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*[https://archive.org/details/withbothasarmy00robirich ''With Botha's Army''] by J P Kay Robinson 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withbothasmutsin00whitrich ''With Botha and Smuts in Africa''] by W Wittall Late Lieutenant–Commander, RN, Armoured Car Division 1917 Archive.org. Also includes East Africa.
*[https://archive.org/details/generallouisboth1970mein/page/252 "German South-West Africa"] page 253, ''General Louis Botha: a Biography'' by Johannes Meintjes 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/doctorsdiaryinda00walkrich ''A Doctor's Diary in Damaraland''] by Dr H F B Walker , late Captain RAMC 1917 Archive.org. Damaraland was the central portion of German South-West Africa.
*[https://archive.org/stream/truestoriesofg03mill#page/230/mode/2up "Our Escape from German South West Africa"] by Corporal H J McElnea, late of the Imperial Light Horse, South Africa. Page 231, ''True stories of the Great War, Volume III''. Editor in Chief Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917. Archive.org
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER297638 ''Hunting the Hun in British [i.e. German<nowiki>]</nowiki> South West Africa : a series of sketches on the humourous side of the G.S.W.A. campaign''] by W. H. Kirby [1915]. The author served with the Natal Light Horse, and was previously artist [cartoonist] for a newspaper. State Library of Victoria.
*[https://archive.org/details/ReportOnTheNativesOfSouthWestAfricaAndTheirTreatmentByGermanyBlueBook ''Report on the Natives of South West Africa and their Treatment by Germany''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament August 1918, published by HMSO. Archive.org
*[https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8-LtY0s365tRxB0d2 ''The Campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915''] is available on fold3.com, a pay website owned by Ancestry, located in WWII/Military Books/West Africa. This is most likely a Naval & Military Press reprint version of the book by the same title by John Johnston Collyer, originally published Pretoria: Govt. Printer, 1937 (although the front covers differ slightly). The Official S A official South Africa history. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000749862 and in later reprint editions by Imperial War Museums, including Naval & Military Press.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/the-campaign-in-german-south-west-africa-1914-1915/ ''The Campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915''] Naval & Military Pressreprint.</ref>
====Togoland and the Cameroons====
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/716/mode/2up "Doing Her Bit. An Account of a Cruiser’s Operations in the Cameroons"] by Guns.Q.F.C. page 717 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 198 July-December 1915. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/correspondencere00grea ''Correspondence relative to the alleged ill-treatment of German subjects captured in the Cameroons''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament November 1915 HMSO London 1915 Archive.org.
*[https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8-LtY0s36phLNTLGg ''The Great War in West Africa''] by Edmund Howard Gorges, Commandant West African Regt, originally published c 1916, is available on fold3.com, a pay website owned by Ancestry, located in WWII/Military Books/West Africa. This is an online version of a Naval & Military Press reprint edition.<ref> [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/great-war-in-west-africa/ ''Great War in West Africa''] by Edmund Howard Gorges, originally published c 1916. Naval & Military Press reprint.</ref>
====Fiction====
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26642 ''Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force''] by Percy F. Westerman. Illustrator Ernest Prater. 1918 gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/wilmshurstofthef26642gut Archive.org version]
