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*[https://archive.org/details/mycampaigninmeso0000sirc/page/n11/mode/2up ''My Campaign in Mesopotamia''] by Major General Sir Charles V F Townshend 1920. London edition. Archive.org. Also available [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030674355?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 HathiTrust Digital Library]. There was also a two volume New York edition 1920.
:''Townshend of Chitral and Kut: Based on the diaries and private papers of Sir Charles Vere Townshend'' by Erroll Sherson 1928. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.525043 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/behindsceneswars/page/205/mode/2up ''Behind the Scenes in Many Wars being the Military Reminiscences of Lieut.-General Sir George MacMunn''] published 1930 includes chapters on Mesopotamia commencing [https://archive.org/details/behindsceneswars/page/205/mode/2up page 206] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/journalroyalartillery1926oct/page/403/mode/2up "Iraq and Mosul"] by Lieut.-General Sir George MacMunn page 403 ''The Journal of the Royal Artillery Volume 53, No.3 1926 October''. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv15-1927/page/42/mode/2up "Lines of Communication in Mesopotamia"] by Lieut.- General Sir George MacMunn, page 42 ''The Army Quarterly Volume 15, 1927 October- 1928 January'' Archive.org.
*[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”. Also [https://archive.org/details/mesopotamiakeyto00parf ''Mesopotamia : the Key to the Future''] by Canon J T Parfit 1917 Archive.org and ''Serbia To Kut'' by Joseph T Parfit 1917 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143207 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Serbia to Kut: an account of the War in the Bible Lands'' [Balkans, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia]. An overview of the conflict.
*[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
* ''When’s When In Mesopotamia'' by General Staff, Mes. Ex. Force Printed at the Government Press Baghdad 1919. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284792 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Conversion tables showing the European style dates from August 1914 to December 1919 and the equivalent dates under various other systems: Arabic - Old Style - Turkish Official - Jewish - Persian Zodiacal. Also details of Arabic time, where the day commences at sunset.
* ''The Spoken Arabic of Mesopotamia'' by John Van Ess, first published 1917. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284503 Archive.org], mirror from Digital Library of India.
=====Medical=====
*[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
=====Regimental histories and accounts=====
*For Indian Army regimental histories, see [[Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force|The Guides, (Cavalry and Infantry)]]; [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Regiment of Bengal Infantry|7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Infantry]]; [[41st Regiment of Dogra Infantry|41st Dogras]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[104th Wellesley’s Rifles]]; [[105th Mahratta Light Infantry]]; [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)]]; [[2nd Bombay Pioneers]]; [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Bengal]], [[Madras Sappers and Miners|Madras]], [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]] for years to 1922;: For other Indian Army regimental histories on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website), see [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[Bhopal Battalion|9th Bhopal Infantry]]; [[8th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|20th (Cambridge's Own) Infantry, Brownlow's Punjabis]]; [[24th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|24th Punjabis]]; [[26th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|26th Punjabis]]; [[45th Regiment of Sikh Infantry|45th Rattray’s Sikhs]]; [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[5th Gurkha Rifles]]; [[4th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers]];
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/356/mode/2up "Desert and Marsh in Arabistan"] by G E H page 356 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 198 July-December 1915. Archive.org. Pursuit of the Turkish Army by British and Indian troops.
*[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n131/mode/1up/ "The Motor Cycle in Mesopotamia. Carrying Despatches Through Deep Mud and Blinding Dust"] page 70 ''The Motor Cycle'', Volume 17, July 27th 1916 with [https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n428/mode/1up/ photographs] page 287. Archive.org.
*[http://archive.org/stream/mesopotamia00palmuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916''] from Robert Palmer 1916 Archive.org. He went with a draft from the 6th Hants, ([[37th Regiment of Foot|Hampshire Regiment]]) in India since November 1914, to reinforce the 4th Hants. Both these regiments were part of the Territorial Force. He was killed June 21, 1916, aged 27 years.
*[https://archive.org/details/wreathofmemories00gosciala/page/62 Mesopotamia] page 62 ''A Wreath of Memories: George Joachim Goschen'' (Viscount) 1917. Archive.org. At the end of 1915, he came with his regiment 1/5th Bn. [[3rd Regiment of Foot|East Kent Regiment]] (TF) from India. He died 19 January 1916 of wounds received 7 January at the [[Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad|battle of Sheikh Saad]].
