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• Kitchener in His Own Words (London: T. F. Unwin, c1917), by Lord Kitchener, ed. by James Bacon Rye and Horace George Groser (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memories of Forty-Eight Years' Service (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1925), by Horace Smith-Dorrien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitchener in His Own Words (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1917), by Lord Kitchener, ed. by James Bacon Rye and Horace George Groser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lord Roberts, K.G., V.C. (London et al.: Ward, Lock and Co., ca. 1915), by Owen Wheeler
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• Life of General Sir Hope Grant; with selections from his correspondence. (W. Blackwood, 1894), by James Hope Grant and Henry Knollys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vestigia, reminiscences of peace and war (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919), by Charles à Court Repington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rough notes of seven campaigns in Portugal, Spain, France, and America, during the years 1809-10-11-12-13-14-15. (G. & T. Coward, 1914), by John Spencer Cooper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selections from the dispatches and general orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington. (J. Murray, 1851), by Arthur Wellesley Wellington and John Gurwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters and journals of Field-Marshal Sir William Maynard Gomm... from 1799 to Waterloo, 1815. (J. Murray, 1881), by William Maynard Gomm and Francis Culling Carr-Gomm (page images at HathiTrust)
• From midshipman to field marshal (Methuen, 1906), by Evelyn Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soldiers and others I have known (H. Jenkins limited, 1925), by John Adye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recollections of a peninsular veteran (Arnold, 1913), by Joseph Jocelyn Anderson and Acland Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of Lord Kitchener. (Macmillan, 1971), by George Arthur (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The memoirs of the Gemini Generals; personal anecdotes, sporting adventures, and sketches of distinguished officers (A. D. Innes and Co., 1896), by Osborn Wilkinson and Johnson Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years of my life (Macmillan and co., 1876), by George Thomas Albemarle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Field-Marshal Lord Napier of Magdala, G.C.B., G.C.S.I. (E. Arnold & co., 1927), by Henry Dundas Napier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr ... recollections and correspondence, with a short account of his two sons, Lieutenants A. H. H. Parr and G. R. Parr. (T. F. Unwin, ltd., 1917), by Henry Hallam Parr and Charles Fortescue Brickdale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of my military life from 1795 to 1818 (Warren & son, 1878), by Charles Steevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Incidents and anecdotes in the life of Lieut.-General Sprot ... (G. Wilson, printer], 1906), by J. Sprot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Military memoirs. (J. Murray, 1908), by Joseph Thackwell and H. C. Wylly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My army life (E. Arnold & Co., 1926), by Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane Dundonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stray recollections (E. Arnold & Co., 1923), by C. E. Callwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of Colour-Sergeant George Calladine, 19th Foot, 1793-1837, ed. by Major M. L. Ferrar. (E. Fisher & co., ltd., 1922), by George Calladine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of Lord Roberts, K.G., V.C. (Cassell and company, ltd., 1915), by George Forrest (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of General Sir George Richards Greaves ... (J. Murray, 1924), by George Richards Greaves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forty years a soldier (H. Jenkins limited, 1923), by G. J. Younghusband (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighty years; soldiering, politics, games (Hodder and Stoughton, 1927), by Neville Gerald Lyttelton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Changes & chances of a soldier's life (P. Allan & co., 1925), by E. S. May (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde. (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1881), by Lawrence Shadwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Panmure papers; being a selection from the correspondence of Fox Maule, second baron Panmure, afterwards eleventh earl of Dalhousie (Hodder and Stoughton, 1908), by George Brisbane Douglas, Fox Maule Ramsay $.̲ Dalhousie, and George Dalhousie Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the British expedition to Egypt. Carefully abridged from the history of that campaign; with a preliminary view of the proceedings of the French previous to the arrival of the British forces ... (Printed by W. Corbet, 1803), by Robert Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the British expedition to Egypt, to which is subjoined, a sketch of the present state of that country and its means of defence. (T. Egerton, 1803), by Robert Wilson and Harcourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the campaigns of the Twenty-eighth Regiment, since their return from Egypt in 1802. (Whittaker & co., 1835), by Charles Cadell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dyott's diary, 1781-1845; a selection from the journal of William Dyott, sometime general in the British army and aide-de-camp to His Majesty King George III. (A. Constable, 1907), by William Dyott and Reginald W. Jeffery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mémoires relatifs à l'expédition anglaise, partie du Bengale en 1800 pour aller combattre en Égypte l'armée d'orient (l'Imprimerie royale, 1826), by Louis Pantaléon Jude Amédée Noé and Imprimerie royale (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Lord Wolseley (W. Heinemann Ltd., 1924), by Frederick Maurice and George Arthur (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• About others and myself, 1745 to 1920 (J. Murray, 1920), by Archibald Edward Harbord Anson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of Lord Kitchener (The Macmillan Company, 1920), by George Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener, his life and work for the empire (Gresham Pub. Co., 1917), by Edwin Sharpe Grew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vestigia (Constable and Company Ltd., 1919), by Charles à Court Repington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of Lord Roberts, K.G., V.C. (F.A. Stokes Co., 1915), by George