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*[http://www.asc-centralasia.edu.pk/Issue_64/06_Khyber_during_the_Frontier.html "Khyber during the Frontier Uprising of 1897: Lessons to Learn from the British Policy in the Tribal Areas"] by Dr Javed Iqbal '' Central Asia Journal'' No. 64 [c 2009?] University of Peshawar. Retrieved 11 August 2014
*[http://www.defence.gov.au/ADC/Publications/Commanders/2012/02_Sligo%20paper.pdf "An Historical Analysis of the ‘Incessant Disputes in the Tribal Areas’ (of the North-West Frontier) against the British (and the British Indian Army) from 1893 to 1939"] by Colonel Graeme Sligo, Australian Army. October 2012. defence.gov.au
*[http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a437314.pdf "British Governance of the North-West Frontier (1919 to 1947): A Blueprint for Contemporary Afghanistan?"] by Major Andrew M. Roe British Army. A thesis as part of the requirements for a degree of Master Of Military Art And Science, US Army Command and General Staff College June 2005.
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/home.html Harry’s Sideshows] by Harry Fecitt (kaiserscross.com) detail many NWF campaigns.
*[https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://mecon.nomadit.co.uk/pub/conference_epaper_download.php5?PaperID%3D18627%26MIMEType%3Dapplication/pdf "Tribal Belt and the Defence of British India: A Critical Appraisal of British Strategy in the North-West Frontier during the First World War"] (html version) by Dr. Salman Bangash, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. A paper presented at the 23rd European Conference on South Asian Studies, University of Zurich (Switzerland) 
23 to 26 July 2014. Alternatively, scroll down for a [http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easas/ecsas2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2433 pdf download] of the paper. [https://mecon.nomadit.co.uk/pub/conference_epaper_download.php5?PaperID=18627&MIMEType=application/pdf Direct pdf download]
*[http://peek-01.livejournal.com/23643.html The Life and Death of Lieutenant Neville Rudd Thompson] of the 21st (Empress of India’s) Lancers, by Ross Dix-Peek. Lieutenant Thompson and the 21st Lancers, and their part in the Battle at Shabkadar on the 5 September 1915 on the North West Frontier.
 
*[http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/war-in-the-switzerland-of-asia-swat-valley War in the Switzerland of Asia: Swat Valley]. Online papers from part of the collection of General Sir Frederick Campbell charting two key campaigns in Swat 1915. King’s College London Collections: The Serving Soldier.
*''Royal Air Force Historical Society Journal 48'' 2010. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rafmuseum.org.uk%2Fdocuments%2FResearch%2FRAF-Historical-Society-Journals/Journal_48_Seminar_the_ME_Mespot_Iraq_NW_Frontier_4_FTS.pdf html version], [http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/Research/RAF-Historical-Society-Journals/Journal_48_Seminar_the_ME_Mespot_Iraq_NW_Frontier_4_FTS.pdf pdf] rafmuseum.org.uk. [http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafiles/F1840A3A_5056_A318_A802860440CD93A9.pdf raf.mod.uk version]. Includes "Substitution or Subordination? The Employment of Air Power over Afghanistan and The North-West Frontier, 1910-1939" by Clive Richards pages 63-87.
*[http://storyofwar.com/ A Story of War] blog recording the diaries kept by Colin Diarmid Campbell Dunford Wood (of the 1st Battalion [[17th Regiment of Foot| Leicestershire Regiment]]) from early 1939. Waziristan Campaign.
*[http://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/?p=3641 The kidnapping of Mollie Ellis] from [[Kohat]] cantonment by Afridi tribesmen from the Khyber Pass region 14 April 1923 and the rescue expedition which included Mrs Lilian Starr matron at the [[Peshawar]] Mission Hospital. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/4946412546/ Photographs] from the Illustrated London News (26 May 1923) on Flickr. An account of her rescue mission ''Tales of Tirah and Lesser Tibet'' by Lilian A Starr was published 1924.
 
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7713000/7713192.stm "Waziristan's last soldier"] by Zubeida Malik BBC 8 November 2008 with a [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/programmes_waziristan/html/1.stm slideshow of photographs]. Frank Leeson spent two years commanding 1,000 Khassadars- Waziri soldiers- between 1946 and 1948, the last surviving British officer to have served in North Waziristan.
 
*[http://www.britishbattles.com/north-west-frontier-india/waziristan.htm Waziristan 1894] britishbattles.com
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