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*[https://archive.org/details/whenthisbloodywa0000arth/mode/2up ''When this bloody war is over : soldiers' songs of the First World War''] by Max Arthur 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/deadofmametz0000hick ''The Dead of Mametz''] by Jonathan Hicks 2011. [https://archive.org/details/demonswalkamongu0000hick ''Demons Walk Among Us''] by Jonathan Hicks 2013. Murder investigations by Captain Thomas Oscendale of the Military Police, written by a military historian. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/balloonist0000long/mode/2up ''The Balloonist''] by James Long 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Balloon observers Balloonists directed artillery fire along the Western Front. If there was only one occupant he was always an appropriately trained officer. By mid 1916 a two man crew was the norm, the balloon commander and the observer. The Balloon Section was in France became part of the Royal Flying Corpsin the autumn of 1915,<ref> Scroll to Burns, Ian. [https://www.crossandcockade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1179&title=history-of-no14-balloon-section History of No.14 Balloon Section] ''Cross & Cockade International Forum'' 29 June 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2021.</ref> after initially being part of the Royal Naval Air Service. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101202223810/http://westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-on-land/73-weapons-equipment-uniforms/313-ob-bal-west.html "Observation Balloons On The Western Front"] by Dr David Payne westernfrontassociation.com, archived.
*[https://archive.org/details/caremanagementof0000wins_u1f4/mode/2up ''The Care and Management of Lies''] by Jacqueline Winspear 2014. Some editions have the additional title ''A Novel of the Great War''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://thecareandmanagementoflies.com Book website]. [https://www.npr.org/2014/07/03/325491375/a-primer-on-the-care-and-management-of-hope-in-wartime Book Review] npr.org
*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.
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