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• Memoir of his own life (s.n.], 1811), by Roger Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seven pillars of wisdom : a triumph (London : Jonathan Cape, 1935., 1935), by T. E. Lawrence, Bruce Rogers, and Harold Mortlake Collection of Sir Winston Churchill (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Briefe und berichte des generals und der generalin von Riedesel während des nordamerikanischen kriegs in den jahren 1776 bis 1783 geschrieben. (J.C.B. Mohr, 1881), by Friederike Charlotte Luise Riedesel and Friedrich Adolf Riedesel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Running the blockade : a personal narrative of adventures, risks, and escapes during the American Civil War (J. Murray, 1896), by Thomas E. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• France at war (Macmillan, 1915), by Rudyard Kipling, Flora Virginia Milner Livingston, Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress), Carpenter Kipling Collection (Library of Congress), and John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• With Rimington (E. Arnold, 1901), by L. March Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of John Charles Philip von Krafft ... 1776-1784. (Printed for private distribution only, 1888), by Johann Carl Philipp von Krafft and Thomas H. Edsall (page images at HathiTrust)
• With Paget's horse to the front (J. MacQueen, 1901), by Cosmo Rose-Innes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The journal of the C.I.V. in South Africa (J. Murray, 1901), by W. H. Mackinnon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Narrative of events during the invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte, and the retreat of the French army. 1812. (J. Murray, 1860), by Robert Wilson and Herbert Randolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters and memoirs relating to the war of American independence, and the capture of the German troops at Saratoga (G. & C. Carvill, 1827), by Friederike Charlotte Luise Riedesel, Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, Sleight & George, and G. & C. Carvill (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of military service, in 1813, 1814 & 1815, through Germany, Holland, and France, including some details of the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. (Madden, 1845), by Thomas Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the siege of Delhi (A. and C. Black, 1861), by William W. Ireland, William W. Ireland, and Officer Who Served There (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of life in the far East ("North-China Herald", 1894), by W. S. Wetmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The biograph in battle : its story in the South African War (T. Fisher Unwin, 1901), by W. K.-L. Dickson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hadden's journal and orderly books : a journal kept in Canada and upon Burgoyne's campaign in 1776 and 1777 (J. Munsell's Sons, 1884), by James Murray Hadden, William Phillips, John Burgoyne, Guy Carleton Dorchester, and Horatio Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Side lights on the war in South Africa, being sketches based on personal observation during a few weeks' residence in Cape Colony and Natal. (t.F. Unwin, 1900), by Jessica Sykes (page images at HathiTrust)
• With the Army Service Corps in South Africa (Richardson & Co., 1903), by Wodehouse Richardson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some lessons from the Boer War, 1899-1902 (Ibister, 1903), by T. D. Pilcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. (Longmans, Green, and co., 39 Paternoster row, 1900), by Winston Churchill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The narrative of Colonel David Fanning (a Tory in the revolutionary war with Great Britain) : giving an account of his adventures in North Carolina, from 1775 to 1783 (Reprinted for J. Sabin, 1865), by David Fanning, Thos. H. Wynne, Huntington Free Library, Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian, and Seventh Regiment Military Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Despatches (December 1915-April 1919) (J. M. Dent, 1920), by Douglas Haig Haig and J. H. Boraston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A student in arms (A. Melrose, 1918), by Donald Hankey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The long retreat, and other doggerel [poems] (Murray, 1915), by Arnold F. Graves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The turn of the tide [poems] (Murray, 1916), by Arnold F. Graves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The journal of a voyage from Charlestown, S.C., to London undertaken during the American Revolution by a daughter of an eminent American loyalist (Louisa Susannah Wells) in the year 1778 and written from memory only in 1779. (Printed for the New York Historical Society, 1906), by Louisa Susannah Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• A subaltern in the field (Heath, Cranton, 1920), by E. M. Channing-Renton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An original and authentic journal of occurrences during the late American War, from its commencement to the year 1783. (Wilkinson & Courtney, 1809), by Roger Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leben und wirken des herzoglich braunschweigs̕chen general-lieutenants Friedrich Adolph Riedesel Nebst vielen original-correspondenzen und historischen aktenstücken aus dem siebenjährigen kriege, dem nordamerikanischen freiheitskampfe und dem französischen revolutions-kriege. (O. Wigand, 1856), by Max von Eelking (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Marne--and after; a companion volume to "The retreat from Mons," (Cassell and Company, ltd., 1917), by A. Corbett-Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• When the Somme ran red (G.H. Doran co., 1918), by A. Radclyffe Dugmore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Day by day with the Russian army, 1914-15. (Constable & company, ltd., 1915), by Bernard Pares (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trench pictures from France (G. H. Doran, 1918), by William Hoey Kearney Redmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Combed out (Swarthmore Press, 1920), by F.A.V. and F.A. V. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The real front (Harper & brothers, 1918), by Arthur Hunt Chute (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From Montreal to Vimy Ridge and beyond; the correspondence of Lieut. Clifford Almon Wells, B.A., of the 8th battalion, Canadians, B.e.f., November, 1915-April, 1917 (George H. Doran company, 1917), by Clifford Almon Wells and O. C. S. Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gun fodder; the diary of four years of war (Little, Brown and company, 1919), by A. Hamilton Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The fighting mascot, the true story of a boy soldier (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1918), by Thomas Joseph Kehoe and E. L. Bacon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A woman's diary of the war (Dutton, 1916), by S. Macnaughtan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marching on Tanga (with General Smuts in East Africa) (E.P. Dutton, 1917), by Francis Brett Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters and papers of Algernon Hyde Villiers, with a memoir Harry Graham. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1919), by ALgernon Hyde Villiers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two brothers : accounts rendered. (Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1916), by Alfred W. Pollard, Flora Virginia Milner Livingston, and Chiswick Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Charles Lister; letters and recollections, with a memoir by his father, Lord Ribblesdale. (T. Fisher Unwin, 1917), by Charles Lister and Thomas Lister Ribblesdale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Poems & letters (B.H. Blackwell, 1918), by William Robert Granville Mills (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Glasgow Highlanders (Standard Press, 1915), by Thomas M. Lyon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters from Flanders, written by 2nd Lieut. A.D. Gillespie, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, to his home people (Smith, Elder, 1916), by A. D. Gillespie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In France and Flanders with the fighting men (Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), by Lauchlan MacLean Watt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Happy Days" in France & Flanders : with the 47th and 49th Divisions (Harding & More, 1921), by Benedict Williamson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• With the guns west and east ([London?], 1923), by "Arnewood.", L. Raven-Hill, and E. A. P. Hobday (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Major André's journal; operations of the British army under Lieutenant Generals Sir William Howe and Sir Henry Clinton, June, 1777 to November, 1778, recorded by Major John André, adjutant general; to which is added The ethics of Major André's mission (W. Abbatt, 1930), by John André, Cornélis De Witt Willcox, and Henry Cabot Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The journals of Hugh Gaine, printer (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902), by Hugh Gaine and Paul Leicester Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Travels through the interior parts of America (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923), by Thomas Anburey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Archibald Robertson, lieutenant-general Royal engineers, his diaries and sketches in America, 1762-1780 (The New York public library, 1930), by Archibald Robertson and Harry Miller Lydenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The journals of Hugh Gaine, printer (Dodd, Mead & company, 1902), by Hugh Gaine and Paul Leicester Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoir of his own life (Printed by J. Jones ... , 1811), by R. Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Examination of Joseph Galloway, Esq. by a committee of the House of Commons (Printed for the Seventy-Six Society, 1855), by Joseph Galloway, Thomas Balch, and Great Britain Parliament House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The narrative of Colonel David Fanning (a Tory in the revolutionary war with Great Britain) giving an account of his adventures in North Carolina from 1775 to 1783 (Printed for private distribution only, 1861), by David Fanning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lieut. James Moody's narrative of his exertions and sufferings in the cause of government, since the year 1776 authenticated by proper certificates. (Printed and sold by Richardson and Urquhart ... Wilkie ... Faulder ... and S. Hayes ..., 1783), by James Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the exertions and sufferings of Lieut. James Moody in the cause of the government since the year 1776 (Privately printed, 1865), by James Moody and Charles I. Bushnell (page images at HathiTrust)

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