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*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/38209 ''Wars and Military Operations on or beyond the borders of British India''] in which the Government of India have been engaged since the year 1849. Presented to Parliament. Her Majesty's Stationery Office [HMSO], London 1900. This document is a listing of the operations, with only minimal details. Pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE-Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India].
*[http://archive.org/stream/frontierwarfare00offigoog#page/n4/mode/2up ''Frontier Warfare 1901''] Official publication Simla. "Notes... written for the assistance of commanders when operating in broken and mountainous ground and are based on the experience gained in late frontier campaigns". Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b5121073?urlappend=%3Bseq=4 ''Small Wars. Their Principles and Practice''] by Colonel C. [Charles] E. [Edward] Callwell. General Staff - War Office. Third Edition , revised 1906. His Majesty's Stationery Office, London. (First edition 1896) ”It is recommended to officers as a valuable contribution on the subject of the conduct of small wars.” HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201641 Archive.org]. [http://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/small-wars-their-principles-and-practice.html A transcribed version] Naval History and Heritage Command, an official U.S. Navy web site. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Small_Wars-_Their_principles_and_practice_%28C._E._Callwell%29.pdf Wikimedia.org pdf]. All 1906 editions.
**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b5121073?urlappend=%3Bseq=487 Sangars] page 469.
*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/38213 ''East India (North-West Frontier). Mahsud-Waziri Operations''] 1902 His Majesty's Stationery Office, London . A report to Parliament, covering correspondence 1899-1902. Pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE-Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India]. Also available [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433000076277?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 HathiTrust Digital Library], where the pages may be rotated if required.
:''Turmoil and Tragedy in India, 1914 and After'' by Lieut.-General Sir George MacMunn 1935. It is catalogued as ''Turmoil The Tragedy In India 1914''. It is available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.177667 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n39/mode/2up "The North West Frontier"], page 9 ''India in 1930-1931'' A statement prepared for presentation to Parliament. Government of India Central Publication Branch 1932. Archive.org.
*''Passing It On: Short Talks on Tribal fighting on the North-West Frontier of India'' by General Sir Andrew Skeen , 3rd edition 1934 (originally published 1932) is available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275472 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. A 2010 reprint edition with annotations titled ''Passing It On: Fighting the Pushtun on Afghanistan's Frontier'' was published by the Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworh Kansas. [https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA549121/mode/2up Archive.org version], [http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/Skeen.pdf pdf]fmso.leavenworth. Note: some of the text may not have been included, at least one probable whole page has been noted.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1960-hired-to-kill-some-chapters-of-autobiography-by-morris-s-pdf/ ''Hired to Kill: Some Chapters of Autobiography''] by Charles John Morris 1960. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, (if the catalogue entry does not have a download, look under 'Books'). John Morris was an officer with the [[3rd Gurkha Rifles]] from 1918 until 1934 in Palestine, Afghanistan (the [[3rd Afghan War|Third Afghan War]] in 1919), Waziristan and the North West Frontier of India.
*[http://www.jstor.org/stable/41355210 "Roads And Motor Transport In India"] by Brigadier-General Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Adviser on Mechanical Transport Services in India, 1915-19. ''Journal of the Royal Society of Arts'' Vol. 68, No. 3529 (July 9, 1920), pp. 541-552 jstor.org. Available to read for free on JSTOR, but first you must register, see [[Miscellaneous tips#Access some articles in the JSTOR subscription website for free|Miscellaneous tips]]. Includes roads in the frontier region, and their military importance.
:"Company of the Damned" by Captain W J Blackledge. An Inside Picture of the Hunted Men’s Militia [Kurram Militia] in India. The story of Digger Craven, second in command. Appeared in issues of the weekly magazine ''Liberty'' from v13n14 1936-4-4. [https://archive.org/details/Liberty_v13n14_1936-4-4.Liberty_Darwination-DPP_/page/n10 Part 1], [https://archive.org/details/Liberty_v15n15_-_1936_-_MacFadden/page/n31 part 2], [https://archive.org/details/Liberty_v13n16_-_1936_-_MacFadden/page/n37 part 3] Archive.org. Further episodes are not available online.
:An examination of Part 1 shows it is an abridged version of "Ants" which in turn is an extract from ''Hell’s Broth Militia''. Note some classify the latter as biography.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HY_4aH5ihhUC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA27 Page 27, entry 319] ''British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published Or Written Before 1951'' by William Matthews. Reprint edition 1964 Google Books</ref> For more about this author, see [[Mesopotamia Campaign#Historical books online|Mesopotamia Campaign - Historical books online - Fiction]].
*[https://archive.org/details/leopardcliff00bree/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Leopard and the Cliff''] by Wallace Breem 1978 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Set in the time of the [[3rd Afghan War]] in 1919.
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