| PAGE |
| PREFACE | ix |
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| PART I |
| TO THE FALL OF KUT, APRIL 29TH, 1916 |
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| CHAPTER I |
| En route from Hyderabad to Mesopotamia. Voyage up the Tigris | 3 |
| CHAPTER II |
| With the Sixth Division after Ctesiphon. The retreat and action at |
| Um-al-Tabul | 10 |
| CHAPTER III |
| We reach Kut. Beginning of the siege. The Christmas assault | 22 |
| CHAPTER IV |
| Relief delayed. Floods. Life during the siege | 52 |
| CHAPTER V |
| General Aylmer's attempt. More floods. Pressure of the siege. Preparations |
| for relief. Failure. Life in a siege mess | 88 |
| CHAPTER VI |
| The last days of Kut. Sickness. Death. Surrender | 120 |
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| PART II |
| THE TREK. KASTAMUNI |
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| CHAPTER VII |
| The Third Captivity. Baghdad. The desert march of the sick column. |
| We reach Ras-el-Ain | 163 |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| By rail and trek over the Taurus to Angora. The last trek to |
| Kastamuni | 185 |
| CHAPTER IX |
| Life in Kastamuni. The first summer, 1916 | 208 |
| CHAPTER X |
| Winter. Our "self-made" orchestra | 222 |
| CHAPTER XI |
| Extracts and Photos from Smoke, the Kastamuni Punch | 232 |
| CHAPTER XII |
| Spring. Plots to escape. Betrayal. Escape of others. I am sent to |
| Stamboul for hospital | 267 |
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| PART III |
| STAMBOUL AND BRUSA |
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| CHAPTER XIII |
| Psamatia (Stamboul). Starvation and neglect in hospital and garrison. |
| Plots to escape by the Bosphorus. I organize escape from Psamatia |
| through the heart of Stamboul. Storm and wreck on Sea of Marmara. |
| Return | 291 |
| CHAPTER XIV |
| Discovery of the letter. Brusa. Court-martial. Life in a Stamboul |
| prison. Politics and intrigue | 323 |
| CHAPTER XV |
| Brusa again. Change on Western Front. Stamboul before the end. |
| Political manoeuvring. The Prince Subaheddine. The Union and |
| Progress Party | 350 |
| CHAPTER XVI |
| I leave Stamboul on a mission en route for the Fleet. Meet the Prince's |
| delegate at Smyrna. Free! With the Entente Fleet at Mudros |
| before entering the Dardanelles | 367 |
| CHAPTER XVII |
| I leave Mudros with despatches for Rome, Paris, and London, England! | 381 |
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| EPILOGUE | 386 |
