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:*[https://archive.org/stream/reviewofappliede51917comm#page/22/mode/2up "The Control of Flies and Vermin in Mesopotamia"] page 23 ''The Review of Applied Entomology Volume V 1917'' Archive.org.*[http://archive.org/stream/inmesopotamia00swayuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''In Mesopotamia''] by Martin Swayne (real name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Nicoll Maurice Nicoll]), illustrated by the author. 1917 Archive.org. The author was a doctor in the British Army working in a mobile hospital. **[https://archive.org/stream/inmesopotamia00nico#page/50/mode/2up/ "Heat-Stroke"] Chapter IV page 51 ''In Mesopotamia'' by Martin Swayne (real name Maurice Nicoll) 3rd edition 1918 Archive.org. Heatstroke was also known as sunstroke, and occasionally as insolation or siriasis.
=====Unclassified=====
*[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.
:: For more about Lawrence, see [[T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)]].
*[https://archive.org/stream/besiegedinkutaft00barb#page/n7/mode/2up ''Besieged in Kut, and after''] by Major Charles Harrison Barber I M S [Indian Medical Service] 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/capturedatkutpri0000spac/mode/2up ''Captured at Kut. Prisoner of the Turks. The Great War Diaries of Colonel W C Spackman''] edited by Tony Spackman 2008 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. William Collis Spackman, Indian Medical Service was then a young Regimental Medical Officer with the [[48th Bengal Pioneers|48th Pioneers]], Indian Army.
*[https://archive.org/details/inkutcaptivitywi00sand ''In Kut and Captivity : with the Sixth Indian Division''] by Major E W G Sandes 1919 Archive.org
:[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1924-September.pdf ''The Royal Engineers Journal'' Vol. XXXVIII No 3, September 1924] Scroll to "The decision to Defend Kut-El-Amarah" by Major EWC Sandes RE, page 423. nzsappers.org.nz
: ''Tales of Turkey'' by Major E W C Sandes 1924. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284373 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b302550?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Turkey in Travail: the Birth of a New Nation''] by Harold Armstrong (Lately Assistant and Acting Military Attache to the High Commissioner , Constantinople) 1925 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61410 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The initial chapters cover the fall of Kut and the author’s experiences as POW in Turkey. He appears to have then been an officer in an Indian Army regiment.
*[http://archive.org/stream/kutprisoner00bishrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''A Kut Prisoner''] by H. C. W. Bishop, Indian Army Reserve of Officers. 1920 Archive.org
*[http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/report-on-treatment-of-british-prisoners-of-war-in-turkey ''Report on the treatment of British Prisoners of War in Turkey''] Presented to Parliament November 1918. British Library online documents: IOR/L/MIL/7/18737
*[https://archive.org/details/roadtoendor00unkngoog ''The Road to En-Dor; being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in Turkey won their way to freedom''] by E H Jones Lt. IARO, 1920 Archive.org The author, Elias Henry Jones was captured at Kut and had previously been in the [[Indian Civil Service]] in Burma. Biographical details are available below<ref>[http://homefrontmuseum.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/elias-henry-jones/ Elias Henry Jones] homefrontmuseum (accessed 22 July 2014)</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/secretsofkuttit00mous ''The Secrets of a Kuttite, an Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue''] by Captain E O Mousley, RFA 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/caughtbyturks00yeatuoft ''Caught by the Turks''] by Francis Yeats-Brown 1919 Archive.org The author was a member of the Royal Flying Corps who was captured near Baghdad in 1915. Also by the same author ''Bengal Lancer'', (1930) which contains a chapter on his time in Mesopotamia prior to his capture: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58995 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208478 Another Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ''Golden Horn'' by Francis Yeats-Brown 1932 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209036 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. "A sketch of the political activities in Turkey from 1908 to the world war, and an account of the author's experiences as a prisoner of war of Turkey. This latter part (chap. V-XI) is a revision of the author's book published in 1919 under title: ''Caught by the Turks''." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Yeats-Brown Wikipedia]
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonerinturkey00stiluoft ''A Prisoner in Turkey''] by John Still 1920 Archive.org. Contains some comments concerning the prisoners from Kut. A book in the ''On Active Service'' Series
*[http://archive.org/stream/inmesopotamia00swayuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''In Mesopotamia''] by Martin Swayne (real name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Nicoll Maurice Nicoll]), illustrated by the author. 1917 Archive.org. The author was a doctor in the British Army working in a mobile hospital.
