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*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 junior officer in the [[Royal Signals Corps]] in his early twenties, who was a Signals Officer with a Mountain Gun Regiment based at [[Razmak]] in Waristan Waziristan 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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