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:[http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/A-History-of-the-Black-Watch-in-the-Great-War-Royal-Highlanders.asp ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' [in three Volumes<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Requires Flash 'enabled' to view the books. If you see a Flash icon, click on it. Vol I (1st, 2nd & 3rd Battalions), includes 2nd Battalion in Mesopotamia and Palestine.
*[http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-Norfolk-Regiment-1685-1918-Vol-2/HTML/index.asp#/1/ ''The History of the Norfolk Regiment, 1685-1918. Volume II 4th August 1914 to 31st December 1918''] by F. Loraine Petre, published 1926. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Requires Flash 'enabled' to view. Includes the 2nd Battalion in Mesopotamia.
→Historical books online
*[https://archive.org/details/thirteenthhussar00dura ''The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War''] by Sir H Mortimer Durand 1921 Archive.org. The Regiment served in Mesopotamia from c July 1916.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027811391 ''With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia : 1916-1917''] by One of its Officers. 1918 Archive.org. The author is elsewhere stated to be Harold John Blampied, [[73rd Regiment of Foot|2nd Battalion, Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)]].
*[https://archive.org/stream/scottishhistoric16edinuoft#page/312/mode/2up "The Seaforth Highlanders, August 1914 to April 1916"] by H.H.E. Craster pages 309-324 ''Scottish Historical Review 16'', 1919 Archive.org. Includes a Battalion of the Seaforths in Mesopotamia from the end of 1915, taking part in an unsuccessful attempt to relieve Kut.
*[https://archive.org/details/leicestershiresb00thomrich ''The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad''] by Edward J Thompson MC 1919 Archive.org. The author was an Army chaplain.
*[https://archive.org/details/baggingbaghdad00bettgoog ''The Bagging of Baghdad''] by Ernest Betts (late the Worcestershire Regiment) a book in the ''On Active Service'' Series. 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156399 ''Mesopotamia, 1914-15 : Extracts from a Regimental Officer's Diary'' ] by H. Birch Reynardson 1919 is available to [http://wwwArchive.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/156399 download as a pdf] from the Digital org, Public Library of IndiaCollection. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156399 Archive.org version]. It is also available to downloaded as a pdf from OUDL - Osmania University Digital Library. 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/regimentalrecord04dudl ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot). Volume IV 1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria''] by Major C H Dudley Ward 1929 Archive.org.
:''The Letters of Gertrude Bell'' published 1927. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209780 ''Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70327 ''Volume II'']. Mainly letters sent to her family. ''Volume II'' is in respect of her time in Baghdad 1917-1926.
:*[http://gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk Gertrude Bell Archives] Newcastle University, UK. Includes transcribed letters and diaries.
*[https://archive.org/details/32882019307837-theinsurrection ''The Insurrection in Mesopotamia 1920''] by Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer L. Haldane 1922. Archive.org. Missing title page noted. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070503162055/http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/resources/resource%20pages/Mesopotamia/insurrection_mesopotamia.html ''The Insurrection in Mesopotamia 1920''Another version on Archive.org] by Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer L. Haldane 1922 (links to a series of pdfs, most of which contain the text ”on its side”, so may be difficult to read.) Archive.org. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006041251 HathiTrust Digital Library], accessible in North America and limited other areas only.
*[https://archive.org/details/mesopotamiadaily00phil ''Mesopotamia: the "Daily Mail" inquiry at Baghdad''] by Sir Percival Phillips 1922 Archive.org
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/466 ''The Truth About Mesopotamia Palestine and Syria''] by John de Vere Loder 1923. Link to a pdf. Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.466 Archive.org version].
