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Regimental histories and accounts
*''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/thirteenthhussar00dura ''The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War''] by Sir H Mortimer Durand 1921 Archive.org. The Regiment served in Mesopotamia from c July 1916.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027811391 ''With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia : 1916-1917''] by One of its Officers. 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/highlandregiment00blamuoft/page/n7/mode/2up 2nd file] Archive.org. The author is elsewhere stated to be Harold John Blampied, [[73rd Regiment of Foot|2nd Battalion, Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)]].
: ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' [in three Volumes] Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. [https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A69526#page/1/mode/2up ''Volume One''] including 2nd Battalion in [https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A69526#page/230/mode/2up Mesopotamia] page 203. Digital Archive@McMaster University Library.
*[https://archive.org/stream/scottishhistoric16edinuoft#page/312/mode/2up "The Seaforth Highlanders, August 1914 to April 1916"] by H.H.E. Craster pages 309-324 ''Scottish Historical Review 16'', 1919 Archive.org. Includes a Battalion of the Seaforths in Mesopotamia from the end of 1915, taking part in an unsuccessful attempt to relieve Kut.
*[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
 
=====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.
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