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=====Fiction=====**[https://archive.org/details/cu31924013590975 ''On the Road to Bagdad; a Story list-of Townshend's Gallant Advance on the Tigris''-british-military-forces-in-iraq/mode/2up "List Of British Military Forces In Iraq 1928"] by Lieut-Col Brereton 1917. Archive.org. An adventure storyWO 33/1163 from The National Archives, Kew, UK.**[http://wwwassyrianlevies.gutenberginfo/1915-1932.org/ebooks/38714 html ''Carry On! A Story of the Fight for BagdadIraq Levies 1915-1932''] by Herbert Strang 1917 gutenbergBrigadier J Gilbert Browne CMG.orgCBE. An adventure story for younger readersDSO.**[https://archive1932 .org/details/in A transcription.ernet“Assyrian RAF Levies”.dli.2015.72840/page/n3 ''These Men, Thy Friends''] by Edward Thompson 2nd Also available in a reprint edition 1929 Archive.org. He was an Army Chaplain with the 2nd Leicesters, see his account above, and also wrote fictional works with a war background in Palestine.<ref name=TDJ/> **[https://archivewww.naval-military-press.orgcom/detailsproduct/legionofmarching00blacialairaq-levies-1915-1932/page/n7 ''The Legion of Marching MadmenIraq Levies 1915-1932''] by W J Blackledge c 1936 Archive.org. This book is considered to be fiction, although classified by some as a personal narrative, as discussed in a ''Great War Forum'' topicNaval & Military Press.</ref> Maureene. which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.greatwarforumfold3.org/topic/270727-fictionfactionfact-the-legion-of-marching-madmen-w-j-blackledge-onlinecom/ Fictionbrowse/faction251/fact? The Legion of Marching Madmen/ W J Blackledge: Online] hTGb85NZ807HO4jJ8DmZCOdYo ''Great War ForumThe Iraq Levies'' 15 March 2019] (located in Military Books-located by the Search/Iraq). Retrieved 17 March 2019.</ref>
*[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 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.
*[http://archive.org/stream/kutprisoner00bishrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''A Kut Prisoner''] by H. C. W. Bishop, Indian Army Reserve of Officers. 1920 Archive.org
*[http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/report-on-treatment-of-british-prisoners-of-war-in-turkey ''Report on the treatment of British Prisoners of War in Turkey''] Presented to Parliament November 1918. British Library online documents: IOR/L/MIL/7/18737
*[https://archive.org/details/roadtoendor00unkngoog ''The Road to En-Dor; being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in Turkey won their way to freedom''] by E H Jones Lt. IARO, 1920 Archive.org The author, Elias Henry Jones was captured at Kut and had previously been in the [[Indian Civil Service]] in Burma. Biographical details are available below<ref>[http://homefrontmuseum.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/elias-henry-jones/ Elias Henry Jones] homefrontmuseum (accessed 22 July 2014)</ref>
*[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/caughtbyturks00yeatuoft ''Caught by the Turks''] by Francis Yeats-Brown 1919 Archive.org The author was a member of the Royal Flying Corps who was captured near Baghdad in 1915. Also by the same author ''Bengal Lancer'', (1930) which contains a chapter on his time in Mesopotamia prior to his capture: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58995 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208478 Another Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ''Golden Horn'' by Francis Yeats-Brown 1932 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209036 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. "A sketch of the political activities in Turkey from 1908 to the world war, and an account of the author's experiences as a prisoner of war of Turkey. This latter part (chap. V-XI) is a revision of the author's book published in 1919 under title: ''Caught by the Turks''." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Yeats-Brown Wikipedia]
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonerinturkey00stiluoft ''A Prisoner in Turkey''] by John Still 1920 Archive.org. Contains some comments concerning the prisoners from Kut. A book in the ''On Active Service'' Series
*[https://archive.org/details/list-of-british-military-forces-in-iraq/mode/2up "List Of British Military Forces In Iraq 1928"] Archive.org. WO 33/1163 from The National Archives, Kew, UK.
