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:''Report of the Committee on the Lessons of the Great War'' 13 Oct 1932 includes "Appendix V Mesopotamia" (Details<ref>Greenwoodman. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/54329-official-inquiry-into-conduct-of-ww1/?do=findComment&comment=467922 Official Inquiry into Conduct of WW1] ''Great War Forum'' 19 June 2006. Retrieved 20 June 2020.</ref>.) Also known as the ''Kirke Report'' it is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/report-of-the-committee-on-the-lessons-of-the-great-war/ ''Report of the Committee on the Lessons of the Great War''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19l7X7Fb8A online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain.
*[http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/titleinfo/189330 ''East India (Military): Despatches regarding operations in the Persian Gulf and in Mesopotamia''] [in respect of Indian Expeditionary Force D] presented to both Houses of Parliament HMSO London 1915. Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt.
*''A Handbook of Mesopotamia'' by Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division. 1916-1917. In four volumes, (plus a supplementary volume), the first contains matters of a general nature, the other volumes contain a description of the river and land routes, with a map, and a “Gazetteer of Towns”. See [[Iraq#Historical books online| Iraq - Historical books online]]. Includes a [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233516266/view Map of City of Baghdad] nla.gov.au. *[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206598/page/n777 "Australians in Mesopotamia"] Appendix No.5 ''The Australian Imperial Force In France During the Main German Offensive. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume V'' by C W Bean, pages 703-784. 1937 Archive.org.
=====General histories etc=====
*[https://archive.org/details/bastardwarmeso00bark/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Bastard War: the Mesopotamian Campaign of 1914-1918''] by A. J Barker (Lieut.-Colonel Arthur James Barker) 1967. UK title ''The Neglected War: Mesopotamia, 1914-1918''. Reprinted in 2009 with the title ''The First Iraq War: 1914-1918''. "The best overall account of the Mesopotamian Campaign" (a 2003 opinion).<ref>
[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BxkttmsEs44C&pg=PA35 Page 35] in an article "The Mesopotamian Front! As observed by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Davis US Cavalry 1918", edited by Leo J Daugherty III ''Armor'', Volume 112, Issue 2 March –April 2003 Google Books.</ref> Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Barker was also the author of ''Townshend of Kut : a biography of Major-General Sir Charles Townshend'' 1967.
*[httpshttp://www.archive.org/detailsstream/warincradleworl01egangoog#page/deserthellbritis0000townn9/mode/2up 1up ''Desert Hell : The war in the British invasion cradle of the world Mesopotamia''] by Charles Townshend 2011Eleanor Franklin Egan 1918. Archive.org Books The author was correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post. More details in [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6546/is_51/ai_n29153246/?tag=content;col1 "Writing "Mesopot": Eleanor Franklin Egan on the river to BorrowBaghdad, 1917"] by David Hudson.*[http://Lending Librarywww. This is the USA titlearchive. Published 2010 org/stream/warillustratedal09hammuoft#page/3052/mode/2up "Progress in UK as Mesopotamia"] from ''When God made HellThe 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*''The Long Road to Baghdad'' by Edmund Candler 1919 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/longroadtobaghda00canduoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/longroadtobaghd02cand Volume II]*''British invasion Campaigns in the Nearer East, 1914-1918. From the outbreak of war with Turkey to the Armistice'' by Edmund Dane , Military Correspondent of the ''Westminster Gazette'' 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns01dane Volume I: ''The Days of Adversity''], [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns02dane Volume II: ''The Tide of Victory'']*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030674355?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''My Campaign in Mesopotamia ''] by Major General Sir Charles V F Townshend 1920. London edition. HathiTrust Digital Library. **[http://archive.org/stream/mycampaign00towngoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''My Campaign: Volume Two''] by Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend. 1920 Archive.org. From a New York two volume edition.:''Townshend of Chitral and Kut: Based on the Creation diaries and private papers of Iraq 1914-1921Sir 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. *[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
:''Part II- Maps''. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72/2. Refer Maps above.
