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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME I.' [10r] (24/454)
The record is made up of 1 volume (223 folios). It was created in 1923. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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PREFACE
T HIS narrative of the operations of 1914-18 in Mesopo
tamia is based mainly on official documents. Criticism
has been omitted and only such comment has been made
as seemed desirable to place certain situations in a clearer
light; and to obviate controversy extracts from the records
have frequently been quoted at length. The official records,
however, do not contain all that was required and the
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
has received much assistance from numerous individuals,
who have given him access to their
private papers
Documents collected in a private capacity.
or have
assisted him from their recollection of events. The
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
desires to take this opportunity of acknowledging with
gratitude the assistance he has thus received. His researches
among the records of the different Government Departments
in England, India and Mesopotamia have cast a good deal of
extra work on their officers and officials, and he desires also
to acknowledge gratefully the ready and cordial assistance he
has obtained from them, especially from those in the Historical
Section of the Committee of Impeiial Defence and his own
assistant, Colonel F. E. G. Talbot. The
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
is also in
debted to the headquarters of the Royal Air Force in
Mesopotamia for several photographs, three of which are
reproduced in this volume.
The fighting in Mesopotamia was generally dwarfed by the
greater issues in Europe, except when it was brought into
unusual prominence by some particular success or disaster.
For this reason, and owing to the fact that the operations
were carried out under conditions which were unique—even
in an Empire like ours—few people were able to follow them
systematically throughout their course. Since a thorough grasp
of these conditions is necessary for a proper appreciation of
the operations, the first few chapters of the history have
been devoted to their description.
This first volume deals with the operations up to the 5th
October 1915, which were practically an unbroken success ;
the second volume will treat of the first and ill-fated attempt
to capture Baghdad, culminating in the surrender of Kut;
and the third will show how final victory was achieved.
The spelling of names is according to the latest* rulings of
the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names of the
Royal Geographical Society, to whom the
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
is also
indebted.
* Some further alterations have been received too late for inclusion, as
the maps had already been printed.
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The volume is the first volume of an official government publication compiled at the request of the Government of India, and under the direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General Frederick James Moberly. The volume was printed and published at His Majesty's Stationery Office, London.
The contents provide a narrative of the operations of 1914-1918 in Mesopotamia, based mainly on official documents.
The volume is divided into two parts. The first part, entitled, 'Part I. Before the Outbreak of Hostilities', consists of the following five chapters:
- General Description of the Country
- The Turks in Mesopotamia
- British Pre-War Policy
- The Army in India and Pre-War Military Policy
- Inception of the Operations
The second part, entitled, 'Part II. The Campaign in Lower Mesopotamia', consists of the following seven chapters:
- The Landing in Mesopotamia of Force "D" and the Operations Leading to the Occupation of Basra
- The Occupation of Basra and the Capture of Qurna
- Commencement of the Turkish Counter-Offensive
- Development and Defeat of the Turkish Counter-Offensive
- Operations in Arabistan and the Capture of Amara
- Operations on the Euphrates and the Occupation of Nasiriya
- The battle of Kut and Occupation of Aziziya
The volume also includes nine maps, entitled:
- The Middle East
- Lower Mesopotamia
- Map 1 - To illustrate operations described in Chapter VI
- Map 2 - To illustrate fighting near Qurna
- Map 3 - To illustrate fighting round Shaiba
- Map 4 - To illustrate operations in Persian Arabistan
- Map 5 - To illustrate operations in the Akaika Channel 27th June to 5th July 1915
- Map 6 - To illustrate operations near Nasiriya 6th to 24th July 1915
- Map 7 - To illustrate the Battle of Kut 28th September 1915
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (223 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a page of errata (folio 5), a list of contents (folios 6-8), a list of maps and illustrations (folio 9), appendices (folios 185v-192), an index (folios 192v-214v), and eight maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 217-224).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 225; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3r, 4r:216v, back-i
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