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Fiction
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.123680 ''Memoirs of an Infantry Officer''] by Siegfried Sassoon 1930. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. A fictionalised account of Sassoon's own life during and immediately after World War I. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_an_Infantry_Officer About the book] Wikipedia. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War"<ref name=GWDJ/>. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/siegfried-sassoons-memoirs-of-george-sherston-2-best-wwi-account/ "#2 Best WWI Account"] by Edward Lengel. Its predecessor, also an autobiographical novel, is [https://archive.org/details/memoirsoffoxhunt00sieg ''Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man''], first published 1928. Archive.org Lending Library. The third book in the trilogy is [https://archive.org/details/sherstonsprogres00sass ''Sherston's Progress''], first published 1936. Archive.org Lending Library.
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon Sassoon Journals] Cambridge Digital Library. Links to handwritten Journals.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781411403628 allquietonwest00rema/page/n5/mode/2up ''All Quiet On The Western Front''] by Erich Maria Remarque, translated from the German by A W Wheen. 1930 edition, first published 1929. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28WESTERN+Front%29+AND+creator%3A%28Remarque%2C%29&sort=-date Other digital files, including Notes] are available to borrow. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>.
:[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''] , 1929 first published 1928. 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.
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