*[https://archive.org/details/the-connaught-rangers-vol-1/page/n11/mode/2up ''The Connaught Rangers Volume 1, 1st Battalion, formerly 88th Foot''] by Lieut.-Colonel HF N Jourdain and Edward Fraser 1924 Archive.org. During the Great War, the Battalion fought in Mesopotamia, on the Western Front and in Palestine.*[https://archive.org/details/histeastsurreyregimentvol3/page/n9/mode/2up ''History of the East Surrey Regiment Volume 3 1917-1919''] by Colonel H W Pearse and Brigadier-General H S Sloman 1924 Archive.org. Includes Mesopotamia, including punitive operations in Southern Khurdistan (Kurdistan) in 1919.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.19498/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1914 to 1919''] by C T Atkinson 1924. Archive.org. Includes two chapters on Mesopotamia, in 1915 and 1917, and mentions of Mesopotamia in Chapters 31-32. Also available as a [https://web.archive.org/web/20140224123824/http://janetandrichardsgenealogy.co.uk/QORWK%20C%20T%20Atkinson.html transcription]
*[https://archive.org/details/norfolkregimentvol2/page/n9/mode/2up ''The History of the Norfolk Regiment 1685-1918. Volume 2, 4th August 1914 to 31st December 1918''] by F Loraine Petre c 1925 Archive.org. Includes Mesopotamia.
*[https://archive.org/details/manchesterregimentvol2/page/n11/mode/2up ''History of the Manchester Regiment (Late the 63rd and 96th Foot), Volume 2 1883-1922''] by Colonel H C Wylly 1925 Archive.org. Includes Mesopotamia, both in 1916-1917 and during the 1920 Revolt.
*[https://archive.org/details/hist2ndqueensrregv7/page/n9/mode/2up ''History of the Queen’s Royal Regiment Volume 7''] [1905- 1923] by Colonel H C Wylly c 1925 Archive.org. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Includes Mesopotamia.
*[https://archive.org/details/the-devonshire-regiment-1914-1918/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Devonshire Regiment 1914-1918''] by C T Atkinson 1926 Archive.org. The various Battalions fought in Mesopotamia, on the Western Front, in Salonika, Egypt, Palestine, Italy and North Russia, and were in India.
:For a story ''The Kana Burha'' by Sir George MacMunn, set in Mesopotamia, see Fiction, below.
:[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32379/page/5321 Four Despatches from the Commander-In Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force]: Despatch No 1, dated 17th January 1920 from MacMunn, covering the period November 1919 to 17th January 1920. Despatches from Lieutenant-General Haldane, covering the periods: 18th January 1920 to 30th June 1920 in Mesopotamia and NW Persia. [Despatch No 2 dated 23rd August 1920. Page 5323]; 1st July 1820 to 19th October 1920 [Despatch No 3 dated 8th November 1920, page 5329] Despatch No 4, dated 8th February 1921 (page 5347) ''The London Gazette'' 1 July 1921 Issue: 32379 Page:5321.
*[httphttps://archive.org/details/jramc.bmj.com-1922-vol38vol39/contentpage/39353/5mode/354.full.pdf 2up "Narrative of a March into Kurdistan during the Rebellion of 1919"] by Captain J. C. Burns ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1922;39:5 pages 354-371. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv11-1925/page/85/mode/2up "The Campaign in South Kurdistan, 1919"] by the Rev. J Cethin Jones (Chaplain to Fraser’s Force) page 86 ''The Army Quarterly Volume 11, 1925 October- 1926 January''. Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t3319zt4k?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''Review of the civil administration of Mesopotamia''] by Gertrude L Bell. Issued by the India Office December 1920. HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/reviewofciviladm00iraqrich/page/n2 Archive.org].
*[https://archive.org/details/twoyearsinkurdis00hayw/page/n9 ''Two Years in Kurdistan : Experiences of a Political Officer, 1918-1920''] by W R Hay, Captain, attached 24th Punjabis, Political Dept, Government of India. 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/insurrection-mesopotamia/page/n11/mode/2up ''The Insurrection in Mesopotamia 1920''] by Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer L. Haldane 1922. Archive.org.
:Also see [[Mesopotamia Campaign#Regimental histories and accounts|Regimental histories and accounts]] above for the Manchester Regiment during the 1920 Revolt.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43529/page/n5/mode/2up ''Alarms and Excursions in Arabia''] by Bertram Thomas 1931 Archive.org. Includes "Adventure 1: A Punative Expedition against Marsh Arabs" [1918] and "Adventure II: As a District Officer in the Mesopotamian Insurrection of 1920".
*[https://archive.org/details/mesopotamiadaily00phil ''Mesopotamia: the "Daily Mail" inquiry at Baghdad''] by Sir Percival Phillips 1922 Archive.org
