Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search

Western Front

1,636 bytes added, 23:32, 6 December 2019
Historical books online
*[https://archive.org/details/warflyingbypilot00hend/page/n9 ''War flying, by a pilot; the letters of "Theta" to his home people written in training and war''] 1917 Archive.org. He was a member of the Royal Flying Corps.
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/heroicairmenthei00walt/page/n7 ''Heroic Airmen and their Exploits''] by E W Walters 1917 Archive.org
* ''Winged Warfare : Hunting the Huns in the Air'' by Major [William Avery] Bishop,VC, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfarehun00bish/page/n7 London edition 1918, probably better filmed text] ; [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfare00bishuoft/page/n7 USA edition 1918, better photographs], some photographs differ between the two editions;
:[https://archive.org/details/wingwarfare00bish/page/n3 1981 edition of 1967 reprint with additional material] ; [https://archive.org/details/wingedwarfare0000bish/page/n3 2002 edition with additional material] the latter two Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005891834 ''Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps''], by James Thomas Byford McCudden [1919]. HathiTrust Digital Library, available in areas such as North America.
*[https://archive.org/details/fightingflyingc00rickgoog ''Fighting the Flying Circus''] by Eddie Rickenbacker U S Air Service 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/fighting_flying_circus_1104_librivox LibriVox audio recording] Archive.org
*''New England Aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records'' edited by Caroline Ticknor. [https://archive.org/details/NewEnglandaviatVol1Tick/page/n7 Volume I] 1919, [https://archive.org/details/NewEnglandaviatVol2Tick/page/iii Volume II] 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/rfchq1914191800bariuoft/page/n5 ''R.F.C. H.Q., 1914-1918''] by Maurice Baring 1920 Archive.org. Baring was appointed as a Lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps attached to the Headquarters RFC, after applying unsuccessfully to go to France as an interpreter, as he spoke seven modern languages.
*[https://archive.org/details/explorerinairser00binguoft/page/n9 ''An Explorer in the Air Service''] by Hiram Bingham, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel, Air Service, USA 1920 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.
:[https://archive.org/details/testofscarletrom00dawsiala ''The Test of Scarlet, a Romance of Reality''] by Coningsby Dawson 1919 Archive.org. A 2011 edition was published under the title ''The Test of Scarlet: Experiences of an Artillery Officer During the First World War''.
*[https://archive.org/details/breakingofstorm00brow ''The Breaking of the Storm''] by Captain C A L Brownlow RFA 1918 Archive.org. He was in a Brigade Ammunition Column, believed to be 3rd Division.
*[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/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/pushedreturnpush00nich ''Pushed and the Return Push''] by Quex [G H Nichols, RFA] 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/yearsinfrance00roseuoft ''Three Years in France with the Guns : being episodes in the life of a Field Battery''] by C A Rose, late of the Royal Field Artillery. 1919 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19814 Gutenberg.org version] where photographs may be easier to view.
*[https://archive.org/details/boywithguns00tayl/page/n8 ''The Boy with the Guns''] by the late Lieut. George W Taylor, Royal Field Artillery, 1919. Archive.org A book in the ''On Active Service'' series. Western Front and Serbia.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromsommetorhine00ashm/page/n5 ''From the Somme to the Rhine''] by S Ashmead-Bartlett. Dust jacket/book cover has additional wording ''An Intelligence Officer's narrative of the last phase of the Great War'' <ref>Dust Jacket Collector. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/211418-on-active-service-series/?do=findComment&comment=2825244 On Active Service Series] ''Great War Forum'' 27 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.</ref> . [1921] Archive.org. A book in the ''On Active Service'' series. Elsewhere it is stated he was Major Herbert Seabury Hunt Ashmead-Bartlett (known as Seabury) 173 Infantry Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. The author’s war diary for [http://www.phelps-ancestry.co.uk/ancestry/herbert-seabury-hunt-ashmead-bartlett/war-diary-1915/ The Battle of Ypres May 1915]. He appears to be a brother of Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the war correspondent, and had himself briefly worked as a journalist. In 1922, as a condition for an inheritance, he changed his surname to Burdett-Coutts.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirofltcoledw00steeiala ''A Memoir of Lt.-Col. Edward Anthony Steel, RHA and RFA, 1880-1919 : consisting chiefly of his letters and diaries with numerous illustrations''] 1921 Archive.org. During WW1 he was on the Western Front with 35th Battery, briefly in Mesopotamia late 1918/early 1919, and finally posted to Vladivostok with the British Military Mission to Siberia, where he died 17 October 1919 in Omsk, of influenza.
