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• Annals of an Active Life (2 volumes; New York: G. H. Doran Co., 1925), by Nevil Macready (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of Forty-Eight Years' Service (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1925), by Horace Smith-Dorrien (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Warfare in England (London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, c1912), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Early Wars of Wessex: Being Studies From England's School of Arms in the West (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913), by Albany F. Major, ed. by Charles W. Whistler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• From Cromwell to Wellington: Twelve Soldiers (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1899), ed. by Spenser Wilkinson, contrib. by Frederick Sleigh Lord Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• From Cromwell to Wellington: Twelve Soldiers (popular edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1907), ed. by Spenser Wilkinson, contrib. by Frederick Sleigh Lord Roberts (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• Memoirs of the 65th Regiment, 1st Battn. the York and Lancaster Regt., 1756 to 1913 (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1914), ed. by Ernest Chamier Broughton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Story of Our Army (London: George Newnes, 1902), by Owen Wheeler (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Discourse Concerning Militia's and Standing Armies, With Relation to the Past and Present Governments of Europe, and of England in Particular (London, 1697), by Andrew Fletcher (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Discourse of Foreign War; With an Account of All the Taxations Upon This Kingdom, From the Conquest to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; Also a List of the Confederates from Henry I to the End of the Reign of the Said Queen, Shewing Which Have Prov'd the Most Beneficial to England (London: Printed for H. Mortlock, 1690), by Robert Cotton (multiple formats at Google)
• A Discourse of Government With Relation to Militia's (Edinburgh, 1698), by Andrew Fletcher
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• A Discourse of Government With Relation to Militias (London: Reprinted for M. Cooper, 1755), by Andrew Fletcher (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Excalibur Alternative (included on a Baen CD image), by David Weber
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 151 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 152 MB

• A True Coppie of a Discourse Written by a Gentleman, Employed in the Late Voyage of Spaine and Portingale (1589), by Anthony Wingfield (page images at LOC)

• Memoirs of a Cavalier: or, A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England, From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648 (1922), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by Elizabeth O'Neill (Gutenberg text)

• The Diary of Sir John Moore (2 volumes; London: E. Arnold, 1904), by John Moore, ed. by John Frederick Maurice (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo (London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1797), by Bryan Edwards (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Pickle the Spy: or, The Incognito of Prince Charles, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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 (London: T. F. Unwin, c1917), by Lord Kitchener, ed. by James Bacon Rye and Horace George Groser (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)

• Our Soldiers, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Memoirs of Majr. Alexander Ramkins, A Highland Officer, Now in Prison at Avignon (London: Printed for R. King and W. Boreham, 1719), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (partial serial archives)

• The Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton (sometimes attributed to Defoe; London: Printed for E. Symon, 1728), contrib. by George Carleton and Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53 (London: Royal Historical Society, Institute for Historical Research, University of London Press, 2019), by Edward Owens (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763, Republished, With Preface and Notes (apparently a different work from Madden's similarly-conceived Memoirs of the Twentieth Century; London: Rivingtons, 1899), ed. by Charles Oman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Managing Industrial Decline: The British Coal Industry Between the Wars (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by Michael Dintenfass (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• The Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988), ed. by Barry Cooper, Allan Kornberg, and William Mishler, contrib. by Joel Smith, Neil Nevitte, Marilyn B. Hoskin, Roy E. Fitzgerald, Norman C. Thomas, William James Booth, F. L. Morton, A. Kenneth Pye, James E. Alt, Ivor Crewe, Donald Searing, Mark N. Franklin, Roger Gibbins, Harold D. Clarke, Henry W. Chappell, William R. Keech, Michael Allen Gillespie, Michael Lienesch, and Morris P. Fiorina (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lytton Strachey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943), by Max Beerbohm (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Afterlife of Empire (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Jordanna Bailkin (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• The Conscription Controversy in Great Britain, 1900-18 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by R. J. Q. Adams and Philip P. Poirier (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Trouble and Strife Reader (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2009), ed. by Deborah Cameron and Joan Scanlon (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))

• Les Troupes de Couleur à la Guerre (in French; Paris: Dubois, 1918), by Albert Geouffre de Lapradelle (page images here at Penn)

• A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011), by Ann Oakley (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007), by Kurt Koenigsberger (PDF at Ohio State)

• Healthcare in Ireland and Britain From 1850: Voluntary, Regional and Comparative Perspectives (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2014), ed. by Donnacha Seán Lucey and Virginia Crossman (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• For Their Own Good: The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lucinda McCray Beier (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Men Behind Hitler: A German Warning to the World, by Bernhard Schreiber, trans. by H. R. Martindale (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Dilemmas of Decline: British Intellectuals and World Politics, 1945-1975 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Ian Hall (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• Modernist Heresies: British literary History, 1883-1924 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Damon Franke (PDF at Ohio State)

• Romancing the Revolution: The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Ian Bullock (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Romancing the Revolution: The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Ian Bullock (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Gina Masucci MacKenzie (PDF at Ohio State)

• Uganda's Katikiro in England: Being the Offical Account of His Visit to the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1904), by Ham Mukasa, trans. by Ernest Millar, contrib. by Harry Johnston (multiple formats at archive.org)

• British Women Surgeons and Their Patients, 1860-1918 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2017), by Claire Brock (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• British Labor and the War: Reconstructors for a New World (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Paul Underwood Kellogg and Arthur Gleason (multiple formats at archive.org)

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