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*[http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll2/id/188/rec/1 ''The British Experience in Iraq from 1914-1926: What Wisdom Can The United States Draw From Its Experience?''] by Matthew W. Williams. A thesis presented to the Faculty of the US Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 2004. Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. [http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA429024 pdf download] dtic.mil
*[http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll2/id/77/rec/68 ''Forgotten Airwar: Airpower in the Mesopotamian Campaign''] by Peter J Lambert, 2003 Master of Military Art and Science Thesis, Command and General Staff College (CGSC) Fort Leavenworth, KS. Combined Arms Research Library [CARL] Digital Library
*[http://past.oxfordjournals.org/content/197/1/211.full#fn-112 "Developing Iraq: Britain, India and the Redemption of Empire and Technology in the First World War"] by Priya Satia ''Past & Present'' (2007) Volume 197, Issue 1, pages 211-255
*[http://gillww1.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/26th-gurkha-rifles-in-mesopotamia-1916/ Capt George Theodore Gill and 2/6th Gurkha Rifles in Mesopotamia 1916] from David Gill’s gillww1. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131115081404/http://gillww1.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/26th-gurkha-rifles-in-mesopotamia-1916/ archive.org link])
*[http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,645563.0.html A collection of WW1 photographs, most probably taken in Mesopotamia]. Includes a few images of Indian soldiers. rootschat.com Forum thread.
:Volume II is also available on Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/n3/mode/2up Volume II], [http://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/n7/mode/2up Contents],[http://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/538/mode/2up Index]
*[http://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesg04macp#page/n3/mode/2up ''History of the Great War: Medical Services: General History Volume 4''] by Sir William Grant Macpherson and Thomas John Mitchell. Includes Mesopotamia. 1924 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00hall#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia''] compiled by Lieut.-Col. L. J. Hall 1921 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b746003?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Tragedy of Mesopotamia''] by Sir George Buchanan 1938. Hathi Trust Digital Library. This book is also available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. The author was Director-General of Port Administration and River Conservancy at Basra. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Buchanan_(engineer_born_1865) George Buchanan] Wikipedia entry
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b42328?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''A Chapter of Misfortunes : the Battles of Ctesiphon and of the Dujailah in Mesopotamia, with a summary of the events which preceded them''] by Major-General W. D. Bird 1923 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00hall#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia''] compiled by Lieut.-Col. L. J. Hall 1921 Archive.org
*''The Long Road to Baghdad'' by Edmund Candler 1919 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/longroadtobaghda00canduoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/longroadtobaghd02cand Volume II]
*''British Campaigns in the Nearer East, 1914-1918. From the outbreak of war with Turkey to the Armistice'' by Edmund Dane , Military Correspondent of the ''Westminster Gazette'' 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns01dane Volume I: ''The Days of Adversity''], [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns02dane Volume II: ''The Tide of Victory'']
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonerinturkey00stiluoft ''A Prisoner in Turkey''] by John Still 1920 Archive.org. Contains some comments concerning the prisoners from Kut.
*[http://archive.org/stream/inmesopotamia00swayuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''In Mesopotamia''] by Martin Swayne (real name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Nicoll Maurice Nicoll]), illustrated by the author. 1917 Archive.org. The author was a doctor in the British Army working in a mobile hospital.
*[http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/handle/OUDL/2272 ''Mesopotamia, 1914-15 : Extracts from a Regimental Officer's Diary''] by H. Birch Reynardson 1919 may be downloaded as a pdf from OUDL - Osmania University Digital Library. Downloads from the OUDL site may only be available during Indian office hours (IST 10 am to 6 pm) (IST = GMT+5:30). This book is also available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. The author was an officer in the [[43rd Regiment of Foot|1st Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]]
*[http://archive.org/stream/mesopotamia00palmuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916''] from Robert Palmer 1916 Archive.org. He went with a draft from the 6th Hants, ([[37th Regiment of Foot|Hampshire Regiment]]) in India since November 1914, to reinforce the 4th Hants. Both these regiments were part of the Territorial Force. He was killed June 21, 1916, aged 27 years.
*[https://archive.org/details/dwellerinmesopot00maxw ''A Dweller in Mesopotamia being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden, with sketches''] by Donald Maxwell 1921 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000009934342?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Loyalties: Mesopotamia; a personal and historical record, Volume II 1917-1920''] by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson 1931. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also published under the title ''Mesopotamia, 1917-1920; a Clash of Loyalties''.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t3319zt4k?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''Review of the civil administration of Mesopotamia''] by Gertrude L Bell. Issued by the India Office December 1920. Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b746003?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Tragedy of Mesopotamia''] by Sir George Buchanan 1938. Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author was Director-General of Port Administration and River Conservancy at Basra. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Buchanan_(engineer_born_1865) George Buchanan] Wikipedia entry
*The following are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
**''Field Notes Mesopotamia'' by General Staff India 1915 (Poor quality print)
**''Mesopotamia 1914-15'' by H.Birch Reynardson 1919
**''Loyalties Mesopotamia 1914 -1917'' Arnold T Wilson 1930
*''Kalyan Pradeep: Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukhopadhadhaya, I.M.S.-er Jiboni'', by Mokkhoda ['Mokshada'] Debi (1928) [''Kalyan Pradeep: The Life of Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukherji, I.M.S.''] in Bengali may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. The catalogue entry is ''Kalyan-Pradip'' by Mokshada Debi There are two book files
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