tyng/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Campaign of the Marne, 1914''] by Sewell Tyng 1935 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/deathofarmy00farr ''Death of an Army''] by Anthony Farrar-Hockley 1968. Additional title on cover ''The first battle of Ypres, 1914, in which the British regular Army was destroyed''. [October-November 1914]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/deedsofheroismbr00elwy/page/n7 ''Deeds of heroism and bravery : the book of heroes and personal daring''] edited by Elwyn A Barron 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/500ofbestcockney00lond ''500 of the Best Cockney War Stories''] Reprinted from the London ''Evening News''. 1920 Archive.org
*''Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War'' edited by C. B. Purdom 1930. Accounts were submitted after a request by the editor of ''Everyman'' magazine. Later reprinted under the title [https://archive.org/details/onfrontlinetruew0000unse/mode/2up '' True World War I Stories''] 1999. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.:A number of the accounts have been transcribed on [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm Memoirs & Diaries] firstworldwar.com including [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/firstgasattack.htm "The First Gas Attack"] by Anthony R. Hossack, Queen Victoria Rifles [9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment]. To locate other entries, either scroll through all entries in the Memoirs & Diaries category or use your Search engine, with terms "Everyman at War" firstworldwar.com/diaries . Available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006523443 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University Library access. Also available on the Library subscription website "The First World War" by Adam Matthew Digital, module "Personal Experiences", see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#First World War databases| Subscription websites - First World War databases]] for details of this database. To locate this publication, it is classified as a "Printed Book". The [[British Library]] is listed on the database website as a Participating Library. Card holders of the State Library of NSW can access The First World War: Personal Experiences module on their home computers.
*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersoffall00emil/page/n5 ''War Letters of Fallen Englishmen''] edited by Laurence Housman [1930] Archive.org
*''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''. Published c 1917 as a two volume set, c 900 pages, and also published as a five volume set. Information about the contents<ref name=DTE>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/deeds-that-thrill-the-empiretrue-stories-of-the-most-glorious-acts-of-heroism-of-the-empires-soldiers-and-sailors-during-the-great-war/ ''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''] naval-military-press.com</ref> advises 56 VCs are covered.
*[https://archive.org/details/overthresholdwa00hopkgoog/page/n12/mode/2up ''Over the Threshold of War: Personal Experiences of the Great European Conflict''] by Nevil Monroe Hopkins 1918 Archive.org. Hopkins was an American engineer travelling in Europe, including Russia in 1914. He was in Paris at the outbreak of war and worked briefly for the American Embassy (also see account above) before he and his family and friends were evacuated to England on an American cruiser, although he subsequently briefly returned to Europe.
*[https://archive.org/details/myfouryearsinger00gera/page/n5 ''My four years in Germany''] by James W Gerard, late [USA] Ambassador to the German Imperial Court. 1917 Archive.org. He arrived in Belin late 1913.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromtrencheslouv00youn ''From the Trenches : Louvain to the Aisne, the first record of an eye-witness''] by Geoffrey Winthrop Young 1914 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Winthrop_Young Geoffrey Winthrop Young] Wikipedia. Young was then working as a war correspondent for the ''Daily News''.
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofenglishre00stro ''The Diary of an English Resident in France during twenty-two weeks of war time''] by Rowland Strong 1915 Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated Rowland Strong was/had been the Paris correspondent for the ''Observer'', the ''Morning Post'' and the ''New York Times''.
:[https://archive.org/details/diaryofenglishre00strorich ''The Diary of an English Resident in France during war time. Second series, Jan.-Dec. 1915''] by Rowland Strong 1916 Archive.org.
