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From Armoured Cars to Coldstream Guards: An American Volunteer During the First World War & The Battle of the Somme, 1916: Third Stage
Louis Starr & John Buchan
The outstanding military career of Dillwyn Starr This book follows the military career and First World War experiences of Dillwyn Starr, a young American volunteer who was determined to fight for t..
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Zigzagging: the Experiences of an American Red Cross Nurse During the First World War
Isabel Anderson
The redoubtable Mrs. Anderson’s Great War Boston socialite Isabel Weld Perkins (later Anderson) inherited $5,000,000 when she was 5 years old in 1881, so began her life of privilege. Nevertheless, ..
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Entertaining the Doughboys: Two Accounts of American Concert Parties ‘Over There’ During the First World War—Entertaining the American Army by James W. Evans & Gardner L. Harding and Trouping for the Troops by Margaret Mayo
James W. Evans, Gardner L. Harding & Margaret Mayo
Putting on a show for troops who marched under the ‘stars and bars’. Concert parties performing for soldiers on campaign were unknown before the First World War, but British entertainment troupes, ..
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Battles in the Clouds: Accounts of Conflicts in the Sky during the First World War
edited by J. Humphrey Lewis
A collection of first-hand accounts and reports of the air in the war Compared to accounts of conflict on land and sea, the library of accounts of the war in the air during the First World War is q..
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A Warrior’s Sky: Two Accounts of Aerial Combat During the First World War in Europe by American Pilots—High Adventure by James Norman Hall & War Birds by John MacGavock Grider
James Norman Hall & John MacGavock Grider
The experiences of two American pilots in the Great War When the First World War broke out, volunteers from many nations of the free world rushed to join the French in their struggle against the in..
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The American Legionnaires: Accounts of Two Notable Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion During the First World War—“L. M. 8046” by David Wooster King & Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger by Alan Seeger
David Wooster King & Alan Seeger
Two Americans who fought for France in the Great War The First World War began as German forces swept eastwards and westwards in an unprovoked assault on neighbouring states. The injustice and repo..
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A Twilight of Centaurs
Frederic Coleman
The Opening Campaigns of the First World War as Witnessed by an American Volunteer Driver With British Cavalry on the Western Front—From Mons to Ypres With General French & With Cavalry in 1915
The American, his motor car and the cavalry in its last great conflict This essential Leonaur Original, combines two works by American author Frederic Coleman, and has been published to coincide wi..
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The U. S. Navy at War
Elaine Sterne
Personal Accounts of 15 American Seamen, Women & Marines During the First World War
The First World War at sea by Americans who fought in it It’s easy to understand why this book was originally published under the jingoistic title of ‘Over the Seas for Uncle Sam’—perhaps edited by..
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Luck on the Wing
Elmer Haslett
Recollections of an American Aerial Observer During the First World War
A first hand account of combat in the air by an American Observer The Great War, as every student of the period knows, was the first conflict where combat took to the skies in machines that provide..
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Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany
Edward Lyell Fox
An American Journalist’s View of the First World War From the German Perspective
An American journalist with the German Army Until the United States of America came into the First World War on the side of the Allies in 1917, it was a neutral nation considered, in theory at leas..
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The Legion in the Trenches
Russell A. Kelly & Edward Morlae
Two Accounts of the French Foreign Legion During the First World War

Kelly of the Foreign Legion
by Russell A. Kelly

A Soldier of the Legion
by Edward Morlae
Two accounts of men of the Legion during the First World War The French Foreign Legion has earned its reputation in acts of heroism and aggression, in tenacious actions of resistance and in the spi..
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Go, Get ’Em!
William A. Wellman
An American Aviator in the Lafayette Flying Corps During the First World War
The adventures of a renowned American fighter pilot—in his own words After initially enlisting as an ambulance driver during the Great War, American born Wellman transferred into the French Foreign..
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Fighting in Flanders
E. Alexander Powell
The Experiences of an American Journalist During the Opening Campaigns of the First World War in Europe
The opening shots of a great conflict The German plan of attack in 1914 involved a giant ‘hooking’ movement commencing within Germany itself and then advancing through Luxembourg and neutral Belgiu..
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A Flying Fighter
E. M. Roberts
The Recollections of an American Observer & Pilot in the Royal Flying Corps During the First World War
An American eagle with British wings Readers interested in the personal experiences of the resolute and brave young men who ventured into the air to fight the first aerial combats will discover muc..
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With the French Flying Corps
Carroll Dana Winslow
The Experiences of an American Pilot During the First World War
Petite bleu to pilote—a young American’s flight into war The author of this book, Dana Winslow, was a young American in Paris as France recruited men to fight the invading German forces of the Kais..
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