List of Illustrations and Photographs |
Acknowledgements |
Introduction |
Chapter 1 |
Hardinge at Bay |
Chapter 2 |
Mesopotamia and its Oil |
Chapter 3 |
Invasion and the Capture of Basra |
Chapter 4 |
The Capture of Kurnah |
Chapter 5 |
Chitrál Charlie, his Regatta and the Capture of Amara |
Chapter 6 |
The Capture of Kut |
Chapter 7 |
What Next? |
Chapter 8 |
Advance to Ctesiphon |
Chapter 9 |
The Pyrrhic Victory at Ctesiphon |
Chapter 10 |
The Retreat to Kut |
Chapter 11 |
The Siege: Early Days, December 1915 |
Chapter 12 |
January 1916: The Battles of Sheikh Saad and the Wadi River |
Chapter 13 |
February–March 1916: The Battle of the Dujaila Redoubt |
Chapter 14 |
April 1916: The Battle of Sannaiyat and Capitulation |
Chapter 15 |
Aftermath |
Chapter 16 |
The Inquiry |
Chapter 17 |
The Debate |
Chapter 18 |
Responsibility – the Reckoning |
Appendix A |
Whatever Happened to Old …? |
Appendix B |
Witnesses Who Appeared Before the Mesopotamia Commission |
Appendix C |
An Analysis of Kipling’s Mesopotamia |
Bibliography |