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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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