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*[https://archive.org/details/lm8046intimatest00davi ''"L. M. 8046" : an intimate story of the Foreign Legion''] by David Wooster King 1927 Archive.org. An American, he joined the French Foreign Legion in August 1914, based in France, transferred to the French Army October 1915, and subsequently transferred to the American Army, including an Intelligence role. [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6s200542/entire_text/ Some biographical details] oac.cdlib.org, and [http://www.monongahelabooks.com/kingdw.html more].
:[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/americanfighters00paul ''American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918''] by Paul Ayres Rockwell 1930 Archive.org.
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:[https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-025 ''Fragments from France''] by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather 1917 Archive.org. A collection of cartoons. Published in 1916 (2nd edition) as ''The Bystander's Fragments from France''. [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.Fragments1 ''Vol. I''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV2 ''More Fragments from France
Vol. II''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV3 ''Still more Fragments from France
Vol. III''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV4 ''Fragments from France
Vol. IV''] University of Wisconsin Digital Collections; [https://archive.org/details/morefragmentsfro00bair ''More Fragments from France Parts V-VIII''] c 1918 Archive.org.
:''From Mud to Mufti'' by Bruce Bairnsfather 1919 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairrich American edition, with American Preface], [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairuoft London edition].
*[https://archive.org/details/lettersofhenrywe00farn/page/92/mode/2up ''Letters of Henry Weston Farnsworth, of the Foreign Legion''] 1916 Archive.org. Page 92, Farnsworth, an American joined the French Foreign Legion in France in January 1915 and was killed in action 28 September 1915.
:[https://archive.org/details/lm8046intimatest00davi ''"L. M. 8046" : an intimate story of the Foreign Legion''] by David Wooster King 1927 Archive.org. An American, he joined the French Foreign Legion in August 1914, based in France, transferred to the French Army October 1915, and subsequently transferred to the American Army, including an Intelligence role. [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6s200542/entire_text/ Some biographical details] oac.cdlib.org, and [http://www.monongahelabooks.com/kingdw.html more].
:[https://archive.org/details/americanfighters00paul ''American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918''] by Paul Ayres Rockwell 1930 Archive.org.
:[http://www.booksandwriters.co.uk/F/books-about-the-french-foreign-legion.html List of Books about the French Foreign Legion], including some titles of fiction/adventure stories. booksandwriters.co.uk
*[https://archive.org/details/mudkhakisketches00bartiala ''Mud and Khaki, Sketches from Flanders and France''] by Vernon Bartlett 1917 Archive.org. Some of these sketches had appeared in the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. The author subsequently became a journalist and politician. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Bartlett Vernon Bartlett] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/twentytwomonthsu00crof ''Twenty-two Months Under Fire''] by Henry Page Croft 1917 Archive.org. The author belonged to 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, a Territorial Regiment.
*[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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Plowman Max Plowman] (Wikipedia), actual name Mark.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208835/page/n7 ''A Subaltern’s War''] by Charles Edmonds (pseud.) [Charles Edmund Carrington] 1929 Archive.org. Full title ''A Subaltern’s War being a memoir of the Great War from the point of view of a romantic young man, with candid accounts of two particular battles, written shortly after they occurred, and an essay on militarism''. The Preface advises most of the book was written in 1919 and 1920. Carrington was a Lieutenant in the 1/5th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/not-disillusioned-charles-carrington-8-best-world-war-i-memoir/ "#8 Best World War I Memoir"] by Edward Lengel. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs"<ref name=GWDJ/>. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carrington_(historian) Charles Carrington (historian)] Wikipedia. Carrington was also the author of ''Soldier From The Wars Returning'' 1965, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008268973
*[https://archive.org/details/wearyroadrecolle0000doui/page/n7 ''The Weary Road : Recollections of a Subaltern of Infantry''] by Charles Douie 1988, first published 1929. Archive.org Lending Library. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs"<ref name=GWDJ/>. In August 1914 he joined “a Territorial unit of the 51st Highland Division”. He was commissioned as a temporary Second Lieutenant in the 7th (Service) Battalion, the Dorsetshire Regiment (9 January 1915) and subsequently transferred to the 1/Dorsets, joining them in France 15 February 1916.
