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• The Deserter, by Charles King (Gutenberg text)
• The deserter (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917), by Richard Harding Davis, John T. McCutcheon, Scribner Press, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The deserters a narrative founded on facts of recent occurrence (s.n.], 1847), by J. H. Wilton (page images at HathiTrust)

• A proclamation : to all soldiers in this department absent from their commands without leave (s.n., 1864), by Mississippi Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. of Alabama, Thomas M. Jack, and Leonidas Polk (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bill to be entitled, An act to provide for the arrest of soldiers absent from their commands without leave, and providing compensation to their captors. (s.n., 1863), by Confederate States of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• A proclamation (s.n., 1863), by Georgia. Governor (1857-1865 : Brown) and Joseph E. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the men of Hagood's Brigade in South Carolina. ([Blackstock, S.C.?] : [publisher not identified], [1865], 1865), by Johnson Hagood, T. B. Roy, William Joseph Hardee, and Robert E. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Funeral discourse (A.W. Ingold & Co., Book and Job Printers, 1864), by John Paris and A.W. Ingold & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• A coppy of a letter writ from Serjeant Major Kirle, to a friend in Windsor.: ([London : s.n., 1643]), by Robert Kirle (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Act anent those who are or shall be found fugitives and run-awayes from their companies and colours (Printed at Edinburgh : By Evan Tyler, printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie, anno Dom. 1644), by Scotland. Convention of Estates (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A German Deserter's War Experience (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1917), trans. by Julius Koettgen (HTML at BYU)
• A German deserter's war experience (Grant Richards, 1917), by Julius Koettgen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• James R. We are graciously pleased to declare to all whom it may concern, that we will cause forty shillings sterl. to be paid to every souldier, whether Catholick or Protestant, English or stranger, now serving under the command of Mareshal Schomberge, who will come and inlist himself in our army. ... ([Dublin : s.n., 1689]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Little deserter (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1880) (page images at Florida)

• Jun qi ze li (Fu chi shu yuan chu ban you xian gong si, 1808) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proclamation indemnifying deserters, and declaring what passes will be sufficient. (Edinburgh : Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to his most excellent Majesty, Anno Dom. 1695), by Scotland. Privy Council and Scotland. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William II) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamation indemnifying deserters, who shall return betwixt and the first day of January next to come. (Edinburgh : Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to his most excellent Majesty, Anno Dom. 1696), by Scotland. Privy Council and Scotland. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William II) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A proclamation, indemnifying deserters, who shall return to their Majesties service. (Edinburgh : Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to their most excellent Majesties, 1693), by Scotland. Privy Council and Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A proclamation, indemnifying such as have been in arms before the first of June last. (Edinburgh : Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to their most excellent Majesties, Anno Dom. 1691), by Scotland. Privy Council and Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A proclamation, against deserters, and resetting of them. (Edinburgh : Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to their most excellent Majesties, Anno Dom. 1694), by Scotland. Privy Council and Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A proclamation, anent recruits, and regulating the seising of deserters. (Edinburgh : Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to their most excellent Majesties, 1694), by Scotland. Privy Council and Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A proclamation, anent runawayes, and deserters from the Scots regiments lately come from Holland (Edinburgh : Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to his most sacred Majesty, Anno Dom. 1685), by Scotland. Privy Council and Scotland. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James VII) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A proclamation, anent souldiers deserting, or marrying without certificats. (Edinburgh : Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to their most excellent Majesties, 1692), by Scotland. Privy Council and Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Proclamations. 1696-02-13 (Edinburgh : printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, printer to the Kings most excellent Majest[ies], 1696), by Scotland. Privy Council and King of England William III (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An act anent those who are or shall be fugitives or runawayes from their companies and colours (Printed at Edinburgh : By Evan Tyler, Printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie, 1644), by Scotland. Parliament. Committee of Estates and Archibald Primrose (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Laws, etc. (Printed at Edinburgh, : by Iames Bryson,, 1640.), by Scotland. Parliament. Committee of Estates (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• To the men of Hagood's Brigade in South Carolina. ([Blackstock, S.C.?] : [publisher not identified], [1865], 1865), by Johnson Hagood, T. B. Roy, William Joseph Hardee, and Robert E. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)

• What we know about AWOL and desertion : a review of the professional literature for policy makers and commanders (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2002), by Peter F. Ramsberger, D. Bruce Bell, and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military deserters. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, second session ... May 21 and 22, 1968. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1968), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Treatment of Deserters from Military Service (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Military deserters : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, second session ... May 21 and 22, 1968. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1968), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Treatment of Deserters from Military Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Navy Deserter Apprehension Program. (Naval Military Personnel Command, 1987), by United States. Naval Military Personnel Command (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proclamation touching mariners (Imprinted at London : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, M.DC.XXVI [1626]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and Charles 1600-1649 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the King a proclamation commanding all mariners and others to His Maiesties ships, for which they are prest. (Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie: And by the Assignes of Iohn Bill, 1636), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and King Charles I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Eye of the Storm (included on a Baen CD image; c2009), by John Ringo
