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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207934/page/n5 ''The Spanish Farm Trilogy 1914-1918''] by R H Mottram, originally published 1924-1926. ''Trilogy'' edition 1927 Archive.org. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-rh-mottram-trilogy-20151210-story.html "The underappreciation of R. H. Mottram's World War I novels"] by Patrick Reardon 10 December 2015 ''Chicago Tribune''. "''The Spanish Farm,'' ''Sixty-four, Ninety-four!'' and ''The Crime of Vanderlynden's'' — were set in Flanders, mostly behind the lines, and were based on Mottram's own military experiences. They were published individually in the late 1920s and later issued together with additional material as ''The Spanish Farm Trilogy''". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Hale_Mottram Ralph Hale Mottram] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/sommeincludingal00gris ''The Somme'', including also ''The Coward''] by A D Gristwood (Arthur Donald). With new introduction by Hugh Cecil. 2006. First published 1927. Archive.org Lending Library. [https://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/2006/3648.html Publisher's page] The author was a “reluctant accountant turned even more reluctant infantryman in the London Rifle Brigade” ... "the war as Gristwood experienced it—a dark and desperate theater of pain where only base instincts could get a man out alive".
*[httphttps://gutenbergwww.netcanadiana.auca/ebooks05view/0500061hoocihm.html 9_89630/2?r=0&s=1 ''Generals Die In Bed''] by Charles Yale Harrison 1930, first published 1928. A canadiana.ca. [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500061h.html 1928 edition], a transcription by Project Gutenberg Australia. [https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20141066 1930 edition], a transcription by Faded Page (Canada). [https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/100-stories/Pages/harrison.aspx Charles Yale Harrison] (bac-lac.gc.ca) (1898-1954) was an 18-year-old student when he enlisted with the 244th (Kitchener’s Own) Battalion on January 24, 1917, in Montreal. He was wounded in August 1918. [https://www.englishworks.com.au/generals-die-bed-charles-harrison/ About the book] englishworks.com.au.[https://www.wlajournal.com/wlaarchive/23_1-2/clausson.pdf "Charles Yale Harrison’s “Little-Known Minor Masterpiece”: ''Generals Die in Bed'', Modernism, and the Canon of World War I Fiction"] by Nils Clausson ''War, Literature & the Arts'' 23 (2011).
*[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, however the author is identified as Colonel Lionel James, pre WW1 war correspondent and WW1 Commander of King Edward’s Horse<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200331014345/https://www.ebay.com/itm/WWI-1929-GREEN-ENVELOPES-Letters-from-WESTERN-FRONT-to-a-typical-English-Village-/382194859732 Ebay listing ResurgamBooks (dilapsus)] and Lionel James [http://www.northwoodvillage.org.uk/tchudsonarticles/he-wielded-pen-and-sword-by-t-c-hudson/ "He Wielded Pen and Sword"] northwoodvillage.org.uk</ref>. 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.