*[http://assyrianlevies.info/1915-1932.html ''Iraq Levies 1915-1932''] by Brigadier J Gilbert Browne CMG. CBE. DSO. 1932 . A transcription. “Assyrian RAF Levies”. Also available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/iraq-levies-1915-1932/ ''Iraq Levies 1915-1932''] Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ807HO4jJ8DmZCOdYo ''The Iraq Levies''] (located in Military Books-located by the Search/Iraq).
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*[https://archive.org/details/wreathofmemories00gosciala/page/62 Mesopotamia] page 62 ''A Wreath of Memories: George Joachim Goschen'' (Viscount) 1917. Archive.org. At the end of 1915, he came with his regiment 1/5th Bn. [[3rd Regiment of Foot|East Kent Regiment]] (TF) from India. He died 19 January 1916 of wounds received 7 January at the [[Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad|battle of Sheikh Saad]].
*[https://archive.org/details/regimentalrecord04dudl ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot). Volume IV 1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria''] by Major C H Dudley Ward 1929 Archive.org.
======Siege of Kut and Prisoner of War accounts======
Includes accounts by Medical Officers and Royal Flying Corps members.
*[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 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.
*[http://archive.org/stream/kutprisoner00bishrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''A Kut Prisoner''] by H. C. W. Bishop, Indian Army Reserve of Officers. 1920 Archive.org
*[http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/report-on-treatment-of-british-prisoners-of-war-in-turkey ''Report on the treatment of British Prisoners of War in Turkey''] Presented to Parliament November 1918. British Library online documents: IOR/L/MIL/7/18737
*[https://archive.org/details/roadtoendor00unkngoog ''The Road to En-Dor; being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in Turkey won their way to freedom''] by E H Jones Lt. IARO, 1920 Archive.org The author, Elias Henry Jones was captured at Kut and had previously been in the [[Indian Civil Service]] in Burma. Biographical details are available below<ref>[http://homefrontmuseum.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/elias-henry-jones/ Elias Henry Jones] homefrontmuseum (accessed 22 July 2014)</ref>
*[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/caughtbyturks00yeatuoft ''Caught by the Turks''] by Francis Yeats-Brown 1919 Archive.org The author was a member of the Royal Flying Corps who was captured near Baghdad in 1915. Also by the same author ''Bengal Lancer'', (1930) which contains a chapter on his time in Mesopotamia prior to his capture: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58995 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208478 Another Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ''Golden Horn'' by Francis Yeats-Brown 1932 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209036 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. "A sketch of the political activities in Turkey from 1908 to the world war, and an account of the author's experiences as a prisoner of war of Turkey. This latter part (chap. V-XI) is a revision of the author's book published in 1919 under title: ''Caught by the Turks''." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Yeats-Brown Wikipedia]
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonerinturkey00stiluoft ''A Prisoner in Turkey''] by John Still 1920 Archive.org. Contains some comments concerning the prisoners from Kut. A book in the ''On Active Service'' Series
=====Naval=====
*''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.
*[https://archive.org/details/kurds-turks-and-arabs-politics-travel-and-research-in-north-eastern-iraq-1919-1925/page/n1/mode/2up ''Kurds Turks and Arabs: Politics, Travel and Research in North-Eastern Iraq 1919-1925''] by C J Edmonds (Cecil John) 1957 Archive.org. Note, text is presented “on its side”, so viewing may be difficult on a fixed screen. C J Edmonds was also the author of ''East and West of Zagros: Travel, War and Politics in Persia and Iraq, 1913-1921'' edited, and with an introduction by Yann Richard 2010. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01015362692 . [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YhewCQAAQBAJ&pg=PR3 Sample pages, Google Books]. [https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/edmonds-c-j Edmonds, C. J] iranicaonline.org
*[https://archive.org/details/the-kurds-and-kurdistan/page/34/mode/1up "Chapter V Iraq between the Wars"] page 35, ''The Kurds And Kurdistan'' by Derk Kinnane 1964 Archive.org
=====Unclassified=====
*[https://archive.org/details/marvellousmesopo00parfrich ''Marvellous Mesopotamia: The World’s Wonderland''] by Joseph T Parfit, Canon of St George’s Jerusalem 1920 Archive.org. Contains a number of chapters on WW1, commencing with “The Causes of the War”. Also [https://archive.org/details/mesopotamiakeyto00parf ''Mesopotamia : the Key to the Future''] by Canon J T Parfit 1917 Archive.org and ''Serbia To Kut'' by Joseph T Parfit 1917 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143207 Archive.org version], mirror from 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.
