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• Private Peat (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1917), by Harold R. Peat (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Private Peat (with scenes from a photoplay based on the book; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1917), by Harold R. Peat (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1918), by Mervin C. Simmons and Nellie L. McClung
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Three Years a Prisoner in Germany (Vancouver, BC: Cowan and Brookhouse, 1919), by John C. Thorn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great War As I Saw It (Toronto: F. D. Goodchild Co., c1922), by Frederick George Scott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Rattle of Pebbles: The First World War Diaries of Two Canadian Airmen (c1987), by Don Brophy and Harold Price, ed. by Brereton Greenhous (PDF in Canada)
• Letters from the front. Being a record of the part played by officers of the Bank in the great war, 1914-1919. (Southam Press Ltd., 1920), by Canadian Bank of Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Shrieks and crashes." Being memories of Canada's corps, 1917 (Hunter Rose Co., ltd., 1929), by Wilfred Brenton Kerr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Khaki courage; letters in war-time (John Lane;, 1917), by Coningsby Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hunting the Hun (D. Appleton and company, 1918), by James Belton and Ernest Gregory Odell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private Peat (Bobbs-Merrill, 1917), by Harold Reginald Peat (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Crumps"; the plain story of a Canadian who went (Houghton Mifflin company, 1917), by Louis Keene (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scouting thrills (The Macmillan company, 1919), by George Burdon McKean (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Holding the line," (A. C. McClurg, 1918), by Harold Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maple leaves in Flanders fields (Smith, Elder & co., 1916), by Herbert Rae (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fighting the Hun from saddle and trench (Aiken, 1918), by William Ross Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the fringe of the great fight (Doran, 1917), by George Gallie Nasmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first Canadians in France (George H. Doran company, 1917), by F. McKelvey Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out of the jaws of Hunland; the stories of Corporal Fred McMullen, sniper, Private Jack Evans, bomber, Canadian soldiers, three times captured and finally escaped from German prison camps. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1918), by Fred McMullen and Jack Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the fringe of the great fight (McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1917), by George Gallie Nasmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years a prisoner in Germany (Cowan & Brookhouse, 1919), by J. C. Thorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years a prisoner in Germany; the story of Major J.C. Thorn, a First Canadian contingent officer who was captured by the Germans at Ypres on April 24th, 1915; relating his many attempts to escape. ([Santa Monica, Calif., 1918), by John C. Thorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• More letters from Billy (George H. Doran company, 1917), by Billy Gray and Author of A sunny subaltern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three times and out (Houghton Mifflin company, 1918), by Mervin C. Simmons and Nellie L. McClung (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Canadian subaltern; Billy's letters to his mother. (Constable and Co., 1917), by Billy Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Into the jaws of death (Dodd, Mead and company, 1919), by Jack O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first Canadians in France; the chronicle of a military hospital in the war zone (George H. Doran company, 1917), by F. McKelvey Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hunting the Hun (D. Appleton and company, 1918), by James Belton and Ernest Gregory Odell (page images at HathiTrust)
• More letters from Billy (George H. Doran company, 1917), by Billy Gray and Author of A sunny subaltern (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Montreal to Vimy Ridge and beyond (George H. Doran company, 1917), by Clifford Almon Wells and O. C. S. Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fighting the Hun from saddle and trench (Aiken book company, 1918), by William Ross Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maple leaves in Flanders fields (Dutton, 1916), by Herbert Rae (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Holding the line" (A.C. McClurg, 1918), by Harold Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pen pictures from the trenches. (W. Briggs, 1918), by Stanley Arthur Rutledge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada's day of glory (William Briggs, 1918), by Fred A. McKenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Impressions of war. (The Telegraph printing co., 1919), by Frank Carrel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unknown soldiers by one of them. (Vantage Press, 1959) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Only this : a war retrospect (Graphic Publishers, 1927), by James H. Pedley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winged warfare : Hunting the Huns in the air, by William Avery Bishop (Gutenberg ebook)
• "Holding the line", by Harold Baldwin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Canada in war-paint, by Ralph W. Bell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Red Vineyard, by B. J. Murdoch (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tillicums of the Trail: Being Klondike Yarns Told to Canadian Soldiers Overseas by a Sourdough Padre, by George Charles Fraser Pringle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hunting the Hun, by James Belton and E. G. Odell (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Surgeon in Arms, by R. J. Manion (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Spider Web: The Romance of a Flying-Boat War Flight, by T. D. Hallam (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Three Years in a German Prison, by Henri Béland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Over the Canadian Battlefields: Notes of a Little Journey in France, in March, 1919, by John Wesley Dafoe (Gutenberg ebook)
• The First Canadians in France: The Chronicle of a Military Hospital in the War Zone, by F. McKelvey Bell, illust. by Christopher Fulleylove (Gutenberg ebook)
• Trenching at Gallipoli: The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition, by John Gallishaw (Gutenberg ebook)
• "Crumps", The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went, by Louis Keene (Gutenberg ebook)
• Through St. Dunstan's to Light, by James H. Rawlinson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Over the top with the 25th: Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette, by R. Lewis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Escape of a Princess Pat: Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland, by George Pearson and Edward Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
• Into the Jaws of Death, by Jack O'Brien (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mille et un jours en prison à Berlin (in French), by Henri Béland (Gutenberg ebook)

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