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Alphabetically arranged by name of memoir writer (if available)
or by title keyword(s).
Robert R. Abercromby.
[http://www.hellfire-corner.demon.co.uk/abercromby.htm">"I Would Not be Here if He Had!"
Following Australian Footsteps
Through the Battlefields of the Western Front. ].
[memoir/AFShist/AFSTC.htm">History of the American Field Service in France, 1914-1917,
Told by its Members.]New York and Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1920.
Also see the website on
">AFS in World War I
prepared by Alan Albright as a part of his ">American Field Service site.
Dikran Andreasian.
">Comment un drapeau sauva quatre mille Arméniens. Paris: Fischbacher, n.d.
- en français -
[memoir/lastanzc.htm">In Memoriam - The Last Anzacs]
[memoir/warindex.shtml">Arizona's War Dead: WWI, WWII,
Korea, Vietnam, Southwest Asia] The Arizona Republic,
31 May 1999
[memoir/armisp.html">Armistice à Cap Pelé]
- en français -
Olga Bing.
[memoir/Gestes/Bing.htm">Gestes
d'Infirmières, Croquis 1916-1917]. Paris: Léon Marotte, 1917.
- en français -
[memoir/ration.html">British & German rations.]
1914 & 1916
Leslie Buswell.
[memoir/Buswell/AAFS1.htm">With
the American Ambulance Field Service in France. Personal Letters
of a Driver at the Front]. Boston,1916.
Joseph G. Butler.
">A Journey Through France in War Time.
Cleveland : Penton Press, 1917.
John Bruce Cairnie.
[memoir/cairnie1915.htm">The Great War Diaries - 1915 (5th Seaforths)].
[memoir/cairnie1917.htm">The Great War Diaries - 1917 (King's African Rifles)].
">Canadian Letters From the Front
Transcribed letters from the ">Canadian Great War Project.
">Canadian War Diaries
Transcribed and searchable diaries from the ">Canadian Great War Project.
[memoir/cef.html">CEF: Canadian Troop Strength in Siberia,] 1918-1919.
Harold Chapin.
[memoir/Chapin/ChapinTC.htm">Soldier
and Dramatist ]. 1916
[ http://www.christmastruce.co.uk/">Christmas Truce 1914: Operation Plum Puddings]
A project to document the Christmas Truce.
Includes ">letters, ">songs, and ">other works about this astonishing event.
Georges Clemenceau.
">Discours de Guerre.
Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1968.
- en français -
Georges Clemenceau.
">Grandeurs et misères d'une victoire.
Paris: Plon, 1973.
- en français -
Ella Cordasco.
">Recollections of the Russian Revolution.
(March - October 1917).
Benjamin E. Cruzan.
">A Soldier's Diary.
(December 1917 - June 1919).
Edward E. Cummings.
[memoir/cummings/roomTC.htm"> An Enormous Room].
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922.
[memoir/marines/cunning/flyer.html">Marine Flyer in France: ]
The Diary of Capt. Alfred A. Cunningham.
November 1917 - January
1918
Kenneth Sydney Day.
[memoir/ksday.htm">Diary During My Service with the Australian Imperial Forces - 1914-15-16-17].
Kirkland H. Day.
[memoir/camion/cartoons.htm">Camion
Cartoons].
Boston: Marshall Jones, 1919.
[memoir/declawar.html">Declarations of War.]
Dates of war declarations by country.
[memoir/SSU8/DiarySSU8.html">Diary
of Section Eight].
Privately printed, 1917.
Gerhard Friedrich Dose.
">Das Infanterie Regiment 187 in den Vogesen 1915-1916
German original.
Gerhard Friedrich Dose.
">Infantry Regiment 187 in the Vosges Mountains, 1915-1916
English translation.
Gerhard Friedrich Dose.
">Das Infanterie-Regiment 187 im Rumänienfeldzug 1916/17
German original.
Gerhard Friedrich Dose.
German Infantry Regiment 187 in the Romanian campaign, 1916-1917]
English translation.
"> - Part I -
"> - Part II -
"> - Part III -
"> - Part IV - .