*[https://archive.org/details/messagefrommesop00lawl ''A Message from Mesopotamia''] by the Hon. Sir Arthur Lawley 1917 Archive.org . The author was a Red Cross Commissioner investigating [medical] conditions.
*[https://archive.org/details/tobagdadwithbrit00clar ''To Bagdad with the British''] by Arthur Tillotson Clark, 1918 Archive.org. The author, an American undergraduate student, volunteered to work with the YMCA in Mesopotamia, where he ran a YMCA hut in various locations, following the troops.
*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-i-naval-staff-monographs ''World War I Naval Staff Monographs]''. Select ''Volume 4: Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf'' to download a pdf. Published London July 1921. Royal Australian Navy website (Select Media Room/Publications/World War I Naval Staff Monographs). This publication is also available to read online at the [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023813250.0x00000b Qatar Digital Library]. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73. Click on 'About this record' to see List of Maps.
*''History of the Great War based on official documents: Naval Operations''.Volumes I-III by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, Volumes IV-V by Henry Newbolt. Published 1920-1931. Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations03corb Volume III] Includes Mesopotamia. [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations04corb Volume IV], includes Mesopotamia. [http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.net] has transcribed editions which additionally contain maps from a separate case for Volume III.
: A revised second edition was published for Volume 3 1940, whose dustjacket cover states "Important revisions" including in respect of the Dardanelles and Mesopotamia.<ref>MartH. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/61344-rarest-book/?do=findComment&comment=2829724 Rarest book?] post 869, page 35 ''Great War Forum'' 12 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.</ref>. A facsimile reprint of the 2nd edition of Volume 3 was reprinted by Imperial War Museum/Battery Press in 1995 (available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011725482) and it is possible that the reprints available from Naval & Military Press, which are in turn available on the Ancestry owned pay website [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19n_VjuTiC fold.3], (located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain) contain the revised editions.
→External links
*[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
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744277?urlappend=%3Bseq=242 "Casualties in the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, November 1914 to December 1918"] page 218 ''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services: Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War'' by Major T. J. Mitchell and Miss G. M. Smith. 1931 HathiTrust Digital Library
* See next section for an account of the 33rd Motor Ambulance Convoy.
=====Corps histories and accounts=====
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromgallipolitob00ewinuoft ''From Gallipoli to Baghdad''] by William Ewing, Chaplain to the Forces 1917 Archive.org
*''A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919 [https://archive.org/details/historyofbritish0000angl_a6v0 Volume 6 1914-1918 Mesopotamia''] by The Marquess of Anglesey 1995 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[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/regimentalrecord04dudl ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot). Volume IV 1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria''] by Major C H Dudley Ward 1929 Archive.org.
=====Naval=====*''History of the Great War based on official documents: Naval Operations''.Volumes I-III by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, Volumes IV-V by Henry Newbolt. Published 1920-1931. Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/dwellerinmesopot00maxw navaloperations03corb ''A Dweller in Volume III] Includes Mesopotamia being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden. [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations04corb Volume IV], with sketches''] includes Mesopotamia. by Donald Maxwell 1921 Archive[http://www.orgnaval-history. The authornet/artist went to Mesopotamia index.htm Naval-History.net] has transcribed editions which additionally contain maps from a separate case for Volume III.: A revised second edition was published for Volume 3 1940, whose dustjacket cover states "Important revisions" including in respect of the Imperial War MuseumDardanelles and Mesopotamia. Also see the book below ''The Naval Front''<ref>MartH.*[https://archivewww.greatwarforum.org/detailstopic/61344-rarest-book/warbagdadrailway00jast ?do=findComment&comment=2829724 Rarest book?] post 869, page 35 ''The Great War and Forum'' 12 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.