:*[https://archive.org/stream/T.E.Lawrence/T.%20E.%20Lawrence#page/n109/mode/2up/ Page 99] ''T. E. Lawrence: In Arabia and After'' by Liddell Hart 1934 Archive.org. T E Lawrence accompanied Aubrey Herbert, to negotiate regarding the besieged Kut garrison. Extracts from Lawrence’s description of these proceedings, in a letter dated 18 May [1916] from the website [http://www.acenturyback.com/2016/04/29/lord-dunsany-alarum-and-exeunt-rebelles-aubrey-herbert-and-some-fellow-named-lawrence-at-kut-raymond-asquith-on-depressed-glamor-queens-and-the-pleasures-of-the-breast A Century Back]: Writing the Great War, Day by Day. April 29, 2016. Scroll down. The letter was written to his family,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=549468815232522&id=278254875687252&substory_index=0 29 April 2016: On this day in history] T E Lawrence Society on Facebook. Retrieved 4 August 2016.</ref> see more details.
:: For more about Lawrence, see [[T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)]].
*[https://archive.org/details/messagefrommesop00lawl ''A Message from Mesopotamia''] by the Hon. Sir Arthur Lawley 1917 Archive.org . The author was a Red Cross Commissioner investigating [medical] conditions.
*[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/mesopotamiadaily00phil ''Mesopotamia: the "Daily Mail" inquiry at Baghdad''] by Sir Percival Phillips 1922 Archive.org
* ''The Truth About Mesopotamia Palestine and Syria'' by John de Vere Loder 1923. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.466 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''The Ins and Outs of Mesopotamia'' by Thomas Lyell 1923. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175176 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''Iraq: A Study in Political Development'' by Philp Willard Ireland 1937. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55027 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/Iraq Additional file Archive.org]. Includes chapters on the war period, in addition to the post war years.
* ''Sainyaan'tiila Aat'havand-ii'' by Limaye Go Gan' published 1939. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.366403 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ''Sainyatil Athavani'', or ''War Memoirs'' of Captain Gopal Gangadhar Limaye. Marathi language with an English Introduction. The author was in the Indian Medical Service IMS, 1918-1921. As part of the 87th Punjabis, he saw action in Mesopotamia and was involved in operations against the Kurdistanis in 1919 and in quelling the Arab Rebellion in 1920.
*Also see [[Norperforce]], for books relating to actions in Persia and Transcaucasia, under control of the Army in Mesopotamia.
=====Fiction=====
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924013590975 ''On the Road to Bagdad; a Story of Townshend's Gallant Advance on the Tigris''] by Lieut-Col Brereton 1917. Archive.org. An adventure story.
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38714 ''Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad''] by Herbert Strang 1917 gutenberg.org. An adventure story for younger readers.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72840/page/n3 ''These Men, Thy Friends''] by Edward Thompson 2nd edition 1929 Archive.org. He was an Army Chaplain with the 2nd Leicesters, see his account above, and also wrote fictional works with a war background in Palestine.<ref name=TDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/legionofmarching00blaciala/page/n7 ''The Legion of Marching Madmen''] by W J Blackledge c 1936 Archive.org. This book is considered to be fiction, although classified by some as a personal narrative, as discussed in a ''Great War Forum'' topic.<ref> Maureene. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/270727-fictionfactionfact-the-legion-of-marching-madmen-w-j-blackledge-online/ Fiction/faction/fact? The Legion of Marching Madmen/ W J Blackledge: Online] ''Great War Forum'' 15 March 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2019.</ref>
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