Gerhard Friedrich Dose.
">Das Infanterie Regiment 187 in Lothringen und bei Reims 1917
German original.
Gerhard Friedrich Dose.
German Infantry Regiment 187 in Lorraine and at Reims, 1917]
English translation.
"> - Part I -
"> - Part II - .
Gerhard Friedrich Dose.
[http://users.skynet.be/bk230381/ir187_1.htm">Das Infanterie Regiment 187
in Flandern, bei Arras und Cambrai 1917/18]
German original.
Gerhard Friedrich Dose.
German Infantry Regiment 187 in Flanders, at Arras and Cambrai, 1917-1918]
English translation.
"> - Part I -
"> - Part II -
"> - Part III -
"> - Part IV - .
Gerhard Friedrich Dose.
[http://www.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/1915/PP-Linge.pps">Das Königlich Preußische Infanterie Regiment 187
auf dem Lingekopf, Oktober bis Dezember 1915]
An illustrated tour of German Infantry Regiment 187 at the Linge.
-- requires PowerPoint software --
Stapleton T. Eachus.
">The Great War Diaries.
Sherwood Eddy.
[memoir/Eddy/EddyTC.htm">With
Our Soldiers in France]. New York, 1917.
Anonymous.
An ">Eye-Witness at Louvain.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1914 .
Fred A. Farrell.
[memoir/docs/51st/51st1.htm">The 51st (Highland) Division
- War Sketches].
">I Figli della guerra.
Venice: Istituto Veneto di Arti Grafiche Venezia, 1919
- in italiano -
">Fliegertruppe
Memoirs and recollections of German flyers from 1911 through 1920.
Maréchal Ferdinand Foch.
">Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la guerre de 1914-1918.
Paris: Plon, 1931.
- en français -
">War Prison Barracks Three: Fort Douglas, Utah
German and Austro-Hungarian Civilian Internment Camp
for the Western United States
1917 - 1920.
[memoir/FriendsFrance/ffTC.htm">Friends
of France. The Field Service of the American Ambulance, described
by its members.]
Boston, 1916.
Ruth Gaines.
[memoir/picardyvil/GainesVP.html">A
Village in Picardy.]
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1918.
The work of the Smith College Relief Unit in the Somme.
Ruth Gaines.
[memoir/GainesARC/GainesTC.htm"> Helping France.]
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1919.
The Red Cross in the Devastated Area.
James W. Gerard.
[memoir/Gerard2/KaiserismTC.htm"> Face to Face with Kaiserism]. New York: George H. Doran, 1918.
James W. Gerard. [American Ambassador to Germany]
[memoir/Gerard/4yrsTC.htm">My Four Years in Germany].
New York: George H. Doran, 1917.
Anonymous. Translated by J. Koettgen.
[memoir/Deserter/GermanTC.htm">A German Deserter's War Experience].
New York, 1917.
[memoir/germvers.html">German Verse from the Trenches] - auf Deutsch -
[memoir/docs/statistics/statstc.htm">The War With Germany:
A Statistical Summary]. GPO, 1919
Hugh Gibson.
[memoir/Legation/GibsonTC.htm">A Journal from Our Legation in Belgium].
New York: Doubleday Page, 1917.
Paul B. Gill.
[http://my.inil.com/~jimvgill/wwipages/pbhstry.html">The Letters, Diary, Postcards and Pictures
Of a World War I Soldier].
[memoir/gould.html">Un veteran se rapelle: Gould Interview
]- en français -
Remy de Gourmont.
">Pendant l'orage.
Paris: E. Champion, 1915.
Charlie and Wally Gray. [http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/gray/index.html">
Letters] Site maintained by the government of Ontario, Canada.
Donald Hankey.
[memoir/Student/HankeyTC.html">A
Student in Arms]. New York: Dutton, 1917
Alexander J. Hemphill.
">"Belgium Under the Surface". New York: The Commission for Relief in Belgium, [1914-1918]
Aubrey Herbert.
">Mons, Anzac & Kut. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1919
Col J. Bentley Mott.
