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*''True Stories of the Great War. Tales of Adventure-Heroic Deeds-Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses''. Edited by Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917. In six volumes: [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre01mill/page/n6 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre0000unse/page/n3 Vol. II], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre03mill/page/n6 Vol. III], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre04mill/page/n6 Vol. IV], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre05mill/page/n6 Vol. V], [https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre06mill/page/n5 Vol. VI]. All Archive.org

*''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''. Originally published in 1916 in fortnightly editions, then published c 1917 as a two volume set, c 900 pages in total, and also published as a five volume set. Information about the contents<ref name=DTE>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/deeds-that-thrill-the-empiretrue-stories-of-the-most-glorious-acts-of-heroism-of-the-empires-soldiers-and-sailors-during-the-great-war/ ''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''] naval-military-press.com</ref> advises 56 VCs are covered. Contain many specially commissioned illustrations- some [https://www.military-prints.com/great_war1.htm samples]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nvUgVYY3ew YouTube video] about the books and their illustrations.

:4 of the 5 volume editions, being Volumes I, II, III and V are available for free, provided you register, on the otherwise pay website forces-war-records.co.uk in the [https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/documents/search?searchQuery=D&page=2 Historic Document Library]. Select Browse and Type "Other", then scroll down to letter D.

*[https://archive.org/details/postofhonour00wils/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Post of Honour : Stories of Daring Deeds done by Men of the British Empire in the Great War''] by Richard Wilson 1917. Archive.org. The Author’s Note suggests the book was written for school children.

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120825165603/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/NewsMedia/I_Was_There_01.htm ''The Great War…I Was There! Undying Memories of 1914-1918''] (a description greatwardifferent.com, archived) edited by Sir John Hammerton originally published in 51 weekly parts 1938-39, (first appearing around the 20th anniversary of the end of the war), and also published 1938-39 in a three volume edition, 2060 pages (V.1. August 4, 1914, to July 1, 1916; V.2. July 4, 1916, to October 22, 1917; V.3. Oct. 25, 1917 to Jan. 1919 (with pages V1 1-696, V2 697-1376, V3 1377-2060)(Amalgamated Press)), the latter available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01001581634 . There was also a four volume publication (1930s) by Waverley (with pages V1 1-496, V2 497-1016, V3 1017-1536, V4 1537-2056 with Supplement and General Index).

:Contents sample, pages 1545 to 1734<ref>stiletto_33853 . [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/301821-i-was-there-volumes/?do=findComment&comment=3174496 I Was There Volumes] ''Great War Forum'' 26 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.</ref>, which indicates that the majority of the accounts were extracts from previously published books.

:The weekly magazines are available as a database on the pay website [[findmypast]], titled [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-the-great-war-i-was-there Britain, The Great War, I Was There] located in Armed Forces & Conflict/First World War, which advises the 51 editions ran from 29 September 1938 to 19 September 1939. To browse the pages, do not use a Search term but click on the Search icon, when a series of 1186 pdf images, (each of two pages), will be displayed in image order. From any image you can navigate to the next image, or the previous image. (This function is located near the top of the findmypast webpage, not near the actual image). Part 1 consists of 29 images, perhaps larger than the average, if in fact all issues are included.

:Some of the weekly issues (Parts 1-41, (for the period to 23 April 1918) and Part 46 (Sept-Oct 1918) are available on the Library subscription website "The First World War" by Adam Matthew Digital, module "Personal Experiences", see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#First World War databases| Subscription websites - First World War databases]] for details of this database. To locate this publication, it is classified as a "Printed Book" and it appears in five separate listings, the editions to Part 41 in four listings and Part 46 as a separate listing. The [[British Library]] is listed on the database website as a Participating Library. Card holders of the State Library of NSW can access The First World War: Personal Experiences module on their home computers.