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*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781559705264 ''Horses Don't Fly''] by Frederick Libby 2000 Archive.org Lending Library. An American who enlisted in the Canadian Army, and subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, initially as an observer, which included a machine gunner role. He subsequently was commissioned and became a pilot, awarded the Military Cross. [https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/americans-in-the-royal-air-force/americans-in-the-british-flying-services-1914-1945/captain-frederick-libby.aspx Captain Frederick Libby] rafmuseum.org.uk. [http://www.historynet.com/flying-cowboy-frederick-libby.htm HistoryNet article: "The Flying Cowboy"] by Derek O’Connor.
*[https://archive.org/details/millionairesunit00wort ''The Millionaire's Unit: the aristocratic flyboys who fought the Great War and invented America's airpower''] by Marc Wortman 2006. Archive.org Lending Library.
*Also see [[Western Front#Prisoners of War|Prisoners of War]] and [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]], below.
====Army Service Corps and others====
*[https://archive.org/details/britishinternedi00pico ''The British interned in Switzerland''] by Lieut.-Colonel H P Picot 1919 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/threeyearsprison00thorrich ''Three Years a Prisoner in Germany''] by Major J C Thorn, a First Canadian Contingent Officer 1919 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/tunnellersofholz00durnuoft/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Tunnellers of Holzminden (with a side-issue)''] by H G Durnford (Hugh George Edmund) 1920 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/thetunnellersofh52308gut Images from the book] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/beyondtumult00winc ''Beyond the Tumult''] by Barry Winchester 1972. Additional wording on front cover: ''The true story of the greatest escape in the annals of wartime adventure''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Pilots from the Royal Flying Corps lead the escape from Holzminden.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241529 ''Within Four Walls: A Classic of Escape''] by Major M C C Harrison, Royal Tank Corps, late the Royal Irish Regiment, and Captain H A Cartwright, late The Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Middlesex Regiment). First published 1930. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/2864905upenn ''The Wooden City; a Journal for British Prisoners of War'']. Issues 1-15. Published at Göttingen 1915. Archive.org. Includes Lists of POWs at Göttingen.
