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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.
:: For more about Lawrence, see [[T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)]].
*[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''.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t9c54969p?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''The Liberator of Mesopotamia''] [Lieut.-General Sir Stanley Maude] by Basil Mathews 1918 HathiTrust Digital Library
*[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.
*''Kalyan Pradeep: Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukhopadhadhaya, I.M.S.-er Jiboni'', by Mokkhoda ['Mokshada'] Debi (1928) [''Kalyan Pradeep: The Life of Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukherji, I.M.S.''] in Bengali. The catalogue entry is ''Kalyan-Pradip'' by Mokshada Debi. There are two book files, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.477826 Archive.org version 1], mirror from Digital Library of India; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.336494 Archive.org version 2], mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''Sainyaan'tiila Aat'havand-ii'' by Limaye Go Gan' published 1939. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.366403 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ''Sainyatil Athavani'', or ''War Memoirs'' of Captain Gopal Gangadhar Limaye. Marathi language with an English Introduction. The author was in the Indian Medical Service IMS, 1918-1921. As part of the 87th Punjabis, he saw action in Mesopotamia and was involved in operations against the Kurdistanis in 1919 and in quelling the Arab Rebellion in 1920.
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*[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
*[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.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t9c54969p?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''The Liberator of Mesopotamia''] [Lieut.-General Sir Stanley Maude] by Basil Mathews 1918 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/liberatorofmesop00math/mode/2up Archive.org version].
*[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
*''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'']
*[https://hdlarchive.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.handle:*[https://archive.netorg/stream/2027T.E.Lawrence/mdpT.%20E.39015030674355?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 20Lawrence#page/n109/mode/2up/ Page 99] ''My Campaign in MesopotamiaT. 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 Major General Sir Charles V F Townshend 1920Day. 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. London edition</ref> see more details. HathiTrust Digital Library:: For more about Lawrence, see [[T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)]]. **[httphttps://archive.org/streamdetails/mycampaigninmeso0000sirc/mycampaign00towngoog#page/n6n11/mode/2up ''My Campaign: Volume Twoin Mesopotamia''] by Major General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers V F Townshend1920. London edition. 1920 Archive.org. From Also available [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030674355?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 HathiTrust Digital Library]. There was also a two volume New York two volume edition1920.
:''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/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
:''Part II- Maps''. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72/2. Refer Maps above.
:[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.
*[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.
*[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/messagefrommesop00lawl ''A Message from Mesopotamia''] by the Hon. Sir Arthur Lawley 1917 Archive.org . The author was a Red Cross Commissioner investigating [medical] conditions.
* See next section for an account of the 33rd Motor Ambulance Convoy.
*''Kalyan Pradeep: Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukhopadhadhaya, I.M.S.-er Jiboni'', by Mokkhoda ['Mokshada'] Debi (1928) [''Kalyan Pradeep: The Life of Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukherji, I.M.S.''] in Bengali. The catalogue entry is ''Kalyan-Pradip'' by Mokshada Debi. There are two book files, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.477826 Archive.org version 1], mirror from Digital Library of India; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.336494 Archive.org version 2], mirror from Digital Library of India.
:Also see External links above for some translated excerpts from this book.
* ''Sainyaan'tiila Aat'havand-ii'' by Limaye Go Gan' published 1939. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.366403 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ''Sainyatil Athavani'', or ''War Memoirs'' of Captain Gopal Gangadhar Limaye. Marathi language with an English Introduction. The author was in the Indian Medical Service IMS, 1918-1921. As part of the 87th Punjabis, he saw action in Mesopotamia and was involved in operations against the Kurdistanis in 1919 and in quelling the Arab Rebellion in 1920.
:Also see External links above for an article about this book.
=====Corps histories and accounts=====
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044076903947?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''With the M. T. in Mesopotamia''] by Brevet Lt.-Col F W Leland RASC 1920 HathiTrust Digital Library. (M.T.= Mechanical Transport, part of the Royal Army Service Corps)
*[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
=====Volunteer and other accounts=====*[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''.
=====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/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.
*[https://archive.org/details/arabbureaubritis0000west ''The Arab Bureau : British policy in the Middle East, 1916-1920''] by Bruce Westrate 1992. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''A History of Iraq'' by Charles Tripp. [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq00char 1st edition, 2000]; [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq0000trip 3rd edition 2007], (2nd edition 2002), [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq00trip 2nd file 2007] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*Also see [[Norperforce]], for books relating to actions in Persia and Transcaucasia, under control of the Army in Mesopotamia.
=====Fiction=====
