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**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023514019.0x00000b ''Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917: Part I – Report''] Compiled by officers of the Staff College Quetta 1925 IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72/1
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*Videos: ''World War One Through Arab Eyes'' by Tunisian writer and broadcaster Malek Triki.<ref>[https://passtheknowledge.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/documentary-world-war-one-through-arab-eyes-episode-one-the-arabs-video/ PassTHE knowledge] by Akhi Soufyan</ref> Al Jazeera English. YouTube videos. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuzhZkvbbHc Episode One: The Arabs] . They fought as conscripts for the European colonial powers occupying Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia – and for the Ottomans on the side of Germany and the Central Powers. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WvNAH1YA-g Episode two: The Ottomans]. Includes the history of the Ottoman-Germany relationship. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLOzdYAMEkU Episode three: The New Middle East]. Includes the way Britain and France divided the former Ottoman Empire between them.
====Maps====
*[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023193665.0x000001 ''Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917: Part II-Maps''] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72/2. Qatar Digital Library
* Also see Historical books online, following.
====Historical books online====
*''History Of The Great War: The Campaign In Mesopotamia 1914-1918 Volumes I-IV'' by F J Moberly. 1923-1927.
:Volume II is also available on Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/n3/mode/2up Volume II], [http://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/n7/mode/2up Contents], [http://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/538/mode/2up Index]. [https://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/n3/mode/1up '''Map''': Middle East] and [https://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/n627/mode/1up '''Maps''' 8-9, 11, 13-17, 19-20]. [https://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/n18/mode/1up Description of Maps]
: Links to pdfs [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/285028 Vol I], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/285005 Vol II], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/285017 Vol III], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210669 Vol IV] Digital Library of India. Archive.org DLI versions: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210666 Volume I , with maps, a different DLI file], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210668 Vol III, with maps, a different DLI file], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210669 Vol IV, with maps].
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023514019.0x00000b ''Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917: Part I – Report''] Compiled by officers of the Staff College Quetta 1925. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72/1 Qatar Digital Library
:''Part II- Maps''. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72/2. Refer Maps above.
*[http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/titleinfo/189330 ''East India (Military): Despatches regarding operations in the Persian Gulf and in Mesopotamia''] [in respect of Indian Expeditionary Force D] presented to both Houses of Parliament HMSO London 1915. Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt.
*''A Handbook of Mesopotamia'' by Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division. 1916-1917. In four volumes, (plus a supplementary volume), the first contains matters of a general nature, the other volumes contain a description of the river and land routes, with a map, and a “Gazetteer of Towns”. See [[Iraq#Historical books online| Iraq - Historical books online]]. Includes a [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233516266/view Map of City of Baghdad] nla.gov.au.
*[http://archive.org/stream/navyinmesopotami00catouoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Navy in Mesopotamia, 1914 to 1917''] by Conrad Cato 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/navalfront00maxwuoft#page/148/mode/2up "The Navy in the East"] page 148 ''The Naval Front'' by Gordon S Maxwell, Lieut. RNVB illustrated by Donald Maxwell, Lieut. RNVB 1920 Archive.org
*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-i-naval-staff-monographs ''World War I Naval Staff Monographs]''. Select ''Volume 4: Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf'' to download a pdf. Published London July 1921. Royal Australian Navy website (Select Media Room/Publications/World War I Naval Staff Monographs). This publication is also available to read online at the [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023813250.0x00000b Qatar Digital Library]. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73. Click on 'About this record' to see List of Maps.
*''History of the Great War based on official documents: Naval Operations''.Volumes I-III by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, Volumes IV-V by Henry Newbolt. Published 1920-1931. Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations03corb Volume III] Includes Mesopotamia. [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations04corb Volume IV], includes Mesopotamia. [http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.net] has transcribed editions which additionally contain maps from a separate case for Volume III.
*[http://www.naval-history.net/WW1Books-Sources-Navy_Records-Naval%20Review.htm World War 1 at Sea - Contemporary Accounts: ''The Navy Records Society'' and ''The Naval Review''] Scroll down to Part 2, ''Naval Review'' letter M “Mesopotamia & Persian Gulf”, then access the articles mentioned in the ''Naval Review'' Archives. naval-history.net. Includes
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t9c54969p?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''The Liberator of Mesopotamia''] [Lieut.-General Sir Stanley Maude] by Basil Mathews 1918 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*Official Despatches from ''The London Gazette'' and details of some Official Documents digitised by the British Library, and other digitised material, are linked from [http://warletters.net/battles/mesopotamia/ Mesopotamia In The First World War] warletters.net. For despatches from ''The London Gazette'' from 1919, see further below.
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/ Qatar Digital Library] Digitisation of content from the British Library’s India Office Records Collection. When looking at a book file, to select a particular page, click on “View all items”. Downloads also available.
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00019c ''Report by Brigadier W. S. Delamain, C.B., D.S.O., on the operations of the Indian Expeditionary Force "D" up to 14th November 1914''] published by the General Staff, India (Government Central Branch Press, Simla: 1916) IOR/L/MIL/17/15/88
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x0001a3 ''Report on the Operations in the Vicinity of Shaiba 12th-14th April 1915''] Simla: General Staff India, 1915. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/95
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x0001a5 ''Report from Gen Sir John Eccles Nixon, Commanding I.E.F. 'D', on the Operations on the Euphrates 26th June-25th July 1915 (including the battle of Nasiriyah)''] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/97. Click on "About this record" to see List of Maps
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x0001ad ''Report from Lieut-General Sir P. H. N. Lake K.C.B., K.C.M.G. Commanding I.E.F. "D" on the Defence of Kut-Al-Amarah under Major-General C. V. F. Townshend, C.B., D.S.O., 3 December 1915-29 April 1916''] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/105
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023442330.0x000002 ''Short memorandum on the inception, difficulties and results of the Mesopotamian Campaign''] printed by the General Staff, India (Simla, 1916) IOR/L/MIL/17/15/76
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023464681.0x000002 ''Mesopotamian Transport Commission. Report of the Commission appointed by the Government of India... to enquire into questions connected with the organisation and administration of the Railway and River Transport in Mesopotamia''] 1918. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/125/1. This book is also available to read online on the Digital Library of India website, as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/206468 pdf download]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206468 Archive.org version].
***[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023203943.0x000001 2 Maps] issued with the report including "Railway Map of Basra and Magil". IOR/L/MIL/17/15/125/2. Qatar Digital Library.
