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*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100103993?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Confessions of a Private''] by Frank Grey, late 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. 1920. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/wardiaryofsquare00mgrich/page/48 Page 48] ''The War Diary of a Square Peg. With a Dictionary of War Words'' by Maximilian A Mügge. 1920 Archive.org. Although the author was a British citizen and had volunteered, as an "enemy alien Briton", he was transferred to a non-combatant corps (N C C ) where conscientious objectors were usually sent, with which he served in France for a few months late May-August 1916. The NCCs were not well regarded. He was soon transferred again to an Infantry Works Battalion in England which he calls "a political concentration camp".
→Historical books online
*[https://archive.org/details/priceofgloryverd00horn ''The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916''] by Alistair Horne 1964 "This specially abridged edition first published in Penguin Books 1964." (Originally published 1962). Archive.org Lending Library. Horne also wrote ''Death of a generation: from Neuve Chapelle to Verdun and the Somme'' 1970 which encapsulates some of the earlier book.
*[https://archive.org/details/inflandersfields00wolf/page/n5 ''In Flanders Fields: the 1917 Campaign''] by Leon Wolff 1958. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/brigadierinfranc00cumm/page/n7 ''A Brigadier in France 1917-1918''] by Hanway R Cumming [1922] Archive.org. He was in command of the 110th Brigade, 21st Division.
*[https://archive.org/details/storyoffourtharm01mont ''The Story of the Fourth Army in the Battles of the Hundred Days, August 8th to November 11th, 1918''] by Major-General Sir Archibald Montgomery, General Staff, Fourth Army 1919 Archive.org.
:Maps issued in a separate case [Volume 2]: [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232726840 19 maps and 5 photographs] National Library of Australia
*''The Diary of a German Soldier'' by Feldwebel C… , published in French in 1918. See [[Western Front#German Army|German Army]] below.
*[https://archive.org/details/privateinguards00grah ''A Private in the Guards''] by Stephen Graham 1919 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Graham_(author) Stephen Graham (author)] Wikipedia. Also see a further book under [[Western Front#Miscellaneous|Miscellaneous]] below.
*[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.
*[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".
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25528 ''Q. 6. A and Other Places: Recollections of 1916, 1917, and 1918''] by by Francis Buckley 1920. Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/handfulofausseys00thor q6aandotherplaces00buckuoft Archive.org version] Difficult to read online, but download possible. from Jan. 1916 onwards as He was a subaltern, from Jan. 1916 onwards, and later company commander, 1st/7th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers. *[https://archive.org/details/galloperatypress00butlrich/page/n7 ''A Handful of AusseysGalloper at Ypres, and some subsequent adventures''] by CMajor and Bt- Lieut-Col Patrick Butler, The Royal Irish 1920. Hampton Thorp, AIF 1919 Archive.org. Part Butler was ADC to the General of the series 7th Division.*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100103993?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''On Active ServiceThe Confessions of a Private''] by Frank Grey, late 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. The latter part of the book is about the Western Front1920. HathiTrust Digital Library.
*''The Storm of Steel'' by Ernst Jünger. First published in German 1920. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/> See [[Western Front#German Army|German Army]].
*[https://archive.org/details/howifilmedwarrec00malirich/page/n9 ''How I filmed the war; a record of the extraordinary experiences of the man who filmed the great Somme battles, etc.''] by Lieut Geoffrey H Malins 1920. Archive.org. For two years he was one of the official War Office Kinematographers, having previously done some free lance war work. [https://archive.org/details/how_filmed_war_rs_librivox ''How I Filmed the War'' LibriVox recording] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/galloperatypress00butlrichlettersfromliais00mitc/page/n7 3 ''Letters from a Liaison Officer 1918-1919''] by Clarence Van Schaick Mitchell, Captain, US Cavalry 1920 Archive.org. A Galloper volunteer ambulance driver in France 1914 who then completed a law degree at YpresHarvard, he was commissioned in August 1917 and some subsequent adventureswas assigned as a Liaison Officer on the staff of Gen. de Castelanau, French Army.*[https://archive.org/details/wardiaryofsquare00mgrich/page/48 Page 48] ''The War Diary of a Square Peg. With a Dictionary of War Words''] by Major and Bt- Lieut-Col Patrick Butler, The Royal Irish Maximilian A Mügge. 1920. Archive.org. Although the author was a Butler British citizen and had volunteered, as an "enemy alien Briton", he was ADC transferred to the General of the 7th Divisiona non-combatant corps (N C C ) where conscientious objectors were usually sent, with which he served in France for a few months late May-August 1916. The NCCs were not well regarded. He was soon transferred again to an Infantry Works Battalion in England which he calls "a political concentration camp".
*[https://archive.org/details/combedout00voiguoft ''Combed Out''] by F A Voigt 1920 Archive.org. The author subsequently became an influential journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Augustus_Voigt Frederick Augustus Voigt] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofg00fryerich/page/n7 ''Reminiscences of a Grenadier, 1914-1919''] by E R M Fryer 1921 Archive.org. He initially was a private in the H. A.C., then went to Cadet School and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards.
*[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsoftemp00bacoiala/page/n8 ''The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior : a territorial officer's narrative of service (and sport) in three continents''] by Captain Alban F L Bacon (late Hampshire Regiment) 1922. Archive.org. Includes Western Front and India, [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt/Palestine]].
*[https://archive.org/details/towardflamewardi00herv ''Toward the Flame: a War Diary''] by Hervey Allen. Revised edition, with illustrations 1934, first published 1926. Archive.org. The author was a Lieutenant in the United States Army, and subsequently became an author and poet. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervey_Allen Hervey Allen] Wikipedia.
*[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/coveredwithmudgl00laforich ''Covered with mud and glory; a machine gun company in action ("Ma mitrailleuse")''] by Georges Lafond [of the French Army]. Translated by Edwin Gile Rich 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/threechevrons00bidd ''Three Chevrons''] by "Orex" (Major H F Bidder) 1919. Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''. Called up from the Reserve in 1914, at first Bidder was with 1 S Staffs and later as Brigade (21st) MG Officer and CO 1st Bn MGC. <ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/three-chevrons.html ''Three Chevrons''] Naval and Military Press</ref> Elsewhere it is stated the 'chevrons' of the title refer to the service chevrons worn on the right sleeve for each year of overseas service, blue for 1914-15 & red for each subsequent year.
*[http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5732 "The Chronicles of the 3rd Bn MGC: No 1 Arras March 21-28 1918"] page 15, ''3rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps Magazine'', Issue no 1, May 1919. ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk. The British Library holds issues 1, and also 2 and 4-5 (at least 6 appear to have been published) - these latter also contain "Chronicles". These issues are available on the subscription website database ProQuest "Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War", which is available at the British Library and elsewhere - see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]] for access through some libraries. *[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027845860/page/n10 ''Letters and Papers of Algernon Hyde Villiers with a memoir by Harry Graham''] 1919 Archive.org. He had been a trooper in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt]] with the Hertfordshire Yeomanry 1914, was commissioned into the Lothian & Borders Horse 1915, before transferring to the Machine Gun Corps; went to France from July 1917 where he was Killed in Action on 23rd November 1917 at Bourlon Wood with the 121st Company.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20191204220208/https://turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf Turner Donovan] December 2019, Item 110.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/historymemoirof300unse ''History and Memoir of the 33rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps and of the 19th, 98th, 100th and 248th M.G. Companies''] Written and Illustrated by Members of the Battalion 1919 Archive.org. Sometimes attributed to Graham Seton Hutchison, Divisional Machine Gun Officer of the 33rd Division.
*[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 ...)
