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==British Library holdings==
*''The Third Afghan War 1919 Official Account'', with maps, by General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, published 1926 Calcutta. Now available to downloadonline, see below.*''Afghanistan 1919. An Account of Operations in the Third Afghan War'' by Lieutenant- General G. N Molesworth, (George Noble) 1962. UIN: BLL01002520046. Molesworth served as Adjutant to the [[13th Regiment of Foot|2nd Battalion Somerset Light Infantry]] throughout this conflict.
*War Diary [Collection], Army Headquarters India, Afghan War, 1919. GSI, 1919. 9 vols IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4057-4065. Printed volumes from the Military Library. Locate these records using the [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1510016459624&vid=IAMS_VU2&fromLogin=true British Library Search].
*[http://www.military-times.co.uk/articles/map-of-the-third-afghan-war.htm Map of the Third Afghan War] Military Times
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Afghan_War Third Anglo-Afghan War] Wikipedia
*Article [https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/context-culture/the-1919-war-of-independence-or-third-anglo-afghan-war-a-conflict-the-afghans-started-and-ended/ "The 1919 War of Independence (or third Anglo-Afghan War): a conflict the Afghans started (and ended)"] by Fabrizio Foschini 21 Sep 2019. afghanistan-analysts.org
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bv4hzxpo424C&pg=PA247&dq=Landi+Kotal+1919&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=Landi%20Kotal%201919&f=false Third Anglo-Afghan War] Google Books
*[http://www.khyber.org/publications/011-015/britishretreat.shtml "British Retreat from Waziristan"] by Mark Jacobsen khyber.org. Editor of '' Rawlinson in India'' 2002, a publication of the Army Records Society v. 19. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01010727125
*[http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/asymmetry-in-afghanistan-the-poison-gas-option Asymmetry in Afghanistan - the poison gas option] The Serving Soldier website
*[http://www.25thlondon.com/afghan.htm Third Afghan War - 1919] from [http://www.25thlondon.com/index.htm 25th County of London Cyclist Battalion: The London Regiment]
*[httphttps://wwwcollection.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/results.php?searchType=simple&accresultsDisplay=list&simpleText=1963-09-633 G+A+Clarke%2C+12th+Pioneers Photographs 1919] compiled by Major G A Clarke, 12th Pioneers (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment), and 2nd Battalion, 2nd Bombay Pioneers. National Army Museum collection 1963-09-633
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140830133118/https://sgtregnaldwhite.blogspot.com/2010/07/third-anglo-afghan-war.html Sgt Reginald White 48 Squadron RAF] in the Third Anglo-Afghan War. archive.org
*[http://www.northeastmedals.co.uk/britishguide/india_general_service_1908_award.htm India General Service Medal 1908 Clasp Award Criteria] (scroll down) northeastmedals.co.uk
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA195401/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Third Afghan War and the External Position of India, 1919-1924''] by M H Jacobsen. Report presented at the Conference on Asian Studies, Madison Wisconsin 7 November 1987. Defense Technical Information Center DTIC ADA195401 Archive.org . He also appears to have been the author of a PhD Thesis, University of California ''The Modernisation of the Indian Army 1925-1939'' by Mark Houston Jacobsen (1979), available in a 1983 edition at Imperial War Museums LBY 83/3224, possibly as a microfilm.
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA506166/mode/2up ''Air Policing''] by Lt Col John E Murphy ASAF. 2009 Master’s Thesis. Includes the Third Afgan War. Technical Information Center DTIC ADA506166 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA523451/page/n37/mode/2up "The Third Afghan War and the Campaign in Waziristan 1919-1929"] page 32 ''Ever present danger: a concise history of British military operations on the north-west frontier, 1849-1947'' by Matt M Matthews. Occasional Paper 33, June 2010. Combat Studies Institute Press, US Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Archive.org.*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT819zsTfAc The Graveyard of Empires Strikes Back - The British-Afghan War of 1919] YouTube video. Note first minute approximately is advertisement.
===Historical books online===
*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31823/supplement/3271 "Operations against Afghanistan"] ''London Gazette Supplement'' 12 March 1920
:Available on the pay website [[findmypast]]<ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-army-records-and-regimental-histories British Army Records & Regimental Histories] located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Regimental & Service Records. findmypast. Click on 'Browse Title', select title, then click on 'View Results'. </ref>. If signed in to findmypast, the links are [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=ire%2feneclannpdfs%2fgb0903%2f0004 Title page] (image 4), [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=ire%2feneclannpdfs%2fgb0903%2f0009 Contents page] (image 9)
:Includes the 1st Battalion in India and the Third Afghan War 1914-1919. Commences [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE/ENECLANNPDFS/GB0903/0027&parentid=IRE/ENECLANNPDFS/GB0903/0027 Page 9], (image 27), [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=ire%2feneclannpdfs%2fgb0903%2f0033 Third Afghan War: page 15] (image 33)
:Also available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/green-howards-in-the-great-war/ ''Green Howards in the Great War''] Naval & Military Press.</ref>, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19Y6blXXur pay website fold3].
:Note the fold3 version is easier to read online than the findmypast version.
*[https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI1986lBtBDU ''The Somerset Light Infantry''] is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 located in International/Military books/ Britain under T. This appears to be ''The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1914-1919'' and is a reprint edition published by Naval & Military Press.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-somerset-light-infantry-prince-alberts-1914-1919/ ''History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1914-1919''] Naval & Military Press.</ref> From comments seen elsewhere, includes the 3rd Afghan War.
:Also note the book by a SLI officer who took part: ''Afghanistan 1919. An Account of Operations in the Third Afghan War'' by Lieutenant- General G. N Molesworth, (George Noble) 1962 available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002520046 .
====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/leopardcliff00bree/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Leopard and the Cliff''] by Wallace Breem 1978. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
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