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:He was also the author of ''Slanting Lines of Steel''. [An account of the author's experiences as war correspondent in the European War, 1914-1918]. 1933
*[https://archive.org/details/waronallfrontswi01rich/page/n7 ''With the Allies''] by Richard Harding Davis, War Correspondent, with the Allies, of the Wheeler Syndicate of Newspapers and the London ''Daily Chronicle''. 1918, first published 1914. Archive.org. This edition is Volume I of ''The War on All Fronts'', a five volume series, multiple authors.
*[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/waronallfrontsfi03edit/page/n9 ''Fighting France : from Dunkerque to Belfort''] by Edith Wharton, 1918 edition, first published 1915. Archive.org. This edition is Volume III of ''The War on All Fronts'', a five volume series, multiple authors.
*[https://archive.org/details/overfrontinaerop00pulirich ''Over the Front in an Aeroplane, and Scenes inside the French and Flemish Trenches''] by Ralph Pulitzer 1915 Archive.org. The author was a New York newspaper proprietor.
*[https://archive.org/details/horsewarillustra00galt ''The Horse and the War''] by Captain Sidney Galtrey. Illustrated from drawings by Captain Lionel Edwards and from photographs. 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/britishwardogsth00richrich ''British War Dogs, their Training and Psychology''] by Lt.-Colonel E H Richardson, late Commandant of the British War Dog School. C 1920. Archive.org.
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/221023 ''Forty Years With Dogs''] by E H Richardson 1935. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221023 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. [http://www.k9history.com/WWI-biography-ehrichardson.htm "A Biography of E H Richardson"] k9history.com, probably based on the autobiography.
*[https://archive.org/details/birdsandwarglads00gladrich ''Birds and the War''] by Hugh Stewart Gladstone 1919 Archive.org. Includes "Chapter 1: Birds as Messengers"
*[https://archive.org/details/enemywithinhit00john ''The enemy within, hitherto unpublished details of the great conspiracy to corrupt and destroy France''] by Severance Johnson. Translation by Edgard Leon. 1920 Archive.org.
====Post War including British Occupation of Germany====
*''The Occupation of the Rhineland : 1918-1929'' by J. E Edmonds, (James Edward, Sir). Originally published under restricted circulation 1944. Series: ''History of the Great War''. Available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/the-occupation-of-the-rhineland-1918-1929official-history-of-the-great-war/ ''The Occupation of the Rhineland : 1918-1929''] by J. E Edmonds. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8KO82s1roGLP6hQIy online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in World War II/Military Books/Germany.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.183516 ''The Present State Of Germany. A Lecture delivered in the University of London on November 20th, 1923, with an Introduction''] by J H Morgan [John Hartman]. 2nd impression 1924. Archive.org. For more online books by J H Morgan, see other sections, above, and also [[First World War]]. Morgan also wrote ''Assize of Arms: The Disarmament of Germany and her Rearmament (1919–1939)'' (1945).
*[https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1954 ''Cockpit of Peace 1919-1925''] by Ferdinand Tuohy 1926. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". The author was a post-war foreign correspondent. Also see his book under [[Western Front#Secret Service and Spies|Secret Service and Spies, above]].
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/LERYSOSSOM3YL4FB4TTXBCPVUHOGJUVV ''Life in the Occupied Area''] by Katharine Tynan 1925 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. [http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb11126620_00009.html Direct link to book] Bavarian State Library website. [http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/14th-march-1925/28/life-in-the-occupied-area-by-katharine-tynan-hutch Spectator review, 1925]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206501 ''Peace Patrol''] by Lt.-Col. Stewart Roddie 1932. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Roddie was a member of the Inter- Allied Commission of Control in Germany in the 1920s.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1939&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Green Envelopes''] No author appears on the title page. Published by John Murray London 1929. Letters home from the Front, from many soldiers, to a village in England. A [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/29136813 review] says "These are the familiar "green envelopes" of active service during the war. ...letters which were really written…" (names changed). The British Library catalogue entry includes the words "A novel", however in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, the book is classified WW1 Personal narratives, British. 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/in.ernet.dli.2015.167522/page/n9 ''The W Plan''] by Graham Seton 1930 Archive.org. Also see [[Western Front#Machine Guns|Machine Guns]], above.
*A novel: [httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/pathsofglory00cobb/page/n3 ''Paths of Glory''] A Novel by Humphrey Cobb, 1987 edition, originally published 1935 . Archive.dliorg Lending Library.ernetWith an [https://archive.inorg/details/handlepathsofglory00cobb/2015page/503004 266 Afterword] by Stephen E Tabachnick. The story was suggested by actual events. A film version by Stanley Kubrick was produced in 1957.*A novel: ''Across The Black Waters''] by Mulk Raj Anand. Reprint edition, possibly 1955, originally published 1940. Pdf download, Previously available Digital Library of India(handle/2015/503004), possibly may become available in the future. 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. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/236997-across-the-black-water-by-mulk-raj-anand/ Across the Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand] ''Great War Forum'' 3 March 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</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/ravilancersnovel00mast ''The Ravi Lancers''] by [[John Masters]] 1972. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. (Only one person at a time is able to borrow, so you may need to wait for the book to be returned. First you must [https://archive.org/details/lendinglibrary&tab=about register]) . An Indian cavalry regiment is sent to France at the outbreak of the First World War.
*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.
