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Historical books online
*:[https://archive.org/details/gloryoftrenchesi01daws ''The Glory Of The Trenches: An Interpretation''] by Coningsby Dawson 1917 Archive.org
*:[https://archive.org/details/livingbayonetsre1919daws ''Living Bayonets: a Record of the Last Push''] by Coningsby Dawson 1919 Archive.org. Letters from April 14, 1917 to October 6, 1918.
**[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1895&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Letters of a Headmaster Soldier''] Letters of Harry Sackville Lawson, [Lieutenant RFA] 1918. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
**[https://archive.org/details/pushedreturnpush00nich ''Pushed and the Return Push''] by Quex [G H Nichols, RFA] 1919 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/leavesfromoffice00craw ''Leaves from an Officer's Notebook''] by Eliot Crawshay-Williams 1918 Archive.org. The author was in a Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force). Also includes service in Egypt.
**[https://archive.org/details/ladiesfromhel00pink ''"Ladies from Hell"''] by R Douglas Pinkerton 1918. The author was a member of the London Scottish.
**[https://archive.org/details/bigfight00fall ''The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme'')] by Capt. David Fallon 1918 Archive.org. He served with the AIF (Australian Imperial Force) at Gallipoli , and subsequently became an officer with the [[43rd Regiment of Foot |Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]]. He also flew as a military observer (Chapter XI, page 131), and briefly commanded a tank (Chapter XII, page 144).
**[https://archive.org/details/diaryofdeadoffic00westrich ''The Diary of a Dead Officer, being the posthumous papers of Arthur Graeme West''], c 1918. Archive.org . Includes Part V "Poems". [https://archive.org/details/diary_dead_officer_rg_librivox Librivox audio version]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Graeme_West Arthur Graeme West] Wikipedia. He joined as a private; in August 1916 he became a second lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
**[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three Fronts''] Edited by his wife. 1919. The letters of George Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles]. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta, Egypt and Palestine, where he died. He was a well known Theosophist. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
**[https://archive.org/details/handfulofausseys00thor ''A Handful of Ausseys''] by C. Hampton Thorp, AIF 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''. The latter part of the book is about the Western Front.
**[https://archive.org/details/towardflamewardi00herv ''Toward the Flame: a War Diary''] by Hervey Allen 1934, first published 1926 Archive.org
**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081555660?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Wine, Women and War: a Diary of Disillusionment''] by Anonymous. 10th edition 1927, first published 1926. Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010945122?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 2nd Hathi Trust file]. The author is catalogued as Howard Vincent O'Brien, American novelist and journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Vincent_O%27Brien Howard Vincent O'Brien] Wikipedia. Appointed 1st Lieutenant Field Artillery, [US Army] November 1917, and later became a Liaison Officer.
**[https://archive.org/details/subalternonsomme00mark ''A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916''] by Mark VII [Max Plowman] 1928, first published 1927. Archive.org. 10th West Yorks. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
**[https://archive.org/details/undertonesofwar00edmu ''Undertones of War''] by Edmund Blunden 1929 Archive.org. Subaltern in Royal Sussex at the Somme & Passchendaele. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
**[https://archive.org/details/passionateprodig00chap ''A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography''] by Guy Chapman. 1966 edition, first published 1933. Archive.org Lending Library. He was Adj. 13th Batt. Royal Fusiliers, who was gassed at Arras. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
**[https://archive.org/details/gunsofaugust00tuch_gaq ''The Guns of August''] by Barbara Tuchman 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. First you must register. Only one person at a time is able to read the book, as in a 'real' library, so you may need to go on a waiting list.
*[https://archive.org/details/inroyalnavalairs00roshiala ''In the Royal Naval Air Service. Being the War Letters of the late Harold Rocher to his Family''] 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/subalternssharei00deverich ''A Subaltern's Share in the War, Home Letters of the late George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., attached R.F.C.''] 1917 Archive.org
*'''Prisoners of War'''
**[https://archive.org/details/ofmainprisoncmap00poperich ''Map of the main prison camps in Germany and Austria, with Gazeteer''] by Mrs Pope Hennessy. Catalogued 1920. Printed in London. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/ofmainprisoncmap00poperich#page/n5/mode/1up Map]
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