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*[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. 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 Military Books-located by the Search/Britain.
*[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. =====Medical=====
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====Historical books online====
'''Rearrangement in progress'''
=====Official histories, despatches, reports etc=====
*''History Of The Great War: The Campaign In Mesopotamia 1914-1918 Volumes I-IV'' by F J Moberly. 1923-1927.
: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.
*''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 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).
: There were subsequent publications ''Order of Battle of Divisions Part 5A, Divisions of Australia, Canada and New Zealand and those in East Africa'', compiled by F.W. Perry c 1992. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006378898 and ''Order of Battle of Divisions. Part 5B, Indian Army Divisions'' compiled by F. W. Perry c 1993 available at the B.L. UIN: BLL01008151437 . The latter is also catalogued with the additional title ''History of the Great War : based on official documents''.
*[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. 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 Military Books-located by the Search/Britain.
*[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.
=====General histories etc=====
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/deserthellbritis0000town/mode/2up ''Desert Hell : the British invasion of Mesopotamia''] by Charles Townshend 2011. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. This is the USA title. Published 2010 in UK as ''When God made Hell: the British invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq 1914-1921''.
*[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.
*''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 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://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 HathiTrust Digital Library