*''An Account of the Operations of the 18th (Indian) Division in Mesopotamia December 1917 to December 1918'' by Lieut. Col WE Wilson-Johnston 1920 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/account-of-the-operations-of-the-18th-indian-division-in-mesopotamia-december-1917-to-december-1918/ ''An Account of the Operations of the 18th (Indian) Division in Mesopotamia December 1917 to December 1918''] by Lieut. Col WE Wilson-Johnston. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsqUYaJ6Gh online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in Military Books-located by the Search/India).
*''The “D” Force (Mesopotamia) in the Great War'' by J Fitzgerald Lee 1927 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/d-force-mesopotamia-in-the-great-war/ ''The “D” Force (Mesopotamia) in the Great War''] by J Fitzgerald Lee. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI191uqJWSzz online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain).
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b42328?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''A Chapter of Misfortunes : the Battles of Ctesiphon and of the Dujailah in Mesopotamia, with a summary of the events which preceded them''] by Major-General W. D. Bird 1923 HathiTrust Digital Library
* ''A Brief Outline of the Campaign in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918'' by Roger Evans, 1926 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81412 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll7/id/706 ''Mesopotamia Campaign in the World War''] by George B Hunter. From a lecture delivered at the Army War College in Washington, D.C., 1 April, 1930. Link to pdf download (24 pages) Combined Arms Research Library [CARL] Digital Library [USA].
*[https://archive.org/details/32882019291049-loyaltiesmesopo/page/n5 ''Loyalties Mesopotamia 1914-1917: A personal and Historical Record. From the Outbreak of War to the Death of General Maude''] by Arnold T Wilson 1930. Archive.org. It is also available as a download from [http://www.kurdipedia.org/?lng=8&q=2013110409322492553 Kurdipedia.org] 1936 edition.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000009934342?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Loyalties: Mesopotamia; a personal and historical record, Volume II 1917-1920''] by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson 1931. HathiTrust Digital Library. Possibly not accessible in USA etc. Also available as a download from [http://www.kurdipedia.org/?lng=8&q=2013110409340592554 Kurdipedia.org] 1936 edition. Also published under the title ''Mesopotamia, 1917-1920; a Clash of Loyalties''.
*[https://archive.org/details/mesopotamia031379mbp ''Mesopotamia: The Last Phase''] by Lieut.-Colonel A H Burne Second Edition 1938 (First edition 1936?) Archive.org. From March 1917.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b746003?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Tragedy of Mesopotamia''] by Sir George Buchanan 1938. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59319 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The author was Director-General of Port Administration and River Conservancy at Basra. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Buchanan_(engineer_born_1865) George Buchanan] Wikipedia entry
*[https://archive.org/details/kutdeathofarmy0000mill/page/n3/mode/2up ''Kut, the death of an Army''] by Ronald Millar 1969. Also published under the title [https://archive.org/details/deathofarmysiege0000mill/page/n5/mode/2up ''Death of an Army: the Siege of Kut, 1915-1916''] by Ronald Millar 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/siege00brad ''The Siege''] by Russell Braddon 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Extra wording on cover ''The Forgotten Siege of Kut El Amarah, Mesopotamia, 1916 - A saga of heroism and military blunder, the greatest humiliation suffered by British Arms between Balaclava and Singapore''.
*[https://archive.org/details/nationalarmymuse0000carv/mode/2up ''The National Army Museum book of the Turkish Front 1914-1918 : the Campaigns at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and in Palestine''] by Field Marshal Lord Carver 2004, first published 2003. The Mesopotamia campaign commences [https://archive.org/details/nationalarmymuse0000carv/page/102/mode/2up Chapter 6, page 102]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/deserthellbritis0000town/mode/2up ''Desert Hell : the British invasion of Mesopotamia''] by Charles Townshend 2011. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. This is the USA title. Published 2010 in UK as ''When God made Hell: the British invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq 1914-1921''. (The author is not related to Major General Sir Charles V F Townshend)
*[https://archive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford ''Eden to Armageddon : World War I in the Middle East''] by Roger Ford 2010. Includes [https://archive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford/page/18/mode/2up Part I "Mesopotamia"] page 19. Covers the period to the armistice. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/mode/2up ''The Fall of The Ottomans: The Great War In The Middle East''] by Eugene Rogan 2015. [https://archive.org/details/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/page/n7/mode/2up Contents]. Archive.org.