[memoir/Herrick/MTHTC.htm"> Myron T. Herrick, Friend of France]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran, 1929. [Herrick was American Ambassador to France at the
beginning of the War].
James H. Hyde.
">Avanti Savoia: impressions du front Italien. Suresnes: Crémieu, 1917
Edwin E. Jones.
"> Memoirs & Diaries: France, Egypt, Mesopotamia. (1915 - 1916).
Charlotte Kellogg.
[memoir/CKellogg/WBelgTC.htm"> Women of Belgium].
New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1917.
Fritz Kreisler.
[memoir/Kreisler/Kreisler.htm">Four Weeks in the Trenches. The War Story of a Violinist].
New York, 1915.
Claude Léger.
[memoir/artic165.html">Le 165e Bataillon d'Infanterie d'Outremer]
- en français -
Thomas Fredrick Littler.
">First World War Diaries, 1914-1919.
Including ">cartoon postcards, ">photographs, and other materials.
George O. Lunn.
">36 days in 1915.
The War Diary of George Oliver Lunn.
L.C. McCollum.
[memoir/Lost/LostBatTC.htm">History
and Rhymes of the Lost Battalion]. 1918.
Patrick MacGill.
[memoir/MacGill/push1.htm">The
Great Push]1916.
Patrick MacGill.
[memoir/macgill.html">Soldier Songs of World War I].
">WWI Diary of Robert Lindsay Mackay.
Covering the years 1915-1918, day-by-day!
">The World War I Diary of A. W. Miller
With entries from February to November of 1918.
The diary of ">Fred Mitchell, an artilleryman.
Entries range from January 1 - March 23, 1916.
(More information on artillery on a ">separate page.)
Percy Mitchell.[memoir/Clearing/archTC.html">
The American Relief Clearing House. Its Work in the Great War.]
Paris: Herbert Clarke, 1922.
Martin Niepage.
"> The horrors of Aleppo . . seen by a German eyewitness.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1916 .
James Oakleaf.
[memoir/Oakleaf/108th.htm">Some Notes on the 108th Infantry.]
1921.
Burton J. Hendrick.
[memoir/Page/PageTC.htm">The
Life and Letters of Walter H. Page].
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923.
[Page was American Ambassador to Great Britain].
Maurice Paléologue. [Last French Ambassador to the Russian Court].
[memoir/FrAmbRus/palTC.htm">An Ambassador's Memoirs].
New York, 1925.
[http://www.scotch.sa.edu.au/WarDiary/RegPart.html">The
Diary of Thomas Reginald Part]: An Australian Soldier Who
Fought at Gallipoli and in France before being killed.
[memoir/athanase.html">Lettres du front d'Athanase Poirier].
- en français -
Frederick A. Pottle.
[memoir/Stretchers/PottleTC.htm"> Stretchers ]
New Haven,1929.
G. Ward Price.
[memoir/Salonica/salonTC.htm">The
Story of the Salonica Army]. New York: Edward J. Clode, 1918.
R.P. Joseph Raymond.
[memoir/Raymond/froc1.htm">Froc
et Epée]. 1916 - en français -
William Hard.
[memoir/Robins/Robins1.htm">Raymond Robins' Own Story].
New York, 1920.
James Rennell Rodd. [British Ambassador to Italy before and
during the Great War]. [memoir/Rodd/RoddTC.htm">Social
and Diplomatic Memories. Third Series. 1902-1919]. London, 1925.
Charles Rooke.
">A Few of My Experiences Whilst "On Active Service".
(1917 - 1918).
[memoir/aef_cong.htm">Testimony before the 102nd US Congress, November 1991,
concerning the AEF experience in Russia ]
at the end of the Great War and the possible abandonment
of American POWs.
Admiral Reinhard Scheer.
[http://richthofen.com/scheer/">
Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War].
1920.
(English translation)
William Schira.
[memoir/Schira/Schira.htm">Personal Diary].
1919.
John E. Schroeder.
[http://www.caulleycorner.com/wwimain.html">World War I
Through the Lens of One Private's Camera].
1917 - 1919.
