Stung by press attacks in February 1917 (a Smith-Dorrien interview in the Weekly Despatch-"How the Old Army Died"- and a book The Retreat from Mons by Major Corbett-Smith-Smith-Dorrien had worked on the proofs), French published his memoirs 1914, ghosted by the journalist Lovat Fraser, in April and May 1919 [REF].
French left an uncompleted autobiography, which was used by Gerald French in his 1931 life of his father [REF].