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• Honor of the Clan (included on the Eye of the Storm Baen CD image; c2009), by John Ringo and Julie Cochrane
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• Garrison Gossip (fourth edition; London: F. V. White and Co., 1888), by John Strange Winter (HTML at Emory)
• 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)
• Soldier Stories (New York and London: Macmillan, 1896), by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Tragedy of the Pyramids: A Romance of Army Life in Egypt (6th edition; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1909), by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, illust. by Benton Fletcher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Recollections of The Late War with Canada, by One of the Survivors (Concord, NH: Republican Press Assoc., 1889), by Frank W. Rollins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three Soldiers (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1921), by John Dos Passos (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Soldiers, by John Dos Passos (Gutenberg text)
• The American Spy, or, Freedom's Early Sacrifice, by J. R. Simms (HTML at threerivershms.com)
• The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale, contrib. by Henry Seidel Canby (HTML with commentary at Bartleby)
• Charlotte Temple, by Mrs. Rowson (Gutenberg text)
• Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (2 volumes in 1; Boston: C. Ewer, 1824), by Mrs. Rowson (multiple formats at Google)
• Foreign Legions (included on a Baen CD image), contrib. by David Drake, David Weber, Mark L. Van Name, Eric Flint, and S. M. Stirling
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• The Four Feathers, by A. E. W. Mason (Gutenberg text)
• The Man Without a Country, and Other Tales (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891), by Edward Everett Hale (Gutenberg text)
• 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 Return of the Soldier (New York: The Century Co., 1918), by Rebecca West (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Soldier of Virginia: A Tale of Colonel Washington and Braddock's Defeat, by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (New York: Lovell, Coryell and Co., c1891), by Ambrose Bierce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The militants : stories of some parsons, soldiers and other fighters in the world : illustrated (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907), by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Margaret Armstrong, Arthur Ignatius Keller, B. West Clinedinst, Trow Directory, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three soldiers. (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949), by John Dos Passos (page images at HathiTrust)
• A garrison tangle. (F.T. Neely, 1896), by Charles King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soldier Bill (Fortuny's, 1940), by Sigurd Jay Simonsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soldiers three (H. M. Caldwell, 1899), by Rudyard Kipling and Chase Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• One of ours (A. A. Knopf, 1922), by Willa Cather and Radcliffe College. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The deluge : an historical novel of Poland, Sweden and Russia (Little, Brown and Co., 1919), by Henryk Sienkiewicz and Jeremiah Curtin (page images at HathiTrust)
• 3 soldiers (George H. Doran Company, 1921), by John Dos Passos, Asprey & Co, and George H. Doran Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clan-Albin: a national tale ... (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown; [etc.], 1815), by C. I. Johnstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first book edition of The man without a country. (F. Watts, 1960), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The four feathers (The Macmillan company, 1902), by A. E. W. Mason, Rome K. Richardson, and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El hombre sin patria (D. Appleton and Co., 1918), by Edward Everett Hale and Clara Gillies de Bischoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The man without a country (H. Stamis, 1908), by Edward Everett Hale and Nicholas a Fletorides (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charlotte Temple. (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1864), by Mrs. Rowson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lamentable history of the beautiful and accomplished Charlotte Temple, with an account of her elopment with Lieutenant Montroville ... (Barclay & co., 1865), by Mrs. Rowson, John Barnitz Bacon, and J. Barnitz Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man without a country, and other tales. (Roberts Bros., 1889), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• As a soldier would : an army novel (Broadway Publishing Co., 1911), by Abner Pickering, Gail Converse, Broadway Pub. Co, and Broadway Publishing Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The trumpet-major, John Loveday, a soldier in the war with Buonaparte and Robert his brother, first mate in the merchant service; a tale (Harper & Brothers, 1895), by Thomas Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man without a country, and other stories (Macmillan, 1910), by Edward Everett Hale and S. Marion Tucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man without a country : and other tales (Roberts Bros., 1892), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man without a country (Ginn, 1912), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• California trooper (Beadle and Adams, 1883), by Frederick H. Dewey and Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the Southland (The Neale Publishing Company, 1906), by Sue Pinckney and Neale Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boys with Old Hickory (Lee and Shepard, 1898), by Everett T. Tomlinson, A. B. Shute, Berwick & Smith, J.S. Cushing & Co, Norwood Press, and Lee and Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Furlough bride (Gramercy Publishing Co., 1942), by Roberta Courtland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Na ostro i na slepo : humoresky, figurky a pestré obrázky z vojenského života všech oborů (Nákl. A. Hynka, 1912), by Luděk Archleb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The man without a country (Roberts Bros., 1889), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The red badge of courage (New York : Modern Library, [1925], 1925), by Stephen Crane and Max J. Herzberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of the ring and camp (New York : George H. Doran Co., [1925], 1925), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The 'Scots Brigade,' and other tales, by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• The warriors, by Tom Purdom, illust. by Dan Adkins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Between two thieves, by Richard Dehan (Gutenberg ebook)
