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• Seven Pillars of Wisdom (originally published 1926), by T. E. Lawrence
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• The Great Push: An Episode of the Great War, by Patrick MacGill (illustrated HTML at BYU)
• 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)
• Wellington's Men: Some Soldier Autobiographies, ed. by W. H. Fitchett (Gutenberg ebook)
• With Lawrence in Arabia, by Lowell Thomas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Adventures in Holland and at Waterloo; and Expedition to Portugal, by Thomas Knight (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott, Esq., J.P. of Adelaide, South Australia, by Marshall MacDermott (Gutenberg ebook)
• Recollections of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95th.): with anecdotes of his officers and his comrades, by Benjamin Harris, ed. by Henry Curling (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Great Push: An Episode of the Great War, by Patrick MacGill (Gutenberg ebook)
• Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India: Being Extracts from the Letters of the Late Major W. S. R. Hodson, B. A., by W. S. R. Hodson, ed. by George H. Hodson, contrib. by Thomas Hughes (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Female Soldier; Or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands: from 1809 to 1815, by J. Kincaid (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Red Horizon, by Patrick MacGill (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Female Soldier; Or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Rupert Brooke; a memoir, (New York, John Lane company, 1918), by Edward Howard Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Henry Havelock, the Christian soldier. ([United States : s.n., between 1861 and 1865]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The brand plucked from the fire : a burning and shining light in camp, battle, and death. ([Charleston] : Published by the South Carolina Tract Society, [between 1861 and 1865]), by Samuel Boykin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Swearing drunkard soldier converted. ([Charleston] : Published by the South Carolina Tract Society, [between 1861 and 1865]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The honest souldier, or, a vindication of the reduced-officers,: otherwise called reformadoes; against the blastings of most grosse untruths, wherewith they have been aspersed : or, the honest souldier, that between Jerusalem and Ierico, fell amongst thieves, who robbed him of his arrears, stripped him of his livelihood, and wounded him in his reputation. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the yeare, 1648) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• By the King, a declaration whereas we have been informed that divers abuses have been committed in the quartering of officers and soldiers contrary to our declaration bearing date the twenty fifth day of August, in the first year of our reign ... no officer or soldier whatsoever shall be lodged in any private house, without the free and voluntary consent of the owner. (London : Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb ..., 1688), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) and King of England James II (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamation for the restraint of the disorderly repaire of mariners and souldiers, vnto the kings court, or citie of London (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)

• Serious and seasonable advice to the English soldiers of His Majesty's army (London : Printed for B. Aylmer and Will Rogers, 1693), by John Ray (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The royal-pay and pay-master, or, The indigent-officers comfort delivered in a sermon preached before the honorable the military company at St. Pauls Covent-Garden, July 25th, by William Sclater ... ; and now printed at their earnest intreaty. (London : Printed by Rich. Hodgkinson, and are to be sold by E. Brewster ..., 1671), by William Sclater (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916: From Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years, by Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer (Gutenberg ebook)

