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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/175378 ''Adventures in Turkey and Russia''] by E H Keeling, London 1924. Pdf download, Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175378 Archive.org version]. The author was captured at Kut, and the initial chapter details the the very poor medical condition of many of those captured. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Keeling Edward Keeling] Wikipedia. He was in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers.
:[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi205edinuoft#page/682/mode/2up "How British Prisoners Left Turkey"] by Lieutenant-Colonel E H Keeling page 682 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' January-June 1919, Volume 205 Archive.org. The practical difficulties associated with the repatriation of prisoners of war.
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*[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5362C4RD9uk/Ug1O52l5NgI/AAAAAAAAPA4/F38OXgUwk8A/s1600/1915+place+names-14.jpg Map: place names in East and South East of Ottoman Domain with Latin alphabet, before 1915: Sivas region]. From website Mavi Boncuk, ([http://boncuk1.rssing.com/chan-23614969/all_p4.html page 4], 08/15/13 scroll down). This is only one of a series maps which may be downloaded from the 08/15/13 post on page 4, or [https://app.box.com/s/n304osmvwcjl7tie9m1r direct pdf link, 16 pages, including the Adana region].
*[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1916/oct/12/british-prisoners-of-war British Prisoners Of War] House of Commons 12 October 1916. Lists the location of where British prisoners are detained in Turley. hansard.millbanksystems.com
*[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1918/nov/14/repatriation-of-prisoners-of-war Repatriation Of Prisoners Of War] Hansard HL Deb 14 November 1918. Includes “As regards Turkey, a considerable number of prisoners have already arrived in Egypt and other districts under our control’… “The bulk of these prisoners will be concentrated at Smyrna, and will be brought home via Italy and France as soon as possible”
:[http://www.levantineheritage.com/note23.htm Diary of Grace Williamson Smyrna 1914-1920]. Includes October-November 1918 entries concerning repatriation of British POWs from Smyrna. levantineheritage.com
:Also see personal accounts in [[Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)#Historical books online|Historical books online]], below.
*Imperial War Museums [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030007535 Catalogue entry: Private Papers of Colonel W C Spackman]: Ts memoir (331pp) covering his service as Regimental Medical Officer to the 48th Pioneers, 6th Indian Division in Mesopotamia, 1914 - 1915, at Kut during the siege, December 1915 - April 1916, and as a prisoner of war in Anatolia, 1916 – 1918. An edited version has been published, ''Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks. The Great War Diaries of Colonel William Spackman''. In August 1916 he was a prisoner in Mosul, Mesopotamia, where there were many deaths.<ref name=Mos/>
*The Liddle Collection at the University of Leeds has a number of books, manuscripts and tapes, including transcripts in its collection, relating to Prisoners of War in Turkey. For catalogue references, use terms such as prisoner, Turkey in the [http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore Search]. Includes a photocopy of the book ''The Sufferings of the Kut Garrison during their March into Turkey as Prisoners of War, 1916-1917'' by F A Harvey, Lt & Q-Mr, published 1922. (The author was in the 2nd Battalion, [[54th Regiment of Foot|Dorsetshire Regiment]], and this book was privately printed after his death in 1921, as a memorial. Another photocopy is available at the Imperial War Museums). Note, the actual items do not appear to be available online.
*"The Baghdad Railway and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1916. A Case Study in German Resistance and Complicity" by Hilmar Kaiser. Chapter 3, page 67, from ''Remembrance and Denial: the Case of the Armenian Genocide'' edited by Richard G Hovannisian 1998. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kiBHkRtRmIIC&pg=PA67 Google Books version], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180505003756/http://www.seyfocenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/HILMA_KAISER_GERMAN_Baghdad_Rail.pdf Archive.org version]. Includes general information about the Baghdad Railway.
====Historical books online====
*Also see [[Mesopotamia Campaign#Historical books online|Mesopotamia Campaign-Historical books online]]
*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/231547886/Rapport-de-MM-Alfred-Boissier-et-Dr-Adolphe-Vischer-sur-leur-inspection-des-camps-de-prisonniers-en-Turquie ''Rapport de MM. Alfred Boissier et Dr Adolphe Vischer sur leur inspection des camps de prisonniers en Turquie''] International Committee of the Red Cross report on inspection of prisoners camps in Turkey, October 1916 to January 1917. There are Contents page at the back of the book, pages 61-62. French language. Scribd.com. Also available through [http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/Camps/Afioun-Kara-Hissar/107/fr/ grandeguerre.icrc.org]
*[http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/report-on-treatment-of-british-prisoners-of-war-in-turkey ''Miscellaneous No. 24 (1918): Report on the Treatment of British Prisoners of War in Turkey'']. Presented to Parliament November 1918. HMSO 1918 IOR/L/MIL/7/18737 British Library. [http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/titleinfo/188396 Alternative version: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt]
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/175378 ''Adventures in Turkey and Russia''] by E H Keeling, London 1924. Pdf download, Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175378 Archive.org version]. The author was captured at Kut, and the initial chapter details the the very poor medical condition of many of those captured. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Keeling Edward Keeling] Wikipedia. He was in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers.:[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi205edinuoft#page/682/mode/2up "How British Prisoners Left Turkey"] by Lieutenant-Colonel E H Keeling page 682 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' January-June 1919, Volume 205 Archive.org. The practical difficulties associated with the repatriation of prisoners of war.*[https://archive.org/stream/besiegedinkutaft00barb#page/n7/mode/2up ''Besieged in Kut, and after''] by Major Charles Harrison Barber I M S [Indian Medical Service] 1918 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/inkutcaptivitywi00sand ''In Kut and Captivity : with the Sixth Indian Division''] by Major EWC E W C Sandes R E 1919 Archive.org:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284373 ''Tales of Turkey''] by Major E W C Sandes 1924. