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==Individual accounts==
*Francis Stockdale was deployed to Waziristan in 1919. He was a temporary R. E. officer and served late 1919 to Dec 1921<ref>[http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=96799&#entry907698 Great War Forum]</ref> His book ''Walk Warily in Waziristan'' is the subject of the article [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7325117.stm Why Britons walked warily in Waziristan] by Alastair Lawson 21 April 2008 news.bbc.co.uk with [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7325243.stm photographs]. Available at the [[British Library]]
*John Morris served as an officer in the Indian Army with the 3rd Queen Alexandra’s Own Gurkha Rifles from 1918 until 1934 in Palestine, Afghanistan (the Third Afghan War in 1919), Waziristan and the North West Frontier of India.<ref>[http://koara.lib.keio.ac.jp/xoonips/modules/xoonips/download.php?file_id=14440 John Morris at Keio University 1938-1942] by William Snell, page 2 of the pdf</ref> His autobiography ''Hired to Kill, Some Chapters of Autobiography ''was published in 1960. (London, Rupert Hart-Davis ). "Chapter Fifteen, in which he describes how he and his company were ambushed by Mahsud tribesmen on the frontier is a little masterpiece".<ref> [http://www.unz.org/Pub/Encounter-1961jan-00071 "Times and Lives"] by Stephen Spender in ''Encounter, January 1961'', page 71 .unz.org</ref> Available at the [[British Library]]
*John Archibald Hislop was an officer in the Indian Army, 2nd Battalion 9th Jat Regiment from 1933 . He had a series of postings primarily in the North West Frontier area. Subsequently he was GS02 Waziristan District until c August 1943. His autobiography ''A Soldier’s Story-From the Khyber Pass to the Jungles of Burma: The Memoir of a British Officer in the Indian Army 1933-1947'' was published in 2010. "Readers will learn much interesting detail about operations in Waziristan and Baluchistan before the outbreak of war, tactics needed for protection on long marches - an officer in charge of a flanking picquet might find himself moving over thirty miles per day over mountainous ground for several consecutive days, and all the problems of food supply and water"<ref>[http://www.newhavenpublishing.co.uk/review.html Newhaven Publishing] Dr Anthony Clayton Review for the Sandhurst Foundation</ref> Available at the [[British Library]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Masters John Masters] (Wikipedia) was an officer in the Indian Army from 1934, with the 2nd Battalion [[4th Gurkha Rifles]] from 1935. His autobiography ''Bugles and a Tiger; a Volume of Autobiography'' was published in 1956 and has since been republished under slightly different titles as ''Bugles and a Tiger'', ''Bugles and a Tiger : a Personal Adventure'' and ''Bugles and a Tiger: My Life in the Gurkhas'' . It covers the Waziristan Campaign 1936-39. Passages about the often vicious conflict are quoted in this [http://thedabbler.co.uk/2011/06/with-roses-in-their-long-hair link]<ref>[http://thedabbler.co.uk/2011/06/with-roses-in-their-long-hair With ‘roses in their long hair…’] by Gaw June 8, 2011 thedabbler.co.uk</ref> This book is available at the [[British Library]]. It is also available to read online, refer [[North West Frontier Campaigns#historical books online|below]]
*Graham F Reed was a Signals Officer with a Mountain Gun Regiment based at [[Razmak]] in Waristan in 1945-47. His book is ''Walks in Waziristan'', with an extract [http://www.walksinwaziristan.com/preview In action] from [http://www.walksinwaziristan.com/ Walks in Waziristan]. The first two chapters are available from [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=9CQ_b0jEhzMC&printsec=frontcove Preview Google Books]
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