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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=SD1cAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP3 ''The Diary of Sergeant William Hall, …, late of Her Majesty’s Forty-First Regiment, containing The Incidents connected with two years campaign in Scinde and Affghanistan during the late War''] c 1848 Google Books. The book covers the period 1837 to 1842.The regiment sailed from the south of India in October 1840, to Karachi, from where the regiment proceeded to Afghanistan [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=SD1cAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA36 page 36]
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OhMFAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Scenes+of+a+Soldiers+Life&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Scenes in a Soldier's Life''] by J H Wilton 1848 (Google Books)
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/zeilafairmaidofc00mack#page/n5/mode/2up ''Zeila, the fair maid of Cabul. A tale of the Affghan insurrection and the massacre of the British troops in the Khoord-Cabul passes''] by Charles Finch Mackenzie 1850 (archive.org). Poetry with explanatory Notes.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=W4Y4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA327 ''A Narrative of the Affghan War'' , in a series of letters of the late Colonel Dennie: Part I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=W4Y4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA459 Part II-Conclusion] page 327 and pages 459-484 ''The Dublin University Magazine'', Volume 20, July –December 1842 Google Books
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=dckDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Personal Narrative of the Campaigns in Affghanistan, Sinde, Beloochistan, etc. Detailed in a series of letters of the late Colonel William H. Dennie, C.B''.] 1843 Google Books. Includes additions and corrections to the content appearing in the ''Dublin University Magazine''.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=7bAHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA317 "British India: Affghanistan"] ''The Annual Register, or a View of the History and Politics of the year 1839'', page 317 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/indiarobe07robeuoft#page/310/mode/2up ''Historical geography of the British Dependencies''] Vol VII India, Part I - First Afghan War by P E Roberts 1916 (archive.org)
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/179700 ''Nott's Brigade in Afghanistan, 1838-42, being the private diary of an officer who served in it from first to last''] by John Samuel Knox, published 1880 in Bombay. Pdf download Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.179700 Archive.org mirror version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''Five Years in India: Comprising a Narrative of Travels in the Presidency of Bengal, a Visit to the Court of Runjeet Sing, Residence in the Himalayah Mountains, an Account of the Late Expedition to Cabul and Affghanistan, Voyage Down the Indus, and Journey Overland to England'' by Henry Edward Fane, late Aide-de-Camp to his Excellency the Commander-In-Chief in India. [https://archive.org/details/fiveyearsinindiavol1 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/fiveyearsinindi00fanegoog Volume II] 1842 Archive.org. The author travelled with his regiment to Ceylon in 1835, where he was soon appointed to the staff of his uncle, General Sir Henry Fane, who was Commander-In-Chief in India
*[https://archive.org/stream/memoirofmajorgen00rawlrich#page/70/mode/2up "Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson"] Chapter VI archive.org
*Fiction: **[https://archive.org/details/clevelysahibtale00haye ''Clevely Sahib: A Tale of the Khyber Pass''] by Herbert Hayens 1897 Archive.org**[https://archive.org/details/flashman00geor/page/n3 ''Flashman : from the Flashman papers 1839-1842''] by George MacDonald Fraser 1984 edition, first published 1969. Archive.org Lending Library. Flashman in the 1st Afghan War. *:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flashman_Papers The Flashman Papers] Wikipedia.
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