• Detroit to Fort Sackville, 1778-1779: The Journal of Normand MacLeod (Detroit: Pub. by Wayne State University Press for Friends of the Detroit Public Library, 1978), by Normand MacLeod, ed. by William A. Evans and Elizabeth Sherr Sklar, contrib. by Alice C. Dalligan (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• The British in Boston: Being the Diary of Lieutenant John Barker of the King's Own Regiment from November 15, 1774 to May 31, 1776, With Notes (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1924), by John Barker, ed. by Elizabeth Ellery Dana (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Lunæ 7. Iunii 1647. An additionall ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England for the more full indempnity of the officers and souldiers who have acted by authority, and for the service of the Parliament. (Printed at London : for John Wright at the Kings Head in the old Bayley, 1647), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A proclamation by his Excellency the Lord General. (London : Printed for John Playford, and are to be sold at his shop in the inner Temple, Feb. 13. 1648), by Thomas Fairfax Fairfax (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• For our faithfull and ever honored commanders, the right honorable his excellency, Sir Thomas Fairfax, Major Generall Skipton, Lieutenant Generall Cromwell presented to them in the behalfe of eight regiments of horse, by three private soldiers, who were sent from the quarters by the soldery of the forementioned regiments, wherein they manifest to the world their reall affections to this Common-wealth, and their forward and brotherly assistance, towards the reliefe of Ireland: if not by some diverted. ([London : s.n., 1647]), by Edward Sexby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the right honourable the House of Lords, now assembled in Parliament the humble petition of the inhabitants of Lambeth. (London : Printed for J.T., 1643), by England) Lambeth (London and England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Deplorable condition of the reduced and discharged men out of His Majesties several regiments of horse, foot and dragoons, that have served His Majesty in the reducing of Ireland, and in the wars in the low countries most humbly offered to the consideration of the Right Honourable the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the honourable the knights, citizens and burgesses in Parliament assembled. ([London : s.n., 1698]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• His Excellencies order, to the severall colonels of the army, concerning provision of quarter, diet, physick and attendance for the sick souldiers of their severall regiments. ([London : s.n.], 1650), by Oliver Cromwell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The humble remonstrance of the reduced officers declaring their grievances to the Parliament and kingdome. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year· 1648) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Our Soldier Boy, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Victor Venner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 'Tention!, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Charles Mills Sheldon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Serious and seasonable advice to the English soldiers of His Majesty's army (London : Printed for B. Aylmer and Will Rogers, 1693), by John Ray (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Religio militis, or, A soldier's religion writ by a field officer of the army in his winter-quarters / W. Morgan. (London : Printed for Daniel Dring ... and sold by John Whitlock ..., 1695), by William Morgan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Religio militis, or, The moral duty of a soldier shewing how he ought to behave himself towards God, his King and country. (London : Printed by H.C. for John Taylor ..., 1690), by C. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The royal-pay and pay-master, or, The indigent-officers comfort delivered in a sermon preached before the honorable the military company at St. Pauls Covent-Garden, July 25th, by William Sclater ... ; and now printed at their earnest intreaty. (London : Printed by Rich. Hodgkinson, and are to be sold by E. Brewster ..., 1671), by William Sclater (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Deplorable condition of the reduced and discharged men out of His Majesties several regiments of horse, foot and dragoons, that have served His Majesty in the reducing of Ireland, and in the wars in the low countries most humbly offered to the consideration of the Right Honourable the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the honourable the knights, citizens and burgesses in Parliament assembled. ([London : s.n., 1698]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Army Sanitary Administration and its Reform Under the Late Lord Herbert (London: Printed by McCorquodale and Co., ca. 1862), by Florence Nightingale (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe (Washington: GPO, 1927), by American Battle Monuments Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• To the honest souldiers of the garrison of Hull, &c.: These souldiers, time was when your persons were as deare as your actions were honourable; and in truth your noble enterprises founded upon just and righteous principles, ... ([London : s.n., 1656]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• His excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, taking [notice?] of the manifold abuses and injuries committed ... rude part of souldiers: (especially where they quarter) ... great damage and prejudice of the people, and to n[...] dishonour and scandall of the whole army, nowithsta[nding] the wholesome lawes and ordinances to the contrary [...] and provided, and the severe punishments inflicted upon the knowne offenders. ... Dated the [blank] day of [blank] 164[blank] ([London? : s.n., 1645?]), by England and Wales. Army and Thomas Fairfax Fairfax (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The heads of severall petitions delivered by many of the troopers against the Lord General and some other officers of the army.: With the answer which Mr. Pym made to the severall heads or petitions, before the committee on Tuesday, October 5. 1641. (London : Printed for Iohn Thomas, 1641), by John Pym (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A compleat schoole of vvarre: or, A direct way for the ordering and exercising of a foot company:: whereby may bee attained with ease, the perfection both of musket and pyke in short time. Now, as most necessary; thought fit to be set forth for a generall good. By an expert commander, R.M. (Printed at London : for Richard Harper at the Bible and Harp in Smithfield, 1642), by R. M. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Speeches. 1660-09-13 (Edinburgh : re-printed by Christopher Higgins, in Harts Close, over against the Trone Church, 1660), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II), Edward Hyde Clarendon, England and Wales Parliament, and England and Wales. Lord Chancellor's Dept (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The English souldiers standard to repaire to, for wisdome and understanding,: in these doleful back-sliding times. To be read by every honest officer to his souldiers; and by the souldiers, one to another. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the yeer, 1649), by William Walwyn (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Papers from the Armie: concerning His Excellency and the General Councell, their dislike of the papers from the new agents of the five regiaments of horse, and a happy peace and unity setled by a mutuall agreement. Orders concerning quartering of souldiers, and the severall counties set forth for those beyond Trent to reside in : also the rates for the officers and souldiers, with other rules agreed upon at a councell of warre. And an order of both Houses of Parliament, in answer to a letter from the Kings Majesty, (read in both Houses of Parliament) on Friday last, Octob. 22. 1647. October 23. 1647. These papers from the Army with an order of Parliament, in answer to his Majesties letter, are printed, according to the ordinance of both Houses of Parliament. Imprimatur, G. Matt. (Printed at London : by Robert Ibbitson, in Smithfield, neer the Queenes-head Tavern, 1647), by England and Wales. Army (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Whereas seuerall troopes and companies of our subiects, English and Scottish souldiers, lately imployed in the seruice of the States Generall of the United Prouinces ... returne daily home (Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, Anno Dom. M.DC.XXIX [1629]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and Charles 1600-1649 (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Soldier's memorial of M.--H.-- late sergeant in the 18th Royal Irish Regt. (Richmond, Va. : Presbyterian Committee of Publication, [between 1861 and 1865]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Soldier's dying grief and glory. ([Charleston] : Published by the South Carolina Tract Society, [between 1861 and 1865]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Major's account of himself. ([Charleston] : Published by the South Carolina Tract Society, [between 1861 and 1865]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Converted soldier become a zealous missionary. ([Charleston : South Carolina Tract Society, between 1861 and 1865]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The brand plucked from the fire : a burning and shining light in camp, battle, and death. ([Charleston] : Published by the South Carolina Tract Society, [between 1861 and 1865]), by Samuel Boykin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Swearing drunkard soldier converted. ([Charleston] : Published by the South Carolina Tract Society, [between 1861 and 1865]) (page images at HathiTrust)

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