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*[https://archive.org/details/happyforeigner00bagn/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Happy Foreigner''] by Enid Bagnold 1920 Archive.org. “Set in the winter and spring following the Armistice, this fictionalized account of Bagnold's experience as a driver for the French Army remains a valuable record of haunted battlefields and scant army rations…”<ref>[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/366645/summary "Enid Bagnold's The Happy Foreigner: The Wider World Beyond Love"] by Stella Deen muse.jhu.edu</ref>. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Bagnold Enid Bagnold] Wikipedia. She was English, and became an author and playwright.
*[https://archive.org/details/peterjacksonciga00franiala ''Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant : a Romance of Married Life''] by Gilbert Frankau. Seventh edition 1920. Archive.org. This book "is semi-autobiographical and gives an excellent feel for life as a Kitchener volunteer officer in both the infantry and then the RFA 1914-16… it was also one of the first books to reveal to the general public what Shell Shock was all about. A classic".<ref>charlesmessenger [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/244799-casemate-books-a-question/?do=findComment&comment=2463024 Casemate Books - a question] ''Great War Forum'' 12 November 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/wayofrevelationn00ewarrich/page/n5 ''Way of revelation : a novel of five years''] by Wilfrid Ewart 1922 Archive.org. :''When Armageddon came; studies in peace and war'' by Wilfrid Ewart 1933. [http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph011430603 Catalogue entry, Oxford University Library] with link to digital copy, [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/502760101.pdf Direct pdf]. [https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00516/hrc-00516.html Biographical details] lib.utexas.edu. He died in 1922. Ewart was an officer in the Scots Guards, refer [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]] above.
*[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".
