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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77401/page/n5/mode/2up ''Shifting Sands''] by Major N N E Bray (Norman Napier Evelyn) 1934 Archive.org. He was originally with the 18th Bengal Lancers.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WXFGDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA23&ots=oMqUy46uiO&dq=Norman%20Napier%20Evelyn%20Bray&pg=PA23 Page 23] ''Behind the Lawrence Legend: The Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt'' by Philip Walker 2018 Google Books.</ref> Initially during WW1 Bray was working under Sir Mark Sykes, and for the Arab Bureau. C October 1917 he returned to France and his regiment. Subsequently he became the Hakim (Governor) of Kerbela, as a part of the British Administration of A. T Wilson in Mesopotamia.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.526657/page/n7/mode/2up ''A Paladin Of Arabia: The Biography of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel G E Leachman… of the Royal Sussex Regiment''] by Major N N E Bray 1936 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Leachman Gerard Leachman] Wikipedia. He was murdered 12 August 1920. A later biography is ''Leachman : 'OC Desert' : the life of Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Leachman D.S.O.'' by H.V.F. Winstone, 1982. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011983983 .
*[https://archive.org/details/32882019307837insurrection-theinsurrection mesopotamia/page/n11/mode/2up ''The Insurrection in Mesopotamia 1920''] by Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer L. Haldane 1922. Archive.org. Missing title page noted, and see "Reviews" underneath the book file for other missing pages. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070503162055/http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/resources/resource%20pages/Mesopotamia/insurrection_mesopotamia.html Another version on Archive.org] (links to a series of pdfs, most of which contain the text ”on its side”, so may be difficult to read on a fixed computer screen.) [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006041251 HathiTrust Digital Library], accessible in North America and limited other areas only.
*''Iraq: A Study in Political Development'' by Philip 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/WarInTheDesertJohnBagotGlubb/mode/2up ''War In The Desert: An R. A. F. Frontier Campaign''] by John Bagot Glubb 1960. Archive.org Mainly about Iraq in the 1920s.
*''A History of Iraq'' by Charles Tripp. [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq00char 1st edition, 2000]; [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq0000trip 3rd edition 2007], (2nd edition 2002), [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq00trip 2nd file 2007] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*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.
