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Fiction
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.167522/page/n9 ''The W Plan''] by Graham Seton 1930 Archive.org. Also see [[Western Front#Machine Guns|Machine Guns]], above.
*[https://archive.org/details/pathsofglory00cobb/page/n3 ''Paths of Glory''] A Novel by Humphrey Cobb, 1987 edition, originally published 1935 . Archive.org Lending Library. With an [https://archive.org/details/pathsofglory00cobb/page/266 Afterword] by Stephen E Tabachnick. The story was suggested by actual events. A film version by Stanley Kubrick was produced in 1957.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13580/page/n3 ''In Parenthesis''] by David Jones 1937. Archive.org Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(artist-poet) David Jones (artist-poet)] Wikipedia. “...a mixture of verse and prose-lines but the rich language establishes it as poetry”.
*A novel: ''Across The Black Waters'' by Mulk Raj Anand. Reprint edition, possibly 1955, originally published 1940. Previously available Digital Library of India (handle/2015/503004), possibly may become available in the future. A novel about Indian (Punjabi) soldiers who have crossed the black waters, against all the advice of their forefathers that calamity would befall anyone who went overseas, to join the British and their allies on the Western Front. The author was born in Peshawar in 1905, so was too young for first-hand experience of the war, but the book has a very authentic feel, suggesting that he not only did his research in books but also listened to the stories of older men who came back. He grew up in military cantonments, according to the introduction.<ref> Liz in Eastbourne. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/236997-across-the-black-water-by-mulk-raj-anand/ Across the Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand] ''Great War Forum'' 3 March 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</ref> [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000806/spectrum/books.htm#5 Review] by Randeep Wadehra, August 6, 2000 ''The Tribune''
*[https://archive.org/details/threecheersforme0000jack/page/n5 ''Three Cheers for Me: The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy Volume One''] by Donald Jack. Revised edition 1973, original version 1962.
:[https://archive.org/details/ghostroad00bark ''The Ghost Road''] by Pat Barker 1995. [https://archive.org/details/ghostroad000bark 2nd file]. All Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/birdsong00faul_vfx ''Birdsong''] by Sebastian Faulks 1997, first published 1993. Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/Birdsong2008 ''Birdsong'': Audio] 2008 BBC Radio Drama. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/uplinetodeathwar00gard ''Up the line to death: the war poets, 1914-1918''] An anthology selected and arranged with an introduction and notes by Brian Gardner 1967 Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/worldwaronebriti00ward/page/n1 ''World War One British poets : Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, and others''] Edited by Candace Ward 1997 Archive.org Lending Library.
*A novel: [https://archive.org/details/hirasinghwhenind00mund ''Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders''] by Talbot Mundy. Archive.org. Published in Britain as ''Hira Singh's Tale: When India Came to Fight in Flanders''. Serialized in ''Adventure'' magazine, October 18 - December 3, 1917. Published in book form 1918. A fictional account of a cavalry regiment taken prisoners of war by the Germans.
*''William – an Englishman'' by Cicely Hamilton c 1919. [https://archive.org/details/williamenglishma00hamiiala Archive.org], missing pages 169-170, but file colour perhaps easier to read, [https://archive.org/details/williamanenglish00hamiiala Archive.org, all pages], [https://archive.org/details/williamanenglishman_1310_librivox Librivox audio recording] Archive.org, missing pages 169-170. The author worked at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont and organised Concerts at the Front. The book, written in a tent within sound of guns and shells, won the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse in 1919.<ref>[http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/william-an-englishman.html ''William – an Englishman'' by Cicely Hamilton] persephonebooks.co.uk.</ref>
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