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284373 Archive.org version].*[https://archive.org/details/fromkastamunito00woolgoog caughtbyturks00yeatuoft ''From Kastamuni to Kedos: Being Caught by the Turks''] by Francis Yeats-Brown 1919 Archive.org The author was a Record member of Experiences of Prisoners of War the Royal Flying Corps who was captured near Baghdad in Turkey, 1916-19181915. Also by the same author ''Bengal Lancer'', (1930) which contains a chapter on his time in Mesopotamia prior to his capture: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/58995 Pdf download], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58995 Archive.org version] by ; C L Woolley[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/208478 Another pdf download] Digital Library of India, Capt[https://archive. RFA 1921org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015. 208478 Archive.orgversion]. Note ''Golden Horn'' by Francis Yeats-Brown 1932 is available on the Digital Library of India website with a choice of two pdf downloads [http: Final pages//www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/175964 Download 1], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/209036 Download 2]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209036 Archive.org 2 version] "A sketch of the political activities in Turkey from page 1781908 to the world war, are missing including 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''."List of Orderlies"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Yeats-Brown Wikipedia]
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonersofredde00gwat ''Prisoners of the red desert, being a full and true history of the men of the "Tara"''] by Captain Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams RN 1919 Archive.org. HMS Tara was sunk by a German submarine near Sollum, Egypt in 1915. The surviving crew were handed over to the Senussi, allies of the Turks and were held prisoners at Bir Hakkim (Bir el Hakim) in Libya until rescued in 1916 in dramatic circumstances by British Armoured Cars under the command of the Duke of Westminster. HMS Tara was formerly the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) ship Hibernia, with more details in [http://blog.nrm.org.uk/prisoners-of-the-red-desert/ Prisoners of the Red Desert: Wartime Adventures of LNWR railwaymen] National Railway Museum.
:[https://archive.org/stream/truestoriesofg02mill#page/252/mode/2up "The Tale of the Tara"] page 253 ''True Stories of the Great War, Volume II''. Editor in Chief Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/kutprisoner00bishrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''A Kut Prisoner''] by H. C. W. Bishop, Indian Army Reserve of Officers. 1920 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/prisonerinturkey00stiliala ''A Prisoner in Turkey''] by John Still 1920 Archive.org. The title page contains a handwritten note “Ceylon Civil Service (Forests)”. A book in the ''On Active Service'' Series
:[https://archive.org/details/poemsincaptivity00stiluoft ''Poems in Captivity''] by John Still 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/secretsofkuttit00mous ''The Secrets of a Kuttite, an Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue''] by Captain E O Mousley, RFA 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fromkastamunito00woolgoog ''From Kastamuni to Kedos: Being a Record of Experiences of Prisoners of War in Turkey, 1916-1918''] by C L Woolley, Capt. RFA 1921. Archive.org. Note: Final pages, from page 178, are missing including part of "List of Orderlies".
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b302550?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Turkey in Travail: the Birth of a New Nation''] by Harold Armstrong (Lately Assistant and Acting Military Attache to the High Commissioner , Constantinople) 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61410 Archive.org/DLI version]. The initial chapters cover the fall of Kut and the author’s experiences as POW in Turkey. He appears to have then been an officer in an Indian Army regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/easternnightsand00bottiala ''Eastern Nights--and Flights; a Record of Oriental Adventure''] by Alan Bott 1920 Archive.org The author was a scout pilot in Palestine, who became, after his plane crashed in 1918 a prisoner of the Turks, eventually in Afion-Kara-Hissar in Turkey. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bott Alan Bott] Wikipedia.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89081845935?urlappend=%3Bseq=255 ''The Escaping Club'': "Part II"] [page 241] by A. J. Evans 1922 HathiTrust Digital Library. As a POW the author had escaped from Germany in June 1917. In March 1918, while on a bombing raid in Palestine his plane came down. He was captured by Arabs, along with two others, and subsequently became prisoners of the Turks. Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/241506 pdf download], Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241506 Archive.org version].
*[https://archive.org/details/fourfiftymilesto00john ''Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom''] by Captain M A B Johnston, RGA and Captain K D Yearsley RE 1919 Archive.org. The cover title is ''450 Miles to Freedom''. The authors were at Kastamoni, Changri and Yozgad
*[https://archive.org/details/roadtoendor00unkngoog ''The Road to En-Dor; being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in Turkey won their way to freedom''] by E H Jones Lt. IARO, 1920 Archive.org The author, Elias Henry Jones was captured at Kut and had previously been in the [[Indian Civil Service]] in Burma. Biographical details are available below<ref>[http://homefrontmuseum.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/elias-henry-jones/ Elias Henry Jones] homefrontmuseum (accessed 22 July 2014)</ref>
*[https://archive.org/stream/mysecretservicev00manwrich#page/92/mode/2up "I Visit Asia Minor"] Chapter VI, page 93 ''My Secret Service: Vienna--Sophia--Constantinople--Nish--Belgrade--Asia Minor, etc.'' by 'The Man Who Dined With the Kaiser' 1916. Archive.org. A journey, c January 1916, on the Baghdad Railway from Constantinople to Konia, although a longer journey had been planned. Page 101 briefly mentions 300 French prisoners at Konia. Press reports of the time indicate the author was a special reporter representing the London ''Daily Mail'', and speculate he was a Dutchman.
*[https://archive.org/details/inbrigandshandst00forduoft ''In Brigands' Hands and Turkish Prisons, 1914-1918''] by A Forder 1920 Archive.org The author was an American missionary who was taken prisoner in Jerusalem in November 1914 and jailed by the military. He was a prisoner in Damascus for four years until the British occupation.
