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*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b42511?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Adventures on the Western Front, August, 1914-June, 1915''] by A Rawlinson 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author, then aged 47, volunteered as a driver, who provided his own car, for service at the Front. He was one of a group of 25 volunteers, organised by the Royal Automobile Club (R A C). For a book about later military related service by this author, see [[Norperforce]].
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**:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3480009?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''1917 Volume II 7th June-10th November Messines and Third Ypres (Passchendaele)''] published 1948. HathiTrust Digital Library.
***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210686 1918]: The great German offensive [21st March 1918] and its preliminaries (1935), [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210686 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210684 1918 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210684 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210685 Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210685 Archive.org]
*Books by two out of 25 volunteer members of the RAC [Royal Automobile Club] Contingent, who volunteered with their own car, who were sent officially by the War Office to drive officers of the General Headquarters Staff at the front. As a result, they were in constant contact with very senior officers, and personally observed the course of events over a wide field. It seems they officially joined the Army, and were given officer status.
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b42511?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Adventures on the Western Front, August, 1914-June, 1915''] by A Rawlinson 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author, then aged 47, volunteered as a driver, who provided his own car, for service at the Front, as part of the RAC Contingent. For a book about later military related service by this author, see [[Norperforce]].
**[https://archive.org/details/frommonstoypresw00cole ''From Mons to Ypres with General French; a Personal Narrative''] by Frederic Coleman. 1916 Archive.org. Originally published under the title ''From Mons to Ypres with French : a personal narrative''. He was a part of the RAC Contingent, who volunteered with his own car.
*:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208781 ''With Cavalry In 1915. The British Trooper in the Trench line : Through the second battle of Ypres''] by Frederic Coleman 1916. Archive.org. Also published with the title beginning ''With Cavalry in the Great War...''. He was attached, with his car, to the Head-quarters Staff of the 1st Cavalry Division. These two titles were later reprinted by Leonaur as ''A Twilight of Centaurs''
*:Frederic Coleman, an American resident in London, is elsewhere <ref>[https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/15398/lot/61/ Frederick Abernethy Coleman] bonhams.com</ref> described as the journalist and Motoring [figure], Frederick Abernethy Coleman, who popularized the White Steam car in England and was a prominent figure in English motoring. He appears to have spent time in China, at the time of the Boxer Rebellion, possibly as a journalist. He was also the author of
*:[https://archive.org/details/ourboysoverther00colegoog ''Our boys over there; to the young American in khaki - what he will find when he gets to France''] by Frederic Coleman 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gunsofaugust00tuch_gaq ''The Guns of August''] by Barbara Tuchman 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. A narrative of the earliest stages of World War I, from the decisions to go to war, up until the battles of the first month. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_August About the book] Wikipedia. Article [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/03/guns-of-august-barbara-tuchman "''The Guns of August'' showed me how history could bring the past to life"] by Margaret MacMillan ''The Guardian'' 4 August 2014.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57906 ''Real War 1914-1918''] by B H Liddell Hart 1930 Archive.org. An enlarged edition was published as: ''A History of the World War, 1914-1918'', 1934. Reprinted as
====Volunteers and others====
*''The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington'' 1920. [An autobiography]. [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar01repi Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar19100repi Volume II] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_à_Court_Repington Charles à Court Repington] 1858-1925. Wikipedia. He was a former British Army Officer who was military correspondent for ''The Times'' 1904–1918, who had many influential contacts with officers in the Army's highest ranks.
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofenglishre00stro ''The diary of an English resident in France during twenty-two weeks of war time''] by Rowland Strong 1915 Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated Rowland Strong was/had been the Paris correspondent for the ''Observer'', the ''Morning Post'' and the ''New York Times''.
