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:[https://archive.org/details/despatchesfromda00hami ''Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatches from the Dardanelles''] 1915 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/finaldespatchthe00hami ''Ian Hamilton’s Final Despatch''] 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gallipolidardane0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up ''Despatches from the Front. Gallipoli and the Dardanelles 1915-1916''] Introduced and compiled by John Grehan and Martin Mace 2014 Archive.org Books to Borrow. Despatches from Sir Ian Hamilton, Sir Charles Munro, Sir John de Robeck.
*Gallipoli [https://archive.org/details/khakigownautobio0000bird/page/248 Page 249] ''Khaki and Gown : an Autobiography'' by Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood 1941. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Birdwood was Corps Commander Australian and New Zealand contingent.
*[http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/titleinfo/163988 ''Five Years in Turkey''] by Otto Liman von Sanders, translated, from the 1920 German edition ''Funf Jahre Turkei'', by Col Carl Reichman, US Army (Retired) published 1927 by the United States Naval Institute. [http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/structure/163988 Contents]. With two maps at the back of the book. Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.24341 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
**[https://archive.org/details/sourcerecordsofg03char/page/252/mode/2up "Britain’s Failure at the Dardanelles"] page 252. The account by "An Officer of the German Staff" page 267 is stated elsewhere to be by Major Erich Prigge,<ref name=Prig/> an adjutant to Marshal Liman von Sanders. Archive.org.
*''Notes on the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915'' by Major Sherman Miles GS. ''The Coast Artillery Journal'' [USA]. [https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA497134/page/n39/mode/2up Part 1: pages 506-521] Volume 61, Number 6, December 1924 and [https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA500288/page/n29/mode/2up Part 2: pages 207-222] Volume 62, Number 3, March 1925. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gallipolitoday-1926/page/n9/mode/2up ''Gallipoli Today ''] by T J Pemberton 1926 Archive.org. "Postscript to the campaign, including descriptions of the terrain, the cemeteries & memorials, work of the War Graves Commission &c." <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210610123527/https://www.turnerdonovan.com/booksPDS.aspx?stockNo=57223&mv=2&sn=1 turnerdonovan.com catalogue item], archived.</ref>
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4009262?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''The Dardanelles Expedition: a Condensed Study''] by W D Puleston, Captain US Navy 2nd edition 1927 (first published 1926). HathiTrust Digital Library
*''Notes And Comments On The Dardanelles Campaign'' by A. Kearsey, originally published 1934, is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/notes-and-comments-on-the-dardanelles-campaign/ ''Notes And Comments On The Dardanelles Campaign''] by A. Kearsey. Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> which in turn is available as a [https://www.fold3.com/browse/hTGb85NZ823cXSqNN7x64uizU digital book] on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in Military Books-located by the Search/Turkey. Also available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000443461 HathiTrust] searchable, but not viewable. These notes and comments are intended to be a guide for officers studying the campaign.
*[https://archive.org/details/dardanellestheir00londuoft ''The Dardanelles, their Story and their Significance in the Great War''] by the author of ''The Real Kaiser'' 3rd edition (enlarged) 1915 Archive.org. The author is stated elsewhere to be Ernest Charles Buley, an Australian journalist working in London.<ref>[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/buley-ernest-charles-12825 Buley, Ernest Charles (1869–1933)] Australian Dictionary of Biography</ref> The book has been described as a "propagandistic account"<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0KbnVtLyiRkC&pg=PA59 Page 59] ''The Dardanelles Campaign, 1915: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography'' by Fred R. Van Hartesveldt Google Books</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/gallipoli0000snel ''VCs of the First Word War: Gallipoli''] by Stephen Snelling 1999, first published 1995. There were 39 Victoria Cross awards made. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*Online books from The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism: [https://canakkaletarihialan.gov.tr/yayinlar/koleksiyonlar Publications/Collections] from Canakkale Wars, Gelibolu Historical Field Presidency (Çanakkale Savaşlari Gelibolu Tarihi Alan Başkanliği). Online books about Gallipoli in English, French, German, Turkish and Swedish languages. Turkish language website. Includes Some of the English language booksare available elsewhere on this page including**''Gallipoli Days and Nights'' by Trooper L. McCustra, Late of Peyton’s Division, published 1916. (Details.