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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lcwNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Expedition Into Affghanistan: Notes and Sketches Descriptive of the Country, Contained in a Personal Narrative During the Campaign of 1839 & 1840, Up to the Surrender of Dost Mahomed Khan''] by James Atkinson, Superintending Surgeon of the Army of the Indus, Bengal Establishment 1842 Google Books.
:Note: The Sketches were published as a separate book [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=341402 ''Sketches in Afghaunistan''], 1842 consisting of 26 lithographs. NYPL Digital Gallery. The British Library Online Gallery also contains many works including a watercolour of plate 7 [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019wdz000002395u00000000.html "The opening into the narrow Pass above the Siri Bolan"] ( Search for other images)
*''The Campaign in Affghanistan, Journal of an Officer of the Army of the Indus'' by Captain Ogle HM [[4th (Queen's Own) Hussars|4th Lt Drags ]] published 1840 and 1841 in the Asiatic Journal (Google Books). The author died of cholera 29 November 1839, towards the end of the campaign.<br>
::[http://books.google.com/books?id=visYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA107 Chapter 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=visYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA149 Chapter 2], [http://books.google.com/books?id=visYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA255 Chapter 3] [http://books.google.com/books?id=vSsYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6 Chapter 4], [http://books.google.com/books?id=vSsYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA95 Chapter 5], [http://books.google.com/books?id=vSsYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA161 Chapter 6], [http://books.google.com/books?id=vSsYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA254 Chapter 7]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2UMOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Journal of a March from Delhi to Peshawur, and from thence to Cabul, with the Mission of Lieut-Col. Sir C. M. Wade, etc.''] [With plates] by William Barr, Lieutenant, Bengal Horse Artillery. 1844 Google Books. Covers the period December 1838 to December 1839.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=BUEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The military operations at Cabul: which ended in the retreat and destruction of the British army, January 1842. With a journal of imprisonment in Affghanistan''] by Lieut. Vincent Eyre, Bengal Artillery 1843 Google Books
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uXYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR20&dq=a+journal+of+the+disasters+in+afghanistan&cd=2#v=onepage&q=a%20journal%20of%20the%20disasters%20in%20afghanistan&f=false ''A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan 1841-2''] by Lady Sale 1844
