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Collected stories
:The weekly magazines are available as a database on the pay website [[findmypast]], titled [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-the-great-war-i-was-there Britain, The Great War, I Was There] located in Armed Forces & Conflict/First World War, which advises the 51 editions ran from 29 September 1938 to 19 September 1939. To browse the pages, do not use a Search term but click on the Search icon, when a series of 1186 pdf images, (each of two pages), will be displayed in image order. From any image you can navigate to the next image, or the previous image. (This function is located near the top of the findmypast webpage, not near the actual image). Part 1 consists of 29 images, perhaps larger than the average, if in fact all issues are included.
:Some of the weekly issues (Parts 1-41, (for the period to 23 April 1918) and Part 46 (Sept-Oct 1918) are 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" and it appears in five separate listings, the editions to Part 41 in four listings and Part 46 as a separate listing. 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/onwesternfrontso0000laff/mode/2up ''On the Western Front : Soldiers' Stories from France and Flanders 1914-1918''] by John Laffin 2004 reprint, first published 1985. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/oxfordbookofmili00cdot/page/322/mode/2up First World War extracts] pages 323-381 ''The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes'' edited by Max Hastings, 1985. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/forgottenvoiceso0000arth_i2a6/mode/2up ''Forgotten Voices of the Great War''] by Max Arthur 2002. "In Association with Imperial War Museum". Personal accounts. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
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