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*''The British Campaign in France and Flanders'' by Arthur Conan Doyle. Mainly Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni01doyl ''1914 Volume I''] 2nd Edition 1916; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni02doyluoft ''1915 Volume II''] 2nd Edition 1917; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign03doyl ''1916 Volume III''] 1918; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni04doyluoft ''1917 Volume IV''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni05doyl ''January to July 1918 Volume V''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/cihm_76792 ''July to November 1918 Volume VI''] 1920, [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks12/1202601h.html ''Volume VI'' Project Gutenberg Australia transcribed version] where maps may be clearer.
*[http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990055782080203941/catalog ''The victory of the Marne : the enemy's onslaught, order to stand firm, the battle, immediate results, historic consequences''] by Louis Madelin ; translated from the original French by Lilly M. Grove 1917. Part of the series ''Studies and documents on the war''. Harvard University Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/victoryofmarneth00made/mode/2up Archive.org]. [September 1914]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523396/page/n5/mode/2up ''Liaison, 1914. A Narrative of the Great Retreat''] by Brigadier-General E L Spears (Late 11th Hussars) 1930 Archive.org. The author was then "the Liaison Officer between the British Army, and the Fifth, or most Northerly of the whole line of French Armies". Also his book below under [[Western Front#Cavalry|Cavalry]].
*[https://archive.org/details/campaignofmarne10000tyng/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Campaign of the Marne, 1914''] by Sewell Tyng 1935 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/deathofarmy00farr ''Death of an Army''] by Anthony Farrar-Hockley 1968. Additional title on cover ''The first battle of Ypres, 1914, in which the British regular Army was destroyed''. [October-November 1914]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
====Cavalry====
*[https://archive.org/details/firstsevendivis00hami/page/n7 ''The First Seven Divisions : being a detailed account of the fighting from Mons to Ypres''] by Ernest W Hamilton (Late Captain [[11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars|11th Hussars]]) 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/picnicbasket00spea ''The Picnic Basket''] by Major-General Sir Edward Spears. 1968. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes a chapter on a cavalry engagement at Nery 1st September 1914, pages 134-161, which involved the 11th Hussars, in which he had been an officer since 1910. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Spears Edward Spears] Wikipedia. Also see his book above under [[Western Front#Official Histories and Battles|Official Histories and Battles]].
*[https://archive.org/details/squadroon00beam/page/n8 ''The Squadroon''] by Ardern Beaman 1920 Archive.org. "Beaman, a regular officer of the 1st Cavalry, Indian Army, who won the DSO on the North- West Frontier in 1915, joined the [[4th (Queen's Own) Hussars]] as a combatant officer early in October 1917. He was present with the regiment at Cambrai & the regimental history records in detail his command of a ‘composite squadron’ in March 1918 & later “C” Squadron at Amiens &c. For reasons unknown he chose to present this Western Front ‘memoir’ from the point of view of the regimental chaplain".<ref name=TDJ>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190611114923/https://www.turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf June 2019 catalogue] turnerdonovan.com.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/withcavalryinwes00aqui ''With the Cavalry in the West''] by "Aquila" [J D Delius] 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_990873/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Note-book of an Intelligence Officer''] by Eric Fisher Wood 1917 Archive.org. An American, with high level contacts, he became a major in the British Army (63rd (Royal Naval) Division [Infantry] attached GHQ ID (ID=Naval Intelligence Division)) having been commissioned as a Lieutenant-Commander. Some of the book relates to his time in France from February 1917, [https://archive.org/details/cihm_990873/page/n191/mode/1up Page 143], up until 9 April 1917, when he was wounded at the Battle of Arras. Some of the book is of a more general nature, including interviews, and the Clothing and other requirements for an officer [https://archive.org/details/cihm_990873/page/n257/mode/2up page 202]. By the time of book publication later in 1917 he was in the USA Army in USA. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Fisher_Wood Eric Fisher Wood] Wikipedia. Also see [[Western Front#Volunteers and others|Volunteers and others, below]] for an earlier book.
