'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [‎edge] (4/540)

Content

The volume is the fourth 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 in one part, entitled, 'Part V. The Campaign in Upper Mesopotamia, 1917-1918 - North-West Persia and the Caspian, 1918', and consists of the following ten chapters:

• May, June and July 1917
• August and September 1917: The Capture of Ramadi
• October to December 1917 - Occupation of the Jabal Hamrin, Action of Tikrit and Death of General Maude
• January to March 1918: Dunsterville's Mission and the Action of Khan Baghdadi
• April and May 1918: Operations in Kurdistan and Arrangements to Counter the Turco-German Threat beyond our Northern Flank
• British Plans to Stop the Enemy's Advance into Persia and to Obtain Control of the Caspian
• The Fall of Baku
• British Advance up the Tigris: Actions of Fat-Ha Gorge and on the Little Zab
• The Battle of Sharqat and the Armistice
• Conclusion

The volume also includes fourteen maps, entitled:

• The Middle East
• Mesopotamia
• Map 34 - Operations near Ramadi: July and September 1917
• Map 35 - Operations in the Jabal Hamrin: October and December 1917
• Map 36 - Actions at Daur and Tikrit: 2nd and 5th November 1917
• Map 37 - Operations on the Euphrates line: March 1918
• Map 38 - Action of Khan Baghdadi: 26th March 1918
• Map 39 - Operations in the Kifri-Kirkuk area: April and May 1918
• Map 40 - The Cavalry affair of the 27th April 1918, and the action of Tuz Khurmatli, 29th April 1918
• Map 41 - Operations of "Dunsterforce", 1918
• Map 42 - Operations at Baku, August-September 1918
• Map 43 - Operations on the Tigris: 18th-30th October 1918
• Map 44 - Action by 7th Cavalry Brigade near Hadraniya: 29th October 1918
• Map 45 - Battle of Sharqat, 29th October 1918

Extent and format

1 volume (266 folios)

Arrangement

The volume contains a preface (folios 5-6), a chronological summary of the campaign in Mesopotamia (folios 7-8), a list of contents (folios 8-11), a list of maps and illustrations (folios 11-12), appendices (folios 197-232), an index (folios 233-254), and twelve maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 256-267).

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 268; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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English in Latin script

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