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Historical books online
*[https://archive.org/details/vocabularygerma00britgoog ''Vocabulary of German Military Terms and Abbreviations''] by Army War College [USA] “Reprint of a British Document” 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/heroesheroicdeed00mackiala#page/98/mode/2up "Indians' Daring Feats"], page 99 ''Heroes and Heroic Deeds of the Great War'' by Donald A Mackenzie 1916. Archive.org. A book for younger readers.
* Fiction**Half-novel, half-autobiography: [http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/manmidd ''The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916''] by Frederic Manning 1929. Also published as ''Her Privates We''. Pdf download of a transcription, University of Sydney Digital Collection. 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>**Novels by Sapper, the non de plume of Herman Cyril McNeile , a writer of war stories that were hailed as realistic revelations of the truth about war. <ref>[https://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com/sapper-from-realism-to-melodrama/ "‘Sapper’ : From Realism to Melodrama"], a paper originally delivered at the conference of Les Amis du Roman Populaire in Amiens, in 2014. ''Great War Fiction''.Retrieved 29 July 2016.</ref> He was the author of the later ''Bulldog Drummond'' series. Archive.org.*:[https://archive.org/details/menwomenguns00sappuoft ''Men, Women and Guns''] 1916. Also available in an [https://archive.org/details/menwomenandguns_1511_librivox audio edition].*:[https://archive.org/details/sergeantmichaelc00sappuoft ''Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R. E.''] 1916 *:[https://archive.org/details/lieutenantothers00sapprich ''The Lieutenant and Others''] 1916 *:[https://archive.org/details/nomansland00sappuoft ''No Man's Land''] 1917 **A novel: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/503004 ''Across The Black Waters''] by Mulk Raj Anand. Reprint edition, possibly 1955, originally published 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. 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. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=236997&hl= Across the Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand] ''Great War Forum'' 3 March 2106. Retrieved 4 March 2016</ref> [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000806/spectrum/books.htm#5 Review] by Randeep Wadehra, August 6, 2000 ''The Tribune''**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.**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.
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