=====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
:[https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00hall#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia''] compiled by Lieut.-Col. L. J. Hall, RE. 1921 Archive.org
:[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
*''With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia: The Story of Anzacs in Asia'' edited by Keast Burke 1927. Includes Pack Wireless Signal Troops from Australia and New Zealand. NZsappers.org.nz has two digital files/series, the first contains some digital pages which are of very poor quality. The second series of files from nzsappers.org.nz [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-1-70.pdf Pages 1-70], [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-71-132.pdf pages 71-132]; [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-133-206.pdf pages 133-206] .
*''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n129/mode/2up "Mesopotamia"] commences page 111.
=====Regimental histories and accounts=====
*For Indian Army regimental histories, see [[Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force‎|The Guides, (Cavalry and Infantry)]]; [[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]]; [[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]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[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/details/manyfronts0000free/page/n9 "The Fight for the Garden of Eden"], page 7 ''Many Fronts'' by Lewis R Freeman 1918. Archive.org. From a collection of stories and sketches. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_R._Freeman Lewis R. Freeman] Wikipedia. The author was a war correspondent 1915-1917.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206598/page/n777 "Australians in Mesopotamia"] Appendix No.5 ''The Australian Imperial Force In France During the Main German Offensive. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume V'' by C W Bean, pages 703-784. 1937 Archive.org.
*''With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia: The Story of Anzacs in Asia'' edited by Keast Burke 1927. Includes Pack Wireless Signal Troops from Australia and New Zealand. NZsappers.org.nz has two digital files/series, the first contains some digital pages which are of very poor quality. The second series of files from nzsappers.org.nz [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-1-70.pdf Pages 1-70], [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-71-132.pdf pages 71-132]; [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-133-206.pdf pages 133-206] .
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030674355?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''My Campaign in Mesopotamia''] by Major General Sir Charles V F Townshend 1920. London edition. HathiTrust Digital Library.
**[http://archive.org/stream/mycampaign00towngoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''My Campaign: Volume Two''] by Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend. 1920 Archive.org. From a New York two volume edition.
:''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/32882019291049-loyaltiesmesopo/page/n5 ''Loyalties Mesopotamia 1914 -1917: A personal and Historical Record. From the Outbreak of War to the Death of General Maude''] by Arnold T Wilson 1930. Archive.org. It is also available as a download from [http://www.kurdipedia.org/?lng=8&q=2013110409322492553 Kurdipedia.org] 1936 edition.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000009934342?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Loyalties: Mesopotamia; a personal and historical record, Volume II 1917-1920''] by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson 1931. HathiTrust Digital Library. Possibly not accessible in USA etc. Also available as a download from [http://www.kurdipedia.org/?lng=8&q=2013110409340592554 Kurdipedia.org] 1936 edition. Also published under the title ''Mesopotamia, 1917-1920; a Clash of Loyalties''.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b746003?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Tragedy of Mesopotamia''] by Sir George Buchanan 1938. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59319 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The author was Director-General of Port Administration and River Conservancy at Basra. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Buchanan_(engineer_born_1865) George Buchanan] Wikipedia entry
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b42328?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''A Chapter of Misfortunes : the Battles of Ctesiphon and of the Dujailah in Mesopotamia, with a summary of the events which preceded them''] by Major-General W. D. Bird 1923 HathiTrust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/kutdeathofarmy0000mill/page/n3/mode/2up ''Kut, the death of an Army''] by Ronald Millar 1969. Also published under the title [https://archive.org/details/deathofarmysiege0000mill/page/n5/mode/2up ''Death of an Army: the Siege of Kut, 1915-1916''] by Ronald Millar 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/siege00brad ''The Siege''] by Russell Braddon 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Extra wording on cover ''The Forgotten Siege of Kut El Amarah, Mesopotamia, 1916 - A saga of heroism and military blunder, the greatest humiliation suffered by British Arms between Balaclava and Singapore''.