</ref>. A facsimile reprint of the Bagdad Railway; 2nd edition of Volume 3 was reprinted by Imperial War Museum/Battery Press in 1995 (available at the story of Asia Minor British Library UIN: BLL01011725482) and its relation to it is possible that the reprints available from Naval & Military Press, which are in turn available on the present conflict''Ancestry owned pay website [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19n_VjuTiC fold.3] , (located in Military Books-located by Morris Jastrow 1917 Archivethe Search/Britain) contain the revised editions.org*[httpshttp://archivewww.navy.gov.orgau/streammedia-room/cradleofwar00wood#pagepublications/n327world-war-i-naval-staff-monographs ''World War I Naval Staff Monographs]''. Select ''Volume 4: Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf'' to download a pdf. Published London July 1921. Royal Australian Navy website (Select Media Room/modePublications/2up "The Baghdad Railway and World War I Naval Staff Monographs). This publication is also available to read online at the War"] with [httpshttp://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023813250.0x00000b Qatar Digital Library].orgIOR/streamL/cradleofwar00wood#pageMIL/n32617/mode15/1up Map] page 271 73. Click on 'About this record'The Cradle to see List of the War: The Near East and Pan-Germanism'' by Henry Charles Woods 1918 ArchiveMaps.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/navyinmesopotami00catouoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Navy in Mesopotamia, 1914 to 1917''] by Conrad Cato [Cyril Cox RNR] 1917 Archive.org. Cox served aboard the sloop Odin, which was able to navigate the lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
*[https://archive.org/stream/navalfront00maxwuoft#page/148/mode/2up "The Navy in the East"] page 148 ''The Naval Front'' by Gordon S Maxwell, Lieut. RNVB illustrated by Donald Maxwell, Lieut. RNVB 1920 Archive.org
*[http://www.naval-history.net/WW1Books-Sources-Navy_Records-Naval%20Review.htm World War 1 at Sea - Contemporary Accounts: ''The Navy Records Society'' and ''The Naval Review''] Scroll down to Part 2, ''Naval Review'' letter M “Mesopotamia & Persian Gulf”, then access the articles mentioned in the ''Naval Review'' Archives. naval-history.net. Includes
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20160803082140/http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1920s/1923-1.pdf "The Tigris Above Baghdad"] by Lieut-Comr. A S Elwell-Sutton RN. Scroll to item 15 page 153 ''The Naval Review'' February 1923 Vol. XI No. I, produced by The Naval Society. Now an archived webpage. Details of the Caddisfly, one of the 'Fly' class gunboats.
*[https://archive.org/stream/JRNMSVOL4Images/JRNMS_VOL_4#page/n527/mode/2up "The First Commission of HMS Firefly"] by Staff Surgeon FG Hitch RN ''JRNMS'' Volume 4, 1918 Archive.org. One of the 'Fly' class gunboats. Also details of other craft on the river Tigris.
*''Tigris Gunboats : a narrative of the Royal Navy's co-operation with the military forces in Mesopotamia from the beginning of the war to the capture of Baghdad (1914-17)'' by Vice-Admiral Wilfrid Nunn 1932 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/tigris-gunboats-a-narrative-of-the-royal-navys-co-operation-with-the-military-forces-in-mesopotamia-from-the-beginning-of-the-war-to-the-capture-of-baghdad-1914-1917/ ''Tigris Gunboats: A Narrative Of The Royal Navy’s Co-Operation With The Military Forces In Mesopotamia From The Beginning Of The War To The Capture Of Baghdad (1914-1917)''] by Vice-Admiral Wilfrid Nunn, first published 1932. Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19j4MlTv7n ''Tigris Gunboats''] (located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain).
=====In the Air=====
*''War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force'', Volumes II-VI by H A Jones. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V] 1935, [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI] 1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. Include Mesopotamia. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/australianflying00cutluoft ''The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914-1918''] by F M Cutlack 1933 (first published 1923) ''The Official History of Australia in the War: Volume VIII'' Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/incloudsabovebag00tennrich ''In the Clouds above Baghdad, being the Records of an Air Commander''] by Lt-Col J E Tennant 1920 Archive.org
*''History of No.30 Squadron RAF. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919'' [catalogued] by Major J.Everidge, R.A.F. is available as a reprint<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-no-30-squadron-raf-egypt-and-mesopotamia-1914-to-1919/ ''History of No.30 Squadron RAF. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919''] Naval & Military Press.</ref> of an original Air Ministry Historical Branch typed document, probably first published as a reprint c 2004, which in turn is available as an online book on the [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8RjXJU2phiOmLuyYn Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com] located in Military Books-located by the Search/Egypt.
=====Unclassified=====
*[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.
:: For more about Lawrence, see [[T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)]].
*[https://archive.org/stream/besiegedinkutaft00barb#page/n7/mode/2up ''Besieged in Kut, and after''] by Major Charles Harrison Barber I M S [Indian Medical Service] 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/capturedatkutpri0000spac/mode/2up ''Captured at Kut. Prisoner of the Turks. The Great War Diaries of Colonel W C Spackman''] edited by Tony Spackman 2008 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. William Collis Spackman, Indian Medical Service was then a young Regimental Medical Officer with the [[48th Bengal Pioneers|48th Pioneers]], Indian Army.
