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*[https://archive.org/details/pathsofgloryimpr00cobb/page/n5 ''Paths of Glory: impressions of war written at and near the Front''] by Irvin S Cobb. Revised version, with two extra chapters. 1918 Archive.org. A series of first hand impressions originally written in 1914, and published 1915, while on staff service for the ''Saturday Evening Post''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvin_S._Cobb Irvin S. Cobb] Wikipedia. Not to be confused with a novel with a similar title by Humphrey Cobb.
*[https://archive.org/details/womansexperience00mackrich/page/n9/mode/2up ''A Woman's Experiences in the Great War''] by Louise Mack 1915 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Mack Louise Mack] Wikipedia. An Australian, she was the first female War Correspondent and was in Belgium at the beginning of the war, working for British newspapers.
*[https://archive.org/details/franceatwar0000kipl/mode/2up ''France at War''] by Rudyard Kipling 1915 Archive.org. [http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_france_intro.htm Kipling Society page] . Originally published in the ''Daily Telegraph''.
*[https://archive.org/details/inclawsofgermane00will/page/n9/mode/2up ''In the Claws of the German Eagle''] by Albert Rhys Williams, Special War Correspondent in Belgium of ''The Outlook'' [A New York City weekly magazine]. 1917. Archive.org. Also reprinted under the title ''The Kaiser's Captive''. The early days of the war. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Rhys_Williams Albert Rhys Williams] Wikipedia. He later wrote many books about the Russian Revolution.
*[https://archive.org/details/overtherewarscen00benn/page/n7 ''Over There; War Scenes on the Western Front''] by Arnold Bennett 1915. Archive.org. Bennett lived in France from 1903-1911, and was the first established author to be invited to tour the front for propaganda purposes, spending three weeks in France and Belgium in June 1915 and publishing this account later in the year. He was appointed Director of Propaganda in the Ministry of Information in 1918.<ref>[http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/bookmark/over-there-war-scenes-on-the-western-front-by-arnold-bennett-project-gutenberg/ ''Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front'' by Arnold Bennett] ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk</ref>
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