*[https://archive.org/details/nothingofimporta01adam ''"Nothing of Importance": Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion''] by Bernard Adams 1918 Archive.org. Elsewhere, the regiment is stated to be the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/nothing-of-importance.-a-record-of-eight-months-at-the-front-with-a-welsh-battalion-october-1915-to-june-1916.html Naval & Military Press]</ref> On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ>[http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page44.html Great War Dust Jackets page] listing "War Memoirs : a highly personal top 20", by Great War Dust Jackets and "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War" from ''The Novels of World War 1 : An annotated bibliography'' by Philip Hager & Desmond Taylor. Garland Pub. 1981.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/whensommeranred00dugmrich/page/n7/mode/2up ''When the Somme Ran Red''] by A Radclyffe Dugmore. Temp. Captain King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1918. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Radclyffe_Dugmore Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore] Wikipedia. Prior to his commission, he was in Belgium at the time of the German advance as a civilian photographer.
*[https://archive.org/details/irontimeswithgua00lond/page/n5 ''Iron Times with the Guards''] by An "O. E." ["O. E." Old Etonian; Geoffrey Philip Agnew Fildes, 2nd Coldstream Guards] 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ladiesfromhel00pink ''"Ladies from Hell"''] by R Douglas Pinkerton 1918. The author was a member of the London Scottish. "Published in the USA during the War, the purpose for writing was primarily to sway American opinion towards the Allied cause and not as a record of events".<ref name=LFH>[https://www.londonscottishregt.org/index.php/en/museum/archival-research/ww1 The London Scottish Regiment] londonscottishregt.org</ref>
:[https://archive.org/details/reporteratarmage00irwirich ''A Reporter at Armageddon: Letters from the Front and Behind the Lines of the Great War''] by Will Irwin. 1918. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027856933 ''"The Next War"; an Appeal to Common Sense''] by Will Irwin 1921 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/withnewarmyonsom00palm/page/n9/mode/2up ''With The New Army On The Somme. My Second Year of the War''] by Frederick Palmer, Accredited American Correspondent at the British Front. 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withbritishonsom00thom/mode/2up ''With the British on the Somme''] by W Beach Thomas 1917 Archive.org [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beach_Thomas William Beach Thomas] war correspondent with the ''Daily Mail''.
*[https://archive.org/details/someofmyexperien00ashmrich ''Some of my Experiences in the Great War''] by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, war correspondent of the ''Daily Telegraph''. 1918 Archive.org. The initial chapter concerns his escape from Vienna in late July 1914, pursued by war.
* For books by British journalist Philip Gibbs, including the autobiographical ''Adventures in Journalism'', see [[Western Front#Official Histories and generalBattles| Official Histories and generalBattles]] above.
*[https://archive.org/details/warpicturesbehin00malc ''War Pictures Behind the Lines''] by Ian Malcolm M P. 2nd edition, 1915. Archive.org. The author was involved in Red Cross work.
*[https://archive.org/details/atwarnortnew00nortuoft ''At the War''] by Lord Northcliffe. New and enlarged edition 1917. [https://archive.org/details/atwar0000nort/page/n13 1916 edition] both Archive.org. Published for the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross.
:[https://archive.org/details/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront_201608 Audio version: ''All Quiet On The Western Front''] Archive.org
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front About the book] Wikipedia. First published 1929, original German title [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.168305 ''Im Westen nichts Neues''] Archive.org.
*Half-novel, half-autobiography, the author states the events described actually happened : [http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/manmidd ''The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916''] by Frederic Manning 1929. Pdf download of a transcription, University of Sydney Digital Collection. Also available 1997 reprint [https://archive.org/details/middlepartsoffor0000mann/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library]. Subsequently published in an expurgated version as [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207678 ''Her Privates We''] by Private 19022. 1930 Archive.org. Considered “as being true to the actual experience of modern warfare in ways that nothing else had managed to be”.<ref> [http://insidestory.org.au/an-outsider-at-war "An outsider at war"] by Richard Johnstone 4 June 2012. ''Inside Story''.</ref> On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/secretbattle00herbuoft/page/n5 ''The Secret Battle''] by A P Herbert 1919. Archive.org. One of three novels published in 1919 praised for its convincing account of war, and recommended by Churchill.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4tmvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA51 Pages 51-52] ''English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918–39'' by John Onions. Google Books</ref> The first part of the book is set at [[Gallipoli]], the latter part on the Western Front. [https://archive.org/details/secretbattle_rm_librivox ''The Secret Battle'' Librivox audio book] by A P Herbert. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._Herbert A. P. Herbert] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/silenceofcolonel00mauruoft ''The Silence of Colonel Bramble''] by André Maurois. Translated from the French by Thurfrida Wake. Verses translated by Wilfrid Jackson. 1920 Archive.org. The author, writing under a non de plume which subsequently became his legal name, was an Interpreter, and subsequently Liaison Officer with the IXth (Scotch) Division, when the book was written.
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