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:[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". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Woolley Leonard Woolley] Wikipedia. He was an archaeologist, in Intelligence during the war, see [https://archive. He wrote an autobiography org/details/in.gov.ignca.36027/page/87/mode/2up Chapter IV, "War Time Memories" page 88] from the book ''As I seem to remember'' (1962). In Agatha Christie’s ''Murder in Mesopotamia'', Dr Leidner, the chief, is a "barely concealed portrait" of Woolley.<ref>
[https://web.archive.org/web/20091025145800/http://www.geocities.com/hvf_win/AGATHA2.htm Lecture to Friends of the British Museum by HVF Winston] 29 January 2002, now an archived webpage. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Murder%20Mesopotamia%29 ''Murder in Mesopotamia''] by Agatha Christie 1936. Archive.org text and audio versions.</ref>
*[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.
