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Historical books online
*[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/in.ernet.dli.2015.77401/page/n5/mode/2up ''Shifting Sands''] by Major N N E Bray (Norman Napier Evelyn) 1934 Archive.org. He was originally with the 18th Bengal Lancers.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WXFGDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA23&ots=oMqUy46uiO&dq=Norman%20Napier%20Evelyn%20Bray&pg=PA23 Page 23] ''Behind the Lawrence Legend: The Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt'' by Philip Walker 2018 Google Books.</ref> Initially during WW1 Bray was working under Sir Mark Sykes, and for the Arab Bureau. C October 1917 he returned to France and his regiment. Subsequently he became the Hakim (Governor) of Kerbela, as a part of the British Administration of A. T Wilson in Mesopotamia.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.526657/page/n7/mode/2up ''A Paladin Of Arabia: The Biography of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel G E Leachman… of the Royal Sussex Regiment''] by Major N N E Bray 1936 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Leachman Gerard Leachman] Wikipedia. He was murdered 12 August 1920.
*[https://archive.org/details/32882019307837-theinsurrection ''The Insurrection in Mesopotamia 1920''] by Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer L. Haldane 1922. Archive.org. Missing title page noted, and see "Reviews" underneath the book file for other missing pages. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070503162055/http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/resources/resource%20pages/Mesopotamia/insurrection_mesopotamia.html Another version on Archive.org] (links to a series of pdfs, most of which contain the text ”on its side”, so may be difficult to read on a fixed computer screen.) [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006041251 HathiTrust Digital Library], accessible in North America and limited other areas only.
*[https://archive.org/details/mesopotamiadaily00phil ''Mesopotamia: the "Daily Mail" inquiry at Baghdad''] by Sir Percival Phillips 1922 Archive.org
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