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===Historical books online===
*''History of the Great War: Military Operations, Egypt & Palestine'': [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210672 ''From the Outbreak of War with Germany to June 1917''] by Lieut-General Sir George MacMunn and Captain Cyril Falls HMSO 1928 [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/211976 ''Volume 2 June 1917 to the End of the War: Part 1''] by Cyril B Falls 1930 [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/6782 Volume 2, ''From June 1917 to the End of the War Part II''] by Cyril Falls 1930 . Catalogue links to pdfs. Digital Library of India
:Online maps, either from the above volumes, or from an additional volume are available through the National Library of Australia's [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home Search], using title: Military Operations, Egypt & Palestine/Add limits: Map and Online. From the results select Maps, and Online. Sixteen maps have been noted.
*[https://archive.org/details/australianimperi07gulluoft ''The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine, 1914-1918''] by H S Gullett 1923 Archive.org. ''Volume VII, The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918''. The Preface states “The story… in its bolder features covers the whole British force”.
*''Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 1914–1918 Volume I – Gallipoli, Palestine and New Guinea'' (2nd edition, 1938, first published 1930). [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069845/ Links to pdf downloads] Australian War Memorial website.
*French Official Histories: [http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/arkotheque/inventaires/ead_ir_consult.php?fam=11&ref=FRSHD_AFGG_ead ''Les Armées françaises dans la Grande Guerre''] sga.defense.gouv.fr. Includes ''Tome IX. Les fronts secondaires. Premier volume. Théâtre d'opérations du Levant (Égypte - Palestine - Syrie - Hedjaz); Deuxième volume. Les campagnes coloniales : ...Opérations contre les Senoussis.'' With online maps (Cartes).
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284463 ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II''] by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Link to an Adobe pdf download. Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, including Egypt and Palestine.*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/274726 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War''] by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Includes chapters on the Base in the Levant and Mediterranean [Egypt]; Palestine.
*''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n95/mode/2up Egypt and Palestine] page 77. The following chapter "The Dardanelles, Salonika and Constantinople 1915-1919" also has some references to Egypt.
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-22482 "Weather Controls over the Fighting in Mesopotamia, in Palestine, and near the Suez Canal"] by Robert De C. Ward ''Scientific Monthly'' April 1918 Archive.org
*[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/92596 ''The Operations in Egypt and Palestine, 1914 to June, 1917: illustrating the Field Service Regulations''] by A. Kearsey, Late Lieutenant-Colonel, General Staff. Published Aldershot 1929. State Library of Victoria. (May be slow to open)
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/236469 ''The Palestine Campaigns''] by Colonel A. P. Wavell 1928. Link to a pdf download. Digital Library of India. A book in the series ''Campaigns and their lessons.''
*[https://archive.org/details/despatchesjune1900murruoft ''Sir Archibald Murray’s Despatches, June 1916-June 1917''] [The Commander-In-Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force]. Archive.org
**[http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/files.pl?idnum=2187 Maps from ''Sir Archibald Murray's Despatches''] University of Toronto. These maps are not included in the Archive.org file.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022556629.0x000002# ''The 74th (Yeomanry) Division in Syria and France''] by Major C. H. Dudley Ward 1922 access.bl.uk British Library
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofyeomanrym00teicrich ''The Diary of a Yeomanry M.O. : Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine and Italy''] by Captain O Teichman RAMC (T F) 1921 Archive.org
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/466 ''The Truth About Mesopotamia Palestine and Syria''] by John de Vere Loder 1923. Link to a pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/soldiershandbook00syke ''A soldier's handbook. Palestine and Jerusalem, salient points in the geography, history and present day life of the Holy Land''] by Rev H Sykes, Secretary of the Palestine Mission of the Church Missionary Society c 1917 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/ASoldiersHandbookPalestine 2nd version] with marginally more informative map at rear. Archive.org
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/103291 ''Revolt In The Desert''] by T E Lawrence 1927. Link to a pdf download, Digital Library of India. Other files are available
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofsirrona001290mbp ''The Memoirs Of Sir Ronald Storrs''] 1937 Archive.org. The author worked in Egypt in from 1904, initially in the Egyptian Civil Service, subsequently as Oriental Secretary (British Foreign Office)
**[https://archive.org/stream/memoirsofsirrona001290mbp#page/n319/mode/2up Palestine from December 1917] page 287. The author was in Palestine in December 1917, and subsequently was appointed Military Governor of Jerusalem
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/143207 ''Serbia To Kut''] by Joseph T Parfit 1917. Pdf download, Digital Library of India - full title: ''Serbia to Kut: an account of the War in the Bible Lands'' [Balkans, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia]. An overview of the conflict. The author, then or subsequently, was Canon of St George’s Jerusalem.
*[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.
:[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
