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*[https://archive.org/details/marvellousmesopo00parfrich ''Marvellous Mesopotamia: The World’s Wonderland''] by Joseph T Parfit, Canon of St George’s Jerusalem 1920 Archive.org. Contains a number of chapters on WW1, commencing with “The Causes of the War”
*[http://archive.org/stream/mycampaign00towngoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''My Campaign: Volume 2''] by Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend. 1920 Archive.org. London edition has title ''My Campaign in Mesopotamia''.
**Limited access, available in full view to those in North America, and perhaps elsewhere: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4505737 ''My Campaign: Volume 1''], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030674355 ''My Campaign in Mesopotamia''] Hathi Trust Digital Library. Google Books editions may be available in full view in some countries, but not UK or North America at time of writing [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qs-CAAAAIAAJ ''Vol 1''], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2fYCAAAAMAAJ ''M.''] *[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/525043 ''Townshend of Chitral and Kut: Based on the diaries and private papers of Sir Charles Vere Townshend''] by Erroll Sherson 1928. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/warillustratedal09hammuoft#page/3052/mode/2up "Progress in Mesopotamia"] from ''The war illustrated album de luxe; the story of the great European war told by camera, pen and pencil Volume 9 The Fourth Year 1917-1918'' ed by JA Hammerton 1918 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/warillustratedal10hammuoft#page/3382/mode/2up "Final Victories over the Turk"] from ''The war illustrated album de luxe; the story of the great European war told by camera, pen and pencil Volume 10 the Last Phase'' ed by JA Hammerton 1919 Archive.org
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/466 ''The Truth About Mesopotamia Palestine and Syria''] by John de Vere Loder 1923. Link to a pdf. 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”
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/175176 ''The Ins And and Outs Of of Mesopotamia''] by Thomas Lyell 1923. Link to a pdf. Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/Iraq ''Iraq: A Study in Political Development''] by Philp Willard Ireland 1937 Archive.org. May require a Djvu or BitTorrent plugin for ease of reading. Also available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, (two different files), in a TIFF format, and also available as a [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/55027 pdf on the DLI]. Includes chapters on the war period, in addition to the post war years.
*[https://archive.org/stream/memoirsofsirrona001290mbp#page/n251/mode/2up Page 219] ''The Memoirs Of Sir Ronald Storrs'' 1937 Archive.org. The author, working for the Foreign Office in Egypt, was appointed Political Officer in Mesopotamia in 1917 to represent the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia.