*[https://archive.org/details/infield19141915i00duporich ''In the field (1914-1915); The impressions of an officer of light cavalry''] by Marcel Dupont, translated by H W Hill Archive.org 1916. Book No. 3 in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War''. [https://archive.org/details/inthefield_fnh_librivox Libribox audio version] Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/encampagne19141900dupouoft French edition] Archive.org. [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Dupont_(historien) Marcel Dupont (historien)] (Wikipedia, French language). Pseudonym of Marcel Ernest Béchu, 7e Chasseurs à Cheval (7th Cavalry Chasseurs).
*[https://archive.org/details/fightinghunfrom00jonegoog ''Fighting the Hun from Saddle and Trench''] by Sergt. Major William R Jones, Royal Canadian Dragoons 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/sportinpeacewar00buxtrich/page/n6 ''Sport in Peace and War''] by Anthony Buxton 1920. Non military account. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Buxton Anthony Buxton] Wikipedia, which says he was a Major in the Essex Yeomanry.
*''The Cavalry Journal''. ''Journal of the United States Cavalry Association''. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000679840 A]; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008891896 B]; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008898701 C] includes full view V.30-31 1921-1922. Includes articles about the Western Front. Mainly full view HathiTrust.
*''The Cavalry Journal''. Published in London. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012177767 A], [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010324628 B] Hathi Trust. Restricted access -USA and equivalent access only Volume 1, 1906 to Volume 12, 1922. [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=2764 Index of articles up to Volume 23]. Volumes 1-9 1906-1914; Volumes 10-23 1920-1933.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625 ''Footslogger''] by Graham Seton 1933. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Full title: ''Footslogger; An autobiography'', by Graham Seton [pseud.] (Lieutenant-Colonel G. S. Hutchison ...)
: Also see [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]], below.
*[https://archive.org/details/suicidebattalion00wend/page/n3 ''Suicide Battalions''] by Wendell Westover, Captain, 4th M. G. bn., A. E. F.; with 46 illustrations by Lucien Jonas... 1929 Archive.org. A series of sketches of American machine-gunners.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003297938.0x000002 ''A Brief Narrative of the Guards Machine Gun Battalion during the year 1918''] by Lieut.-Colonel R. Bingham. With an appendix entitled "Machine-Gun Tactics and Organisation." 1931. Typescript manuscript. British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/canadianemmagees00grafuoft ''The Canadian Emma Gees; a History of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps''] by Lt-Col C S Grafton 1938 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/ghostroad00bark ''The Ghost Road''] by Pat Barker 1995. [https://archive.org/details/ghostroad000bark 2nd file]. All Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/birdsong00faul_vfx ''Birdsong''] by Sebastian Faulks 1997, first published 1993. Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/Birdsong2008 ''Birdsong'': Audio] 2008 BBC Radio Drama. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/songsfromtrenche00blacrich/page/n7 ''Songs from the Trenches''] by Capt. C W Blackall 1915 Archive.org. During the period when Charles Walter Blackall wrote these poems he was serving with the 1st Bn. Royal Welch Fusiliers. He was KiA 24th March 1918.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191204220208/https://turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf Turner Donovan] December 2019, Item 132.</ref> :[https://archive.org/details/allswellsomehelp00oxenuoft/page/n9 ''"All's Well!" Some Helpful Verse For These Dark Days of War''] by John Oxenham, pseudonym of William Arthur Dunkerley. Eighteen edition, 1917, first published 1915. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/agloucestershire00harv/page/n5 ''A Gloucestershire lad at home and abroad''] by F W Harvey. Fourth impression 1917, first published 1916. [https://archive.org/details/gloucestershiref00harv/page/n5 ''Gloucestershire friends: poems from a German prison camp''] by F W Harvey 1917. Both Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Harvey F. W. Harvey] Wikipedia. His war memoir was ''Comrades in Captivity: a Record of Life in Seven German Prison Camps'' 1920, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001610788
:[https://archive.org/details/uplinetodeathwar00gard ''Up the line to death: the war poets, 1914-1918''] An anthology selected and arranged with an introduction and notes by Brian Gardner 1967 Archive.org Lending Library.
29,533
edits

Navigation menu