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:The titles are ''Volume I: To October 1915 : Outbreak of Hostilities, Campaign in Lower Mesopotamia'', published 1923; ''Volume II: To April 1916: The Attempt on Baghdad, the Battle of Ctesiphon, the Siege and the Fall of Kut-al-Amara'', published 1924; ''Volume III: To April 1917: The Capture and Consolidation of Baghdad'', published 1926; ''Volume IV: The Campaign in Upper Mesopotamia to the Armistice'', published 1927.
:Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library editions. Note: Missing all/most Maps. Maps are available in the Qatar Digital Library versions (best for expansion of maps) or Archive.org versions.
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|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b746001?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Volume I]
:Archive.org versions, mirrors from the Digital Library of India: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210666 Vol I], [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210666/2015.210666.History-Of#page/n7/mode/1up List of Maps], [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210666/2015.210666.History-Of#page/n424/mode/1up Maps] at back of book displayed out of order; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210668 Vol III], [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210668/2015.210668.The-Campaign#page/n13/mode/2up List of Maps], [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210668/2015.210668.The-Campaign#page/n516/mode/1up Maps] at back of book displayed in reverse order; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210669 Vol IV], [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210669/2015.210669.The-Campaign#page/n20/mode/1up List of Maps], [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210669/2015.210669.The-Campaign#page/n510/mode/1up Maps] at back of book displayed out of order.
:Qatar Digital Library versions, best for expansion of maps. From British Library IOR/L/MIL/17/15/66/1-4 . [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025551844.0x000001 Vol I]; [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025551852.0x000001 Vol II]; [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025551857.0x000001 Vol III]; [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025551863.0x000001 Vol IV]. To '''access the maps''', open the volume links, then expand the heading "About this record", and scroll down for links to the maps.
:Also available in Naval & Military Press reprint editions which in turn are available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as one digital book [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ807HO4jJ8fYHZVXDO ''The Campaign in Mesopotamia''] (located in International/Military booksBooks-located by the Search/Iraq).*''History of the Great War based on official documents. Order of Battle of Divisions Parts 1, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B and 4'' all by Major A.F. Becke (London: HMSO, 1935-1945) are available in reprint editions<ref> ''Order of Battle of Divisions'' by A.F. Becke [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-part-1-the-regular-british-division/ Part 1], [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-part-2a-2b-territorial-yeomanry-divisions/ Parts 2A and 2B], [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-part-3a-3b-new-army-divisions/ Parts 3A and 3B], [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-part-4-the-army-council-ghqs-armies-and-corps-including-tank-corps/ Part 4]. [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/order-of-battle-of-divisions-index/ Index] by Ray Westlake. Naval & Military Press reprint editions.</ref>, which in turn are available as one digital book of 1224 pages titled [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19NTJHoYiz ''Order of Battle of Divisions''] on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in International/Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. Includes some details about Mesopotamia, (perhaps limited?) but note these books appear to be in respect of the British Army only, (not Indian Army).
*[https://archive.org/details/bastardwarmeso00bark/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Bastard War: the Mesopotamian Campaign of 1914-1918''] by A. J Barker (Lieut.-Colonel Arthur James Barker) 1967. UK title ''The Neglected War: Mesopotamia, 1914-1918''. Reprinted in 2009 with the title ''The First Iraq War: 1914-1918''. "The best overall account of the Mesopotamian Campaign" (a 2003 opinion).<ref>
[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BxkttmsEs44C&pg=PA35 Page 35] in an article "The Mesopotamian Front! As observed by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Davis US Cavalry 1918", edited by Leo J Daugherty III ''Armor'', Volume 112, Issue 2 March –April 2003 Google Books.</ref> Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Barker was also the author of ''Townshend of Kut : a biography of Major-General Sir Charles Townshend'' 1967.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101048260184?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''Report of the Commission appointed by Act of Parliament to enquire into the Operations of War in Mesopotamia. Together with a separate report by Commander J. Wedgwood and appendices'']. Presented to Parliament. HMSO 1917. Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. [http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/structure/188193 Menadoc at Bibliothek.uni-halle.de version]. [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x0000b2 Qatar Digital Library version]
:Note, this report also contains the Vincent Bingley report into the medical situation as Appendix I. In addition, separately [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206243 ''Appendices To The Report Of The Commission For Medical Arrangements In Mesopotamia Vol-II (July 1916)'']. Archive.org. Volume 1 of these Appendices does not appear to be available online, (National Archives reference CAB19/27).