Forrest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of forty-eight years' service (J. Murray, 1925), by Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of a soldier's life (A. Constable & Co., Ltd., 1903), by Garnet Wolseley Wolseley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and adventure in peace and war (E. Arnold and Co., 1924), by Elliott Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Then and now; or, A comparison between the war with Napoleon and the present war; being the Creighton lecture for 1917, delivered at King's college, London, on October 17th (Macmillan and Co., 1918), by C. H. Firth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• England's battles by sea and land : from the commencement of the great French revolution to the present time, with a retrospective view of the celebrated epochs of British military history, including our Indian campaigns and the present expedition against Russian aggression in the East (London printing and Pub. Co., in the 19th century), by William Freke Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The victories of Wellington and the British armies. (G. Bell & sons, 1871), by W. H. Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seymour Vandeleur, Lieutenant-Colonel, Scots Guards & Irish Guards (W. Heinemann, 1906), by F. I. Maxse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of a soldier's life (Scribner's, 1903), by Garnet Wolseley Wolseley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The county lieutenancies and the army, 1803-1814 (Macmillan and Co., limited, 1909), by John Fortescue (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recollections of a life in the British army during the latter half of the 19th century (Smith, Elder & co., 1908), by Richard Sir Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Campaigns of a war correspondent (E. Arnold, 1912), by Melton Prior and S. L. Bensusan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the British naval and military operations in Egypt, 1882. (Govt. Print. Off., 1885), by Caspar F. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The victories of Wellington and the British armies (G. Bell & sons, 1880), by W. H. Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erinnerungen deutscher Officiere in britischen Diensten aus den Kriegsjahren 1805 bis 1816 : nach Aufzeichnungen und mündlichen Erzählungen zusammengetragen und mit einzelnen geschichtlichen Erläuterungen begleitet (Rümpler, 1864), by H. Dehnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some recollection in the life of Lieut.-Col. P.P. Nevill, late major 63rd regiment. (Cox & Wyman, 1864), by P. P. Nevill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days of a soldier's life (Chapman and Hall, 1894), by Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the British expedition to Egypt; to which is subjoined, a sketch of the present state of that country and its means of defence. Illustrated with maps, and a portrait of Sir Ralph Abercromby. (printed by C. Roworth and sold by T. Egerton, 1803), by Robert Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Lord Kitchener (Macmillan & Co., limited, 1920), by George Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memoir of the services of Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Ford Whittingham, K.C.B., K.C.H., G.C.F., colonel of the 71st Highland light infantry. Derived chiefly from his own letters and from those of distinguished contemporaries. (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868), by Samuel Ford Whittingham and Ferdinand Whittingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military memoirs of four brothers, (natives of Staffordshire) engaged in the service of their country, as well in the New World and Africa, as on the continent of Europe. (W. Sams, 1829), by Thomas Fernyhough, Robert Fernyhough, and John Fernyhough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831-1851. (J. Murray, 1889), by Philip Henry Stanhope and Arthur Wellesley Wellington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Field-Marshal Sir Frederick Paul Haines (Constable & co. ltd., 1911), by Robert S. Rait (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My life as a soldier (J. & A. McMillan, 1898), by Thomas McKenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections and correspondence, with a short account of his two sons, Lieutenants A.H.H. Parr and G.R. Parr. (T. Fisher Unwin, 1917), by Henry Hallam Parr and Charles Fortescue Brickdale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of Lord Roberts, K.G., V. C. (Cassell, 1914), by George Forrest (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The victories of Wellington and the British armies. (H.G. Bohn, 1852), by W. H. Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Victoria Cross : an official chronicle of the deeds of personal valour achieved in the presence of the enemy during the Crimean and Baltic Campaigns and the Indian, Persian, Chinese, New Zealand and African wars : from the institution of the Order in 1856 to 1880 (W.H. Allen, 1880), by Robert W. O'Byrne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war in Egypt. (G. Routledge, 1883), by England) Times (London and Richard Simkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical records of the British Army : comprising the history of every regiment in Her Majesty's service (Adjutant Generals Office, 1837), by Richard Cannon and Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Royal naval and military calendar : and national record for 1821 (Printed for the author, 1821), by George Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve months in the British legion (J. Macrone, 1836), by Charles William Thompson and Officer of the ninth regiment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of General Sir Thomas Makedougall Brisbane ... (Printed by T. Constable, 1860), by Thomas Makedougall-Brisbane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life, military and civil, of the Duke of Wellington, digested from the materials of W.H. Maxwell, and in part re-written by an old soldier with some account of his public funeral. (H.G. Bohn, 1852), by W. H. Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de l'expédition de l'armée britannique en Égypte : à laquelle on a ajouté un précis de l'état actuel de cette contrée et ses moyens de défense (T. Egerton, 1803), by Robert Thomas Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British Battalion at Oporto; with adventures, anecdotes, and exploits in Holland, at Waterloo, and in the expedition to Portugal (E. Wilson, 1834), by Thomas Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K. G. during his various campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France. From 1799 to 1818. (J. Murray, 1834), by Arthur Wellesley Wellington and John Gurwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• How the cash goes in campaigning (Baillière, Tindall, and Cox, 1884), by Charles Cameron (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Field-Marshal Sir George White, V.C. ... (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1915), by Henry Mortimer Durand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days of a soldier's life : being letters (Chapman and Hall, 1894), by C. P. Beauchamp Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The despatches of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington during his campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France, and relating to America, from 1799 to 1815 (E. P. Dutton & co.; [etc., etc.], 1902), by Arthur Wellesley Wellington and Walter Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Panmure papers; being a selection from the correspondence of Fox Maule, second Baron Panmure, afterward eleventh Earl of Dalhousie. (Hodder and Stoughton, 1908), by George Brisbane Douglas, George Dalhousie Ramsay, and Fox Maule Ramsay Dalhousie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early military life of General Sir George T. Napier (J. Murray, 1886), by George Thomas Napier, William Craig Emilius Napier, and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of Captain Hedley Vicars,ninety-seventh regiment. (J.Nisbet and Co., 1867), by Catherine Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• British war history during the present century (Simpkin, Marshall, 1869), by William Stokes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Centurions of a century : among which are many who have soldiered in the Twelfth, or the Suffolk Regiment of Foot ... (The Editor, 1915), by Charles Henry Gardiner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The military memoirs of Lieut.-General Sir Joseph Thackwell (John Murray, 1908), by Joseph Thackwell and H. C. Wylly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the British naval and military operations in Egypt, 1882 (G.P.O., 1883), by Caspar F. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Lord Roberts, K. G., V. C. (F.A.Stokes co., 1914), by George Forrest (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wellington's army 1809-1814 (Longmans, Green, and co., 1913), by Charles Oman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington (Hay & Thatcher, 1853), by J. H. Stocqueler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of a soldier's life (Book Supply Co., 1904), by Garnet J. Wolseley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stirring incidents in the life of a British soldier an autobiography (Hunter, Rose, 1879), by Thomas Faughnan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of the Union Jack comprising a chronological list of its important victories, apportioned to the three stages of our flag's development, from Sluys to Tel-el-Kebir, with notes on the principal battles (Copp, Clark, 1897), by William Henry Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of the movements of the British Legion (E. Wilson, 1836), by John Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stirring incidents in the life of a British soldier an autobiographg [sic] (T. Faughnan, 1891), by Thomas Faughnan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stirring incidents in the life of a British soldier an autobiography (T. Faughnan, 1889), by Thomas Faughnan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Wellington the restoration of the martial power of Great Britain (Musson, 1907), by Herbert Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sir William Butler an autobiography (Bell and Cockburn, 1919), by W. F. Butler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stirring incidents in the life of a British soldier an autobiography (Hunter, Rose, 1884), by Thomas Faughnan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benin : the city of blood (E. Arnold, 1897), by Reginald Bacon and William Heysham Overend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years of my life (H. Holt and company, 1876), by George Thomas Albemarle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stirring incidents in the life of a British soldier. An autobiography. (Hunter, Rose and Co., 1882), by Thomas Faughnan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Siege of Sebastopol. (Printed by G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1859), by Great Britain War Office, Richard James Dacres, William Edward Moyses Reilly, H. D. Sir Jones, and Howard Crawfurd Elphinstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rough notes by an old soldier : during fifty years' service (Day, 1867), by George Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener, his life and work for the empire (Gresham Pub. Co., 1916), by Edwin Sharpe Grew (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rough notes by an old soldier, during fifty years' service (Day, 1867), by George Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831-1851 (Longmans, Green, 1888), by Philip Henry Stanhope and Arthur Wellesley Wellington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitchener in his own words (T. F. Unwin ltd., 1917), by Lord Kitchener, Horace G. Groser, and James Bacon Rye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Frank Maxwell, brig.-general, V.C., C.S.I., D.S.O. : a memoir and some letters (J. Murray, 1921), by Francis Aylmer Maxwell and Charlotte Alice Hamilton Osborne Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the British expedition to Egypt; to which is subjoined, a sketch of the present state of that country and its means of defence. (C. Roworth, 1802), by Robert Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A prisoner of France; the memoirs, diary, and correspondence of Charles Boothby, Captain Royal Engineers, during his last campaign. (Adam, 1898), by Charles Boothby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great refusal. (W.H. Allen & Co., Ltd., 1890), by Pseud Vindex, Granville George Leveson-Gower Granville, and W.E. Gladstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brave British soldiers and the Victoria Cross: a general account of the regiments and men of the British Army, and stories of the brave deeds which won the prize "for valour", ed. by Samuel Orchart Beeton (Gutenberg ebook)
• From Midshipman to Field Marshal, by Evelyn Wood (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies, by W. H. Maxwell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran, by Joseph Jocelyn Anderson, ed. by Acland Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier: An Autobiography, by Thomas Faughnan (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of Wellington, by Harold Wheeler (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of the Guides, by G. J. Younghusband (Gutenberg ebook)

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