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210610123836/https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trooper-McCustra-GALLIPOLI-DAYS-NIGHTS-Suvla-Bay-DARDANELLES-Peytons-Division-/123105155549 Details of ''Gallipoli Days and Nights''] ebay.co.uk, archived.</ref>) [2nd Mounted Division was a Yeomanry (Territorial Army Cavalry) Division**Due to website changes the following may no longer be available.''Gallipoli To-Day'' by T. J. Pemberton published 1926. "Postscript to the campaign, including descriptions of the terrain, the cemeteries & memorials, work of the War Graves Commission &c." <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210610123527/https://www.turnerdonovan.com/booksPDS.aspx?stockNo=57223&mv=2&sn=1 turnerdonovan.com catalogue item], archived.</ref>
====Diplomacy, news correspondents etc in Turkey====
*[https://archive.org/details/irishatfront00mich ''The Irish at the Front''] by Michael MacDonagh 1916 Archive.org. Includes chapters on Gallipoli
:[https://archive.org/details/tenthirishdivisi00cooprich ''The Tenth (Irish) division in Gallipoli''] by Bryan Cooper 1918 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/gallipoli-daysandnights ''Gallipoli Days and Nights''] by Trooper L. McCustra, Late of Peyton’s Division, published 1916. Archive.org 2nd Mounted Division was a Yeomanry (Territorial Army Cavalry) Division
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200810055101/https://www.loyalregiment.com/my-experiences-in-gallipoli/ ''My Experiences In Gallipoli with the 6th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment''] by 10996 Private Paul Gaskell who was batman to the Commanding Officer of the 6th Battalion, Lieut-Col. Henry George Levinge. Gaskell self-published his experiences in 1917 in a 24-page booklet. Transcribed version from loyalregiment.com, archived.
*[https://archive.org/details/withmanchestersi00hurs/page/n7 ''With Manchesters In The East''] by Gerald B. Hurst 1918 Archive.org. Also available [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29927 Gutenberg.org] where the photographs are displayed correctly rotated.
:Also available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-lincolnshire-regiment-1914-1918/''History of the Lincolnshire Regiment 1914-1918''] Naval & Military Press</ref>, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI197C8BXwyv pay website fold3].
:Note the fold3 version is easier to read online than the findmypast version.
*[https://archive.org/details/proudheritagev3/mode/2up ''Proud Heritage. The Story of the Highland Light Infantry. Volume 3 The Regular, Militia, Volunteer, T.A., and Service Battalions H.L.I. 1882-1918''] by Lt.-Col. L B Oatts 1961 Archive.org. A transcription. Includes Gallipoli.
*[https://archive.org/details/withtwentyninthd00creiuoft ''With the Twenty-ninth division in Gallipoli : a chaplain's experience''] by the Rev O Creighton, Church of England Chaplain to the 86th Brigade 1916 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/lettersofcreight00creiuoft/page/n147 "Chaplain to the Forces in England and Gallipoli"] page 121 ''Letters of Oswin Creighton, C.F., 1883-1918'' edited by Louise Creighton 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withincomparable00murerich/page/n6 ''With the Incomparable 29th''] by Major A.H. Mure TD 5th Battalion, The Royal Scots (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles). 1919 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/gallipolimemorie00comp ''Gallipoli Memories''] by Compton Mackenzie 1929 Archive.org. The first of four volumes of memoirs of his experiences serving with British Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First World War. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Mackenzie Compton Mackenzie] Wikipedia. Also see [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)]].
*[https://archive.org/details/lettershelles/page/n3/mode/1up ''Letters from Helles''] by Colonel Sir Henry Darlington 1936. Archive.org. The author commanded the 5th Battalion The Manchester Regiment, part of the 127th Infantry Brigade, 42nd Division.
*[https://archive.org/details/chaplainatgallip0000best ''A Prayer for Gallipoli: the Great War diaries of Kenneth Best''] edited by Gavin Roynon 2012, first published 2011. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Catalogued as ''A Chaplain at Gallipoli : the Great War diaries of Kenneth Best''. Best was attached to the 42nd East Lancastrians.
*[https://archive.org/details/52nd-lowland-division/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914-1918''] by Lt Col R.R Thompson 1923. Archive.org. Missing most/all of the maps. Also available in a reprint edition which would probably include the maps,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/fifty-second-lowland-division-1914-1918/ ''Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914-1918''] Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19XuCdqIKO online book on the the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. The history of a Territorial Army division that fought at Gallipoli, in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt, Palestine]] and from May 1918, on the [[Western Front]].