:''Report of the Committee on the Lessons of the Great War'' 13 Oct 1932 includes "Appendix V Mesopotamia" (Details<ref>Greenwoodman. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/54329-official-inquiry-into-conduct-of-ww1/?do=findComment&comment=467922 Official Inquiry into Conduct of WW1] ''Great War Forum'' 19 June 2006. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref>.) Also known as the ''Kirke Report'' it is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/report-of-the-committee-on-the-lessons-of-the-great-war/ ''Report of the Committee on the Lessons of the Great War''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19l7X7Fb8A online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in International/Military Books-located by the Search/Britain.
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023514019.0x00000b ''Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917: Part I – Report''] Compiled by officers of the Staff College Quetta 1925. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72/1 Qatar Digital Library
:''Part II- Maps''. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72/2. Refer Maps above.
*''An Account of the Operations of the 18th (Indian) Division in Mesopotamia December 1917 to December 1918'' by Lieut. Col WE Wilson-Johnston 1920 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/account-of-the-operations-of-the-18th-indian-division-in-mesopotamia-december-1917-to-december-1918/ ''An Account of the Operations of the 18th (Indian) Division in Mesopotamia December 1917 to December 1918''] by Lieut. Col WE Wilson-Johnston. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsqUYaJ6Gh online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in Intenational/Military Books-located by the Search/India).*''The “D” Force (Mesopotamia) in the Great War'' by J Fitzgerald Lee 1927 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/d-force-mesopotamia-in-the-great-war/ ''The “D” Force (Mesopotamia) in the Great War''] by J Fitzgerald Lee. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI191uqJWSzz online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in International/Military Books-located by the Search/Britain).
*[http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll7/id/706 ''Mesopotamia Campaign in the World War''] by George B Hunter. From a lecture delivered at the Army War College in Washington, D.C., 1 April, 1930. Link to pdf download (24 pages) Combined Arms Research Library [CARL] Digital Library [USA].
*[http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/titleinfo/189330 ''East India (Military): Despatches regarding operations in the Persian Gulf and in Mesopotamia''] [in respect of Indian Expeditionary Force D] presented to both Houses of Parliament HMSO London 1915. Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt.
*''A Handbook of Mesopotamia'' by Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division. 1916-1917. In four volumes, (plus a supplementary volume), the first contains matters of a general nature, the other volumes contain a description of the river and land routes, with a map, and a “Gazetteer of Towns”. See [[Iraq#Historical books online| Iraq - Historical books online]]. Includes a [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233516266/view Map of City of Baghdad] nla.gov.au.
*[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
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744277?urlappend=%3Bseq=242 "Casualties in the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, November 1914 to December 1918"] page 218 ''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services: Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War'' by Major T. J. Mitchell and Miss G. M. Smith. 1931 Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library
:[https://archive.org/stream/reviewofappliede51917comm#page/22/mode/2up "The Control of Flies and Vermin in Mesopotamia"] page 23 ''The Review of Applied Entomology Volume V 1917'' Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/stream/inmesopotamia00nico#page/50/mode/2up/ "Heat-Stroke"] Chapter IV page 51 ''In Mesopotamia'' by Martin Swayne (real name Maurice Nicoll) 3rd edition 1918 Archive.org. Heatstroke was also known as sunstroke, and occasionally as insolation or siriasis.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044076903947?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''With the M. T. in Mesopotamia''] by Brevet Lt.-Col F W Leland RASC 1920 Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. (M.T.= Mechanical Transport, part of the Royal Army Service Corps)
:[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER241339 ''From the Gulf to the Caspian : being the souvenir booklet of the 33rd. Motor Ambulance Convoy which served in Mesopotamia and North Persia, 1916 to 1919''] written by various members of the unit who remain anonymous. [1920?] State Library of Victoria. This Unit consisted of Army Service Corps personnel, together with Royal Army Medical Corps personnel.
:''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with a chapter on Mesopotamia.
