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Historical books online
: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/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
==== In the Air====
*[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/songsfromtrenche00blacrich/page/n7 ''Songs from the Trenches''] by Capt. C W Blackall 1915 Archive.org. During the period when Charles Walter Blackall wrote these poems he was serving with the 1st Bn. Royal Welch Fusiliers. He was KiA 24th March 1918.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191204220208/https://turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf Turner Donovan] December 2019, Item 132.</ref>
:[https://archive.org/details/allswellsomehelp00oxenuoft/page/n9 ''"All's Well!" Some Helpful Verse For These Dark Days of War''] by John Oxenham, pseudonym of William Arthur Dunkerley. Eighteen Eighteenth edition, 1917, first published 1915. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/agloucestershire00harv/page/n5 ''A Gloucestershire lad at home and abroad''] by F W Harvey. Fourth impression 1917, first published 1916. [https://archive.org/details/gloucestershiref00harv/page/n5 ''Gloucestershire friends: poems from a German prison camp''] by F W Harvey 1917. Both Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Harvey F. W. Harvey] Wikipedia. His war memoir was ''Comrades in Captivity: a Record of Life in Seven German Prison Camps'' 1920, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001610788
:[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/whenthisbloodywa0000arth/mode/2up ''When this bloody war is over : soldiers' songs of the First World War''] by Max Arthur 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*A romantic novel: [https://archive.org/details/55230680R.nlm.nih.gov ''The Nurse's Story : In Which Reality Meets Romance''] by Adele Bleneau 1915 Archive.org. The hero of this romantic novel is a Captain in the Ludhiana Sikhs (page 97). There are suggestions that when it was published the book was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. The book is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic nursing background. For a [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19150807&id=YMUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h0kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4225,1611451&hl=en review of this novel] scroll if necessary to page 7, 5th column of the ''Pittsburgh Press'' (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.
*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.
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