• The foxholes of Mars, by Fritz Leiber, illust. by E. Joseph Dreany (Gutenberg ebook)
• Twenty-three and a half hours' leave, by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by May Wilson Preston (Gutenberg ebook)
• Colonel Crockett, the Texan trailer, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The skeleton scout; or, The border block, by Albert W. Aiken (Gutenberg ebook)
• The squaw spy; or the rangers of the lava-beds, by T. C. Harbaugh (Gutenberg ebook)
• Southern Soldier Stories, by George Cary Eggleston, illust. by Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum (Gutenberg ebook)
• The King's Own Borderers: A Military Romance, Volume 3 (of 3), by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• The King's Own Borderers: A Military Romance, Volume 2 (of 3), by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• The King's Own Borderers: A Military Romance, Volume 1 (of 3), by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• Boy: A Sketch, by Marie Corelli (Gutenberg ebook)
• Colville of the Guards, Volume 3 (of 3), by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• Colville of the Guards, Volume 2 (of 3), by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• Colville of the Guards, Volume 1 (of 3), by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• Second to None: A Military Romance, Volume 3 (of 3), by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• Second to None: A Military Romance, Volume 2 (of 3), by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• Second to None: A Military Romance, Volume 1 (of 3), by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Soldier's Home Is Battle, by Lowell Stone (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Advanced-Guard, by Sydney C. Grier (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Flag of the Adventurer, by Sydney C. Grier, illust. by Alfred Pearse (Gutenberg ebook)
• Iron Hand, Chief of the Tory League; or, The Double Face, by Frederick Forest (Gutenberg ebook)
• Marching Sands, by Harold Lamb (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dad, by Albert Payson Terhune, illust. by Walter Dean Goldbeck (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wild Nat, the Trooper; or, The Cedar Swamp Brigade, by William R. Eyster (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Phantom Regiment; or, Stories of "Ours", by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mignon; or, Bootles' Baby, by John Strange Winter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Last Night Out, by Milton A. Rothman, illust. by Herman B. Vestal (Gutenberg ebook)
• Crisis on Titan, by James R. Adams, illust. by Petrizzo (Gutenberg ebook)
• Assignment on Venus, by Carl Jacobi, illust. by Joseph Doolin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter, by Leigh Brackett, illust. by Don Lynch (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ultimate Salient, by Nelson S. Bond, illust. by Frank R. Paul (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Stellar Legion, by Leigh Brackett, illust. by Hannes Bok (Gutenberg ebook)
• Strain, by L. Ron Hubbard, illust. by Charles Schneeman (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Chemically Pure Warriors, by Allen Kim Lang, illust. by Mack (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Hoplite, by Richard Sheridan (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kotkan tie (in Finnish), by Ethel M. Dell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Bridge, by G. G. Revelle, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great, by Alfred John Church (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Children of the Abbey: A Tale, by Regina Maria Roche (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ordeal by Fire: By a Sergeant in the French Army, by Marcel Berger, trans. by Cecil Curtis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Winding Stair, by A. E. W. Mason (Gutenberg ebook)
• Alf's Button, by W. A. Darlington (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Last Crusade, by George H. Smith, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg ebook)
• Silverspur; or, The Mountain Heroine: A Tale of the Arapaho Country, by Edward Willett (Gutenberg ebook)
• What Outfit, Buddy?, by T. Howard Kelly (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Son of Mars, volume 2, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Son of Mars, volume 1, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Last Three Soldiers, by W. H. Shelton, illust. by B. West Clinedinst (Gutenberg ebook)
• False Evidence, by E. Phillips Oppenheim, illust. by Maurice Grieffenhagen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sotilaskertomuksia (in Finnish), by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg ebook)
• Clash of Arms: A Romance, by John Bloundelle-Burton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Success Story, by Earl Goodale, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Little House, by Coningsby Dawson, illust. by Stella Langdale (Gutenberg ebook)
• From Headquarters: Odd Tales Picked up in the Volunteer Service, by James A. Frye (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fables of Field and Staff, by James A. Frye (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wasted Generation, by Owen Johnson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Potter and the Clay: A Romance of Today, by Maud Howard Peterson, illust. by Charlotte Harding (Gutenberg ebook)
• Life in a German Crack Regiment, by Wolf Ernst Hugo Emil Baudissin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aus einer kleinen Garnison: Ein militärisches Zeitbild (in German), by Fritz Oswald Bilse (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Return of the Soldier, by Rebecca West (Gutenberg ebook)
• Schach von Wuthenow: Erzählung aus der Zeit des Regiments Gensdarmes (in German), by Theodor Fontane (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kaukasische vertellingen: Eene overvalling; Een houtkapping in het bosch; Een ontmoeting te velde met een moskousch kameraad (in Dutch), by Leo Tolstoy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Narakan Rifles, About Face!, by George H. Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Little Garrison: A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day, by Fritz Oswald Bilse, trans. by Wolf von Schierbrand (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frigid Fracas, by Mack Reynolds, illust. by John Schoenherr (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sonny, by Rick Raphael, illust. by John Schoenherr (Gutenberg ebook)
• How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion: or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887, by George W. Peck (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Green Beret, by Tom Purdom, illust. by John Schoenherr (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Roll-Call Of The Reef, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg ebook)
• Servitude et grandeur militaires (in French), by Alfred de Vigny (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Militants: Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (Gutenberg ebook)

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