*[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n131/mode/1up/ "The Motor Cycle in Mesopotamia. Carrying Despatches Through Deep Mud and Blinding Dust"] page 70 ''The Motor Cycle'', Volume 17, July 27th 1916 with [https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n428/mode/1up/ photographs] page 287. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206598/page/n777 "Australians in Mesopotamia"] Appendix No.5 ''The Australian Imperial Force In France During the Main German Offensive. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume V'' by C W Bean, pages 703-784. 1937 Archive.org.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030674355?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''My Campaign in Mesopotamia''] by Major General Sir Charles V F Townshend 1920. London edition. Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library.
**[http://archive.org/stream/mycampaign00towngoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''My Campaign: Volume Two''] by Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend. 1920 Archive.org. From a New York two volume edition.
:''Townshend of Chitral and Kut: Based on the diaries and private papers of Sir Charles Vere Townshend'' by Erroll Sherson 1928. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.525043 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/inkutcaptivitywi00sand ''In Kut and Captivity : with the Sixth Indian Division''] by Major E W G Sandes 1919 Archive.org
: ''Tales of Turkey'' by Major E W C Sandes 1924. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284373 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b302550?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Turkey in Travail: the Birth of a New Nation''] by Harold Armstrong (Lately Assistant and Acting Military Attache to the High Commissioner , Constantinople) 1925 Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61410 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The initial chapters cover the fall of Kut and the author’s experiences as POW in Turkey. He appears to have then been an officer in an Indian Army regiment.
*[http://archive.org/stream/kutprisoner00bishrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''A Kut Prisoner''] by H. C. W. Bishop, Indian Army Reserve of Officers. 1920 Archive.org
*[http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/report-on-treatment-of-british-prisoners-of-war-in-turkey ''Report on the treatment of British Prisoners of War in Turkey''] Presented to Parliament November 1918. British Library online documents: IOR/L/MIL/7/18737
*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-i-naval-staff-monographs ''World War I Naval Staff Monographs]''. Select ''Volume 4: Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf'' to download a pdf. Published London July 1921. Royal Australian Navy website (Select Media Room/Publications/World War I Naval Staff Monographs). This publication is also available to read online at the [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023813250.0x00000b Qatar Digital Library]. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73. Click on 'About this record' to see List of Maps.
*''History of the Great War based on official documents: Naval Operations''.Volumes I-III by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, Volumes IV-V by Henry Newbolt. Published 1920-1931. Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations03corb Volume III] Includes Mesopotamia. [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations04corb Volume IV], includes Mesopotamia. [http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.net] has transcribed editions which additionally contain maps from a separate case for Volume III.
: A revised second edition was published for Volume 3 1940, whose dustjacket cover states "Important revisions" including in respect of the Dardanelles and Mesopotamia.<ref>MartH. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/61344-rarest-book/?do=findComment&comment=2829724 Rarest book?] post 869, page 35 ''Great War Forum'' 12 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.</ref>. A facsimile reprint of the 2nd edition of Volume 3 was reprinted by Imperial War Museum/Battery Press in 1995 (available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011725482) and it is possible that the reprints available from Naval & Military Press, which are in turn available on the Ancestry owned pay website [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19n_VjuTiC fold.3] , (located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain) contain the revised editions.
*[http://www.naval-history.net/WW1Books-Sources-Navy_Records-Naval%20Review.htm World War 1 at Sea - Contemporary Accounts: ''The Navy Records Society'' and ''The Naval Review''] Scroll down to Part 2, ''Naval Review'' letter M “Mesopotamia & Persian Gulf”, then access the articles mentioned in the ''Naval Review'' Archives. naval-history.net. Includes
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20160803082140/http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1920s/1923-1.pdf "The Tigris Above Baghdad"] by Lieut-Comr. A S Elwell-Sutton RN. Scroll to item 15 page 153 ''The Naval Review'' February 1923 Vol. XI No. I, produced by The Naval Society. Now an archived webpage. Details of the Caddisfly, one of the 'Fly' class gunboats.
*[https://archive.org/stream/JRNMSVOL4Images/JRNMS_VOL_4#page/n527/mode/2up "The First Commission of HMS Firefly"] by Staff Surgeon FG Hitch RN ''JRNMS'' Volume 4, 1918 Archive.org. One of the 'Fly' class gunboats. Also details of other craft on the river Tigris.
