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:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front About the book] Wikipedia. First published 1929, original German title [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.168305 ''Im Westen nichts Neues''] Archive.org.
*Half-novel, half-autobiography, the author states the events described actually happened : [http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/manmidd ''The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916''] by Frederic Manning 1929. Pdf download of a transcription, University of Sydney Digital Collection. Subsequently published in an expurgated version as [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207678 ''Her Privates We''] by Private 19022. 1930 Archive.org. 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> On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/secretbattle00herbuoft/page/n5 ''The Secret Battle''] by A P Herbert 1919. Archive.org. One of three novels published in 1919 praised for its convincing account of war, and recommended by Churchill.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4tmvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA51 Pages 51-52] ''English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918–39'' by John Onions. Google Books</ref> The first part of the book is set at [[Gallipoli]], the latter part on the Western Front. [https://archive.org/details/secretbattle_rm_librivox ''The Secret Battle'' Librivox audio book] by A P Herbert. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._Herbert A. P. Herbert] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/silenceofcolonel00mauruoft ''The Silence of Colonel Bramble''] by André Maurois. Translated from the French by Thurfrida Wake. Verses translated by Wilfrid Jackson. 1920 Archive.org. The author, writing under a non de plume which subsequently became his legal name, was an Interpreter, and subsequently Liaison Officer with the IXth (Scotch) Division, when the book was written.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.2458 ''Verdun''] ''The Prelude'', and ''The Battle'' by Jules Romains. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. 1940, first published in English 1939. Archive.org Note: Lacks title page. Book 15 ''Prélude à Verdun'' and Book 16 ''Verdun'' (published 1938), Volume 8 (some editions), from the 27 volume series ''Men of Goodwill'' (''Les Hommes de bonne volonté''). [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.264814 2nd Archive.org file]
