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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [46r] (96/540)
The record is made up of 1 volume (266 folios). It was created in 1927. 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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65
VIEWS OF MUSTAPHA KEMAL
physically impossible project—with Turkey's last reserves.
In his opinion it was essential at once to undertake internal
re orm and the concentration of all possible resources for a
defensive military policy. A Turk responsible to his own
Ciovernment should continue to hold the chief command in
yna and Hejaz ; and Falkenhayn, whose interests were German
and not Turkish, should come under this Turk's orders. As
regards his own Seventh Army, which should be sent south at
°f 1 i ce f° r the defence of Syria, he was prepared to assume the
role of a spectator if the interests of the country demanded that
his army should come under the orders of General von Kress*
He concluded his remarks by emphasising the necessity for
1 urkey to guard her independence against Germany. He was
of the opinion that from the very first Falkenhayn had realised
the hopelessness of the Mesopotamian project; and he was
generally mistrustful of German intentions.
It appears that Falkenhayn realised from the first that the
Baghdad project would at any rate be very difficult. In
General von Zwehl's book, “ Erich von Falkenhayn,” a mem
orandum dated 9th August, 1917, is quoted wherein Falkenhayn
expressed doubts as to the feasibility of the ente rprise. But
there is no evidence before that date that he considered it
hopeless. Mustapha Kemal’s letter confirms the opinion that
Enver
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
favoured the idea till the last, and it is note
worthy that his final agreement to its postponement was
apparently not given till after the destructive explosion at
Haidar
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
station on the 6 th September.
* Commanding on the Palestine front.
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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).
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:2v, 4r:186v, 188r:255v, back-i
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