World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives books

"The Red Watch": With the First Canadian Division in Flanders

John Allister Currie

The book is a first‑hand account by Colonel John Allister Currie, a Member of Parliament and veteran of the…

The silent Baltic: or, Detained near Kiel

Marcus Knox

The work is a first‑person wartime memoir that begins in the idyllic fishing village of Neustadt, near Kiel,…

Mud and Khaki: Sketches from Flanders and France

Vernon Bartlett

Vernon Bartlett’s Mud and Khaki is a personal‑war narrative that gathers a series of sketches and short…

Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915

G. B. Laurie

This volume is a collection of letters written by Lieutenant‑Colonel George Brenton Laurie, commander of the…

The Uncensored Letters of a Canteen Girl

Katharine Duncan Morse

The book is a first‑person wartime diary presented as a series of unsent letters from a young American…

Night Bombing with the Bedouins

Robert Henry Reece

Robert Henry Reece’s Night Bombing with the Bedouins is a first‑hand account of aerial warfare during the…

My Year of the Great War

Frederick Palmer

Frederick Palmer’s My Year of the Great War is a first‑hand account by an American correspondent who spent…

Deeds of heroism and bravery: The book of heroes and personal daring

"And they thought we wouldn't fight"

Floyd Phillips Gibbons

Floyd Phillips Gibbons’s “And They Thought We Wouldn’t Fight” is a first‑person account of the American…

The Note-Book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone

Eric Fisher Wood

The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia

Gordon, Jan; Gordon, Cora

Six months on the Italian front

Julius M. Price

True Stories of the Great War, Volume 5 (of 6) Tales of Adventure--Heroic Deeds--Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses

A Traveller in War-Time

Winston Churchill

True Stories of the Great War, Volume 4 (of 6) Tales of Adventure--Heroic Deeds--Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses

1914

French, John Denton Pinkstone, Earl of Ypres

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915

Anonymous

From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917

Philip Gibbs

True Stories of the Great War, Volume 1 (of 6) Tales of Adventure--Heroic Deeds--Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses

True Stories of the Great War, Volume 3 (of 6) Tales of Adventure--Heroic Deeds--Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses

"Over the Top," by an American Soldier Who Went Together with Tommy's Dictionary of the Trenches

Arthur Guy Empey

True Stories of the Great War, Volume 6 (of 6) Tales of Adventure--Heroic Deeds--Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses

Boche and Bolshevik Experiences of an Englishman in the German Army and in Russian Prisons

Hereward Thimbleby Price

Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France

Gerald Campbell