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*[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.
*Books by Edmund Dane, all in the series ''The Daily Telegraph War Books''. [https://archive.org/details/hackingthroughbe00daneuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''Hacking through Belgium''] 1914. [https://archive.org/details/battleofrivers00daneuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Battle of the Rivers''] 1914. [https://archive.org/details/battlesinflander00daneuoft ''The Battles in Flanders, from Ypres to Neuve Chapelle''] 1915. Republished in 2014 as ''The Western Front, 1914 Trilogy: A Concise History of the Opening Campaigns of the First World War, 1914''. In a 1919 book which he authored, he was described as "Military Correspondent of the ''Westminster Gazette''".
*[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''.