*''Tigris Gunboats : a narrative of the Royal Navy's co-operation with the military forces in Mesopotamia from the beginning of the war to the capture of Baghdad (1914-17)'' by Vice-Admiral Wilfrid Nunn 1932 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/tigris-gunboats-a-narrative-of-the-royal-navys-co-operation-with-the-military-forces-in-mesopotamia-from-the-beginning-of-the-war-to-the-capture-of-baghdad-1914-1917/ ''Tigris Gunboats: A Narrative Of The Royal Navy’s Co-Operation With The Military Forces In Mesopotamia From The Beginning Of The War To The Capture Of Baghdad (1914-1917)''] by Vice-Admiral Wilfrid Nunn, first published 1932. Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19j4MlTv7n ''Tigris Gunboats''] (located in International/Military booksBooks-located by the Search/Britain).
*''War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force'', Volumes II-VI by H A Jones. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V] 1935, [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI] 1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. Include Mesopotamia. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/australianflying00cutluoft ''The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914-1918''] by F M Cutlack 1933 (first published 1923) ''The Official History of Australia in the War: Volume VIII'' Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/incloudsabovebag00tennrich ''In the Clouds above Baghdad, being the Records of an Air Commander''] by Lt-Col J E Tennant 1920 Archive.org
*''History of No.30 Squadron RAF. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919'' [catalogued] by Major J.Everidge, R.A.F. is available as a reprint<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-no-30-squadron-raf-egypt-and-mesopotamia-1914-to-1919/ ''History of No.30 Squadron RAF. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919''] Naval & Military Press.</ref> of an original Air Ministry Historical Branch typed document, probably first published as a reprint c 2004, which in turn is available as an online book on the [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8RjXJU2phiOmLuyYn Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com] located in International/Military Books-located by the Search/Egypt.
*[https://archive.org/details/WarInTheDesertJohnBagotGlubb/mode/2up ''War In The Desert: An R. A. F. Frontier Campaign''] by John Bagot Glubb 1960. Archive.org Mainly about Iraq in the 1920s.
:[https://archive.org/details/arabianadventure0000glub ''Arabian Adventures : Ten years of joyful service''] by John Glubb (Sir John Bagot Glubb) 1978. The period from 1920, when he was posted as a member of the Royal Engineers. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bagot_Glubb John Bagot Glubb] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/waringardenofede00roosuoft ''War in the Garden of Eden''] by Kermit Roosevelt, Captain, Motor Machine Gun Corps 1919 Archive.org. The author was an American, the son of (pre WW1) US President Theodore Roosevelt, who was appointed an honorary Captain in the British Army in August 1917. Page 66 indicates the author was in the 14th Battery, Light-armoured motor-cars (14th L. A. M. B.). The fighting cars were Rolls-Royce.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t9c54969p?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''The Liberator of Mesopotamia''] [Lieut.-General Sir Stanley Maude] by Basil Mathews 1918 Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library
*Official Despatches from ''The London Gazette'' and details of some Official Documents digitised by the British Library, and other digitised material, are linked from [http://warletters.net/battles/mesopotamia/ Mesopotamia In The First World War] warletters.net. For despatches from ''The London Gazette'' from 1919, see further below.
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/ Qatar Digital Library] Digitisation of content from the British Library’s India Office Records Collection. When looking at a book file, to select a particular page, click on “View all items”. Downloads also available.
*[https://archive.org/details/mesopotamiadaily00phil ''Mesopotamia: the "Daily Mail" inquiry at Baghdad''] by Sir Percival Phillips 1922 Archive.org
* ''The Truth About Mesopotamia Palestine and Syria'' by John de Vere Loder 1923. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.466 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://assyrianlevies.info/1915-1932.html ''Iraq Levies 1915-1932''] by Brigadier J Gilbert Browne CMG. CBE. DSO. 1932 . A transcription. “Assyrian RAF Levies”. Also available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/iraq-levies-1915-1932/ ''Iraq Levies 1915-1932''] Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ807HO4jJ8DmZCOdYo ''The Iraq Levies''] (located in International/Military Books-located by the Search/Iraq).
* ''The Ins and Outs of Mesopotamia'' by Thomas Lyell 1923. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175176 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''Iraq: A Study in Political Development'' by Philp Willard Ireland 1937. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55027 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/Iraq Additional file Archive.org]. Includes chapters on the war period, in addition to the post war years.
