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*[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
*Official Despatches from ''The London Gazette'' and details of some Official Documents digitised by the British Library, and other digitised material, are linked from [http://warletters.net/battles/mesopotamia/ Mesopotamia In The First World War] warletters.net. For despatches from ''The London Gazette'' from 1919, see further below.
*Records from National Archives of India. Mainly day to day short [https://archive.org/details/reports-by-the-general-officer-commanding/mode/1up ''Reports by The General Officer Commanding, Force “ D”, on the Military Situation In Mesopotamia''] late Dec 1915-Jan 1916. Document title "Govt of India Foreign and Political Dept. Secret-War. Proceedings February 1916, Nos 426-467". Archive.org
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/ Qatar Digital Library] Digitisation of content from the British Library’s India Office Records Collection. When looking at a book file, to select a particular page, click on “View all items”. Downloads also available.
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00019c ''Report by Brigadier W. S. Delamain, C.B., D.S.O., on the operations of the Indian Expeditionary Force "D" up to 14th November 1914''] published by the General Staff, India (Government Central Branch Press, Simla: 1916) IOR/L/MIL/17/15/88
**IOR/L/PS/11/121 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/PS/11/121 1917 Political and Secret Annual Files] which includes “Indian Journalists Tour of Mesopotamia” Newspaper articles written in Indian newspapers June 1917
**IOR/L/PS/11/129 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Ior/l/ps/11/129 1917 Political and Secret Annual Files] includes P 4640/1917 The Turkish campaigns in Mesopotamia, Palestine and Hedjaz; P 4700/1917 The War: arrest in Persia of certain Indian Army deserters, case of one Abdul Manun; P 4973/1917 The War: military situation in Turkey
*Official Despatches:For earlier Despatches, refer the website Mesopotamia In The First World War, warletters.net, above in this section.:[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31287/supplement/4739 Despatch by Lieut-General Sir W R Marshall] on the operations of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force from 1st October 1918 to 31st December 1918, dated 1st February 1919. Mesopotamia and NW Persia (page 4743) ''The London Gazette'' 8 April 1919 Supplement: 31287 Page: 4739
:[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31813/supplement/2877 Despatch from Major General Sir George F MacMunn], officiating Commander-In Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, describing events since 1st January 1919, including North Persia, and Southern and Cental Kurdistan, for various operations between March and September 1919. ''The London Gazette'' 5 March 1920 Supplement: 31813 Page: 2877. The actual pages are dated 8 March 1920.
:[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/mesopotamiadaily00phil ''Mesopotamia: the "Daily Mail" inquiry at Baghdad''] by Sir Percival Phillips 1922 Archive.org
* ''The Truth About Mesopotamia Palestine and Syria'' by John de Vere Loder 1923. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.466 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/list-of-british-military-forces-in-iraq/mode/2up "List Of British Military Forces In Iraq 1928"] Archive.org. WO 33/1163 from The National Archives, Kew, UK.
*[http://assyrianlevies.info/1915-1932.html ''Iraq Levies 1915-1932''] by Brigadier J Gilbert Browne CMG. CBE. DSO. 1932 . A transcription. “Assyrian RAF Levies”. Also available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/iraq-levies-1915-1932/ ''Iraq Levies 1915-1932''] Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ807HO4jJ8DmZCOdYo ''The Iraq Levies''] (located in Military Books-located by the Search/Iraq).
* ''The Ins and Outs of Mesopotamia'' by Thomas Lyell 1923. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175176 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/kurds-turks-and-arabs-politics-travel-and-research-in-north-eastern-iraq-1919-1925/page/n1/mode/2up ''Kurds Turks and Arabs: Politics, Travel and Research in North-Eastern Iraq 1919-1925''] by C J Edmonds (Cecil John) 1957 Archive.org. Note, text is presented “on its side”, so viewing may be difficult on a fixed screen. C J Edmonds was also the author of ''East and West of Zagros: Travel, War and Politics in Persia and Iraq, 1913-1921'' edited, and with an introduction by Yann Richard 2010. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01015362692 . [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YhewCQAAQBAJ&pg=PR3 Sample pages, Google Books]. [https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/edmonds-c-j Edmonds, C. J] iranicaonline.org
*[https://archive.org/details/the-kurds-and-kurdistan/page/34/mode/1up "Chapter V Iraq between the Wars"] page 35, ''The Kurds And Kurdistan'' by Derk Kinnane 1964 Archive.org
*[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.
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