Alan Seeger.
[memoir/Seeger/Alan1.htm">Letters and Diary]
1917.
Alan Seeeger.
[memoir/Seeger/poemsTC.htm">Poems].
1916.
Henry Sheehan.
[memoir/Sheahan/Sheahan1.htm">A
Volunteer Poilu.] Boston, 1916.
Clayton M. Sherwood.
[http://www.geocities.com/nevillestclair/WarDiaryIntro.htm">"Writing by Moonlight."
An American’s Diary of Foreign Service,
August 1917 to February 1919].
James T. Shotwell.
[memoir/shotwell.htm">At the Paris Peace Conference.
(1937 - Appendices IV-VII - Extracts)]
[memoir/docs/scru.htm">The Smith College/Sophia Smith Archives
of World War I]
">La dernière lettre écrite par des soldats tombés au champ d'honneur 1914-1918.
Paris: Union des pères et des mères dont les fils sont morts pour la Patrie:
la ligue des chefs de section et des soldats combattants:
E. Flammarion, 1922.
- en français -
[memoir/somme.html">Events, Commemorations and Accounts of the Somme]
The 80th Anniversary, 1 July 1916 - 1 July 1996.
Cecil Sommers.
[memoir/Crusaders/Sommers.htm">Temporary Crusaders.] London, 1919.
Clair Stanley.
[memoir/warmem.htm">In Memoriam, The Great War].
(An artistic collage, 1997).
William Yorke Stevenson.
[memoir/Stevenson/flivverTC.html"> At The Front In A Flivver]. 1917.
William Yorke Stevenson.
[memoir/Stevenson/poiluTC.html">From "Poilu to "Yank"].
1918.
Friedrich Graf Szápáry.
[memoir/szap2.htm">Das Verhältnis Österreich-Ungarns zu Rußland].
(The Attitude of Austria-Hungary Towards Russia)
- auf Deutsch -
Friedrich Graf Szápáry
[memoir/szap1.htm">Aus den Krisenjahren](The Years of Crisis, 1908-1913: Extract)- auf Deutsch -
Oberst von Thaer
">Aus den Tagebuchnotizen
(Diary Notes from 1 October 1918)
- auf Deutsch -
">English translation also available.
A. C. M. Thomson.
">Field Diaries of the First World War
(June 1915 - May 1917).
Thomas Tiplady.
[memoir/cross/crossTC.htm">The Cross at the Front:]
1917
Laura de Gozdawa Turczynowicz.
[memoir/Poland/Poland1.htm">When the Prussians Came to Poland.
The Experiences of an American Woman
During the German Invasion.]
New York, 1916.
">The Sinking of the Tuscania, February 5, 1918
John J. Skinner.
[http://www.ga98tew.eurobell.co.uk/vail/">Diary of Sapper G. E. Vail,
Royal Engineers, 15th Infantry Brigade, 5th Division, B.E.F.,France.]
(1914 - 1918).
Demetra Vaka.
[memoir/Vaka/VakaTC.htm">In
the Heart of German Intrigue]. 1918.
[memoir/warnurse/wnTC.html">A War Nurse's Diary. Sketches from a Belgian Field Hospital. ]
New York: MacMillan, 1918.
Herbert Ward.
[memoir/MrPoilu/Ward1.htm">Mr.
Poilu. Notes and Sketches with the Fighting French]. London, 1916.
C.H. Weston.
[memoir/NZ/kiwiTC.htm">Three
Years with the New Zealanders]. n.d.
William B. Whitmore.
">England & The Somme.
(1915 - 1916).
Albert Rhys Williams.
[memoir/RusRev/RRTC.htm"> Through the Russian Revolution]. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1921.
John Caspar Wister.
">Experiencing War. Library of Congress: Veterans History Project
[memoir/Wright/Jack1.htm">A
Poet of the Air. Letters of Jack Morris Wright, First Lieutenant
of the American Aviation in France, April 1917-January 1918].
Boston: Houghton & Mifflin, 1918.
[memoir/zeppelin.html">The Great Zeppelin Raid.
January 31, 1916]
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