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:*[httphttps://wwwarchive.booksandwritersorg/details/sky00blai ''Sky: Memoirs''] by Blaise Cendrars [pseudonym], translated by Nina Rootes 1992, originally published in French as ''Le Lotissement du ciel'' 1949.co[https://archive.ukorg/Fdetails/books-about-skymemoirs00cend 2nd file] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. A volume in the-french-foreign-legionauthor’s war memoirs tetralogy, which includes WW1 chapters.html List of Books about Swiss born, during WWI he joined the French Foreign Legionand served in France, where he lost an arm. [https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/jul/23/thehazyworldofblaisecendr "The hazy world of Blaise Cendrars"] booksandwritersby Lee Rourke 23 July 2007 ''The Guardian''.co"Cendrars eschews biographical detail and morphs fact and fiction". The other volumes in the tetralogy are ''Astonished Man'' (''L 'Homme foudroyé'', 1945), ''Lice'' (''La main coupée'', 1946), ''Planus'' (''Bourlinguer'', 1948). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Cendrars Blaise Cendrars] Wikipedia.uk
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* "The Winter of 1916-17" by Capt G D Mitchell 10th and 48th Battns AIF, a series of articles appearing in ''Reveille'', published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch, commencing in [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV193412.1.17&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ December 1934, page 15 (digital 17)] and continuing each month to at least October 1935. reveille.dlconsulting.com. Scroll from one issue to the next.There is reference elsewhere to further articles in Feb 1936 and Sept/Oct 1936. [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mitchell-george-deane-11137 Mitchell, George Deane (1894–1961)] Australian Dictionary of Biography. Also see [[Gallipoli]] for another series of articles.
*[https://archive.org/details/lm8046intimatest00davi ''"L. M. 8046" : an intimate story of the Foreign Legion''] by David Wooster King 1927 Archive.org. An American, he joined the French Foreign Legion in August 1914, based in France, transferred to the French Army October 1915, and subsequently transferred to the American Army, including an Intelligence role. [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6s200542/entire_text/ Some biographical details] oac.cdlib.org, and [http://www.monongahelabooks.com/kingdw.html more].
:[http://www.booksandwriters.co.uk/F/books-about-the-french-foreign-legion.html List of Books about the French Foreign Legion] booksandwriters.co.uk
*[https://archive.org/details/americanfighters00paul ''American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918''] by Paul Ayres Rockwell 1930 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/liddellhartmemoi00lidd ''The Liddell Hart Memoirs 1895-1938 Volume I''] 1965. Archive.org Lending Library. The author became an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Liddell_Hart B. H. Liddell Hart] Wikipedia. Military historian and military theorist.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. The initial four chapters are Purcell's account of his time as a young officer with the 11th (Service) Battalion of the Green Howards, including his time as a Prisoner of War.