*''The Long Road to Baghdad'' by Edmund Candler 1919 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/longroadtobaghda00canduoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/longroadtobaghd02cand Volume II]
*''British Campaigns in the Nearer East, 1914-1918. From the outbreak of war with Turkey to the Armistice'' by Edmund Dane , Military Correspondent of the ''Westminster Gazette'' 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns01dane Volume I: ''The Days of Adversity''], [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns02dane Volume II: ''The Tide of Victory'']
* ''A Brief Outline of the Campaign in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918'' by Roger Evans, 1926 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81412 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/mesopotamia031379mbp ''Mesopotamia: The Last Phase''] by Lieut.-Colonel A H Burne Second Edition 1938 (First edition 1936?) Archive.org. From March 1917.
*[https://archive.org/details/nationalarmymuse0000carv/mode/2up ''The National Army Museum book of the Turkish Front 1914-1918 : the Campaigns at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and in Palestine''] by Field Marshal Lord Carver 2004, first published 2003. The Mesopotamia campaign commences [https://archive.org/details/nationalarmymuse0000carv/page/102/mode/2up Chapter 6, page 102]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford ''Eden to Armageddon : World War I in the Middle East''] by Roger Ford 2010. Includes [https://archive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford/page/18/mode/2up Part I "Mesopotamia"] page 19. Covers the period to the armistice. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/mode/2up ''The Fall of The Ottomans: The Great War In The Middle East''] by Eugene Rogan 2015. [https://archive.org/details/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/page/n7/mode/2up Contents]. Archive.org.
*For Indian Army regimental histories, see [[Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force‎|The Guides, (Cavalry and Infantry)]]; [[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]]; [[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]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[5th Gurkha Rifles]]; [[4th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers]];
*[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.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://www.archive.org/stream/warincradleworl01egangoog#page/n9/mode/1up ''The war in the cradle of the world Mesopotamia''] by Eleanor Franklin Egan 1918. Archive.org The author was correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post. More details in [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6546/is_51/ai_n29153246/?tag=content;col1 "Writing "Mesopot": Eleanor Franklin Egan on the river to Baghdad, 1917"] by David Hudson.
*[https://archive.org/stream/onroadtokutsoldi00blacrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''On the road to Kut: a soldier's story of the Mesopotamian campaign''] with 56 illustrations and a map. 1917 Archive.org. The author appears to be an officer from India in a Mule Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/manyfronts0000free/page/n9 "The Fight for the Garden of Eden"], page 7 ''Many Fronts'' by Lewis R Freeman 1918. Archive.org. From a collection of stories and sketches. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_R._Freeman Lewis R. Freeman] Wikipedia. The author was a war correspondent 1915-1917.
 
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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”. 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027820442 ''Mons, Anzac and Kut''] by an MP (stated to be Aubrey Herbert) 1919 Archive.org. At Kut, the author was liaison and Intelligence officer to Admiral Wemyss, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Fleet. He was engaged in attempted negotiations with the Turks at the fall of Kut, [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027820442#page/n235/mode/2up page 229], along with T E Lawrence.
:*[https://archive.org/stream/T.E.Lawrence/T.%20E.%20Lawrence#page/n109/mode/2up/ Page 99] ''T. E. Lawrence: In Arabia and After'' by Liddell Hart 1934 Archive.org. T E Lawrence accompanied Aubrey Herbert, to negotiate regarding the besieged Kut garrison. Extracts from Lawrence’s description of these proceedings, in a letter dated 18 May [1916] from the website [http://www.acenturyback.com/2016/04/29/lord-dunsany-alarum-and-exeunt-rebelles-aubrey-herbert-and-some-fellow-named-lawrence-at-kut-raymond-asquith-on-depressed-glamor-queens-and-the-pleasures-of-the-breast A Century Back]: Writing the Great War, Day by Day. April 29, 2016. Scroll down. The letter was written to his family,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=549468815232522&id=278254875687252&substory_index=0 29 April 2016: On this day in history] T E Lawrence Society on Facebook. Retrieved 4 August 2016.</ref> see more details.
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