*[https://archive.org/details/inkutcaptivitywi00sand ''In Kut and Captivity : with the Sixth Indian Division''] by Major E W G Sandes 1919 Archive.org
:[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1924-September.pdf ''The Royal Engineers Journal'' Vol. XXXVIII No 3, September 1924] Scroll to "The decision to Defend Kut-El-Amarah" by Major EWC Sandes RE, page 423. nzsappers.org.nz
: ''Tales of Turkey'' by Major E W C Sandes 1924. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284373 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b302550?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Turkey in Travail: the Birth of a New Nation''] by Harold Armstrong (Lately Assistant and Acting Military Attache to the High Commissioner , Constantinople) 1925 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61410 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The initial chapters cover the fall of Kut and the author’s experiences as POW in Turkey. He appears to have then been an officer in an Indian Army regiment.
*[http://archive.org/stream/kutprisoner00bishrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''A Kut Prisoner''] by H. C. W. Bishop, Indian Army Reserve of Officers. 1920 Archive.org
*[http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/report-on-treatment-of-british-prisoners-of-war-in-turkey ''Report on the treatment of British Prisoners of War in Turkey''] Presented to Parliament November 1918. British Library online documents: IOR/L/MIL/7/18737
*[https://archive.org/details/roadtoendor00unkngoog ''The Road to En-Dor; being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in Turkey won their way to freedom''] by E H Jones Lt. IARO, 1920 Archive.org The author, Elias Henry Jones was captured at Kut and had previously been in the [[Indian Civil Service]] in Burma. Biographical details are available below<ref>[http://homefrontmuseum.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/elias-henry-jones/ Elias Henry Jones] homefrontmuseum (accessed 22 July 2014)</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/secretsofkuttit00mous ''The Secrets of a Kuttite, an Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue''] by Captain E O Mousley, RFA 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/caughtbyturks00yeatuoft ''Caught by the Turks''] by Francis Yeats-Brown 1919 Archive.org The author was a member of the Royal Flying Corps who was captured near Baghdad in 1915. Also by the same author ''Bengal Lancer'', (1930) which contains a chapter on his time in Mesopotamia prior to his capture: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58995 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208478 Another Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ''Golden Horn'' by Francis Yeats-Brown 1932 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209036 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. "A sketch of the political activities in Turkey from 1908 to the world war, and an account of the author's experiences as a prisoner of war of Turkey. This latter part (chap. V-XI) is a revision of the author's book published in 1919 under title: ''Caught by the Turks''." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Yeats-Brown Wikipedia]
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonerinturkey00stiluoft ''A Prisoner in Turkey''] by John Still 1920 Archive.org. Contains some comments concerning the prisoners from Kut. A book in the ''On Active Service'' Series
*[https://archive.org/details/messagefrommesop00lawl ''A Message from Mesopotamia''] by the Hon. Sir Arthur Lawley 1917 Archive.org . The author was a Red Cross Commissioner investigating [medical] conditions.
*[https://archive.org/details/tobagdadwithbrit00clar ''To Bagdad with the British''] by Arthur Tillotson Clark, 1918 Archive.org. The author, an American undergraduate student, volunteered to work with the YMCA in Mesopotamia, where he ran a YMCA hut in various locations, following the troops.
*[https://archive.org/details/dwellerinmesopot00maxw ''A Dweller in Mesopotamia being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden, with sketches''] by Donald Maxwell 1921 Archive.org. The author/artist went to Mesopotamia for the Imperial War Museum. Also see the book below ''The Naval Front''.
*[https://archive.org/details/warbagdadrailway00jast ''The War and the Bagdad Railway; the story of Asia Minor and its relation to the present conflict''] by Morris Jastrow 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/cradleofwar00wood#page/n327/mode/2up "The Baghdad Railway and the War"] with [https://archive.org/stream/cradleofwar00wood#page/n326/mode/1up Map] page 271 ''The Cradle of the War: The Near East and Pan-Germanism'' by Henry Charles Woods 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/WarInTheDesertJohnBagotGlubb/mode/2up ''War In The Desert: An R. A. F. Frontier Campaign''] by John Bagot Glubb 1960. Archive.org Mainly about Iraq in the 1920s.
:[https://archive.org/details/arabianadventure0000glub ''Arabian Adventures : Ten years of joyful service''] by John Glubb (Sir John Bagot Glubb) 1978. The period from 1920, when he was posted as a member of the Royal Engineers. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bagot_Glubb John Bagot Glubb] Wikipedia.
