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*[https://archive.org/details/bastardwarmeso00bark/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Bastard War: the Mesopotamian Campaign of 1914-1918''] by A. J Barker (Lieut.-Colonel Arthur James Barker) 1967. UK title ''The Neglected War: Mesopotamia, 1914-1918''. Reprinted in 2009 with the title ''The First Iraq War: 1914-1918''. "The best overall account of the Mesopotamian Campaign" (a 2003 opinion).<ref>
[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BxkttmsEs44C&pg=PA35 Page 35] in an article "The Mesopotamian Front! As observed by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Davis US Cavalry 1918", edited by Leo J Daugherty III ''Armor'', Volume 112, Issue 2 March –April 2003 Google Books.</ref> Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Barker was also the author of ''Townshend of Kut : a biography of Major-General Sir Charles Townshend'' 1967.
*[https://archive.org/details/deserthellbritis0000town/mode/2up ''Desert Hell : the British invasion of Mesopotamia''] by Charles Townshend 2011. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. This is the USA title. Published 2010 in UK as ''When God made Hell: the British invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq 1914-1921''.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101048260184?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''Report of the Commission appointed by Act of Parliament to enquire into the Operations of War in Mesopotamia. Together with a separate report by Commander J. Wedgwood and appendices'']. Presented to Parliament. HMSO 1917. HathiTrust Digital Library. [http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/structure/188193 Menadoc at Bibliothek.uni-halle.de version]. [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x0000b2 Qatar Digital Library version]
:Note, this report also contains the Vincent Bingley report into the medical situation as Appendix I. In addition, separately [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206243 ''Appendices To The Report Of The Commission For Medical Arrangements In Mesopotamia Vol-II (July 1916)'']. Archive.org. Volume 1 of these Appendices does not appear to be available online, (National Archives reference CAB19/27).
:: For more about Lawrence, see [[T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)]].
*[https://archive.org/stream/besiegedinkutaft00barb#page/n7/mode/2up ''Besieged in Kut, and after''] by Major Charles Harrison Barber I M S [Indian Medical Service] 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/capturedatkutpri0000spac/mode/2up ''Captured at Kut. Prisoner of the Turks. The Great War Diaries of Colonel W C Spackman''] edited by Tony Spackman 2008 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. William Collis Spackman, Indian Medical Service was then a young Regimental Medical Officer with the [[48th Bengal Pioneers|48th Pioneers]], Indian Army.
*[https://archive.org/details/inkutcaptivitywi00sand ''In Kut and Captivity : with the Sixth Indian Division''] by Major E W G Sandes 1919 Archive.org
:[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1924-September.pdf ''The Royal Engineers Journal'' Vol. XXXVIII No 3, September 1924] Scroll to “The "The decision to Defend Kut-El-Amarah " by Major EWC Sandes RE, page 423. nzsappers.org.nz
: ''Tales of Turkey'' by Major E W C Sandes 1924. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284373 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[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 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61410 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/tobagdadwithbrit00clar ''To Bagdad with the British''] by Arthur Tillotson Clark, 1918 Archive.org. The author, an American undergraduate student, volunteered to work with the YMCA in Mesopotamia, where he ran a YMCA hut in various locations, following the troops.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromgallipolitob00ewinuoft ''From Gallipoli to Baghdad''] by William Ewing, Chaplain to the Forces 1917 Archive.org
*''A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919 [https://archive.org/details/historyofbritish0000angl_a6v0 Volume 6 1914-1918 Mesopotamia''] by The Marquess of Anglesey 1995 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/thirteenthhussar00dura ''The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War''] by Sir H Mortimer Durand 1921 Archive.org. The Regiment served in Mesopotamia from c July 1916.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027811391 ''With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia : 1916-1917''] by One of its Officers. 1918 Archive.org. The author is elsewhere stated to be Harold John Blampied, [[73rd Regiment of Foot|2nd Battalion, Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)]].
